rishi, who?

Biographical curiosities, though I myself not completely free of, sometimes seem like strange pursuits. How different is one bubble in the rain from another, after all, except for the momentary air trapped within?

I like Peter Karena‘s words in This Way of Life:

“What I do for a living?… I live for a living… What I do for income is whatever I can do without compromising my integrity,”

Now, with my degrees well composted, what do I do?

(The Law one was the first to decompose, by the way. I wonder why.)

What I do - besides growing food, WRITING, TRANSLATING, holding COURSES, occasionally making a DOCUMENTARY, and some OTHER STUFF, is...

I hold workshops.

The workshops began with an unusual name.

These were neither "work" nor transaction-based—they came from a different space.

Besides, it’s a bit hard to turn your eyes away from the frenzied crisscross of the whole globe, the buzz finishing off its host in a rush.

Hard not to notice our two principal activities: Working and shopping - exploiting and consuming. Both aimed at bringing the whole planet down.

Exploitation and consumption - abuse and self-gratification. The two key elements of all our relationships. Both aimed at bringing the whole species down.

The workshops had to be called No Work No Shop.

Eventually, they evolved into a full COURSE.