Thank you all for the warmth expressed here and in e-mails.
I still seek lots of contacts for folks in established communities, or those forming that want to work together on the electrical power aspects.
As I prepare for the journey, my sister sent these words from a novel she is reading this moment in time. They are most resonant and seem applicable to so many here, enjoy!
"When he reflected on what had brought him to this place, he knew that many would consider his mission insane and his methods reckless. Perhaps it would have been wiser over the past year to have let those who loved him know where he was and he regretted the pain and worry that his disappearance must have caused them.
But he knew too that the journey he had made was part of his own private destiny and that it was somehow ordained, though by whom or what he had no idea, that he should travel its path alone and without reference.
He knew the truth of this destiny only in fragments that twirled in his mind like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle floating in a pool: the elk with its flaming antlers, the walk through the desert along the invisible river, the rock paintings, ..., the story of the kudu and the skeleton of the whale and the old lion staring with its firelit mirror eyes.
All these images he knew to be connected and sometimes, in moments of calm, on the edge of his vision, the pieces of the puzzle seemed to float so closely together that he thought he was about to see the whole picture and at last to understand.
But when he looked directly at it the pieces would twirl again and quickly drift apart.
And he soon came to realize that whatever the truth might be, it was not a thing of mind but of being and that he would know it by living and not by looking."
Nicholas Evans
Namaste!