The Making of Peacelandia

Oooo —- yesterday was fun. Lila and I walked to the house (it is beginning to feel this way) and I dropped off the money Jorge needed to buy the ceiling bricks. It was just him and Anselmo and he told me the rest of the crew would show up later. As well as, hopefully, […]

With all the talking/thinking about electricity, it somehow eluded me until now that hey! these guys are building the house without electricity! No nail guns, no skill saw, no nothing. No sounds in fact, other than the birds, the roosters, and the music from the chargeable speaker we bought. That’s pretty awesome cool, really. Hands […]

Monday morning! The “house” looking all official with its big cardboard new “address,” the next four days were super productive. I am amazed at how much the men are creating, and with no electricity. Walls went up (we went one extra layer of blocks for a bit more height), inside walls, of which there are […]

Having a few “maybe” leads, all having to do with “let me see if I can talk with the Commission.” or “I have a friend in the Commission”, I thought I’d see if maybe I could demystify this Comision Federal Electrico by making a trip over there. Because, man, as great as things are going […]

Things are hopping right now and it’s mighty fun to see! The foundation is built all around the perimeter of the house and this morning, just as I was sitting down to get some work done – a mere 15 minutes away – Jorge sent this photo of the bedroom walls going up! I was […]

This is not a straight road. I guess few things are. There is much excitement, creativity, disbelief too at the whole thing, in a really joyous way. And then there is fear. Of course. Yesterday morning, bearing a liter of Coca Cola, I arrived to the site and noticed that we still didn’t have a […]