Visitors @ MindSay

No one visits this site....so, what exactly am I doing here?  I dunno.

...and the fact that I'm not that interesting, but ever since they introduced that google search thing....all I ever see on the visitors list is google.  This tells me that pretty much no one ever visits my site, or google searchs outweigh the number of visitors that we get to their sites.  I don't need a million visitors but come on.  This was also a big way for me to discover other blogs at mindsay, I'd click people who visited my page or someone elses and it was endless journey from there.  Now, its just google.  Has anyone else noticed this?

It's been so long since we've had company of any sort .... and I guess I'm just excited.

I spent the day today tackling the living room and mom's bedroom / bathroom cleaning and making sure everything was just right.  I've been cracking the whip on Dave and he's gotten the yard all spiffied up.

Grocery shopping in the morning and then I'll be ready for their visit totally.  Except for maybe going over a few caches to see if they are anything the cllecr might want to attempt.

Off to go and pick up some dinner now .... too lazy to cook right at the moment.

Hoping this Saturday was a pleasant one for all.

Peace.  J.

Just got over 3 busy weeks at N.A.B.I.  I just missed the Council Fire, but got to NABI in time to help out around the first 1 week intensive Ruhi book 6 and 7 circles.  One of the book 7 participants was Erica Toussaint, member of the National Spiritual Assembly (NSA) of the USA.  Taking part in book 6 was Chester Khan, Navajo elder and famous artist (around here).  Both Baha'is are especially wonderful souls to be around!  I've already completed those two books so i didn't take part in the circles but just helped in whatever needed to be done to support the guests and functioning of NABI (like cleaning the Big Hogan after meals, washing dishes, etc).  Then was a 2 week Badi Youth Project, where 15-18 youth studied Ruhi books 3 and 5 during the first week and then during the 2nd week went out and practised what they had learnt by teaching children and junior youth in communities around NABI, and also doing service projects like painting houses.  I'm one of the NABI drivers and drove some of the groups around and then helped with the service projects.  Been doing a fair bit of physical work outside and have been getting a "good" tan.  Have been enjoying it all, because "work, especially when performed in the spirit of service, is according to Bahá'u'lláh a form of worship."  (Notes in Al Kitab Al Aqdas [The Most Holy Book] by Bahá'u'lláh, p. 192)
After the youth went home we had a couple days off--on Saturday we drove 2 of the youth to Albuqurque Airport and then drove back to NABI (3hrs each way).   Last week i finished reading Antwone Fisher's Finding Fish, yesterday i finally finished Lin Yu-tang's My Country, My People (which i started months ago) and started reading Whitley Strieber's new novel The Greys, which i'm thoroughly enjoying, it's well written and a good read.  (Of course, someone with an ALIENWARE computer is bound to enjoy such a book!)  Today we were shown a few of the more ornamental trees around campus that we will be watering over the summer (not all the trees and bushes), watered the 2 for today which are around the Prayer Hogan and improved the water moats that encirlce the trees.  I'll leave this entry with a quote from Baha'u'llah:

"...choose one language from among those now existing or ... adopt a new one, and in like manner ... select a common script, both of which should be taught in all the schools of the world. Thus will the earth be regarded as one country and one home. The most glorious fruit of the tree of knowledge is this exalted word: Of one tree are all ye the fruit, and of one bough the leaves. Let not man glory in this that he loveth his country, let him rather glory in this that he loveth his kind. Concerning this We have previously revealed that which is the means of the reconstruction of the world and the unity of nations. Blessed are they that attain thereunto. Blessed are they that act accordingly."

    (Baha'u'llah, Tablets of Baha'u'llah, p. 127)

I'm fixin' ta go pick up kingzjewel  at the airport!  It's her first time in Texas! Yaaaayyyy!