It's been years since I've post to my blog. So much has happen in the past few years, that it's really been dis-heartening to me. My dear friend Wompi, a Wompanoag Native American had a major stroke, which has left him, pretty much a vegetable. He can't talk, chew food and swallow properly, and is paralyzed on his right side. He's presently in the Royal Cape Cod Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, in Buzzard's Bay, MA. I learned yesterday that my dear friend and comrade in arms, Russell Means, has passed to the spirit world. Russell was a Oglala Lakota Sioux, American Indian Activist. One of the original founding members of AIM. The American Indian Movement. I knew Russell from my exposure to him at Pine Ridge Reservation, in South Dakota. He ran for Tribal President on at least two occasions, and was defeated. If you knew Russell, you either loved this man or despised him. Either way, you simply couldn't ignore him. To me, he was a great leader that wanted desperately to bring positive change to all American Indians. In many ways, he really did bring about change, just simply not enough. I spent the entire warm months doing powwow's trying to raise badly need funds for One Spirit. The economy has been so bad, that this year was a difficult one. Did I raise money. Yes, I did, but certainly not what I had hoped to raise. The powwow season is over now, as, last weekend was my last powwow for the year. This year really flew bye.It's now almost November and I'm planning for the winter months in the North Country. I'm really looking forward to the solitude of being alone in the wilderness. I'm still actively loaning money to clients on KIVA. I absolutely love being a micro-financier! What a wonderful program KIVA is, in helping third world people achieve their goals in life. Being a entrepreneur in a third world country has to be a scarey situation, but yet people take the opportunity and thrive with it. I simply love KIVA, because it works! I started a internet business selling replacement china and flatware a few months ago, and it's starting to take off. Visit my Store at; www.etsy.com/shop/Olympiced I have thousands of individual pieces of replacement dinnerware and flatware. Above and beyond that, my store offers weird, unusual, and bizarre objects, and a certain amount of art and collectibles to boot. I've already out grown the space I was dedicating to this business and have had to rent a small warehouse/showroom to continue growing the business. In general, Life is really good, or should I say, it's not really bad at this time! LOL! Time to go, but I hope to keep this blog of mine alive in the furture! Till next time! Ed