One Day!?

My dearest reader, I have but a tidbit to share with you today.  I finally broke ground with my herb garden today.  The seeds are in a temporary container so that I may select the best looking sprouts for my permanent box on the lawn.  I have started construction and will post pictures as soon as I am able. It is a whiteboard frame with a plywood bottom and pine croppings.  I will be adding a centerpiece soon.  I had thought a solitary flower or a sphere of marble but I am more than willing to listen to suggestions.  That is all I have for now and I hope that this post makes up for the depressing state of my last post.  If not then oh well.  Read a different blog.  Goodnight and sweet dreams.

A shame that the days past are so far past.

Hello again dear reader.  After a short absence it is time that I sit once again and post.  Well let us not beat around the bush.  Right in to the mess of it as they say...
The environment that I was raised in is a complicated one.  On the one hand I have always had to work hard for the things I want and yet there is also an element of convenience.  I have always been an outside person.  My whole life has been sports, camping, rock climbing, carpentry, and mcdonalds.  It seems to me that this is an almost common beginning and slowly all of the aforementioned activities are weeded out until all we do is fast food.  This coupled with the copious amount of T.V. that I watch and the fact that I have a car now instead of a bike make for a very unhealthy lifestyle.
There is one thing though that makes this all a little less of an impact on my life; my attitude toward the fact of it.  I hate the fact that where once we had to walk or ride to the places we wanted to go we now have the option of driving.  Not only that, we are forced to drive because of the proximity of these places.  If I could do so I would dismantle our entire way of life.  I would have us back to the days when the market was the only place to go and that was in walking distance or riding distance.  The days when a village was tight knit and all was togetherness.  I dislike the world we live in even more because I have assimilated to it.  I hate it and yet I depend upon it.  I know that there are those who share these views but we have no power.  We can only accept it and live our lives and know that we will end as the Romans did.
It is this attitude that lends a sense of bittersweet to all of my life experiences.  Whenever I feel that I have accomplished something I realize that I have accomplished nothing.  All of my little feats help nothing.  I am as helpless as an ant under the glass.  It is this that scares me.  I hate the way we live and I am helpless to stop it.  I dare not even try.  This is a pathetic side of me I know and I am ashamed to admit it to you but I feel that you must know this to know me.  You cannot imagine how badly I wish to drive off this invasion of pavement yet day after day I sit, and I wait.  Seemingly, the only people in America who matter are only ones who couldn't give a rat's ass.
"This I clothe my naked villainy with old odd ends stolen forth from holy writ and seem a saint when most I play the devil."
I apologize for the depressing tone of this post.  The ones to come will be much brighter I assure you dear reader.

Alas, poor yogurt, I knew it well.

Ah dear readers it seems to be that time again.  That time when I shall win you all over with the vein of my noble speech.  Of course this time I am writing not only to tell you about my week but because I have been assigned to.  We'll figure this together I am sure.
I will start by saying that my main concern, when speaking in terms of earth, life, and sustainability, is not only our limited resources but also our supposedly renewable resources.  Coal and oil are all well and good but I am quite sure that we could do without.  I am not overly concerned with any water shortage we may have for when the time is desperate enough our government will start the desalinization of sea water for us all.  What I am truly and wholly concerned with is wildlife and trees.  When I say wildlife I refer to all animals excluding raised-for-slaughter livestock and when I say trees of course I refer to all plant life on earth.  We cut down more trees then we could ever replant but we also cause erosion and our pesticides kill undergrowth and wildlife that ecosystems rely on.  I am also upset at the fact that we now actively put out crucial forest fires. To clarify I mean the ones that have grown to gigantic raging fires because we put them out in the first place and would have otherwise been relatively easy to steer clear of.  I like oxygen and I love breathing it even more but it will not be quite as much fun to breath in the future if there is not enough green to make oxygeen.
I would love to know why there aren't more progressive advances toward not only wildlife preserves but tree reserves as well. We need the forests and animals but most people just don't seem to realize how important they are to us.
Since I was little I remember my father taking me on camping trips.  We went to forests, mountains, valleys, and we even camped in the woods behind our house.  I love the outdoors. I love the stars and the smell of smoke coming off a strong fire.  I love the trees and crunch of leaves underfoot as you walk a path not yet traveled.  They recently turned a huge area close to my home in to a public park.  That seems like it would be a good thing yes?  However, this public park has placed within it one of the dumbest signs I have ever read.  "Please protect our natural areas by staying on the paved sidewalks."  Hmmm....
If there is anything that I can do to help stop this kind of madness I will gladly join in.  I refuse, however, to be a part of the wildlife warriors, or PETA, or any organization like that.  The only other thing I can think of is getting rid of a lot of humans in certain areas but that's illegal.  I suppose I should leave that one in God's hands.

My little school project.

I have begun the construction of what is soon to be my herb garden.  I decided against a fixed, in ground garden and went with a portable wooden planter.  This will allow me to plant right away, thus thwarting the ice queen and her evil schemes.  It will also allow to bring it out for the immense amount of direct sunlight it needs each day.
I went to Native Sun and bought four specific herbs today.  While the significance of these herbs will remain hidden to you, the reader, I don't mind naming them for you.  Thyme, Hungarian Blue Poppy, Feverfew, and Sweet Annie.  I will be using all organic fertilizers and natural soil with a bit of sand.  No pesticides or nastiness of any kind.

As some of you may know, I am a bit of a book hound.  I love love love to read.  I had a man come up to me today in Barnes and Noble and ask me why I had not yet purchased a Nook. "Well sir," I said to him kindly, "because I like to read paper books."  He proceeded to list for me every detail of this little device and specified that the screen even looked like you were reading a real book. 
It is a dream of mine to have a grand library of my own one day filled to the brim with all of the fantasy novels that I hold dear to my heart.  I want to bring guests in to my house and have them stagger back at the enormity of my trove.  Forgive me for thinking that a tiny electronic device sitting on the counter will not have that same effect.  I like to hold a book in my hand and feel the spirit of it come to life as I peruse the ideas that are held within. So again I say "good day sir!"

Oh sweet repose, where art thou, so oft inclined toward a leave of absence?

It has, without doubt, been the longest weekend in living memory.  Work, shower, sleep, work, homework, no sleep, work, shower, sleep, church, homework, work, shower, blog.  I understand that some of you may find it quite shameful that I'm whining about this when other students my age are raising babies and holding down 3 jobs while attempting a degree, but I am a man accustomed to certain spans of time with nothing to do but read.  I like to take long baths, which I realize isn't very "green" of me but is certainly more "green" than long showers, whilst enjoying a carafe of ice cold sake or a nice bottle of Moscato d'asti.  So it disturbs me more than a little when I'm forced to earn more money than I need.  I am, unfortunately, loathe to share my wealth with the less fortunate so it all goes to things I do not need like movies and swords and power tools.
On a lighter note, all of the extra money that I earned this weekend is going toward fashioning my new herb garden which will be put to use as soon as we step from under the veil of the almighty ice queen.  I plan to wait for she would most assuredly bring doom to an otherwise bountiful harvest.
Alas, fair reader, it is time to say adieu. Oh but parting is such sweet sorrow, that I should say goodnight till it be the day before my next blog is due.
 

I find myself in a class which I know nothing about.  It is a dark field and I a lonely wanderer from out of town who can only guess at what the aforementioned field contains.  I suppose if I had to venture a guess I would say that sustainability is an art.  It is something that requires, more than anything else, balance.  Water preservation is a perfect example, albeit a bit extreme.  We waste water now but if we were to save too much water we would end up dying from dehydration.  Like I said, a wee bit drastic but it is ten o'clock in the p.m. and I am tired.
This week I worked quite a bit, had homework every day, and attended an 1800's reenactment ball in St. Augustine.  I think that was the highlight actually. I got to dance, eat cake, drink old wine, present myself to the new king and queen, and take pictures with all of the late night foreign tourists.  Above all though, and this is pertinent to the topic currently at hand, all of our clothes were made by hand out of recycled cloth.  So that's kinda cool beans ya?
You know I'm sitting here wondering how on earth I am going to come up with enough subject matter to write my own blog and it's already done.
 Still lost in this field though..... Anyone....?