A wonderful day in our alternate reality – we make corporate and documentary films in everyday life (quite separate from Rough Linen), and today were at Berry Mills in Cazadero, CA filming the selection of a 45′ log to create the keel of the first tall ship to be built in Sausalito since ummm…
That’s me with the messy bun under my hard hat, on the left.
The logs on the right were sustainably harvested to provide the timber for the ship, and the longest and thickest will give the two main sections of the keel. I love all the wonderful places and wonderful people I meet while clambering silos on co-generational plants, trekking down endless vistas of almond groves and vineyards, picking my way through the mud of a lumber yard heady with the scent of resin and pennyroyal. (A whiff of cattle in there too.) I have trudged organic farms, recorded touching animal rescues with WildCare – owls, a bobcat, coyote,
hawks, foxes, bats – seen vacant lots become parks with the Trust for Public Land, witnessed compassion and bravery and practical initiatives with the Kidney Foundation and the Bonnie J. Adario Lung Cancer initiative, and sat through endless political and strategic interviews, sometimes fast asleep, with my headphones and the will to stay upright as my only disguise.
All this and I get to sew linen too. 
Life can be very good.
