After a well needed rest from a journey with the heaviest backpack I ever used it was time to return to my chambers among the trees, black berry thorns, birds and crickets a returning feeling comes back. The feeling I have had so many times before and missed. Every time I move a full inventory is generally is done to the best of my ability. Reflecting on the reasons people move to start over and refresh feeling is like a strong current. New world events so exciting the stuff I own which can be considered what I am a slave to doesn’t hold its manipulated grasp as well as I thirst for the unknown and yearn for new memory’s. A filter in a sense is done out with the old and in with the new with some exceptions. Clutter, to do list, routine everything is reshaped and my muscle memory is stretch out of its current complacency form. A lot of things are consciously being activated that may have become habitual and no longer warranted much attention. The daily routine in systematic mode using very little presence or vigilance in communication attention to detail and more is thrust into existence giving my complacence tendency a rinse. Laziness from repertory things wrappings peeled off as all new process must be formed a since of creative thinking forms before me. The exercise of muscle memory ensured to yield little return as a assembly of thoughts in the conscious mind starts feeling a new workout a endurance riffle of a sort. Really hard to articulate, but all these subconscious things we do paying very little attention throughout the day with daily task is recycled making it feel like my conscious is almost re-centering automatically. Logical thinking and problem solving swells like water front crashing into a dam with spills over the other side. Simplicity all to much fells like antimatter to ultimate complexity. The thoughts do not always register highly intellectual, but the train of thoughts go on routes all over town with new stops and destinations. The problems, discomforts, shortcoming and disconnect of the environment almost comes to the forefront of the picture. It is as though you look at the city and other procedures task and errands to see a view with a focus different than before. Its like when you are taking a picture and you want to focus on the thing furthest in the back a lot of camera allow you to touch that area and it will focus the picture framing there making other parts not within close range blurring. This scenario but instead of blurs and focus points you get insight. The 50 shades of grey insight. This all summed up I believe to correlate wanting the world to stop turning as I feel I can accomplish most if not all task increasing energy efficiency. If time can just freeze all task shall be done and my journey foundation will be diamond solid. However, my chapter might be like a scoop of ice cream of a big bucket. As it thaws out I can only take certain volume of scoop at a time. This uncertainty seems to have develop a feeling that I want everything to have optimal outcomes as I further hyper focus my conscious and take full advantage deemed to be had as I feather my way across town. If it is just a scoop of enlightenment and insight than that scoop will dig deep into the bucket maxing the textile strength of the scoop seizing the opportunity as I feel this portion of a new array of events could be most advantageous for perception, acuity and other flows of knowledge, wisdom and intellect.

Currently in Salem, OR after a much need rest from a two week expedition. I have much to update on the blog. I found my recorder at a friends with a lot of my notes and interviews not composed on any of my handles. Hopefully some of the recording can be put in the podcast in due time. There is so much to talk about. I did work with a community garden recently building a electronic rapid prototype, but have not been able to confirm permission if they are comfortable with me sharing that event. Hopefully soon and discuss future ideas that have me really excited.

Consolidating things from friends places in Salem running it to the storage locker. A lot of work needs to be had inventorying and organizing the locker along with building up the packing list some more such as a sewing kit much need laying somewhere in the locker. I also have a bunch of diamond willow and unique curved wood for a bedframe two hours drive from here south at a lady’s place whoms father I worked with as a co-owner for a finish contractor business. He had recently passed away not more than a 3 years ago. Huge family with loads of character I enjoy staying in touch with. I want to get that wood and bring it back to Salem on the Willamette river which is approx. 60 miles river way float from Coburg near Eugene to Salem. Coburg is known as the antique capital of the US so always a pleasure to visit, but my goal is to find a cheap canoe and load it up with the rest of the bedframe wood pieces. Below is an example of a diamond willow bed frame:

Everything but the small post where the feet and head are is planned to be diamond willow for my design. The five short vertical pieces on the foot boards is planned to be replaced with another wood also acquired see an example below as I am currently ill equipped for original pictures.

With ten sticks very similar to the example photo replacing the 5 small post you see in the diamond will bed frame foot board along with ten for the head board. There is still material to acquire as I hope to find some amazing lightening rocks to be sliced like a coaster to be adhered to the top of each bed post with an led wired from the bottom up just under the lightening rock to shine or cause a glowing effect observed throw the lighting rock.

The Diamond Willow has a story for Bemidji Minnesota of a Chief Native American named,” Shaynowishkung (Chief Bemidji)” with a memorial in the decent size city approximately two hours north from Brainerd MN where I graduated highschool. Here is some more info from a site

When I complete this queen size bed frame I want to raffle it on here as a fundraiser. More arts and crafts are being researched and designed to follow up with as well. My dad is a great artist and took the time to help me draw bald eagles at a young age. The plan is to take many of the rocks I found while rock hounding last couple weeks and future rock hounding finds to use the assortment to make a unique picture to look similar to some of my favorite drawings of his. I think it would be set in a picture frame with a clear epoxy or something of that sort to hold in place. I was looking for specific rocks on the last journey and building rough drafts ways to make these rock pick designs. I’m excited for this project as well. I’ve never had my own store before. It turns out this website supports merchandise, which I am excited about developing as a artist, carpenter, rock working and other disciplines. Ideas shared are welcome. I have a friend and some family already helping me formulate some of the designs. Myself and Rachel discussed this. See joked that we will put her ten kids to work on this right away. I have a lot of memories looking for agates with her. And she was been teaching her children how to find them as well in Minnesota. It is nice to have these memories with her and I am excited to mail her a lot of my findings as I urged her to come out to Oregon and rockbound with me sometime to the rock hounding capital of the world.