You know we're all making it up as we go along. Our ancestors were freakin making
it up as they were going along so we're all still trying to figure it out.
Keep steadfast to your passion and your dreams. As you keep moving forward in that and
you see things aligning and falling into place that bring you peace, go with that,
follow it, and it's an integrity to your values and your responsibility to what
you want to offer the world. Yeah. Just keep following that and stay steadfast, to
really, your true self and kind of like loving yourself through it right. You know
just loving yourself through it and giving yourself permission that you can
do it. What's up? I know a lot of you have been asking about my van Gladys. I filmed
the whole build process and I will be posting a video about Gladys in the
relatively near future so be patient about that. It is coming. Today's video is
about Lisa Star who built Bonita Domes. Beautiful dome structure. Before we get
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I was coming to a point in my life that I had to create a way to be sustainable.
I was living at the coast at the time so I was seeking an area that wasn't far from the
coast where my children were living part time with me that I could
purchase some land. I wasn't living in Joshua Tree at the time, but because of the
traveling it was close enough to the coast. At the time the price was right, I don't
know about now. As I looked into building with earth it aligned so seamlessly.
Using my passion and love and desire for what I want to do and my belief and my
philosophy and my values it just lead me to Joshua Tree and it worked. For
example, the earth here on my site is the perfect makeup for building with
these domes. I don't have to add clay or sand. All the pieces just kept falling
in together you know and I just had to keep following those signs and
guideposts that I'm in the right direction.
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These are dome structures made out of earth bag material. I call it
Bonita Domes. The village area where these structures are here right now,
people can come and have an experience of living close to nature. The center
dome is called the shower house and that was our first structure that we did when
we got on site. We were so excited after taking the workshop at Keller that we
just had to come out here and build. My vision was to build a shower house where
we can actually have a hot tub in so we could soak while we were building. Still
working on the hot tub part, but there are now showers in there that do run to
the septic. Another interesting piece about this structure...when we first came to
site I was living in a trailer. Sold my trailer and decided to move into this
shower house at the time. Now didn't have showers like it does now so it wasn't
like cozy. This tub area was my bed. This shower area was my closet and I had a
desk area here and I lived here for one year. I was actually drum making and
doing my office work right here in this building. I'm so grateful
for the comforts of my conventional home. These were practice buildings.
The one we were just in the shower house is 12 foot diameter. These are 8 foot
diameter. My whole vision around that is to create an
experience that is still childlike and just a sleep area. Being outside is your
room and the ceiling is your sky and the sleep pods gives you a place to sleep.
There was a flood a couple years ago. The good thing that came out of it is these
permaculture mounds. There's life growing on them and they're not even
watered. I'm really proud of those. Over here is the gazebo kitchen area. Just an
outdoor kitchen with your basics. Your icebox, refrigerator, and propane cook top.
This water here, the drain actually feeds the two trees. On the side here is the Kiva
fire pit. It's really great when it's windy out here in the desert it does get
windy and because it's low the fires are safer. There's not a lot of wind picking
up the embers. And then we're going to be coming up
here on the main dome home. It's a 1,000 square foot home and permitted and coded.
So it went through the process. I did that under the 2007 coding so I'm grandfathered
into there. If anyone wanted to do this now there's a little bit of a different
procedure around the engineering. I just happened to do it at a good time. The way
this house is built is there's two living spaces. In the plan we would call
this an eco dome.
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So this would be one living space with its own bathroom. Conventional plumbing
to code and permitted. The plumbing goes to septic. Had I thought about it I would
have put in alternative system where I could have turned a valve and had it
feed the gray water from the sink in the shower to feed the plants on the outside.
I'm really proud and pleased with this
archway and how it was done. I was a newbie architect engineer. That was a big
win, this beautiful archway. So this kitchen is in between the living spaces.
The master bedroom is here which boy you are also lucky that you get to peek in here.
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This is kind of where things are going to be going in the direction of.
The finished house, just having it more more comfortable and more conventional.
Then we're going to go out the back door here. The Sun setting there's just a lot of
heat on the west side of any structures out here in the desert. This
is what I came up with is putting out a trellis and grapevine are going to grow
up on here and create some shade. I have a laundry room here. One of the things I
have done is there's this gray water system. Anytime I can either have it
going to septic or to the trees that feed the grapevines and the two trees
out here. I highly recommend gray water systems like that. Now I know my water
isn't just going to waste and even in a septic system it's somewhat of a gray
water system, it's feeding the trees down there. This is going to be the studio dome.
We're just about to cap it in about a week. One of the things kind of to tie in
being on the west side is that this is built up against a berm on the west side
so half the building is going to be shaded in the hottest part of the summer.
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I always wanted to be an artist when I grew up. I saw my opportunity that I
could actually be an artist and craft drums and take it somewhere and have it
be purposeful. So I took my hat off as a holistic health practitioner and
said, "Okay. I am just going to be like this drum maker". At the time, I had no clue what that
would look like. It was a little terrifying because I didn't know what it would look
like and I had just started building this. I had really jumped off this
precipice just kind of making it up as I went along and trusting in the creation of it
and the creativity and hopefully having fun while I do it. *laughter*
Eventually you know I just kept training and started integrating my holistic
health knowledge and experience with my shamanic training and with the
crafting of my drum and I just weave it all together and so I definitely
consider myself a drum Medicine Woman for sure.
Follow your heart and what makes you happy and what brings you peace. Gosh we all
need that. We all need each and every one of you to do that. To transcend any of
this chaos and drama and any illusion of fear that's trying to like take us over
so we need every, each one of us has a responsibility to follow our heart.
Do it with as much love as you can for yourself and it'll go out into the world.
So, be strong. Yeah.
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