Daryl's Journal

What Happened Today? Feather Sound walk with Kay. We left for an FPCA Meeting in Long Boat Key, Sarasota. Arrived around 11;30 AM. Attended Paint Council, PAC and Board Meeting. Dinner with Mike and Lori.

GAIA- Planetary Management:

216. Many non-indigenous people do not understand because of their greed they have lost contact with their spirituality and the spirit of the land.

217. It is something that hurts me to see…. Jorge Terena.

218. THE LAND POTENTIAL: Marvelous stuff, soil.

219. Sterile and boring as it may appear, often mucky too, this thin layer covering the planet’s land surface is the biosphere’s foundation, our primary resource.

220. Soil is as lively as an army of migrating wildebeest and as fascinating, even beautiful, as a flock of flamingoes.

What Happened Today? No walk. Left for Tampa office early to prepare for DuPont meeting. Good session but no commitment. Our vacation was cancelled due to storm damage. We changed our location to Lake Lure in November.

Gaia- Planetary Management: 

211. I have been to the USA, England, and Italy, and everywhere I went I was surrounded by big buildings.

212. As I looked at the people, I saw them walking around, really sad, not knowing where to go.

213. I came to the conclusion that these people have lost contact with nature.

214. As I look at the people, the places, and the countries where I go, I see that, economically speaking, they are very powerful, and in a material way have everything they need.

215. My people do not have the technology, the money, the buildings– but we do have our forests and we are happier.

What Happened Today? 1/2 walk. Raining! One year since attack in New York City. No new attacks though everyone expected something. Tampa Bay Devil Rays lose to the Boston Red sox. Preparing for the DuPont meeting.

GAIA- Planetary Management:

206. Not many forest people can get to the Research Center, so it is moving to them.

207. Part of the Center is moving into the forest to meet the needs of indigenous people and rubber tappers.

208. Non-indigenous people do not really understand our needs.

209. They are only concerned about their own needs.

210. I think these people have somehow lost their spiritual touch.

What Happened Today? Feather Sound walk with Kay. Drove to the Tampa office. Finished Ti02 survey. Lunch with Sid Oakley. Country is on Orange Terrorist alert.

GAIA- Planetary management:

201. If our spirits go away my people will walk, wandering, with no guide.

202. The Indian Research Center is also working with the University of Goias so that we can learn techniques that will help us to speed up the regeneration of the forest.

203. Although what non-indigenous people call “development” has destroyed our land and culture, we now need some of that culture’s knowledge to undo the damage.

204. Six students have studied biology at the university, in order to understand the ecosystems of the different regions that have been devastated by sophisticated agriculture.

205. The students have graduated, and are completing a final course before returning to their villages to use appropriate technology with traditional methods to reintroduce native species of trees, fruits, and animals.

What Happened Today? Feather Sound walk with Kay. Drove to the Tampa office. Working on Tio2 and epoxy bid. New England Patriots beat the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday night football.

GAIA- Planetary Management:

196. The farmers have left huge holes in the forests, but we are trying to fix these holes; if we don’t, we will not survive.

197. We have to help the forest regenerate because once the larger trees have been cut, the smaller ones stop growing; they never reach their full height.

198. We have to plant the trees that used to be there, and maybe they will help each other as they grow.

199. Once this is done the animals and birds come back because they depend on these trees and their fruits, just as we do.

200.Also, in a deeper way, we need the environment spiritually; it is where our spirits live.

What Happened Today? Kay and I went to see Chris. Hot! Tampa Bay buccaneers lost to New Orleans Saints in overtime.  New expansion team, the Houston Texans, beat the Dallas Cowboys.

GAIA- Planetary Management:

191. Even the fish have gone.

192. We have started a project to replenish the land and try to bring the ecosystem into equilibrium again. 

193. It began at the Indian Research Center in Goiania, but involves the regeneration of many different types of area: savannah, pre-amazon, and Amazon.

194. When the government demarcated our land, part of it was already degraded.

195. We are trying to replenish this, although we cannot touch the farmers’ land all around us.