Well, it's been a couple days since I was last on. This due, primarily, to the fact that I was exhausted last night and managed to fall asleep on the couch on about 7:30 and barely roused myself at 5:00 this morning to get my dragging ass off to the gym. Managed to do it, though.
I've taken to doing something as of the last few days that I'd resisted for reasons that are too convoluted and involved to explain here. I began to pray again. I got down on my knees on Sunday night, knelt at the side of my bed and, after having offered what I considered to be the requisite apologies for my long-time silence, began to pray for the help I need in so many areas.
Lately, those areas requiring assistance include the perseverance to keep getting up at bloody 4:30 or 5:00 every morning, preparing myself for the day ahead and getting to the gym for what is shaping up to be a really amazing - and amazingly challenging - training program. Already, I've begun to transform and the results are encouraging. The obverse side of that coin being, though, that it tends to send wave upon wave of urges to sleep at the end of the day to convelesce from the manic cellular activities raging inside me. The factory is going full tilt and all it wants is for me to give it a chance to hunker down for a peace. Up I get, though, and on to the next day's challenges. Sie la vie...
The other item that is begging for the assistence of The Spirit is the course my life's work is now taking. I am embarking on what I know will be the vocation that will engage me for a great deal of whatever is left of this body's time on the planet. As it stands, currently, I will (barring early dismissal from my current employ) be packing my things here in New Orleans and heading back HOME sometime in early May (right after Jazz Fest! - hey, you gotta have your priorities in order!). So, it'll be back to my family and in the company of people that I share a common vision of the purpose, intention and vision of life. I have been readying for that journey with what I would like to consider measured and purposeful doses.
The past few days have provided a few good in-roads:
1.) Contact with one of the people who'd spear-headed the efforts to organize and help realize the recent (Sept. '09) David Blume ethanol workshop in Ithaca. Currently, the level of contact has been restricted to a few emails, but I suspect we'll be speaking in detail very soon.
2.) I've been corresponding with a really helpful gentleman - Damon Knutson - who's heading up a grassroots ethanol operation in Sonoma County wine country of California (very similar to the vineyard strewn and winery laden Finger Lakes of NY) and gaining insights about their operation. He's graciously offered help with information about operations, equipment needs, etc. A good resource, undoubtedly. Their cooperative's website: http://greenenergynetwork.org/pages/welcome.htm
3.) Another interesting recent contact has been with Steve Spence of The Green Trust (http://www.green-trust.org/) which is a clearinghouse and resource for alternative technologies and sustainable, independent living. Steve introduced me to a wonderful new avenue of learning in the form of AQUAPONICS - small-scale fish culture and vegetable growing. The gentleman he was working with is an obviously good-hearted, Christian man who's made his design plans available for free to anyone. Great stuff. Raising fish for food and using the nitrogenous byproducts of their excretions to nourish soil-less vegetable gardening. It has to be seen to be believed! Really ingenious stuff!! Check it out: http://www.fastonline.org/ Go to the technologies page and sniff out the barrel aquaponics manual... It'll amaze you.
This is all I've got energy to offer up tonight. I gotta hit the rack and get some shut-eye!
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