Goings On

I am in New Jersey, America's first industrial suburb. I am working in a white collar factory in a beige building on the back forty next to screeching high tension wires. I'm happy and content.

This month I am the mule, hauling moolah for the partnership by being billable and writing small scripts to replace various incompetencies and inefficiencies. I am reimagining the world through my greater systems vision rather like the poet Michael Jackson. As he said in 1986, you're just another part of me. The unglued crusty but eminently recoverable part. My yi jing this morning is #46 - Sheng - Growing Upward. In the middle of the nourishing grows the gradual. I am nourishing my company and we gradually grow. New Jersey is a good place to do so. It is that part of industrial society that never lets you forget its roots, the grassland in the context of the factory, the woods off to the side of the refinery, the meadow that echoes the machinery, the backyard of the shipyard. It is the boxed garden state.

I have stumbled onto an old friend whom I haven't seen in 10 years. It was a miracle that he was stationed two cubicles away from me here at my new nourishing encampment. We will eat together. He will cook. I will bring stories. This is my gift - the gift of patience. Patience for the sake of wisdom which over observes and attempts to make lessons of every consequence.

I will reconnect with another long unseen compatriot of questing spirit. He is the man who understands the cognitive power of melody and rhythm. He interprets the silent, secret conversations written into the urban landscape in the language of spray can glyphs and discarded babydolls. He consults the mighty who wrestle with unseen runes within digital oceans. He purses his lips and blows. He lives in New Jersey and his name is on the bell. We will walk through Liberty Park and contemplate the skyline above the crumbled twins.

Bloomberg's Keene and Pruitt remain the smartest men in broadcast media, and Bloomberg has recognized the wisdom of returning to the free podcast, and so I am returning. RAND gives free pdfs as well. Knowledge is gaining foothold, like classical music and free software. Yay.