It's a chilly Sunday morning here in New Orleans, Louisiana - 3 January, 2010
A number of years back, I'd set off across the country on the back of an old BMW motorcycle on what I called my Spirit Journey. It was a sort of walk-about that I'd undertaken to step as fearlessly into the unknown as I possibly could and confront those fears, greet them and put them aside, one by one. That journey led me to New Orleans in a very round about way and I eventually ended up being employed in the business of building very large yachts for extremely wealthy people. It was a very strange turn of events for me. And as the years have slipped by, I've held on to that sense of fearlessness but only by the faintest threads some times.
The recent willingness on my part to abandon the murky fears that have held me back in the more recent past has opened the doors of my Heart to something that I would never have experienced. When those doors open, one is exposed to a grand new vista that you were previously blind to seeing.
Such is the case of my willingness to commit to my dream of creating this Energy Cooperative. It is the culmination of everything that I have been training myself for over these past 25 or so years. I have given little back to others in these years. Now is the time to create that thing of enduring Beauty that others will appreciate - as my personal slogan goes. NOW is the time to embark on the journey perilous that will set me, in the company of those I Love and my fellow community, on a path that builds something strong, enduring and life giving.
This isn't about hope. Hope is a lie. This is about being present in what we are doing at this very moment. It's a tricky proposition because it seems to connote that you can not look into the future. That is not so. One can, and should, plan. Preparedness is mindfulness. Planning for the things that are intended to transpire is not the same as residing in that fictitious future at the expense of being present in the hear-and-now. With that, the planning for these things that are to be built has commenced. I will, today, graphically (since that is the way in which I best work) outline the rudiments of what this process will be. I will enter it into this blog when I've sketched it out. Effectively, the whos and the wheres and the whats of this thing I'm calling Spirited Raven Energy Cooperative. If it is manifested in the imagination - planned for - it will take shape in this shade of consciousness we like to call Reality.
In closing today's entry, I submit one of the more powerfully articulated thoughts on the subject of committment that I've read in a long time. It was sent to me by the dear friend to whom I'd written the letter that I excerpted and created yesterday's "Ethanol Ramble" blog. Read it and then read it again. Slowly.
It follows:
Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is only one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans; that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole steam of events issues from a decision, raising in ones favor all manor of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.
- Goethe
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