The following is a piece written by one of our PICAns expressing a little about what PICA means to them. It is likely that this piece will be included in a campus wide environmental media project currently in the works. If you have anything you would like to share, please do.
PICA
We eat together.
Monday, Tuesday, Wendesday, we eat dinner together. We sit around enjoying delicious meals that we take turns preparing. The kitchen is warm, the food is warm (and delicious), and the way I feel inside, as I am surrounded by all the good company, is warm. After the meal is finished and cleanup begins, we head back to our respective buildings, and with us we bring our sense of community.
We live together.
Someone puts on some hot water for tea, and maybe some folks sit around the kitchen sippin mate and shootin the breeze, talking of mushrooms and the up-and-coming 5th weekly sunrise meadow barefoot run. Down the hall a few folks are studying together or their watching a movie. There are no strangers in my building, nor in my quad. PICA is my home, and when I am away, I miss my home and everyone who is a part of it.
We work together.
On Saturdays we work in the garden. We turn the soil, pull the weeds, make the compost, plant the plants, and do a wide array of other tasks and projects that keep the garden healthy and thriving so that we in turn can remain happy, healthy and well fed. Food from the garden goes into our meals, and the work we do not only brings us together as a community, but it allows for the opportunity of others who don’t live here to become involved and be a part of the PICA community.
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