From here on...some good must come from this

By Sole Castro. The earthquake woke me up in the middle of a pine forest in the region of Bio Bio. We slept in a tent: my two sons, a nephew and myself. I spent scared because I thought one of those trees could crush; high probability that soil, as we found in our analysis as a student of permaculture, is mostly sandy loam, almost like a beach.

There were forty students and almost turned fifteen days in Ecoescuela El Manzano (www.ecoescuela.cl) two weeks of intensive classes. Fabian woke us up every morning with his trutruca at 6:45, but sometimes it replaced the Berni sing like an angel. An hour later we should be having breakfast together, feast laden with fruit and oats, wholemeal bread, honey and jams produced organically. At 8:45 classes began around a circle.

The first time we come I had come to spend holidays. Taps, the homeowner in New Zealand, did not let him: "This is not coming on holiday." I must say I have been the most rewarding and intense vacation, write my children proudly departed each morning to the small school of Villa El Manzano to learn how to sow seeds, building with clay, to discover how a dry toilet saves water, cooking bread a solar oven, look for elves in the woods. I made friends that I felt like brothers.

I learned many practical things, and also knew the Resilience.

Resilience comes from Latin and means to go back, highlight or rebounding, is the property of a material to return to its original shape after being stretched, bent or squeezed, submitted under force. It can also be understood as the ability to recover from an illness, or an ecosystem to reorganize in a harsh environment without changing their patterns. And there is the Community Resilience, the survive and rebuild after suffering destructive aggressions. The same is learned empirically, that made me feel the concept in the marrow, which stopped me feeling calm and in the safest place in the world five days in the Bio Bio. Resilience, I learned, not just to stand back, is also win something for that force us transgressive bent. I have a neighbor who is having very bad, I toured villages in the south seem bombed respite only ten days ago floating in our air: penalty. But I also see exquisite memory that a group of friends spreading love and see how that love was also resilient, was much more than love.

We experience the earthquake as important chapter of a course that taught us to aspire toward sustainability, and before receiving the diploma had to implement it. Living without oil or electricity, farming, working together, loving each other as brothers. From here on, permaculture and resilience, something has to do us good this earthquake.

Love and encouragement.