It seems that my allegiance is not even to my own life, but to that which is good. I certainly didn't see this coming.

It seems that my allegiance is not even to my own life, but to that which is good. I certainly didn't see this coming.

Insanely humane. Leonard Bernstein and Felicia stood up for the Black Panthers. Article

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59e6c200e4b08f9f9edb7b11?ncid=engmodushpmg00000003

Brando refused the Oscar defending Native American Rights. Hero.

http://m.thevintagenews.com/2017/10/04/why-marlon-brando-refused-the-academy-award-for-his-performance-in-the-godfather/

Full effort is full success. Gandhi. Absolutely totally completely true. Full effort is the only thing we can control. And few of us try although most of us convince ourselves we have.

Full effort is full success. Gandhi. Absolutely totally completely true. Full effort is the only thing we can control. And few of us try although most of us convince ourselves we have.

Your life is not the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing.

Your life is not the major thing in influencing people. It is the only thing.

Somehow the journey gets harder. I'm not complaining. I'm blessed to have this Mission. But it gets harder. The degree of difficulty does not go down, it just keeps going up. Land is so.....

Somehow the journey gets harder. I'm not complaining. I'm blessed to have this Mission. But it gets harder. The degree of difficulty does not go down, it just keeps going up. Land is so..... scarce here that stores like Starbucks close up there wall sockets. gas stations close up their wall sockets. fast food places close up their wall sockets. And in these days that have shorter sun and so many Hills it is not possible to go all day on just What the sun provide some of these days.  and with Berkeley being the possible exception, the rest stops and Walmart's where it was legal to stay for the night are no more. and with all this goes I'm much more acutely awareness that we don't care about people in this Society, we care about their money, and if they don't have it, and they don't spend it, they are unwelcome. and I'm physically tired. I am emotionally and spiritually tired. the time I would be devoting to my emotional health and connection to creation has gone by the wayside largely To the moment by moment demands of this mission. Again, no complaints. Just a status update. although no one in my network other than one surfaced any housing for me in this part of the country, through my efforts I have uncovered several down in Silicon Valley that if they hold will provide a landing place and a base of operations for Three or four days of this vehicle being legally visible.  as I am stretched to the breaking point I suspect that those in proximity to me have felt that stress and largely Departed. Those who have not, your friendship is a great blessing.

Tired. The stress of the travel down through the Rockies, the frightening Siskiyou Pass, the frightening Travels afterwards, have taken their toll. This old system is tired. The solar bike car......

Tired. The stress of the travel down through the Rockies, the frightening Siskiyou Pass, the frightening Travels afterwards, have taken their toll. This old system is tired. The solar bike car Harvester micro RV is performing beautifully. It has really been completed this last month with the help of some of you, and it's driver is becoming more knowledgeable of what the limits are, so it is being put less under undue stress. But the human part of the equation seems a bit broken. 60 miles south of here is a nondescript little State campground on a Lake, Recreation Area. Looks reasonably quiet. 20 bucks a night. It seems prudent for this nervous system to go there for a day or two to see if it can restore itself.  https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10212442432968792&id=1620551416

My passion, and awe, at nature seems to be gone. This concerns me though I don't know if it should. Surely it is a consequence of the human atrocities that we visit on each other and creation everyday, that I live, refusing to turn away. I may decide that the passion for nature must be rekindled in me. Or maybe not. Not sure.

My passion, and awe, at nature seems to be gone. This concerns me though I don't know if it should. Surely it is a consequence of the human atrocities that we visit on each other and creation everyday, that I live, refusing to turn away. I may decide that the passion for nature must be rekindled in me. Or maybe not. Not sure.

Just arrived Callahan's. No problem. Looks like about 500', two miles, left to go. Then 10 miles of melting brakes. Yuck.

Just arrived Callahan's. No problem. Looks like about 500', two miles,  left to go. Then 10 miles of melting brakes. Yuck.

So far, everything according to plan or better. The new gears, the fan cooling the motor. Averaging......

So far, everything according to plan or better. The new gears, the fan cooling the motor. Averaging...... about four and a half miles an hour. Currently at the switch back. If the Google lady is correct about one-third of the climb is done and two-thirds remain, 1355 feet. There should be enough energy in the batteries to make it all the way to the top but to be prudent and conservative the vehicle and I are stopped at the switch back for half an hour or so charging at a rate of 230 watts per hour.

Like my father's generation, I am an extremist. They radically converted their lives and the entire US economy in a year to fight the threat to their future Generations. You can't get more extreme than that.

Like my father's generation, I am an extremist. They radically converted their lives and the entire US economy in a year to fight the threat to their future Generations. You can't get more extreme than that.

We all want some things so much that we spend our lives on them. I spend mine on a future for creation other than the hell that we are currently handing it. Pretty simple.

We all want some things so much that we spend our lives on them. I spend mine on a future for creation other than the hell that we are currently handing it. Pretty simple.

Truth, if it is important and new to you, has the features of a paradigm, and may be exactly a paradigm shift for you. It requires the effort to physically expand and adjust your nervous system so that you can accommodate and encompass the new truth. Think of the effort required simply to see a new visual Paradigm, the old woman and the young woman in the same picture, for example.

Truth, if it is important and new to you, has the features of a paradigm, and may be exactly a paradigm shift for you. It requires the effort to physically expand and adjust your nervous system so that you can accommodate and encompass the new truth. Think of the effort required simply to see a new visual Paradigm, the old woman and the young woman in the same picture, for example.

For those who accept the status quo, even if they say they don't like it, there is never, has never been, a way acceptable to them for others to fight for change. Ever. They always hate it.

For those who accept the status quo, even if they say they don't like it, there is never, has never been, a way acceptable to them for others to fight for change. Ever. They always hate it........ Every life, every effort, has collateral consequences, collateral damage. Those who detest efforts to change the status quo accept Earth destroying levels of collateral damage as long as those are aligned with maintaining the status quo. But collateral damage despite the best efforts to avoid it among agents of change, totally unacceptable. Horrible. Detestable. Unless or until it is at a safe enough Geographic or historical distance that in their cowardice they can say it was a good thing. Never in the present. A pleasant gentleman, late 40s, white male, approached me in the Starbucks about this vehicle and ones he builds for amphibious races, pedal-powered. At some point I mentioned Standing Rock and immediately, although still Pleasant, he went right into an authoritative stance that Standing Rock was in large part of bad thing, created mountains of garbage. He knew that what I said was false, when I said that if a hurricane or police force came in and destroyed the buildings around us here in Grants Pass, there would be mountains of garbage. He wasn't there, I was, he had no reason to think that I was deceitful, and yet he was the authority and knew what he wanted to believe and wanted to hear nothing to the contrary. The mountain ranges of wreckage that he as a Westerner leaves on Earth with his Western overconsumption and entitlement is of course, entirely acceptable to him. But people that stumble out trying to figure out how to improve the future, detestable to him. And to most people.

Truth cannot be given one to another, at best it can only be made more likely of being discovered. This lesson is not one I have wanted to learn and have resisted learning it all these decades. But there it is. When one tries........

Truth cannot be given one to another, at best it can only be made more likely of being discovered. This lesson is not one I have wanted to learn and have resisted learning it all these decades. But there it is. When one tries........ to give the truth as best one knows it almost invariably it renders it invisible. The intended receiver may well think that they have received the truth, but again, almost invariably they have received at best a mere Shadow and lost the inclination to dig deeper for the essentials. I must stop doing this disservice to people. In this light I better understand why our great human beings have had so little impact on the world, Martin Luther King Junior, Gandhi, and they are like. We quickly here platitudes, decide we now grasp what they had two teachers, move on, and never Advanced our core understanding.

Just like we purchase everything else by giving our life for it, I want us to purchase a planet our children can thrive on by giving our lives for it. And that's exactly what I try to do.

Just like we purchase everything else by giving our life for it, I want us to purchase a planet our children can thrive on by giving our lives for it. And that's exactly what I try to do.

If I am not shocking, foreign, to most in this world, though that is never my intent, then I am of vastly too little hope for the world.

If I am not shocking, foreign, to most in this world, though that is never my intent, then I am of vastly too little hope for the world.

If my work does not piss some people off, though that is never my intent, if my work does not piss some people off I am definitely not the source of creative tension that the world needs.

If my work does not piss some people off, though that is never my intent, if my work does not piss some people off I am definitely not the source of creative tension that the world needs.

A year in prison for standing Rock, has been averted by diligent and competent work by my lawyer. Court-appointed but funded in part I think by guardian angels. Final paperwork has been received. No court time, no jail time, minimal fine, record expunged in 12 months time. Time in prison could have been a wonderful opportunity to serve human rights but this mission is a better way so it is an incredible blessing that that was averted at this time.

A year in prison for standing Rock, has been averted by diligent and competent work by my lawyer. Court-appointed but funded in part I think by guardian angels. Final paperwork has been received. No court time, no jail time, minimal fine, record expunged in 12 months time. Time in prison could have been a wonderful opportunity to serve human rights but this mission is a better way so it is an incredible blessing that that was averted at this time.

If good intentions could save the world it would not be headed to hell right now. They can't. And I simply don't have time to hear them. If someone wants to help, under commit, under promise, and over perform. I hope that's what I do and you should expect nothing less.

If good intentions could save the world it would not be headed to hell right now. They can't. And I simply don't have time to hear them. If someone wants to help, under commit, under promise, and over perform. I hope that's what I do and you should expect nothing less.