trump is bad for humanity

I believed in the system and then it failed me.

Donald Trump is going to take over as President. This is how inept the people of the western developed world are. Numb, dumb and smacking gum with their ear buds in so that they can just get from point A to point B without ANY DOG MAND DISTRACTIONS!! besides that bait click headline. and that one and that one and that one.

Ok, irl I know I'm just railing against the human condition. It's pointless. This is my plight as a human with a high sensitivity and intelligence. An exchange, essentially. Especially in a day and age where these things are not valued at all over money.
Because nothing is valued over money. Really. But somethings are said to be valued over money. Like freedom? Maybe.

The system failed because the intentions of the system are not the same as those of 240 years before. Those people were trying to survive. They had been through generations of violence and understood the intrinsic value to every single human life. As much as any human can understand it. The American Revolution is a story of a whole bunch of people who hate each other figuring out how to get along. There is no possible way the people of the US today actually hate and distrust each other as much as those founding fathers and their factions. But they made it work because the alternative was death. So, if the current day lawmakers can't do better, the problem is clear. They need to value human life more than they do.

The parallels are ripe for the picking of all high school English students writing essays with titles like:
Not My President: 5 Ways Donald Trump is a 21st Century Version of Adolf Hitler

Assuming people are taught how to make accurate comparisons these days. I am not totally sure that they are. Maybe I got to be educated during some sort of golden age of reason. Or maybe it's just that high intelligence thing again. Regardless, education for all must continue. And with the internet, literacy becomes more achievable but also takes on deeper, thicker, more grotesque layers. There are limits to language. Language is a derivative of thought, so there are limits to the abilities of language to solve problems. One of those limits is the time it takes to just put the right words together.

It's a tightrope to walk a line of not trying to be annoying, or over zealous. No micro-aggressions, except against those intended to try and offend. Not trying to get paid. But still creating content that is intended to improve human existence now and in the future. Trying to say what I actually think and accepting the imperfections that come out in that effort. Respecting the energies of my body for my body. 

Quickly, the systems based in technology fail me in this framework. I feel as though I am lost in the wilderness. Technology is just a machete in my hand.
But in Physical life I'm not in the wilderness  at all.And right now, for me, it seems like people are really hurting themselves with that machete more than they are helping themselves.
But maybe that is just a bubble I am in. Regardless.

The problem is that human existence now and in the future should be the most valuable thing, at least in regard to the systems that we set up to help us survive. The free market capitalist system is just one of those systems, but somehow it is the one that dictates value for every system? Such that it ruins health care systems, education systems, potable water distribution systems!, ecosystems, legal systems..... Valuing money over human existence is ruining the possibility of a prosperous future for our species.

And so is not understanding or respecting the real truth in the benefits to diversity. It is beautiful that we can fly from place to place to place. But since we have taken on the rights of having airplanes, so we must also take on the responsibility of upholding diversity.
Human beings are different colours because the sun shines on the planet differently in different places. And everything after that is what our brains and eyes did with the colours of humans before we understood how melanin worked.

We can compare cultures down to the nitty gritty for decades, it's just a divisive exercise. As a tiger I know sometimes sings: in some ways we are different but in so many ways we are the same. We have to stop separating ourselves based on surface appearance. That is a choice made out of fear, and fear based choices do not strengthen humanity. they just don't. Fear based choices only strengthens the insulation that people use to stay numb, dumb and smacking gum. We need diversity of age and culture and gender (and all the other nuanced identities that make humanity the parasitic force that it is).

White supremacy theories are incomplete pictures of humanity. They are not and never will be truth. The Patriarchal and Machismo structures that every culture pays heed to are far worse for men than they are for women. Children are just small people with problems that feel incredibly complex but can (usually) be easily solved with help. Humans have a really hard time asking and accepting help from others, but individualism is not the lifestyle it promises to be because humans are wired as relational beings. Violence solves no problems at their root and it is unnecessarily over dramatic.



I protest the way Donald J. Trump used frustration and anger involved in real problems that have absolutely nothing to do with minority cultures or the free press. I protest the way Trump turned that frustration and anger into hatred used to demonize minority cultures and the free press -these are elements of society that are necessary for the strength of my homeland. And I protest every single decision Trump has made as President Elect. Every single one. Even the ones I don't know anything about. I protest every decision with certainty that it was not made with the best interests of my homeland over any other best interests.

You can't serve money and humanity. You can't serve yourself and a country. You can't sleep and be woke. Love burns. Healing hurts. Endurance is necessary for survival.

ok Trump is President, now what?

take a deep breath and let it go. first of all.
release all of the fear that lies inside you. there is no need for it here.
It doesn't matter what the state of the world is when you read this.
There is no need to be afraid ever. of anything.

take a deep breath and let it go. again.
flow that breath into yourself
so that you can make space for your emotions.
if you can breathe, you are alive.
life - its the only thing you have to have to survive.

so we are only dealing with emotions now, because we have removed the fear. If you really can't remove the fear and anxiety for your present existence just by breathing. And that is solely because Donald Trump became the President of the United States? keep trying. keep breathing. read.

Here is the thing, I believe in the legal structure of this country called the USA. It is not a perfect legal structure, but its flaws are clear and mostly based in racism and misogyny. If one of its flaws were that a president could become a dictator, I think it would have been exploited by now. And if this is the first time? if it took over two hundred years for a narcissistic, man-child become the leader of the free world? I still trust the system that has been established. The main point was to keep someone from taking everything over for themselves because the people who created this country did not trust each other in the slightest. BUT they were fucking tired of violence.

Because here is the T - Half does not a majority make. So in no way shape or form can anyone say that Donald Trump does anything with the blessing of the people of America. Only half of the American's get to be represented by this human's way of thinking. And his way of thinking is fucking negative. Like, disgustingly so. He is clearly a broken human that does not value the life he has. You can't say everything is shit and not convince me that

actually, it's your way of thinking that is the real problem

The glass is "half empty", pessimistic. As an authentic "half empty" you don't believe it is possible to ever see the glass as "half full" and anyone who claims to must be lying or deluded.

That is what I understand when I hear a human who talks like Donald Trump has for his entire presidential run. And as a person who is "glass half full" forever. I can not get on board with the way he thinks. He is broken, from my perspective.
And then, from his supporters I hear the same broke down pessimism OR I hear this:

I am on a team for life, that team is versus another team. and I want to be #winning. 

If only for a moment, they want to taste victory.

The secret is that there are no teams. Check the DNA! We are all family! Humans versus Humans is just violence against ourselves. Why would we commit violence against ourselves? because there is a huge deficiency of self love in the populous. And it presents itself on the surface in very many different ways, so you can't say that one side is full of people who hate themselves (and therefore all of humanity) and the other is full of people who love themselves. No. You can't really say that. You can say one side seems to be for unity and inclusion, whereas, the other side is for anarchy unless they are in control. Yes.

You can say that a government should give a crap about life. Specifically, the existence of human life in the future of the planet Earth. Government, as an entity, should be the thing that cares about this. But most of the people who support Donald Trump are too ignorant to see the value in government
So I get it. Donald Trump doesn't seem like the type to be good at protecting human life. And the potential of his presidency to [suck so bad that it destroys the planet and our species] is real. But growth in human life comes from dealing with that exact thing you do not want to face. And you do it to shake free those last hold out thoughts filled with fear and deception, the growth inhibitors that cause things like pessimism. Experiencing extremes creates selection. But you have to endure the extremes fully to find the benefit.

So don't cut tail and run. Endure. Canada won't take you easily unless you are paying international tuition fees, have a graduate degree or speak their two languages anyway. (I did the "move to canada" thing during the first four years of W, so I know). But for those of you who decided to stay in the US after high school, stick it out! Stay.
Take all the extra? money that you earn during the years Donald Trump is President of the USA and give it to your local schools. Not the schools your kids go to, but the schools you live nearest to. Give them your money, give them your time, give them your physical presence. Make the school the center of the community. Do you have access to food from a walking distance away? no? but you have a school a walking distance away. Make that school parking lot a farmers market. Mass efforts to source (grow+sale) food locally will only benefit the future of humanity. And a massive focus on education is the only true way out of this half and half split over how to think about life.

There are things that get to be categorically right and categorically wrong. If it threatens the existence of our species, it has to be wrong. Because if it is not wrong?! If it is just "an opinion" subject to equal time under scrutiny as all the other "opinions" presented?!!! Our existence as a species is based on this principle of self preservation, but let's just undermine all that?? because of freedom of expression? Let's express ourselves politely all the way into extinction. If it does not value human life the most, out of everything else, then it threatens our species and it is wrong. Not in some sort of spiritual, integrated, "sin" based way. No, like 2+2=5 WRONG!
And if a thing encourages the existence of our species, then it is right. That has be a truth no matter what you practice or preach about anything else. Or, half the population will definitely not be on board. Clearly.

So, the messages of unity versus anarchy? One of those messages is wrong and one is right.
It is always right to find the places that humans can unite. It's always right to bring more peace into a situation. It's always wrong to incite violence. You don't have to bring emotion or preferences or opinions into it. Valuing human life is always right and never wrong. So can we please see that message blasted across all versions of media? in response to a Trump Presidency. I'm laughing at the mainstream media now- they thought the whole thing was a joke just long enough to make it not one. Shocked for certainty is New York and LA on this fine November day. So the media better be ready to go high.

But seriously Mainstream Media, meet me at camera three-
This is your moment. You're dead if you do not change your messages. Stop convincing people to hate themselves just to increase your profits. Educate the masses in self-love. They need it. Half of them are convinced there is no hope in life. Get positive. Get inclusive. Get diverse. Don't become the anti-Trump, become a beacon of education in true self love. Rise Above. Go High. Send a message that Trump can not shut down without outing himself as a human-hater. You can turn this country around in less than 4 years. I guarantee it. But you have to stop being out for yourselves first.

No matter who the ruler of your country is, invest in the local infrastructure and people who surround you and you can not be wrong. And love yourself. It's easier to say than do. Mostly because it is a different code for each human to crack. All of the solutions start with grace. forgiveness. self awareness. It may be painful to figure out how to do it but endure the pain for as long as it takes. Because self love is worth fighting to have, as long as the fight is only violent against the deceptions and fears that convinced you not to love yourself in the first place. Get educated. Educate others.

It is time to be awake. It is time to be here for all of us. What world do we want to live in? I choose one of love. pic.twitter.com/Kxvqyy7y2T

— Alicia Keys (@aliciakeys) November 9, 2016

DoThis:Vision E002. A whole bunch of thoughts on how to think. I promise, it makes sense to me.

paper cranes

I have learned a few different and simple ways to make paper decorations. I will offer a demonstration of the paper folding techniques I have learned (the crane, the heart, and the 3d star). and then provide pretty paper for people to make their own. My hope is that guests will like their decorations enough to take them home. But if they don't, it is ok. I will decorate for the next party with any left behind.

I also have this glass cylinder sitting in a stainless steel base. It is actually like this ethanol fireplace. My husband received it as a company Christmas present years ago. We never used it because we witnessed the effects of the smoke from the fire on the fireplace. The burn marks on the glass took away from why we liked it. Also, we could never find fuel for it.

It is too much of an empty vessel. I had to figure out how to fill it properly. And while I could, myself, fold a bazillion tiny paper cranes just to take a pretty picture of it and put it on a blog post. or have my guests remark about it. Instead, I want to try and use it as an unconventional guest book for the house.

Thus far, this has not worked out as I had hoped. I don't know if things will change or not, but I will keep trying. I love folding paper cranes for people. it is such a simple thing that seems so magical. I will fantastically fold paper for the rest of my life.

can not do math

this is me having a conversation and folding a paper crane at the same time. I decided to learn how to do a crane because it is a bird and it is simple. I like folding cranes while talking to people because, then, I get to give the crane to them when I am done. It is just something I have been doing for a while in preparation and planning for the first Kollekt Party.

Paper folding is basically geometry as an art form, if you ask me. And, full disclosure, I love me some geometry. Actually math and I, in general, get a long pretty well. But that is not because math comes easy to me. Actually, just like my experience with the other second language in my life, I understand math a lot better inside my head. The problems come when I try to express what I understand. I make mistakes and lose my way.

I want to say that math is a subject that can unite humanity, BUT I actually don't think that human history would agree with me. Math may be a good "official language" for a globe-based society of humans, but only on paper, not in the interactions between humans. We can't communicate in only math, can we? I don't want to count anything out, but in the past, humans have not been able to unite around math- like it is a theme. Aristotle doing math vs. Plato doing math is a really good example. So is the B.o.B vs. Neil deGrasse Tyson twitter beef that happened. These differences in the way people understand themselves and the universe are the reasons why I am hesitant to use math as a vehicle to unite humanity.

An issue I do have is this: when I encounter a human exclaiming on the internet about how they can not do math. If you can't math, then use the internet to change that about yourself! It's one of the core sources of knowledge, and you don't know how to understand it, ok, but you are not worried about that at all!? that is not a string of choices that lead to positive effects on the existence of the human race, so I am not a fan.

In reality I think people remark loudly about their inability to do math, because they feel like they lost the opportunity to learn. Cover up your disappointment or embarrassment by making a joke. You laugh instead of understanding why. Why do you care enough about how you "can not do math" to make an announcement?

I know it is scary to face things you have decided you can only fail at. But, truly I tell you, everyone can learn math. There are so many ways that you can look at concepts in math. it just takes the right perspective to understand what is going on. From my experience, when you find that perspective, and truly understand, it feels better than climbing to the peak of a mountain.

DoThis: Vision E001

basic bicycle maintenence

For the first Kollekt parties, one of the activities planned to do for the asylum seekers is a demonstration in basic bicycle maintenance. I have had to rely on a bicycle to travel around for the last five years. I know how to do some really basic things to keep my bicycle functional. So, on the recommendation of someone who knows much better than I what an asylum seeker might find worth their time and discomfort, I have planned and advertised this demonstration. After the demonstration is completed, any party guests who are interested will be allowed to try the techniques that were demonstrated.

Bicycles are one of the parts of our world that can bring humans together into a common interest. They transcend the class gaps of the world. No one on the planet is too rich to use a bicycle. And there are many projects all around the world that try to close the gaps on a financial level as well. There are a variety of organizations that bring older, used bikes from more affluent areas into impoverished areas. The organizers teach and employ locals to fix the bicycles and then resell them. I am not personally planning to pursue this way of uniting humanity through bicycle recycling. Though I would not refuse to partner with someone who was interested. Most importantly, as soon as possible, I would like to hand off the responsibility of the Kollekt Party basic bicycle maintenance demonstration to someone who is more passionate about bicycles than me.

Assuming Kollekt Parties continue to happen at my family house, I would like to build covered outdoor space. I can only fit one or two bikes in the living room of the house. I would love to have an area that fits more bicycles, assuming learning to do bicycle maintenance is something that appeals to the party guests as much as I have been told it will.

We also have been getting feedback from the asylum seekers that they have a desire for quality equipment to maintain their bicycles. But, they don't have access to the equipment, or they can't afford the cost if they can find the equipment.

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Do This: Vision

Webinars.
this concept is changing my life.
not just because webinars are going to help me make money to run Kollekt Project. they are going to do that too.

but, more, than that. more than the profitability. I find value because of the scale-ability, because of the accessibility! It is a platform that meets my message exactly where it is. I really will be able to do all of this and never sell out. I'll sell my intelligence, not my integrity. It's like the last piece of this puzzle has finally fallen into place. If you want to know more, sign up for my very first webinar.

Or don't and wish you had. seriously. #cockyfresh

Kollekt apiary

Kollekt Parties are centered around a group of themes that unit humanity. Each time a theme is explored, like bees in two social species united, an more specific application of the theme to the Kollekt Project is explored.

To incorporate real bees into Kollekt Project is a dream I do not believe I'm allowed to have yet. So I'm just going to explain the dream and see what happens.

The primary goal is an apiary of warre hives. Warré hives are lower maintenance, more natural to split. designed based on some very awesome (and free to read) bee research done by the hives' namesake: Émile Warré (he is not so famous, eh? even his french wikipedia page has not been translated into english).

Son but était d'obtenir une ruche la plus proche des conditions naturelles de l'abeille, tout en étant pratique pour l'apiculteur. Il préférait faire des bénéfices plutôt que des profits et recherchait les économies à la place de la productivité. Sa ruche reposait donc sur un faible investissement financier pour sa fabrication et son exploitation. Il souhaitait que tout un chacun puisse avoir une ruche et récolter du miel sans pour autant devoir s’équiper de nombreux outils d’extraction.

So this is my beekeeping philosophy too.

The next part of the dream is to build a structure that houses the apiary. It is necessary to protect the hives from the rain and wind that are a definite force to be reckoned with on this part of the planet. It doesn't matter to me how it happens, I just really care about protecting the bee hives from the elements.

Once bee hive parts are made, they are modular. I want to design and build warre bee hive bases that incorporate a way to measure the temperature, humidity and sound inside the hive. because I am really curious about it. Older beekeepers say they can understand what is going on their hives by listening to the bees in them. I have never found any data to back this up or not. But it seems an obvious thing to try an quantify. Plus, I love listening to a hive of bees.

The hives have to be made from wood. untreated, just the guts of a tree shaped into rectangular prisms of multiple shapes and sizes. I believe I have to build them because the only bee hives I can buy (as far as I know) in this country are Langstroth hives. The Warré hive selection may even complicate things with the local bee keeping association. Which, of course, before I even start an apiary, I would want to develop a relationship with them. For advice on the apiary and also for the opportunity to have demonstrators come to Kollekt Parties.

Bees would be a great demonstration to have at the Kollekt parties (that I am working to make happen once a month. Feb 6 down, march5 here we come) In my previous time volunteering with asylum seekers, I have found bees to be a very wonderful topic of conversation. Many people outside of the western developed world still understand bees as their partner in agriculture for the last 9000 years- with a perspective much like Warré.

Beyond actually creating a Kollekt apiary. I have thought of smaller, simpler ways to incorporate bees into the activities at Kollekt Parties. The only real dream I have in this category is: View Masters. and image wheels that are filled with pictures of flying bees. View master does not already have a "pollinator" themed picture wheel, as far as I can find, so they would definitely have to be made.

And I want to try to catch natural swarms too.

Kollekt Project Crowdfunding Video

In real life, I so want this to work. <3 only time will tell.

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what is Kollekt?

Humans are more similar than they are different. all the time.
Kollekt is a group that focuses on honouring and uplifting the unity of the human race. all the time.

Every human life is a treasure that has intrinsic and incalculable value.
Kollekt is a group focising on promoting the elimination of all types of human judgement that result in the destruction of human lives (both literally and figuratively speaking) for the present and the future.

Humans are a species at risk of becoming extinct because we value making money over the survival of our species.
Kollekt is a group working to bring focus to this irony. And dreams about changing the world such that dolla dolla billz are never valued over the creation of something from nothing.

Kollekt Project is a group that throws Kollekt Parties.
A specific type of party that celebrates human creativity, human connection and human survival. Anyone can throw a Kollekt Party. The party planning materials will be made available from this website in the future.

Kollekt Project is a group that provides resources for Kollekt Create.
Asylum Seekers are humans in the middle of transition, most likely for years of their lives. These are humans who are filled with creativity and intelligence, yet, they must have limited resources because of their situation. Kollekt Create is a way to provide access to creative outlets for a few asylum seekers at a time.

Kollekt Project is a group maintaining Kollekt House.
Kollekt House is a physical location for Kollekt to operate out of. A place where Kollekt parties will be held on a regularly scheduled basis. Kollekt House is also an attempt to use tourist-volunteering and crowd source fundraising to offer employment opportunities to refugees (people that used to be asylum seekers, but are now permanently integrating into the local community).

 

two social species united

Bees are everywhere that flowers, fruits and vegetables grow on the planet Earth. They are huge contributors to the biological diversity, or biodiversity, in the majority of ecosystems across the planet. Bees pollinate plants, allowing crops for human consumption to vary much more wildly than if plants had to rely on the wind and remaining pollinators alone to progress their reproduction. Biological diversity, or biodiversity, is essential for the future of humanity because we are healthier with a varied diet, but also because it protects against diseases, disasters and invasions. Biodiversity on the back of the bees. And I am talking about all the bees, there are many kinds- the bumble being my personal favorite. But I know, it's normal to be thinking just about them honey bees.

Honey bees are amazing. I encourage everyone to fall down more than one internet hole by reading about honey bees. Humans convinced honey bees to live inside man-made hives, the better to exploit them, for sure. Being cared for by humans has not really bothered bees. They have been kept by beekeepers (who were first farmers) for thousands of years. Later, as the honey bee ways of life became more understood, their society was held up as an example of what humans should strive for. Work yourself to death serving your hive and queen. Napoleon was a big fan.

The honey's are a social species of bee. They live together to survive and thrive. It's a perfect example of how a community survives better than a solitary way of life. Colonies of honey bees are in the tens of thousands. There are a lot of them, they need a lot of food. There are a lot of them, they make a lot of food. They make enough honey so that they can survive the winter. In bee standards, this is like super survival. Most of the other kinds of bee species, usually hanging out on their own, just die without even trying to survive. This super ability of honey bees to live through winter makes them all the more appealing to humans as they spread across the globe together. [insert thousands of years] Here comes the time where the agricultural industry starts needing to import pollination. Honey bees as portable pollinators were the natural choice. They were already domesticated.

Importing pollinators is necessary to the manufactured world of farming where mono-culture is created  in the ecosystem via human intervention. They transport hives of honey bees from one gigantic field or orchard of the same crop to another. Like on semi-trucks, for days, across highways. Bees that can communicate with each other about where they are in the world and where they can find food is in the world. Bees that have spent thousands of years eating from many different plants all at one time. They are put on trucks, finding only a single food source in each of their destinations. Then, right before winter, their honey is taken away and they are given corn syrup to eat instead. And then the beekeepers wonder why they are dying. it is because you are exploiting the resource.

Mono-culture is a farming practice developed to make farming as profitable as possible. The health of bank account balances and the survival of companies has been accepted as more important than the health and survival of the human species! Science says humans need biodiversity to survive and thrive. And mono-culture only exists because the impact on [survival of humans] is not THE measure for success in what everyone calls "just business". High numbers in a column called "money" is more important than the actual, real life, survival of human beings. It's just so obviously stupid, I wouldn't even sit through a movie with it as the premise.

Humans can and should unite around the health of the honey bee because its intrinsically linked to the health of humanity. Two social species united against the deception and destruction of greed. You should give a crap that the bees are dying, people. If you don't care about the bees, you don't care about yourself. There are so many simple ways a human can help all bees, not just the exploited honey bee.

Being a beekeeper is a way to help. But, do your research before jumping in. Because there are different kinds of hives to meet the needs of the different motivations that people have to keep bees. Langstroth hives were designed with the intention of taking as much honey as possible from honey bees. On principle, I am personally opposed to looking at bee keeping from a perspective based in exploitation. I want to keep bees in Warre hives on the roof of a building because I want to leave them alone most of the time. just let them be[e] :-D

human powered transportation

The most basic expression of freedom is the ability to go where you want to go. Humans evolved while spreading across the planet, roaming where ever they pleased. It is a romantic way of expressing it, eh? like their motivations were to frolic or something :-D But like with bees, we have spent thousands of years unable to comprehend the external physical limits of where we can go. Only in this last tiny moment of human history have we conceptualized any external physical limit at all. (and finally proved Plato and Pythagoras right once and for all). Not to mention disrupting the constraints of the space-time continuum. The ones that used to make it impossible to communicate with anyone on the opposite side of the planet, much less see their face while you are talking to them. It's mind blowing. You have to do some crazy mental gymnastics to not just sit slack jawed and wide eyed like the right ancient ancestor might do.

The ability for humans to travel to every corner of the planet is essential for a society that values the existence of the human species. We must be able to understand the similarities and differences of the members of our species. Humans learn best from their own experiences. I can talk until my head falls off. I can show you videos until your eyes pop out. Read account after account of what the locals think and do. But, you really can not experience my part of the world unless you have been here yourself. To be immersed in a culture that is not your own is a life experience that every human can use to become a better version of themselves, no matter how long the immersion. And the only way we can immerse ourselves in other places is by using the transportation infrastructure of the world.

Transportation infrastructure is important. Human powered transportation is the most successful method of transportation. IF we are valuing the future existence of humanity most, of course. Once given the option of burning something else to carry us places, humans stopped working on transportation that made them feel the burn of their muscles working hard. This is not an accusation of sloth. I am budgeting my energy more than any other resource in my life, I get why it happened. And it is good because there are humans who require the assistance of non-human powered transportation in order to function as well as their peers. So while there are benefits, technology as a tool has not been applied to the best of its ability in human powered transportation. The same can not be said about combustion. Combustion does create a lot of ways money can be used (and created, if we dig deep holes) from the commodity known as "energy."

Not that everyone has stopped focusing on human powered transportation: This guy who flies the human powered "airplane" and helicopter. I know him. we were roommates for a summertime once. He is and always has been a physical specimen that many aspire to be, but very few work hard enough to achieve. He is not the "normal" experience for a human in the business of human powered flight. Being in the business of human powered flight is rare enough, I guess. If we focused the global markets of the world to value high margins in the probability of human existence, we would be selecting for people like Todd. I can, personally, approve of that selection.

As a symbol for the importance of transportation to a globe-based society, I use the bicycle. because bicycles are the most accessible vehicle of the current transportation model. They pull people out of poverty. But any form of human powered transportation could be lifted up. Humans who propel themselves through the world are healthier than humans who rely on combustion to get from place to place. Healthier, contributing to a longer human life span, a positive impact on the value measuring 'the affect on the existence of global humanity'. You know, if we measured existence probability as we do money in free markets, the bicycle is a good investment.

I call it: Kollekt

If one human meets another human living in [survival mode]
the [survival mode] human will not expect any love from anyone. It is too painful to expect love.

If one human shows love in a way that the [survival mode] human can recognize the love, then the future is abundant in healing opportunities for the [survival mode] human. 

Years worth of healing provided because of moments of love.

That is where the emotional foundation I stand on today started. I was so broken that I did not expect anything loving from any other person on the planet. I treated myself in a horrible way because I did not value my life. I did not think any one could or should. But there were people who stopped their lives to help me exist in mine, even if only for a moment, they stopped to see and hear me. Those are the moments that matter now that I am not broken anymore. So I want to facilitate those moments in other peoples lives.

"Kollekt" is a word of the vernacular from which my efforts and I currently reside. It has a different meaning from it's english counterpart spelled with c's, but both meanings have relevance to the creation of this positive social effort that I call Kollekt Project.

The point of Kollekt Project is to offer people a place to collect. People in the same place tend to find a connection, human to human. We focus on asylum seekers because in our community, these are people who need human to human connection the most.

I believe I can create an environment where moments of connection between strangers are more likely to be made. This is Kollekt House. It is my family's house. But, you can also think of it as a laboratory or maybe an art studio. The experiment in the lab, the artwork being created; it is the event bringing all the guests together. I am working on the design for an event that can facilitate moments of connection by people who have nothing on the surface in common. People who are strangers. I call it a Kollekt Party. It has to be a party! Because that is how celebrations are marked in the culture I come from and also in the culture I currently find myself living in. Plus, people generally like the idea of attending a party, it translates cultures.

 
A Kollekt Party is a celebration that treats the human race as an entire family. Humans typically give their own relations a lot of chances to get past each others surface level differences. So people who are connected because they are related find those things that make them similar instead of different. And then they bond. Throw a party to celebrate human unity and human connection by bringing together a group of people who would not ever find another way to connect. That is, at its essence, a Kollekt Party

broken and happy

broken:whole
pain:bliss

bliss is maximum achievable happiness in every present moment.
every person is a combination of pain and happiness
the pain comes from the parts that are broken
the bliss comes from parts that are whole
happiness is healing broken bliss

healing is a choice
attitude while healing is a choice
choices give the illusion of control over life
there is no such thing as control over life,
just submission to the ultimate design

there is surface and there is depth.
the human body is a limiter,
an inhibitor of death
all humans give into those limitations
exclaiming hopelessness

love changes everything
cuts the binds on hope
the limited believe and find peace
the unlimited forever growing
like plants reaching to the sun

love sustains all
not one over another
money shows preference
against the survival of the human race
so why do we center our lives around it?

stop exclaiming hopelessness
and seriously,
do this.

disclosure: dolla dolla billz

If I said I was in this for the money, would you know it was a joke?

I have read a lot of other peoples comment policies, and also many tips on writing them. I feel like I see blogging in a fundamentally different way from every perspective I have read thus far (maybe not @JunDishes). This is not an expression of a character for me. I am not more bold in writing than I am in real life. In real life I am bolder. I care more. I serve harder. because it's real- right there in front of my freaking face. Creation is a derivative of myself. BEING myself is way more important than anything I create. And you won't know who I am unless you read more or sign up for something. But know that I am always my real human self saying what I really think and feel. So, if while I am talking about what I am doing, I mention a specific item; I will acknowledge if I have any relationship with that Item. Blogging is not who I am. Blogging, for me, is a way to earn a little money. money that my family really needs. I am trying to help provide, while living this amazing gift of a dream life that I have. [read more to find out more!]

Money from this website will directly fund, Kollekt, my plans and efforts to serve asylum seekers where I live. Kollekt is also my attempt to balance working with family-ing for the first time. to balance serving others with loving myself all while loving Abraham's God more than anything else in my life. A portion of this blog will follow this Kollekt journey very closely. Failure is totally an option. If it fails, it will burn spectacularly and I will build the next project upon its ashes while documenting all the carnage and rebirth here. My prayer is that this blog is just a part of a story about a community made up of many people from all parts of the world being real with and loving to one another. Like the best parts of the internet always are.

If this blog itself is a failure, financially speaking, then I will probably not have any time or energy with which to update or create totally new! and amazing! posts anymore. I will be too busy whoring myself to any sort of opportunity dropped by the corporate world. In a direct appeal to keep from that happening: I could be your virtual assistant if you want me to! I could also actually go into actual real life whoring because it is legal where I live. Things will hopefully never get that desperate, but at least I will have protections in the law if they do. Actually, I think I might pick up a fair few tips from this blogging stuff (HA! ;)

In any case, if you have an opportunity for me that creates a positive income for my bank account, please email me directly at chaterineks {at} gmail {dot} com. And that is about as sleazy as I can get when I am not playing a character.

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