47, Spring, Twenty minutes to two hours.

 I'm overdue, so here's a second post.

A few simple updates: beginning to research and reach out to people for potential volunteer opportunities. Continuing the reaching-out process for a few people I felt intuitively called to connect with for help. That should be resolving itself in the next few weeks.

Came up with a fun and wildly overambitious project that I may take a bite out of as a test project to complete.

Spring is happening! Daffodils coming up, seed balls from Sycamores coming down, and squirrels pruning the Silver Maples they live in. If only we could get them to prune our fruit trees too. Some nice warm days happening.

Today, among several other things, I started working through my backlogged (from at least a year or two) inbox. 47 items processed. That doesn't mean I did them all. Some I decided weren't worth doing, some I realized I'd already done, some were just reference to be filed away, and some went on my todo list. I actually did a few more things than that, including the two things I had as most important for today.

It feels like a fairly a productive day. And it's far from done, as I'm about to make a new recipe for dinner from a meal kit. They say they take 20 minutes to prepare and end up taking 1.5 hours, so they are not exactly "pre-prepared" for you, at least with this company. Also everything takes longer when I 

a) am not very familiar with cooking techniques, and

b) am listening to a book on tape to make it more fun, and

c) am cooking double portions so we have a second meal from it.

Then I've got a 2 hour class where I'm learning about mentoring and community building from Jon Young and others. Jon is a student of Tom Brown Jr., in some ways the first student, I think, and one of the few to be mentored in the way Grandfather mentored Tom.  Jon is also a super nice person, and has his own nature awareness school. I think it's called the Kamana school. Tom often has him come and teach at his Tracker classes.

OK, I'd better start cooking now if I want to eat before class starts.

Love and blessings to your own journeys,

-Isaac