Change

is what’s needed, and change is what’s planned, but we need your change.

In brief:
My compatriot(s) and myself are heading off to the lands of the east(ern United States).
Whilst others might join, the two main adventures are:
Myself (currently employed as sub-vice grill overlord and pizza creator extraordinaire—go to Grinder’s in the Crossroads district of Kansas City…
That’s where you’ll find me, all my fancy degrees and ideas, and great philly cheesesteaks.
Namelessfacelessother: best friend and confidante of myself for more than a decade, and currently about to graduate with what we’ll call a degree in biodynamic agriculture.
The two of us, with other like-minded folks, have a vision.
That vision is based on family, love, care, devotion to learning and effort, the perpetual quest into the character of the human being, and awareness of all that is around us.
We want to see how much of our stamp we can cut out of nature, how much we can develop within her and with her to use the relationship to its fullest, how we can rip ourselves out of the blind numbness of a pervasive ideological culture—and before anybody says anything: they are ALL pervasive ideological cultures…that’s almost the point of a country.
What we want to know is if culture, standing alone and unthreatening, can survive inside the other culture.
We’re pretty sure it can.

So, in stage one, we will build a farm.
It will be as self-sustaining as possible.
It will be biodynamic.
It will be organic.
It will become a part of the nature around it.

Thus the need for change… pocket change… lots of it.

You see, we have the funding for the land and the house already—praise whatever entity it is that pops into your mind when you say your prayers, but we need to find a place in the very literal sense of the term.

So, myself and my compatriot—with his wife in London wishing he and myself the best of luck I’m sure—are going to find a place.

On the ground, in a car/truck/van/camper/whatevermakesitselfavailabletous we will set off to look at lands in the east coast that are near to universities with appropriate doctoral programs (we all want to continue our educations), to hospitals (my compatriots wife has recently graduated from Med School and is looking to be Dr. Mrs. Compatriot in the USA), to fishing (and potentially hunting) possibilities, to mountains (as much as the Midwest is my home, my heart belongs in rather more rugged terrain), and with the appropriate kind of soil for growing the most diverse crops.

We have managed to both acquire one month of time to devote purely to this adventure.

We will be in a car together.
We will scout the land together.
We will sleep in our mode of transportation or camp when possible.
We need only money for food and gas for thirty days.

I, on behalf of—even though he might not approve—my compatriot, therefore plead with you for your bits of spare change, shrapnel, coins, or whatever you want to call them.

Make a little jar and write on it:

Change
For Eli and Jesse’s Road Trip
And Change

Then, dump all that spare change you get into it. We’re not asking for any more than to help us out for the next two months… we leave on May 1st.

If it makes you feel better about the donation, the scope of the biodynamic organic farm extends even further into the future, but you can email me for the dynamic unveiling of that surprise… which isn’t really at all surprising if you are even vaguely aware of who I am…

Anyhow, pocket change please.
Can we have it?

Know that your donation today
Could have a huge impact on tomorrow.

(obviously we accept cash, checks, and gas card donations as well… don’t get it twisted… if you want to help us out like that, we’d be SUPER HAPPY about it.)

{All donators eligible for free stays at “Sated”←potential name for farm}

May all beings be happy,
May all your change be good,
And may the seeds of
Equanimity ripen in your mind.

Peace
Much Love
And Gonzo
Myself

changesated@live.com

Also, go to poeticmindofeli.blogspot.com