Year End Ramblings

In this 11th hour of the year the night is gently pressing on ushering out another year. What am I to do? I think this is over and over until my stomach presses on me in hunger. It may seem small but the thoughts that lead from one corner to the next are in the driver seat.

Computer programming. I'm still in love with computer programming. I find myself programming everyday on various projects. It is too much fun. If you haven't learned a program -- I recommend squeak -- an open source smalltalk and all you need is a computer. There are hundreds of tutorials. Now I use C++, Perl, Java, and smalltalk. All of them are great languages to learn and one can even find a job using anyone of them. What I love about computer languages is that they are complex enough to challenge even the most dedicated foreigner who wants to be paid while being overseas. It leaves enough room for the rest of us to make a living as well.

Songwriting. It is a love affair I've had with guitar, piano, base, drums, and singing my whole life. I can't get enough of it. I have finally organized my next 6 albums -- none of which are recorded exactly like I want them, yet. But the continuing saga in my life to produce, perform, and publish music is growing hotter. Most of all -- I enjoy every moment of it.

Holistic Practice. The idea of threads of income while learning new skills took off some years ago as I finished acupuncture school and melded the skills of bone setting tui na with the new found skills of Traditional Chinese Medicine. I've had so much fun cupping, needling, using moxa, using herbs, and changing lives. I've held onto many of the principles I learned while studying in bio technology companies and kept building on the theme of looking for underlying causes. Today I am balancing the posture, the energy rivers of the body (meridians), and the body's neuro-transmitters. I feel like I have the x, y, z planes of some newtonian geometry which allows for the melding of three worlds which come together between body alignment, energy meridians, and the body's communication system. I love this stuff and especially have a tremendous awe for what this medicine does for my patients -- and for me.

Warrior. Here I am still doing kung fu. It is the awareness, the knowing without knowing, the simplicity, the letting go of the known to accomplish the unknown, the renewal within expressing its outward manifestation of inner peace, and moving away from the formative nature of endless forms -- formless reality driven from the body finally understanding. I haven't taught it hardly at all. My journey is still quite driven within. I hope some day to share it with more than a patient or two here or there.

Any writer knows the nature of creativity is not something that falls around like rain. Yet it comes and goes like anything in nature can but it sings, it rings, and plays like Peter Pan. I'm not sure if I can be any clearer than that ... that all my life has come to this. It doesn't matter if I sing, if I write, or if I play -- life is living what I most love living every day and in every way it is.

May 2011 be coming more and more becoming.