Heads Up. It has Started.

Oil has jumped to over $101 per barrel. Gadaffi is trying to bomb his oil infrastructure. Saudi Arabia has supplied tanks to Bahrain to put down riots. And the date to watch is March 11th for a major event to happen. The big push is going to happen in the next two weeks. Be prepared.

I have been talking to myself lately. I picked up that habit when I worked nights and was by myself for about 8 hours. Actually, you might just think of it as thinking out loud. Well, it actually is just thinking. I review ideas, events, bits and pieces of knowledge in my mind. It is like taking notes and then reading them back in order to voice what I have learned. In so doing, I tend to see the mistakes and take to heart the success.

Tonight, the last Emperor of China had a lesson for me to listen to and learn. Even though I did not agree with his actions and ideas, I came away realizing that in the end, life is just an experience to be observed and digested. We all are born. We all live a life of one sort or another. We all die.  It is the life experience between the two milestones of birth and death that is interesting and important. Things change. We evolve and progress in our studies in life. We come to a big final, brilliant realization of what it all was about and then we pass on. Don't regret the lessons.

I told myself while I was in the shower tonight that I need to get away for a while. I need to turn off the radio. I need to turn off my phone. I need to shut down this computer and I need to go away and plant my toes in the dirt. I need to be me and just me for a while. The world will keep on going if I am not here for a few days. Things will happen. Life will go on. And, I hope to be unaware of it all except for the space and time I create around me for a few hours. I don't think I am going to take my Wife with me this time. I am going to go be by myself a day or so.

That being said, I want to go create something fun. I want to dig a hole. I want to carve a stone. I want to weld a couple of pieces of steel together. I want to hammer a nail. I want to read a good book. I want to make a meal just for myself and sit down and enjoy it. I want to think. I want to remember. I want to be deeper in Love with Angela. I am so deeply in Love with her now, it is almost frightening. You see it all is part of a tapestry I want to weave, thread by thread. I want to go away for a day and let her create another wonderful piece of art. You should see the piece of pottery she just made. Pinch pot bowl with the most remarkable pink and orange color you can imagine. Pink! I suggested teal next. I bet she can do it too. I can bring about that bowl if I go away. So, I shall.

So, what else am I escaping? The facts above and more. We have troops on the ground in Libya. The World Court has a warrant out for the arrest of George W. Bush, Carl Rove and several more. The New Moon is upon us.  The Navy is gearing up for action in the Middle East. Arkansas is experiencing several earthquakes and one just killed some folks in New Zealand. The flu is epidemic in Austin and Lockhart. It was 80 degrees F today. I have a toilet sitting in a storage building in Moulton that needs to be installed. I know there are 3 wasps in my upstairs bedroom/office at Rosebud Cottage and I am not there to get rid of them. Flower seed needs to be planted for Spring. I have a need to do some continuing education. And, I still have not been able to get off the Wheel of Life/Karma. I must be dense.

Spring Fever is here and I have it bad.