Alright, it's time to get down to business (and, yes, cue Mulan's "I'll Make A Man Out of You"!) Anyway, I haven't been writing for this blog a lot as my days have been pretty full catching up on things back home after Hawai'i. I've been back for a month and three days. things were off the walls. Only in the last week have things truly calmed down back to a manageable level, but much of the peak craziness was for the first two and a half weeks.
As for myself, I've been doing pretty well. Tired, but well. I've been tired ever since prepping for, and especially since getting back from Hawai'i. I can't believe I've been back for just over a month. I've seen some old friends, some blasts from the past, and caught up with them, had a friend get married and bunch of other stuff come my way. Been settling in to my new lifestyle/working on making that new lifestyle that was inspired by my time in Hawai'i, looking for a new job, been working on my career interests and quite a few personal hobbies/life goals and tasks. And I will continue working on that and keep updates on my blog as I go. Those will be future posts/YouTube videos. Today, I am going to devote some time to working on the baseline status of this blog and just clarifying its immediate future.
Now that things are back to "not bouncing of the walls like Taz" crazy trying to keep up with all my various tasks, I can devote some focus to the this blog. It's time I write about my experiences. It's time I make content about my experiences related to this blog. It's my time to write about my time in Hawai'i. It's high time for it to be my to write about my life and what I've learned along the way. And I have a TON of awesome content I can't wait to share about what I have learned in preparation for this blog, what I learned while in Hawai'i and what I continue to be inspired to learn as a result of going there, and what I continue to learn as a result of and for this blog! It's gonna be pretty packed in arranging it all and it'll be a pretty wild ride! I have cultural stuff to cover from my time with the indigenous of Hawai'i, there's social developments/making connections I made I want to go over, inspirational ideological concepts and theories, events to discuss, new ideas to research more and introduce to my readers, political on-goings to assess and analyze, solutions to problems to research/discuss/find/implement. All in all I am pretty excited about it and it's hard to not get too overexcited! Check yourself before you wreck yourself, you know? Regardless, I have a butt-load of work ahead and I wouldn't have it any other way. I know I can do it, and I'm certainly not getting more time! The time for me to begin making the best of my life started and didn't build the life I wanted years ago and now its time to make sure that does not continue to be the case. There is no more time to waste.
As for myself, I've been doing pretty well. Tired, but well. I've been tired ever since prepping for, and especially since getting back from Hawai'i. I can't believe I've been back for just over a month. I've seen some old friends, some blasts from the past, and caught up with them, had a friend get married and bunch of other stuff come my way. Been settling in to my new lifestyle/working on making that new lifestyle that was inspired by my time in Hawai'i, looking for a new job, been working on my career interests and quite a few personal hobbies/life goals and tasks. And I will continue working on that and keep updates on my blog as I go. Those will be future posts/YouTube videos. Today, I am going to devote some time to working on the baseline status of this blog and just clarifying its immediate future.
Now that things are back to "not bouncing of the walls like Taz" crazy trying to keep up with all my various tasks, I can devote some focus to the this blog. It's time I write about my experiences. It's time I make content about my experiences related to this blog. It's my time to write about my time in Hawai'i. It's high time for it to be my to write about my life and what I've learned along the way. And I have a TON of awesome content I can't wait to share about what I have learned in preparation for this blog, what I learned while in Hawai'i and what I continue to be inspired to learn as a result of going there, and what I continue to learn as a result of and for this blog! It's gonna be pretty packed in arranging it all and it'll be a pretty wild ride! I have cultural stuff to cover from my time with the indigenous of Hawai'i, there's social developments/making connections I made I want to go over, inspirational ideological concepts and theories, events to discuss, new ideas to research more and introduce to my readers, political on-goings to assess and analyze, solutions to problems to research/discuss/find/implement. All in all I am pretty excited about it and it's hard to not get too overexcited! Check yourself before you wreck yourself, you know? Regardless, I have a butt-load of work ahead and I wouldn't have it any other way. I know I can do it, and I'm certainly not getting more time! The time for me to begin making the best of my life started and didn't build the life I wanted years ago and now its time to make sure that does not continue to be the case. There is no more time to waste.
The time when I should've been taking this blog at full speed was nearly 2 years ago and, while that time and timing has passed it is time to focus on the present and the future. I did not have enough of the essential pieces of my life put together to fulfill this blog's potential. But that moment is gone. This moment is what matters.
While I still have a long way to go and am catching up to where I wanted to be at this point in my life. I've been trying to fit it in and my efforts, through a variety of influencing forces, have meant this blog has fallen short of what I want out of it and what it can be. I cannot wait anymore and that cannot continue if I am to be a positive influence on the world I live in. And speaking of no time to waste, the whole globe, of which I have only directly witnessed a small portion of colossal systemic occurrences, is enveloped in complete individual, social, political, cultural, moral, economic, and ecological chaos that is near or just beyond crippling totality. The human race, and the world as a result of our actions today, yesterday and for our whole history as a species, is completely out of whack. Left alone, it will continue to spiral uncontrollably and, likely very soon, become catastrophically irreversible.
But we can do something about and there has never been a better time as there has been a positive shift in the human race that has opened up the opportunities to be able to get it right. Circumstances are aligning to change path. It doesn't mean it will go right, unless we are aware of just how badly it can and, under the current trajectory, likely will get. A perfect example of that is what's going on with the North Dakota Access Pipeline and the Native American tribes trying to halt its progress/have it rerouted so it doesn't threaten their land, the water of the Missouri River and the lives that all depend upon it. They are putting up a fight that many denizens of the continent descended from European cultures either didn't start, gave up on too early, were too dissuaded by the power of the industries and government to feel empowered to do do anything, or stopped fighting because of the sheer might of those who desire the destruction. The Native Americans are proof that we can throw a wrench into the industrial monolithic economy that, as currently managed and carried out, threatens all life on the planet, including those who are cared for by this planet and yet support it destruction without being conscious of either reality. But the Native Americans are doing it. And they cannot do it alone. It is time to bolster their efforts with our own, to halt and reverse this process of degradation, destruction, diminishment, demoralization, devaluation, and superficial reductionism and simplification. And that's just one example. There's a whole civilization worth layered on top of all that has led to this from civilizations and people's past. But we can do this and prevent our, at current, inevitable demise. We can stop digging our own grave.
It likely won't happen automatically like how the degradation of everything all across the planet going thousands of years back in time has been at the hands of humans. Therefore the course correction for global human civilization must be an intentional, thoughtful, and mindful process that we are only going to get one chance, most likely, to have things turn around. And soon even that window will close. Just look at what's going on in the news, the reports of the Syrian Civil War continuing to escalate and expand, the tumultuous nature of the U.S. political campaign leading up to the 2016 election, the climate and ecological chaos being reported all over the world, from the severe damage from bleaching done to the Great Barrier Reef this year, more than has ever been witnessed before and is unprecedented in recent geologic history to the weird migrations of Caspian terns to Alaska being reported online (the link to my reference and source is here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/23/terns-migration-alaska). Enough was enough passed centuries ago. It's well beyond that now. It's more like "enough has happened that it's at the point of breaking the back of everything."
Thus, the time to prevent it from going the final fatal step or to drag it back from having just tipped over the edge has either come or must be established to emerge very soon. It's time for me to start contributing the effort to accomplish that and much, much more. I may not succeed given that it has SO MUCH momentum at this point and I am one person that cannot outweigh the impact of most of the population of humans mostly adding to the situation, despite that the opportunity to improve as humans and stop adding that stress has improved, even as the global situation continues to deteriorate under its own momentum. But I am going to give it my all. I'm going to give it more than my all. I"m going to find new ways to give it my all and find new meaning as to what it takes to give it my all. Anyway, I'm not going to get into too much detail about it this time because that's not what this post is for. It's a topic for the next post, specifically what's listed above in this paragraph. Until next time! It should be 2-5 days until the next post because I have to organize it, write it and edit it on top of other normal elements of my day. And so we go!
While I still have a long way to go and am catching up to where I wanted to be at this point in my life. I've been trying to fit it in and my efforts, through a variety of influencing forces, have meant this blog has fallen short of what I want out of it and what it can be. I cannot wait anymore and that cannot continue if I am to be a positive influence on the world I live in. And speaking of no time to waste, the whole globe, of which I have only directly witnessed a small portion of colossal systemic occurrences, is enveloped in complete individual, social, political, cultural, moral, economic, and ecological chaos that is near or just beyond crippling totality. The human race, and the world as a result of our actions today, yesterday and for our whole history as a species, is completely out of whack. Left alone, it will continue to spiral uncontrollably and, likely very soon, become catastrophically irreversible.
But we can do something about and there has never been a better time as there has been a positive shift in the human race that has opened up the opportunities to be able to get it right. Circumstances are aligning to change path. It doesn't mean it will go right, unless we are aware of just how badly it can and, under the current trajectory, likely will get. A perfect example of that is what's going on with the North Dakota Access Pipeline and the Native American tribes trying to halt its progress/have it rerouted so it doesn't threaten their land, the water of the Missouri River and the lives that all depend upon it. They are putting up a fight that many denizens of the continent descended from European cultures either didn't start, gave up on too early, were too dissuaded by the power of the industries and government to feel empowered to do do anything, or stopped fighting because of the sheer might of those who desire the destruction. The Native Americans are proof that we can throw a wrench into the industrial monolithic economy that, as currently managed and carried out, threatens all life on the planet, including those who are cared for by this planet and yet support it destruction without being conscious of either reality. But the Native Americans are doing it. And they cannot do it alone. It is time to bolster their efforts with our own, to halt and reverse this process of degradation, destruction, diminishment, demoralization, devaluation, and superficial reductionism and simplification. And that's just one example. There's a whole civilization worth layered on top of all that has led to this from civilizations and people's past. But we can do this and prevent our, at current, inevitable demise. We can stop digging our own grave.
It likely won't happen automatically like how the degradation of everything all across the planet going thousands of years back in time has been at the hands of humans. Therefore the course correction for global human civilization must be an intentional, thoughtful, and mindful process that we are only going to get one chance, most likely, to have things turn around. And soon even that window will close. Just look at what's going on in the news, the reports of the Syrian Civil War continuing to escalate and expand, the tumultuous nature of the U.S. political campaign leading up to the 2016 election, the climate and ecological chaos being reported all over the world, from the severe damage from bleaching done to the Great Barrier Reef this year, more than has ever been witnessed before and is unprecedented in recent geologic history to the weird migrations of Caspian terns to Alaska being reported online (the link to my reference and source is here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/23/terns-migration-alaska). Enough was enough passed centuries ago. It's well beyond that now. It's more like "enough has happened that it's at the point of breaking the back of everything."
Thus, the time to prevent it from going the final fatal step or to drag it back from having just tipped over the edge has either come or must be established to emerge very soon. It's time for me to start contributing the effort to accomplish that and much, much more. I may not succeed given that it has SO MUCH momentum at this point and I am one person that cannot outweigh the impact of most of the population of humans mostly adding to the situation, despite that the opportunity to improve as humans and stop adding that stress has improved, even as the global situation continues to deteriorate under its own momentum. But I am going to give it my all. I'm going to give it more than my all. I"m going to find new ways to give it my all and find new meaning as to what it takes to give it my all. Anyway, I'm not going to get into too much detail about it this time because that's not what this post is for. It's a topic for the next post, specifically what's listed above in this paragraph. Until next time! It should be 2-5 days until the next post because I have to organize it, write it and edit it on top of other normal elements of my day. And so we go!
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