Getting better all the time

Wow, I'm really feeling the need to write this week.

Things to do with money, when I have it, or have somehow figured out how to not need it:

• *Visit every philosopher/dreamer/writer who has sparked my hunger for life in the past few years. Ex: Show up on Charle's Eisensteins doorstep with some homemade pot roast and ask to come visit for a few hours. Play with his kids. Cook with his wife. Borrow a book.


• *Release myself from student debt in order to escape from modern society for a few years and learn a useful craft/survival skill/new way of life.


• *Buy supplies necessary for turning some ugly piece of urban landscape into a lush and colorful urban jungle. YOU know, for the kids.


• *Travel travel travel. Roughing-it style.


• *Take some higher math classes. Use the time I would've spent working/draining my energy to learn when my mind is the most awake (late morning/early afternoon)


• *Go on a really long hike.


• *Learn how to sky-dive for real!


• *Get that amazing arm tattoo I've been talking about for 6 months.


• *Spend time after burningman just cleaning up the desert for a few weeks. Oh wait, I'm gonna do this one anyway! Fuck it, I'll have all the time in the world come September.

It's all about quality of time really, since we humans get such a stingy budget of it (unless, like Joe, you believe you're going to live for 800 years or forever). I don't care much about owning stuff. Once I'm done with this office job I'm throwing 75% of my clothes away. I always feel this way after reading or seeing something beautiful, and that's how I know it's important and truthful to who I am. Something I always come back to, again and again, after my other thoughts and day-to-day frantic lifestyle have churned me up and drained me out.