2008 - On the verge of the coming second son (Francis Xavier Meyers), we have begun to settle into our new home, our new community. I have found, already, an aggressive motivation to destroy the bad habits/addictions that developed during our transitional time. I think we will certainly utilize the season of Lent to help end several food addictions. No meat, no dairy, more water, more exercise. You know...

...I gotta get in shape. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on there will be 50 pushups each morning, 50 pullups. There will be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight.

I have basically quit driving a car (too expensive, too political, etc.). I am putting together a bicycle, with the help of several pals, so that, when it is too far or cold to walk, I can ride a bike.

I figure, that someday, the unsustainable, industrial, pagan way of life, will die a morbid, tortuous death - and that if my children, my neighborhood, learn now, to live sustainably - maybe they can pass along those skills to the many people in need, during those very dark, hungry days.

I welcome 2008, as a year of learning many sustainable skills, and reading more Tolstoy, Hemingway, Dostoevsky, Berry - and, apparently, starting a neo-socialist revolution. Who's with me!?!?!?