I just haven’t felt like I’ve had anything to write about. So I’ll just ramble to mark the time.

I’m into finches and sparrows this week. I’ve drawn a couple of bird cartoon characters and died fabric with a mon of birds. Been looking at flikr photos of birds. Apparently people have a hard time distinguishing between house finches and purple finches. We’ve got house finches, chipping sparrows, goldfinches, a tufted titmouse pair, and of course wrens, robins, mocking birds, cat birds, black birds, blue birds, red winged blackbirds, doves, and I think that’s pretty much it so far this spring. I made one gourd birdhouse. I’m working on samurai flags for bird species. They’ll be about 3″ by 8′ on 3″+ bamboo poles, to go in the garden. They’ll be prettier than samurai flags and with spring colors with cool dye work.

I had blood work done this week along with a general physical. I learned what a lipid panel is. Pretty interesting. All of my levels were very healthy. One thing I did learn from crazy anarchists was how to eat right. Fiber, whole grains, antioxidants, fruit and nuts, less meat, no trans fats, medium sized portions etc.

I’m sick of current events and barely watch the news. I’d much rather watch home and garden. I can’t think of anything I could do to make the world better right now. I desperately need to find a way to get money right now. Can’t do much world saving being broke other than trying to be good to people but it has been my experience that that just gets on peoples nerves. So, there’s really nothing to do but try to make money and try not to waste energy etc. I barely use any energy so, yep, pretty boring, not much world saving to do.

Politics is so f’d with that abortion legislation, war czar, etc. The world is just too nuts and you have to be a high powered lobbyist to do anything about that issue specific stuff. I’d like to think that peoples resistance to specific infractions of global empire on their lives would lead them to struggle together against the root of the worlds problems, but I can’t. I agree that empire is a good name for the complex of social pressures habits values etc that leads to globalization and global social ecological degradation. I just don’t think that giving it a name makes it a clear target. I mean how do you get rid of empire? It’s like getting olive oil out of fish oil. What would replace it? Food co-ops? As far as I can tell people there have always been tyrants and bureaucrats and superstitions etc. I’ll just try not to get squashed by empire and count that as a success.

So I guess my personal philosophy doesn’t really lend itself to allot of  blogging these days.  My opinion on the Virginia Tech tragedy; glad it didn’t really effect me, it will happen again and again because society is super alienating and built on violence. My opinion on the abortion legislation; I wish the right would all have a stroke, that’s all I can do is wish because I have absolutely no power to do anything about it. My opinion on the war; wish it hadn’t happened, told you so, again no power to do anything about it. My opinion on the radio guy’s statement; what was his name, who cares, those basketball players seemed awfully dramatic on TV, I’m glad I don’t know them.