Posting a ‘job/home/community relocation’ info ad for myself!

Posting a ‘job/home/community relocation’ info ad for myself!

I, Carol Keiter, blogger, writer, musician, composer, environmental and nature enthusiast and animal activist need to relocate within weeks. I need to hone into> the right location, community and sources for work that will fulfill the job description which has evolved, as I’ve been writing this!

I realize that my job description is along the lines of broadcast journalism. The fact that I have a curiosity about many many subjects, the desire to travel and use my language skills, love of researching information, working with all sorts of digital media, interacting with people of myriad backgrounds and observing natural environments, and an interest in science and technology, with a joy in extracting and compiling information and then sharing it.

I am in search of a place to relocate, within not 6 months, but several weeks, as a start! My preference is to be based in a European city, where I can further develop and utilize my language skills (French, German, Spanish or Italian); where I can work together with a team making productions similar to what I’ve described as well as independently getting stories.

I’d like to focus on success stories about individual people and communities who have made a difference through their recognition and implementation of adopting better practices to safeguard their own environments and that of the animal habitats within their area. With a focus on the need to live interdependently and respectfully with other species; as the human species can act as caretakers of the planet and all creatures to celebrate this incredible biodiversity, not exploit it.

Within my challenge is the need to find housing, art or music cooperatives, live/work exchanges or just that perfect job I describe that will enable me to continue to do what I do best; observing, asking questions, writing and taking digital photos and sharing stories.

My goal > continuing along the lines of using my laptop computer for writing, photography, photoshop, sound recording, illustration (portrait art) and musical instrument skills (bass guitar and piano) & composition skills, and language skills to do work that involves > researching, compiling and exchanging information along the lines of technical/environmentally sustainable practices/renewable energy alternatives/habitat awareness and support for various species. All of this is relevant to the world’s current urgent need to organize campaigns to inform communities and support actions that employ and implement renewable energy systems in communities and DIY projects, awareness of how one’s own diet, transportation habits and actions reflect on the larger picture, the need for ocean cleanup, the need to wean ourselves from coal and oil and petroleum based energy resources and products to the awareness of animal rights and habitat preservation.

I wish to work with a team sharing enlightening information about what community success stories and how other communities could adopt similar practices and behaviors.

I wish to base myself in preferably a European metropolitan center to work with groups along these lines – where I can also develop and use my language skills, creativity, joy of interacting with divers peoples and groups – and a significant or equivalent amount of time traveling to areas which I wish to document and research> ideas and success stories revealing positive alternatives that can be adopted.

healthier living environments
habitat preservation
best practices as far as what types of foods one is consuming and how this affects the environment
better technological infrastructures for transportation that consider other species
healthier attitudes and respect of other species in general
infrastructure to provide mutually beneficial habitats for humans and animals and all of the interdependent life on the planet
the transition of infrastructures from coal and oil industries to the implementation of jobs supporting renewable energies; solar, wind, wave, biomass
encouraging new approaches to DIY technology to improve your own communities’ means of adapting and implementing all sorts of earth-friendly technologies for energy, healthy living and as stewards of all of the other species on the planet

Does anyone have any suggestions or leads? Along the lines of Al Jazeera America’s ‘Techknow’, National Geographic and a plethora of other environmental organizations from NRDC to Greenpeace.

Bottom line: I need to make a choice of where to relocate within weeks, and am looking for leads, ideas, groups to work with and a place to land.

Any offers or advice? I have no income or savings. Hence, sending this first ‘job/home-base search letter’ out there so that more ideas may spring up regarding what part of the world to go to?

My skills and passions are for the most part, besides motion and travel – a.k.a ‘nomadbeatz’ – as an environmental activist/researcher/journalist/portrait artist/illustrator/musician/composer/teacher/lecturer. I could be persuaded to dip towards any to these: writing, illustration, music composition for film and screenwriting. Yep, they are all over the place, yet they all interconnect.

I am physically, mentally/emotionally and spiritually fit, resilient and strong. Conversant in French, German and Spanish in addition to my native English.

The politics of fear and consent through silence and non-action, are not part of my playbook.

We can do it, if we put our minds and hearts together and sing and dance as we work.

résumé/portfolio:
http://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2010/12/24/curriculum-vitae-portfolio
http://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2010/11/23/parcel-of-my-portfolio

music:
http://www.myspace.com/nomadbeatz
http://www.reverbnation.com/nomadbeatz

ebook:
http://carolkeiter.wordpress.com/2013/05/23/final-metamorphosis-of-the-ebook-trailer-for-adora-vitali-a-spin-on-the-matter-of-motion/
http://spinonmatter.carbonmade.com/projects/4800092#1

social networks:
http://www.facebook.com/carol.keiter
http://carolkeiter.tumblr.com
http://www.twitter.com/carolkeiter
http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/carol_keiter
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/carol-keiter/7/124/b63

Hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it.

Donations towards Carol Keiter’s writing, eBook, music composition, photography & illustrations are graciously accepted!

Carol Keiter the blogger with camera in hand at MMNY-MakeMusicNewYork

Carol Keiter the blogger in New York city attending a Make Music New York event at Times Square presented by Yoko Ono

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Podcast | Improvising a Recipe | Quantity Breeds Quality

Welcome to Delicious Medicinal Food

Here’s the podcast!

Take 2 Improvisational Cooking & Quantity breeds Quality

Here’s the text (I know I indicated before that text wasn’t a preliminary part of this blog) but here are the notes I wrote, from which I improvised the podcast.

This is all about improvising. I had various ingredients that I’d used as the stuffing for a roasted acorn squash recipe, yet don’t have the squash. I also happen to have broccoli that needs to be eaten. The stuffing was great, so I’ve added my own combination of spices and a slight change in ingredients.

I naturally started by washing the whole grain brown rice first and bringing that to boil, then turning it on low to simmer, while I chopped and started sautéing the rest of my ingredients.

I like many of my dishes spicy, that is, various additional spices depending on the combination of foods, and often, with something hot, piquant. This time in addition to salt and fresh ground pepper I’ve added cayenne and some crushed dried red hot chili pepper. I also added left over from the summer garden some (thyme) and then I decided to add ground coriander again – using the mortar and pestle.

One tip is to not wait too long to add the spices, they should primarily be added initially, with the onion, which often is sautéed on low heat, as onion becomes sweet when cooked on a low temperature over a longer period.

In this case I had a bit of spicy Italian sausage to cook, so I did this separately on a higher heat first, then took it out of the pan and added a bit more olive oil so that the flavor of the sausage can be retained.

you can also choose to do the onions on a higher heat – caramelizing them – in which they become slightly burnt and brown, with a nutty flavor. This is also a delicious technique for broccoli for that matter. Cooking on a higher temperature, for a shorter duration. This is something I learned from a dish my mother has frequently made. I decided tonight to pull out the broccoli and sautée it at a higher temperature in a separate pan, to create that additional nutty flavor.

The last thing you want is over-cooked limp vegetables – unless you are going for that consistency in a soup, for example. And the last thing i want is bland food that has no flavor.

At the end, I’m going to toss on some grated parmesan and crushed walnuts.

by the way, the pictures I show on the site reveal the ingredients I’m using. I’m using cheaper ingredients, because I have uh hum, no income presently. If I had a steady flow of income, I’d be using the finest quality pepper corns and sea salt from special regions of the world as well as fresh or dried spices of the finest quality. I will be adding grated parmesan cheese and broken walnut pieces as a topping at the end. However, I would always recommend (if the budget allows) to purchase a chunk of good quality parmesan or similar cheese and grate it yourself, rather than buying and packaged/pre-fab\pre-grated cheese. The fresher the better!

All of this makes a difference. However, if you don’t have the budget, you can still eat fabulously tasty food that is also great for you.

And this is coming from the mouth of someone who has chosen to live with a much leaner income, while developing my art. I’ve therefore inadvertently learned to live meagerly. My fortune, is that I learned growing up about how to eat healthy foods…and later on my own, situationally, it turned out that the foods that have been affordable ALSO happen to be really good for you: less meat, oatmeal, yams & sweet potatoes, vegetables…not to mention, eating less of a quantity! I’ve been able to stay slim due to what I’ve called my ‘poverty diet’. This is because I haven’t had the luxury to eat whatever I want, whenever I want. I simply haven’t been able to afford randomly ‘eating out’ at my whim. Back in the days that I lived in San Francisco with steady work and income, I ate out frequently, in a town known for great restaurants. Yet living later in New Mexico and especially abroad in Berlin, it was slim pickins’ and I mirrored this by becoming pretty skinny. I’ve also chosen bicycling as my transportation, so that I’ve balanced maintaining regular physical exercise with eating good quality food, nutritious food, and really not a whole lot of it. I’ve been in a habit (against the mainstream of eating small amounts with more frequency) of going for long stretches of time without eating anything at all. Such as 12 hour stretches between breaking the fast and my dinner ~ (but that’s just me 🙂 I get quite immersed in projects I’m doing and simply don’t feel like taking the time break to eat, when I can do that as a reward, after I’ve finished the other stuff I’m involved in.

My lesson at the end of this cooking blog is this. It’s great advice I read several weeks ago regarding striving for quantity over quality. A potter divided her class in half, and asked the half of the students to study and plan their technique to master the most perfect pot. She asked the other half of the class to get the clay out and just start making pots. In the end, those students who aimed through study and deliberation to make the single perfect pot, were surpassed by those students whose goal was to make as many pots as they could. They wound up learning through doing, and came up with ultimately the best pieces of pottery.

I personally can have a tendency towards wanting perfection, and therefore sometimes becoming frozen in even getting started on some tasks…so, my advice is to dive in, you will only learn. And the mistakes you make and questions you have will ultimately bring you more knowledge and enlighten others who may have the same questions.

I find this site helpful for investigating http://www.epicurious.com/archive/seasonalcooking/farmtotable/visualguidefreshherbs#10 and identifying herbs and spices, if you aren’t sure what you have!

To Your Health!