...priorities...

...in the name of ALLAH...

...what are your priorities??.. are you handling them?... are you meeting your responsibiltiies...?... and i don't mean just your bills and rent... although this too...

...your priorities include what You Are here to do... to manifest... to contribute... for some it comes to them earlier than others...

...i have prioritized hanging out... spending time chopping it up... saying wasup... looking to be in places to say what's up... lots of little what's going ons... in the process i've gotten little done...

... there are people who are married with kids a house car, aging parents and extended family they are resonsible for... and they are still running enterprises... still enterprising... how are you?...

...my priorities are to get some of my writings out... some meaning of the tens of thousands of pages i've written for myself... i believe that at this point it is obligatory for me to share some with the public... just a few of the pages... as i have been on borrowed time selfishly writing away... for no one other than my own sanity... and in the meantime... bombs over baghdad... israeli brutal apartheid on palestenians... the construct of violence as a way of being... noble peace prizes for the harbingers of ethnic cleansing campaigns such as the one in burma of the rohyinga... india's hindu extremists modeling themselves after trump and netanyahu... kashmir an open air prison... uyghurs... the white supremacist attack on black american lives... on muslims... on jews... on latinos... on immigrants... 

...there is the earth... the forests... the deforestation... the people who bring me to tears in their resilience... gretta... my brother... my dad... my mother... amy goodman... brian drolet... those at the forefront of struggle...

...my priorities involve elements/ingredients that are essential - a group experience... aligned with Love of the BeLoved... the Infinite... the Most Compassionate.. growing me towards Actualizing these goals... growing currency/thrive... serving others...

...an example... making medicine for a friend... if it Works... multiple of this medicine... doing this in a a shared space with others (i.e. a cooperative work space with a kitchen)... employing family and friends to do this... having this as an offering... by offering a line of homemade products similar to the people of south asia, east asia, central asia, the middle east, maghreb, west africa, east africa, south amaerica...

...the bazzaar is ancient and part of traditional cultures... to bring your harvest to the market place and barter exchange sell it to others...

...what i bring to the bazzaar is my medicines... so i prioritize working with an artist on labels... but make the medicines first... and doing it in a community space will build/Create this...

...another example... the writings... doing this as part of a workshop... holding the space for people to Workshop their novels/ writings... employing some of what i learned over the years teaching writing to offer some strategies... but keeping it circular... so others who want to contribute can as well...

...to do this i need to prioritize having/getting a space to live and Work from... one that could support my being a man... and projects i want to Work on...

...the point is.. instead of just jumping into something out of anxiety... Work to prioritize... how?... by stating the key ingredients that are essential to your priorities... for me it is...

- group/community experience... circular (discussion/discourse/interaction) and not unidirectional (i.e. lecture/concert/consumer, etc)...
- goal-centric (should enhance and Work towards my Goals - ashtanga II/III / plot arc and completed short stories and novel... medicine made, packaged and ready for sale)...
- generate currency for myself and my circle (so i am engaging in cooperative economics - keeping the $ within... employing others in my life with meaningful Work... growing self sustainable through this endeavor)...

...to ensure these elements... the immediate priority becomes having a space that i can cultivate this within... a space in which i can support other writers like myself... other medicine people... or aspirants... others on the path of growing deeper in yogi... in health... from holding classes for the elderly to multigenerational spaces to write and do yoga in...

...so what does this look like?... it means finding a place and committing to it... it means while working on that... taking circular courses in writing... yoga... in shared spaces... it means letting go of what i don't need through selling them... distributing the work to do this...