So, tomorrow is the last day of summer. The equinox is on Saturday and that marks the end of just about three quarters of my journey of the Vow of the Nazarite. Except for the hellish month of August the months have seemed to fly by. It was good to be involved in so many productions with the Maverick. I really love those folks and I feel like I've made some really good friends there. Despite the drunken debauchery that rages in that bohemian temple of Theatre I found one of the best foundations of support for my choice to take this journey. The encouragement has been enormous wherever I go. Even Monday night football, which is centered around the holy liquid of that amber coloured beverage Beer, has been understanding and accommodating to my own self imposed abstinence. Even during the draft, when I should have rightly taken at least three penalty shots of some of the foulest cheap whiskey you ever laid nostrils on, someone stepped up to take that shot for me. ::sniff:: Those brave souls. The Drunken Bums stand by their principles.
The Journey has been a good one. Health wise I have lost a lot of weight and I feel a lot more energetic than I did a year ago. The beard is really getting long now, and I really want to cut it. In fact, Amber has had to talk me out of shaving it at least twice in the last two weeks. I'm down to the last three months and I'm really starting to look forward to the day after the New Year.
I've been so busy that I haven't had a lot of time for light reading, but I have managed to make it up to 1 Kings in the Bible, which is only 25% of the way through the whole book, but I'll blaze through the psalms and proverbs most likely and 1&2 Chronicles is mostly just a refresher of 1&2 Kings anyway. I've also been trying to broaden my intake from the spiritual to the non spiritual by reading some books by some prominent atheists. As usual I'm also trying to read a little bit about Islam in order to stay abreast of the world situation, but I haven't tried to read their holy book in years. I remember it was tough to get into and its non linear compilation made it hard to follow. Also, I read in the preface of the book that the translation itself removes the context of the power of it. It may be my project after the Bible, but right now I am more interested in the history of the religion and its beginnings and evolution over time than diving into the writings of their prophet.
The political situation is reaching its climax, thank Goodness, and its really unnerving to see the state of our country. There is still no sign of a compromise between either side of the political spectrum. I would even say that President Obama has become more divisive than President Bush was at his four year mark. It seems that a lot of the things that Bush did Obama has done as far as foreign policy goes. He has gone after terrorists using drones, sometimes without the permission of the foreign countries that some people swear he wants to see succeed above America. On the domestic front it seems that the blame lies with the congress and not the president. The majority of the House and Senate are the ones that set the tone for the parties. Not the president, if it's a good one, because that person needs to be as neutral as possible.
Well, that's just my observations anyway. I'll step off my soap box. I know we don't live in a perfect world. Its going to get a lot messier after the elections though. I can feel it. Like a volcano that has been smoking for a couple weeks, or a fault line inching towards a massive shift. The world is a powder keg waiting for a match and these days you don't need to have a high political position to have your finger on the Button. Even a whisper could set the world on fire....
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