After some reflection, I've condensed my education subjects list, regrouped a couple items, and added some additional study. In theory, this will be a more manageable list of studies, and provide more focus for taking action on my studies.

For anyone who might be wondering, and because I saw a "testing" comment come through, I thought it would be good to note the current state of comments here.

I don't know if Sarah Palin is going to run for president in 2012. I hope so. I don't know. There are some good candidates already announced for the Republican field, and plenty of terrible options. Most of the good candidates would be just fine for Sarah's VP. Palin is the best candidate I've seen, and if she is running she's already got the best campaign I've ever seen.

In the hopes of turning this country in the direction I think will be best for it, knowing no one is without their faults, and trusting that Palin is an excellent option, I've decided to do what I can to help.

I was given three questions today, and advised to take a couple weeks to answer them. For the sake of narrowing my future focus from the field of "everything", I need to answer them well.

• What are my talents?
• What do I enjoy doing?
• What do I feel better after I've done?

Simple enough, right? Not really. These are only the big, life-defining questions I've never put much bother about. I want to be a musician-artist-inventor-aviator-doctor-architect-psychologist-entrepreneur-religionist. There's a fast-track for that, isn't there?

How about I try to dedicate myself to writing on a particular schedule? I might learn something. I'm busy. I have two jobs, and this is the first week in over a month I don't work 6 days. Last week my one day off I had two work meetings. Whatever. My last few entries have all been animal spirit related, which is pretty funny since my spirituality doesn't need animals as intermediaries for contact with the very source of all divinity. Still, for mental processing, and exploration of evolutionary religion, this has been quite an adventure.

I'm standing at the edge of a crystal clear pond. At the far side is a great and ancient tree. Through the tree, I will find my spirit animal.
This is a journey that must be undertaken with relaxation and without preconception.
I swim across the pond, straight through the middle from this bank to the far one. It is a long swim but I keep going, even when the sun blinds me from its reflections in the ripples I cause.