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i had a taste today of how it might feel at the ark today.

i recorded some audio but without a wind guard on the zoom h1 it literally picked up everything – i should know better.  looking at guards now.  it’s also made me realise how much money is a factor for making things happen at a pace that you want to run at.  i’m literally pulling together money for transport, flights, places, people, connections at a rate of knots recently.

i’m doing more and more media work than before, the verisign work is brilliant and the local bbc radio nottingham shows are always fun, being able to eat and do things again is fantastic – having so much support and meeting great people to co-work with.  it’s just been very hectic but really encourgaging.  i’m always forcing myself to balance everything out.

but today, today i felt a grounding at the site.  i sat down with my ipad and zoom h1 and felt for the first time what sitting outside might be like with the sounds of the mini forest all around me as ian did some wide shots.

let me tell you it felt. amazing.  we should have some video edited tomorrow that i can post on my ulule campaign – i’ll be putting out a link in the newsletter and i hope you can find a bit of spare change to chip in towards it.  i’m gonna be straight talking here – the sxsw eco event is a want not a need, if you support me in going thou it will amplify the project x100 more than i ever could with some my network as it will allow me to have those face to face connections ‘ontheground’ in austin in early october.  

it’s a bit of a rush about but i feel the project deserves it.  heck, the national forest deserve it for the determination they are showing to get this off the ground.  it’s given me a sense of place, purpose and renewed order to my day to day that i was missing i guess.

stability, place and rounding the purpose of being a dad by providing an interim space for me and ella to talk, play and be learning together.  these visual moments together will leave a huge legacy for her that she can look back on.  i’ll no longer be chasing purpose and will feel complete in the achievement of laying a foundation i can be proud of.

signing my digital signature into the unknown future.