Physical retention, tattoo art, permacultural-awareness

Dearest friends,

In the last while the weather has turned back to rain and cloud. It's quite intense living here, and I'm only vaguely aware of the rapidly passing weeks as they run between my fingers.

Work has been going very well, this new website I'm making is going to end up being one of the best sites I've ever made... but the tole on my body hasn't been all that great. Too many hours sitting behind the computer; it's just not healthy. I find that the previous frustration I had with Holland hasn't changed: being that I often consider going outside, but then I can never think of anywhere to go, so instead I stay indoors. Honestly, I can't wait until I leave this country! I'm far too 'into nature' now to be content with this low quality of life one has here.

My body went 'on strike' for a week, and I was left with a stiff neck - I'm guessing my body took out revenge on me for not having fulfilled my promise... as I have yet to start or do any of the physical activities I had presumed I was going to do. How awful!

on the positive side of life, I've been working on a tattoo for Corey, my Canadian spirit-brother [I traveled with him in NZ]. It's not the first time I've been asked to make one, but it is the first time I'm actually going to do it! It's scary! And I want it to be just perfect; so I'm taking a long time to work on it; sketching by hand, scanning, correcting in the computer, printing, drawing by hand... over and over again in a repeating cycle... I think it's going to look really nice! [eventually!]

On the awareness front I'm learning a lot from the permaculture book. When I'd done with it I want to go through it again and mark slides I can make for a reduced-size:higher-impact [power point] presentation. I think there is tons of excellent information here just waiting to be told to a wider [not agriculturally focussed] population. If the presentation looks like it has value, I might go the next step and make a web site and/or you Tube info documentary... we shall see.

I'm quite eager to talk with Ruby in a few weeks/months about possible [work] collaboration. Ruby is my long standing friend from high school, he's become the permaculture-mastermind; me the humble green sprout.

Oh, new photos uploaded in album 4!

you can now see all my pictures from Tokyo, monkeys and Mt. Fuji...
thats about 8 days of photos! So I still have about 8.8 gigabytes of photos still to sort!

Hugs!

Seb.