I quit washing my hair two years ago. It worked out quite well, at least as long as I rinsed my hair in really lovely McKenzie River water. Unwashing became much more problematic after I moved to Waukesha, Wisconsin. Waukesha’s deep draw aquifer water is incredibly toxic, and filled with tons of minerals. My hair acquired the texture of glitter glue. I resisted for about four months after movies, but eventually I started washing my hair with shampoo again, just so I could get the scale off.
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I’ve been thinking about story again lately…story as future, story as creation, story as self. Often, I’m not even aware that I’ve been thinking about something until I find the keystone, gain insight, and then I can see how that insight has actually been growing in me for some time.

I recently re-read Storying Corporate Futures: The Shell Scenarios
which sounds dull and dry, but is anything but. This fascinating interview with Betty Sue Flowers is definitely about the Shell Scenarios, but mostly it’s about myth and the power of creating visions of the future which create our visions of the present.
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>rent a car bulgariaing Endgame II: Resistance by Derek Jensen. I meant to read Endgame 1, and that’s what I thought I pulled off the shelf, but these are my husband’s books and the title is large and the sub-title not so much.

Grrrrrrr….stupid wordpress upgrade broke my theme so I’ve got this ugly-ass default up for now. At least it can be read.

Wasn’t planning on being a php geek today. sigh.

‘kay, so I don’t know whose brilliant idea it was to give the Department of Homeland Security the authority to waive environmental laws, but that’s exactly what Congress did.
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