The year kicked off with many projects and opportunities. The tightrope of energy versus sleep still terrorizes/exhilarates me, but there's a calm, solid core now looking out: assessing, planning, remaking. I've been away long enough everything is new again.

I spent most of the 02009's first month taking broad stock of my ambitions and considering methods of fruition. The last week has been spent narrowing and refining, plotting specific actions and paths against a grid of achievement to see, in detail, where I want to go and how to get there.

My friend Steve Stuck, knowing my love for Joseph Campbell, gave me the excellent Pathways To Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation. Juxtaposed with wide-ranging conversations at Noisebridge, I've had an intense interaction with Universe in the first days of 02009.

I'm reminded of the Universal Unitarian marketing campaign slogan, God is still speaking. Christians, even the most well-meaning, invert the view and get it wrong, so let me turn it to modern, logical ends: I am still listening. When I think my voice has fled, when I can no longer hear my own desires, when I have lost belief in the place I stand or the very earth I stand on: I listen, and I hear myself speak.