I love the cold blue landscape, and I thank the people who suggested using crazy glue on the painful cracks appearing on my fingertips. They work. The cold is normalizing, that is it is freezing and gray, but not debilitating. Heading out for a hospice visit and also to see my friend Ray Smith and his new artwork. I am thinking a lot these days about the idea that fear ought not govern life, shape decisions. Also that it is easy to blame others for our troubles. For me, the idea of personal responsibility is growing, and rapidly. I am responsible for my own life, my own security, my own goals and aspirations. I think we are approaching a time when individuals take more control of their own lives, and smaller entities are much better equipped to deal with new realities.
  Corporations don’t seem to work any better than large bureaucracies do and people who put their lives in the hands of either seem often to regret. I think there is more security in a mythically and individually driven life than the so-called “secure” life of the big job. Then again, I am a nut who lives on a  farm in a remote corner of what feels like the Siberian plains.
  I am continuing to look at solar panels and other alternative sources of energy and to consider positive ways to change and grow.