Where to begin… I have not written for some time, and again it is a combination of life moving and me just holding on…….This summer has been sensational, to be honest I think it began the first day we were able to pull Layla on a bicycle in the trailer, and it has just gotten better ever since. We are enjoying our new found popularity with the Grandparents that our little one has brought, her joy seems to spread like these California fires, so nice is it to be in Oregon where everything is green and all the bad in the world seems ohhhh so far away. Here you can still buy a house and not cry months afterwards, the water runs endlessly and everything seem to have slowed down even more. Being here on the coast, looking out at the evergreens from the window, sitting out on the Bay with family, and of course all this sun makes me happy. I was happy to escape from all the stress of being home. Probably has most to do with the fact that I have no work, and essentially no worries. For at least seven days I have not talked or even thought about flooring or countertops, I have watched little to no television, and we have spent so much time outdoors. This is where I am the happiest, when my mind is not swamped in the exhaust, the worry, and the stress that has been part of daily life at home seem so far removed. It is great…. Vacation!!

I have been on a Journey that began with my reading of a book titled the tipping point, it went on through freakenomics, then into the God delusion and then into Eckhart Tolle’s a whole new earth. To be honest I cannot even begin to organize a thought about all this, at least one that would fit well into this blog page. But I do find myself cringing at so much of what I hear read from the bible, I find myself at peace with the message and idea of Jesus Christ, I am not sure I truly believe in a “God” in the fact that there is some force responsible for our well being, as a kind of full time concierge making sure to provide “wipy’s” and hot face cloths to those of us who ask kindly, I do believe that Religion when used consciously and conscientiously can serve a good purpose, and I do think that the ego has been the true part of religious thought that has caused most evil. I do believe in loving your neighbor, I do believe that there is some purpose for our lives, I certainly have no idea what that is or ever will be but I am more confident in saying that. I am less afraid to be who I am, more open to others ideas, less forgiving of blind faith in anything. I do believe that science will only further reason’s grip on what can be deemed reasonable, but in the end this is only reasonable to the eye of the beholder. I think it is OK to not believe in God, I do believe the word can have many meanings, and I am thinking that God IS Love, and in this I hold firm belief, simply because it is when I feel love, I feel most close to God, whatever that is. I think people are often afraid to think, because they are afraid of contradicting themselves. I think Jesus was the ultimate Humanist!!! Go Humans…. We do have purpose!!! I think that statistics can make anything on any given day seem fascinating and different, I think we like to let media intimidate us, I think we do really know better. I think Children are a wonderful part of our lives. I think that beyond all the hard work, there is no greater creation or work of art that I can impart on the world. Simply to pass on the joy of my life, what a wonderful gift to give to someone. I think people take life too seriously, I think people work too much and spend too little time writing and thinking and napping, and too much time, typing and watching and absorbing. I think all people want to be loved and accepted. I think people spend the majority of their lives trying to attain this. I think in the end if we let our energy flow as it would we would wake up to see there is little left to work for.