A new Meditation and Drumming Circle started at Riverfront Park in North Charleston. This is a good time to meet new friends and visit with old ones. We learn new beats and practice, practice practice. Everyone is free to come, its open to everyone. Just make sure if you come that you bring a chair and something to beat on or some other noisemaker. 
     This is the second Sunday that I've gone drumming. It's been great,  I just wish it that I hadn't forgotten my jacket in the car. It was quite cool because of the wind blowing off the river, at least the sun was warm.
     

     Nick Tittle  gave this class on Saturday the 18th in the back room of the Charleston Horicultural Society (in the shopping center next to Earthfare). Nick was a good teacher, he covered a variety of information.
     This permaculture session included:
history and ethics
principles
sustainable design methodology
patterns in nature, culture, and society
food forests, plants guilds and polycultures

"Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted and thoughtful observation rather than protracted and thoughtless labor; and of looking at plants and animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system." --Bill Mollison (co-founder of permaculture).