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.

I'm going to Chicago this coming week for the UAI Leadership Seminar. This came up pretty much last minute for me. I'm very interested to see where it's going, and to meet the many people who will be attending.

Since it was last minute, it's cheaper for me to drive than fly. That's quite a journey, but it will be an adventure too. Heading out Tuesday night, or maybe early-early Wednesday morning. I plan to be there by Wednesday evening, but that's somewhat fluid, and I can arrive later if I need to.

In my quest for perfection, as our Father in heaven commands, I have learned that goals are important. In my attempts to perceive where my life's work will take me, I formed a list of my primary, highest goals for this life. These are what I would like accomplish in my life on this world:

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.

At some point, I'll turn on a micro-blog stream also.