Well, I let a big gap come into play once again, but it could be worse.

The new grand-daughter is doing very well and I am fairly sure that she is getting spoiled completely.

We had quite the straining series of events on our group, yet for the time being, we seemed to have not only weathered them, but are somewhat better for the crisis to have happened.

Circles have improved a bit.  We have another one tonight, so we will see.  We also made some administrative changes here at the home place and they seem to be getting more done, better, in less time.

The garden is coming along, but it will be a couple seasons before the soil is amended and conditioned even remotely in the acceptable way.  Weeds are rampant, and as everyone knows, the organic way is slow at the beginning.  With proper TLC, it will get better.

We took an expedition-like trip to another part of the state, where we used to live and still have some contacts.  Each person had their little things to do, for me it was the seeing off of an associated tribal family as they make their way for their piece of ground back in the Mid-Atlantic region.  They are dear to me and I hope to see them again in this life.

We are nearing the end of the second week of tribal summer school.  The younger (including the grandkids) have a nursery/day school thing going, while the older children have formal academic classroom time in the morning, and traditional and life skill studies in the afternoon.  So far it is going really well, and it is working good in conjunction with the administrative changes we have made in how the household is run.

My illness is somewhat stable at the moment, my condition also improving with the changes made here.  I now focus less on the hoo-haw.  I am still responsible for everything, but instead of such a loose management of things and counting on everyone to do what they know they need to do, I sat down and formalized it into management schedules like I would have back when I was a Professional Engineer running a large project.  Ultimately, this Tribal enclave is a large project in and of itself.

My art has been on hold, but demand for it is still good.  Once the management/administrative revisions are fully worked in (maybe one more week), I will be a able to return with free conscience to my art and also the the Great Gathering project.

Things are going well enough, that my mundane fears are trying to kick in.  The old "things are okay, time for something bad to happen" situation.  I am working diligently to live once again without fear.

Sometimes I feel the flicker of myself coming back to life, then I lose it again.

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