What I Do
Everything here is a gift. Invite me into what you need.
This isn't a menu of services, and I'm not running a business. It's an open door. If something here fits what you're carrying, invite me in and I'll show up and do the work. It's offered as a gift — the circle completes through recognition, not payment. You won't walk away owing me. A donation or a good word can flow back if you want it to, but it's never the price of asking; I don't negotiate and I don't ask for references. The edges are plain so you can ask clean.
- You write meA plain email saying what you need. No form, no booking.
- We talk straightA yes, a clean no, or a pointer to someone better placed.
- I show upWe agree on the scope; I do the work.
- Nothing owedIt's a gift. Support can flow back if you want — it's never the price.
With my hands
Almost a decade of specialized trade experience across a wide skill set — welding, rigging, hydraulics, mechanical, electrical, and plumbing in my hands. I build, I fix, I clear a space out and put it back together so it works.
Off-grid systems
This is the work I know cold, because I run my own off it. The bus is my house and my generator — about 2.6 kilowatts of solar (six 440-watt panels), a 10 kW split-phase inverter, a battery bank, and a 12V pump with an accumulator tank I built that gives the place running water on demand. Built mostly out of salvage, runs free now, expanding toward ten panels. I can help you set up the same kind of thing — or, if you'd rather do it yourself, the whole build is written down and given away in The Model.
Welding & repairs
Building & wood work
I work in wood too, and I'll be straight about it: it's something I'm building up, not a furniture shop. Small, real, what a clear scope and one pair of hands can finish. If you've got something bigger in mind, ask and we'll talk plainly about what it'd take.
Cleaning & organizing
The clearing and the structure are what I bring. What you keep is your call.
On money, plainly
There's no price list and nothing to haggle over.
If you want to put something in — a donation, you pick the number — that's welcome and never required; it doesn't buy the work and it doesn't settle a debt, because there isn't one. The one practical thing: before I take on anything that needs a permit or a license, I check what's legal where you are first. Permits are the difference between a real plan and a wish.
Invite me into a build or a fix →
With my attention
The same door, a different kind of support. No string, no ledger, no "you owe me one" — same as everything else here. Take what's useful, leave the rest.
Witnessing
An hour or so of attention with no agenda. You talk; I hold the listening. What comes back is what I heard — the pattern under what you said, the question under the question. No fixing, no advice unless you ask, no notes kept after.
Invite me →Thinking partner
An hour or so of thinking out loud on a real problem you bring. I reflect it back, name what I see, ask the question you're not asking yourself. The thinking is the gift. The problem stays yours.
Invite me →Partner dance
An hour or so of partnered movement — lead and follow, frame, weight, the feel of moving with someone. Twenty years of it, mostly Fusion. The social kind, not the competition kind. No performances, no wedding routines.
Invite me →If what you need isn't here
Ask anyway. The list is a starting point, not a fence. Some of what people ask for fits one of these framed a little differently. Some of it belongs to the farm or the gathering more than to me in particular — that goes to the Gift Circle. And some things I don't do — that's information, not judgment.
What's open right now depends on how the week is going. See Current.