Working On...

Some things I'm working on (or wanting to work on):

-- Cataloging James Still's books
-- Writing an essay (for print publication), and creating an accompanying video essay, on living among James Still's life's reading
-- Growing green peppers and squash
-- Driving the Learning Center students to the smallest city pool in the history of public pools on Monday and Thursday evenings
-- Finishing Moby Dick
-- Organizing the laundry room closet so I can start sorting the mess in the work room / office
-- Researching central Appalachian captivity narratives (including Jenny Wiley and Elizbeth Green)
-- Finishing my book
-- Learning more about the "slow food" movement and thinking about promoting it in Appalachian Kentucky
-- Looking for ways to integrate recycling and the arts in Hindman
-- Looking for a place to actually recycle (our growing stacks of glass, plastic, paper, and plastic)
-- Uploading more videos and pics from Family Folk Week
-- Learning more about forest moths (Io moth, Imperial moth, and the Rosy Dryocampa, specifically)
-- Trying to remember to turn the lights off more often so I don't cause more coal to be extracted from these mountains so I don't have to worry about whether the tap water is going to give me liver cancer like it has other people, so I don't have to keep buying water in plastic bottles, which are made from petroleum and may be carcinogenic themselves and are not able to be recycled here and so will go into a landfill where they will very slowly break down and give off methane gases which deplete the ozone layer and lead to global warming which will make more people want to use air conditioners longer which run on electricity which is produced from coal which is extracted by mountain top removal processes by large corporations which don't care one whit about me or whether I die of cancer