A transformative soul I may never be. An ignitor of soul I am and will be. A match, used or not.
4.05.2019
4.04.2019
April 4, ignite Soul log. Frustrating, but very productive day. Foundation Building.
Completed a document with all of the substantiv parts of the nearly 1,000 page Tolstoy translation of the four gospels, one document that now can be read to me and annotated by me in coming weeks. Very positive step.
No one envies Jesus, a nice Christian man replied. I always have, James.....
No one envies Jesus, a nice Christian man replied. I always have, James shed. This during the 15-minute dialogue yesterday as I was riding, sweating, up the hill yesterday, to the nice man and his wife driving down the hill and their shiny black SUV. And since my earliest memories I have envied Jesus. It seems to me, to love everyone that much, what could be greater than that?
Fabulous? Body still healing from cancer surgeries 4 years ago? That's....
Fabulous? Body still healing from cancer surgeries 4 years ago? That's amazing, but there are indications this may be the case. About a week or more now that James has been requiring less than 12 hours a night of sleep! And some slight Improvement in the bowel difficulties that he has had. James was supposed to be dead at least 3 years ago. Wipe those tears of disappointment from your eyes. This body is amazingly strong, but getting stronger?
Appalling lack of foresight and understanding by James regarding current US demise, and the extent of evil Rising. If...
Appalling lack of foresight and understanding by James regarding current US demise, and the extent of evil Rising. If one does not study history, one is doomed to repeat it. The Third Reich has been on my list to study but never has been. Eric foner, the world scholar on reconstruction, was a bit eye-opening to me years ago. Most recently as I look at white supremacy Rising around the world, how could I not have understood that disguised white South African apartheid is what exists in America and around the world. White Privilege will do whatever it can to hold on to its undeserved privilege. James, such blindness.
4.03.2019
Ignite soul log April 3th. The Phoenix rises.
The Phoenix rises? LOL. A bit melodramatic. But the last couple of days have been frustrating in as much as they have required much attention to material issues and away from deep study of the issues of the soul.
And then this morning such a treat, such a gift. The gospel of the church, their translation, gives us Armageddon. The gospel translation of toast joy, gives us, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Martin Luther King jr. The letter R my preference. The former, to the harror and total revolving of my soul.
There is quite good scholarly evidence in the translation from Tulsa toy with his extensive extensive extensive notes, but never will I live long enough to know for sure whether he was right. What I know for sure is the outcome of his efforts is what my soul is for. So, getting more familiar, more grasp of, what toll story learned and saw, has moved very high in my agenda.
What is needed by my study is a clean PDF that I can have read to me of his initial translation work, four Gospels harmonized chapters 1 through 12.. There is near as I can tell although the book is public domain the interest in what toast toy created is so miniscule that a clean PDF does not exist.
The gift of this morning? It now exists, this clean PDF, to the 85 percent level. James had no idea it might be that easy. Credit to the skills he has developed technically in the last 15 years and certain software that he has accumulated. Creating that clean PDF is not complete, but in several more days it could easily be, and with just a little bit of luck available at several highly accessible sites, archive. Org, Scribd, and also another site that will be explored is free publishing on Amazon. What an extraordinary privilege to be a partner to the extraordinary soul., in this way. And how convicted of our culture that in 2019 it hasn't been done before. We are interested in everything except that which could save our children.
Your lips day Lord Lord, but your hearts are far from me, said Jesus 2000 years ago. It has gotten worse everyday since. He went on, you cannot worship God and Mammon, you will love the one and hate the other.
And there were other minor blessings but well worth mentioning. Two conversations, one with a roommate this morning, probably 30 or 40 minutes in length, and the other just now, irritating me at first when a nice shiny black car asked me to stop for a picture. Me bathed in sweat going uphill, them comfortably coming down. But I'm so glad they did. It was less about technology, More about the issues that are the focus of my life.
In either interchange was a soul saved? From going out? Was a soul ignited? Probably not, but it's possible. There was listening happening and at least some tiny element of soul available. And a lifetime of preparation and recent months here in Lone Pine preparations all of which came to bear in ways that were promising.
And there was other stuff, but the highlights are above.
Yesterday or the day before the idea occurred and was mentioned that I, we, read and here and think about Jesus with the wrong tone. He had found joy. Joyfully horrified he was that we were not finding it. This notion must be more deeply explored by me.
Hours were spent by James today listening to the 200 versus that we have from Jesus. Only 200. And listening to them with the idea of the paragraph above in mind. This exercise will be repeated often I suspect. And probably soon James will attempt to read out loud these versus imagining a way of expressing and emoting that embody what Jesus was embodying. James has done this sort of thing before even in his professional life. In valuable way exploring.
Solar RV cycling log April 3. Fabulous progress, but James never will learn to ride a bicycle, so how could he forget?
It may be ridiculous folly but James never has read a book on recumbent cycling. Someday he will, maybe. And maybe it would have saved him many many many many months of distraction.
James lived on a bicycle, a 15 speed, until probably sophomore year in high school. He was very strong at it, probably very good. A conventional upright bicycle pretty much teaches one how to cycle. Not so a recumbent, at least in the case of James. Oh, moving the pedals is easy. Achieving the unity with the vehicle that happens quite naturally on a conventional bike, not so much.
But what nice progress these last 3 or 4 weeks as the foundational notion of treating this like a conventional bicycle rotated back 40 50 60 degrees, continues to bear fruit.
And it seems like if everything discussed in logs these last 3 or 4 weeks is forgotten, except that, everything else will come back
The big lesson of 2 days ago is proving itself even more so today. Posture. Shoulders way back so that the body and spine alignment of a conventional bicycle is available for power delivery in this recumbent. Who knew? It's huge.
The other big notion yesterday was that imagining the mechanics of the front and back moving hydraulic piston in a locomotive was very helpful. Very helpful today.
But several important things were not within Focus until the last 20% of the journey. Hitting a Target with the knees of about 45 degrees each stroke. And that digging means delivering power not through the full stroke but in the last half the stroke. Remembering this was very helpful and protective of the knee joints I think.
Overall it was a very productive Journey. And a 1330 calorie night.
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