Now forming a writers group with an agenda to transform our community.

Now forming a writers group with an agenda to transform our community.

 I am starting a writers group for the Redding, Anderson and Cottonwood  area.
 My idea for the writers group is to first identify the resources in and around our community.
Second; the  writers group using those resources we identify, would write fictional alternate potential futures realities for our community.

Third; we would share these fictional alternate realities stories with our community. 

An example;
My fictional story summery.
-Form a partnership with a local organic farm.
- Use a flash crowd to plant the farm in one day.
- perhaps partner with a local theater group to orchestrate the planting as a massive graceful act.
The result;
Those involved in the planting and those that might make up the audience. Feel a sense of ownership, a sense of connection to that specific  farm and will become the customers of that farm.
I can imagine this happening on multiple farms in and around the Redding, Anderson and Cottonwood area. Perhaps even spreading south in to the great central valley, one of the most fertile valleys in the world.

   I believe we need not only writers but people with imaginations, and people who want to contribute to the transformation of our community.

Each group meeting will be a fieldtrip of sorts. We will be meeting and looking at the resources in our community. I have already enrolled several speakers to bring light to local resources and share their experiences of contributing to the community.

  The first writers group will meet on Saturday the 9th of February  at noon in Anderson, at the corner of Ferry street and East street across the street from the post office. We will be observing the empty buildings that once housed businesses and consider the possibilities.

Please contact me if you have any questions or are interested in sharing your experiences of contributing to the community.
Thank you for your interest.

Seth j Galli
My phone 530-515-9668
Email sjgalli@gmail.com

I am looking for traveling writers.

I am looking for traveling writers.


Hi, my name is Seth. I am a 42 year old man. I am a writer and adventurer.
I am currently looking for some folks to share a adventure with me.
I am looking for writer riders.
I am looking for up to four people.
I am looking for people interested in writing and traveling for a living.
I am looking for people to be a part of a group of traveling writers.
I am looking for people willing to scratch to make it work.
I am looking for people who have good people skills.
I am looking for people that have basic survival skills.
I am looking for people that are activated.
I am looking for people who are looking for people to share a ongoing writing adventure with.
I am looking for people who can travel efficiently.
I am looking for people who have no place to be but on an adventure.
I am looking for people with their own good gear.

I am looking for open minded people.
I am looking for people who are patient.
I am looking for people interested in learning a street performer skill.
I am looking for people willing to teach other people by sharing their experience.
I am looking for people with presence.
I am looking for people who are willing to create and participate in social experiments and write about them.
I am looking for people who can be neat and organized.
I am looking for people who can travel with minimal gear.
I am looking for people with good hygiene practices.
I am looking for people who believe they can influence change.

I am looking for my people!

I have a lot of ideas and a flexible plan to  get the adventure started.
I am buying a car in late November, A Subaru wagon.
I will be leaving from central California late November, early December for the southern states.
I imagine as spring breaks, continuing the trip and heading up the east coast, following spring across the northern states and back to the west coast, possibly Washington. Then as summer fades, down the coast to California.
After the great loop around the states and the onset of winter in California. Back down through the southern states. The next spring I hope to buy a pontoon boat at the head waters of the Mississippi and travel down river to the gulf of Mexico. I want to capture as many personal stories as possible on this and all my adventures.
  

My over all goal is to; make people happy, travel, write about the people we meet and our experiences, make a enough money to keep on traveling and writing, and build the adventure into something bigger.

 
My blog;

I am working on editing and rewriting these chapters now, it is meant to be a work in progress.

Chapters 1-14; http://sethgezzsoupscoop.blogspot.com/2012/09/see-you-in-future-past-life-chapters-1.html 

Chapter 15; http://sethgezzsoupscoop.blogspot.com/2012/09/see-you-in-future-past-life-chapter-15.html

Chapter 16; http://sethgezzsoupscoop.blogspot.com/2012/09/see-you-in-future-past-life-chapter-16.html

Intermission; http://sethgezzsoupscoop.blogspot.com/2012/10/intermission-see-you-in-future-past-life.html

Chapter 17; http://sethgezzsoupscoop.blogspot.com/2012/10/see-you-in-future-past-life-chapter-17.html

Chapter 18; finished but tying up some loose ends.


On my blog, I have written a eighteen chapter story , the story reflects who I am and some of my experiences and ideas are included.

I am always learning.

I have a friend that is going to manage editing, publishing and help with social networking.

If you want to travel with me, have any ideas or want to share anything please contact me on my blog or through this site.

I will do anything legal to see this happen.

Hope to be traveling with you soon.

Seth


PS You will need a laptop and a smart phone?

See you in a future past life, Chapter 17

               Almost daily journal


This trip, journey, this social experiment is about activating American minds, interacting with the people both in play and work, recording American stories, finding the wisdom of America, finding the pith of the country, the character of the people. Bringing that character out into the light of day. I do this because, I believe a voice needs to rise up above the level of dogma and government and ring clear with truth. 
I believe, with the internet and all of its millions of digital crossroads of communication  and endless mathematical possibilities of connection that that voice will be found.



This is what I am doing now.

Sheri a dear friend of mine  has been researching Amazon’s kindle direct publishing(KDP). I didn’t know what to think of it at first. The more I learned about it the more interested I became.
Now a plan is starting to come together.
 Sheri  has taken  responsibility of editing, creating the graphics and publishing my writings.
After I sell all my belongings and buy the Goldwing motorcycle, I will have a few, maybe even three or four thousand dollars.
This money should last several months, as I plan on economizing. On my trip, using Kindle to publish and market my stories I hope to be able to produce around fifteen hundred dollars a month. I plan on writing  fifteen to twenty five thousand words a month.

My target market from what I understand is the millions of good folks commuting on trains, busses, plains and those in rush hour traffic. Each chapter I write should be able to stand on its own on KDP, but will be indelibly woven into the larger story. We are going to market each chapter, 2500-3000 words, separately for 99 cents.

Sheri and I have written a list of things to do to manage KDP. First we are going to get a post office box with Sheri’s and my name on it, so Sheri can manage my mail, Then a joint bank account so Sheri can pay bills as well as her self as my agent. The bank account will also be for direct deposits from kindle or pay pall, what ever the case may be. I will have a debit card for the trip, so as to keep track of my expenses.


On ward.

Just using my blog has not been effective at attracting other adventurous participants   for this Journey across America, so, I am going to start advertising on Craig’s list.

So this is what I am looking for;


We are also looking for a;

1) Educated poet/ Writer

2) Computer genius/ writer

3) Cinematographer/ Filmmaker/ writer

4) Yoga instructor / Dietitian/ writer

5) Mechanic/ writer 

6) visual artist / painter/ writer


Each of these people I am looking for will need to write about the Journey from their perspective on a daily and weekly basis. The groups journals will be bundled with the larger story taking place and  sold individually on KDP paying the group member according to how his or her writing sells. As the group forms and we discus the details we can expand or contract on the scope of the writing, the group daily routines, the mission and the way before us. We are writers on a mission. I want to stay focused on the journey and communicating the journey to the readers. 
Eventually I imagine the journey  could become a daily, reality TV show. 
I don’t know what will happen in the future, I can only build what I can today and plan in that direction until word of this journey gets to the right people.

So if one of these positions is appealing to you contact me.


One day latter.

Magic is starting to happen.

Sheri and myself have been having a light and imaginative conversation about building with cob, a mixture of straw, sand, clay and water. Cob is used like adobe, it can be made into bricks, used as mortar between a filler of some kind or put on in layers. Sheri has a much better idea of techniques used to build with cob than I do. We where talking today (Saturday) about making a little village of ten by twelve foot cob houses for travelers passing through, a cob hostile of sorts.

Any how, we were on a roll today.

We came up with this idea to make a large cob maze, Sheri has twelve acres, we where having fun imagining the maze on her property. We thought the maze passages should be eight feet wide so the whole thing could be accessed  by a wheel chair. At each dead end in the maze we imagined we could have a trellis work supported by each side of the wall, covering a cob bench, a cool place to rest and relax.
As the maze winds in, the explorer of the maze would come to medium sized court yards with flowers, small ponds with koi, hanging vegetable gardens, grape arbors, and large trees the maze is built around.
To build the maze we thought because of the size of the project that we could turn it in to a continues Cob building school. It could be a three day class where they learn multiple different styles of building with cob. First making cob bricks, then stacking and forming the wall and finally finish work and benches.
People would pay a reasonable price for the class, (fifteen dollars a class day?) to pay for supplies and the teachers living. The teachers I imagined could live on site in  small single room simple cob houses. The maze would eventually, as it develops, become a educational and tourist destination. In the end we would be creating a sustainable educational institute where ever these mazes where built. This is a idea I am going to promote and pursue on this journey.




This story gets more interesting as I work out the details. I have been trying to  feel out the main theme of this trip, this journey of discovery . I do this in front of you because I want you and I to learn at the same moment.
If I did it pre-scripted it would be fake and unreal. I want to work this out as I go.

After some intellectual wrestling with a friend, I found the core theme. Some times I  have to be jilted by some one I respect to reduce my ideas down to their core dynamics.
The core thyme of this journey, is a list of universal human needs.
Our intent will be to bring a positive energy forward while introducing people to a list of universal needs.
On our trip/journey we will be
creating inter-activities for people to learn and experience their universal human needs.
I believe the outcome will be happier people.

More changes.
I was shopping for a Goldwing motorcycle on Craigslist, I found a attractive option, I called the owner, we had a hour long conversation. While we where talking I asked the owner about gas mileage. He said
 he drove it aggressively and averaged 30 miles to the gallon.
Humm.
I had been thinking that riding a motorcycle in the winter, even in the southern states, was going to be difficult. I would have a limited amount of space for supplies.
Poor gas mileage, limited space for supplies, limited ability to carry passengers….

The idea of transportation has changed.
If this journey is going to happen we are going to need a car, a four door wagon.
I have been now looking at Subaru wagons
on Craigslist, 3500 to 4000 dollars seams to be the sweet spot, where there is just enough car left to get this trip started.  
This change of transportation will open up possibilities for the group. We can now economize. Perhaps even doing some ride sharing along the way if we have a empty seat.

I now have four open seats. Lets go, hahaha, Giddy up!

You now can include you and you will be there writing the story through your eyes. You are welcome, you are included and you are necessary.

“ Do not inquire for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee..” John Donne 1572-1631

Thank you


Seth 


Humility, gives you access to what could be defined as divine creative powers.

Intermission See you in a future past life

                           Intermission.
              See you in a future past life.

This intermission is to give the reader some perspective on the story and where it is going.

This story started out as a fictional story in the central Oregon desert, of people gathered around a idea, a possibility.
I the writer was inspired by the story as it developed in my mind and online. I had a spiritual awakening. My spiritual awakening changed the story from fiction to a real life journey, to change fiction into reality.

See you in a future past life, chapters 1 through 18, is the first story, of a developing series of stories. The second section of this, as of yet, un-named series of writings will be called “ A swan dive in to madness.’’

The next two chapters, 17 and 18, will bring the story together and to a close, with a upcoming event and beginning.

Note;
The people considering participating in this journey, should start thinking and imagining living a compact life. Once we start coming together as a group we will refine our gear down to necessary items.

I have a add, on Craigslist in Portland Oregon, the add is for traveling writers.
I have got a lots of page views on my blog from that add. I believe with this Intermission and the next two chapters, 17 and 18, will start more communication between myself and some of those page views.

I look forward to working with you.

I may add more to this intermission as time
passes.

Thank you

Seth


PS we will be re-writing, refining and re-publishing, See you in a future past life, over the next week or two.

Stay tuned, stay activated, see you soon folks. 

See you in a future past life, Chapter 16

       See you in a future past life

                  Chapter 16

   A almost daily journal / journey.


Team work, groups and forming the traveling group.

Team work and groups. A team is a unified

group, the group is unified in to a team

through a plan. Ideally, the plan is the reason 

each individual joined the group.

Interestingly enough, the outward reasoning

for the forming of any group, “the plan“, is

not the most influential reason for the group

forming. People are drawn together for

much more primal reasons.

I believe the list of universal human needs is

A insight to those primal reasons groups

form and crowds gather.


On the internet I located a list of universal

human needs. The list I found has about

sixty five universal human needs. I see these

needs for what they are, primal switches,

not in absolute terms as in on and off.

Hum. To know, is to experience.

The experience.

The list is extensive and is admittedly

incomplete . Below is a list of universal

human needs. Please, If you would, reflect

on each word and consider what it means to

you. Consider, how often you engage in

each human need? What universal human

needs where you unaware of?

Think of an activity, How many universal

human needs dose that activity have the

potential to stimulate/ satisfy?

Most activities, stimulate, satisfy, engage or

energize multiple universal human needs at

once.


Reflection.

 Marriage, a bundled experience of universal

human needs, the commitment to form a life

long team. Ideally, marriage  sets in motion

a life time exploration and practice of

universal human needs, doing so, keeps the

marriage/ the team in balance with its self as

it matures.


Please consider.


A list of universal human needs.

LEARNING        PLAY           FUN

INSPIRATION           CREATIVITY     

                    INITIATIVE

RESPECT            LOVE        HUMOR

          SPIRITUAL EXPRESSION   

 INDEPENDENCE     TO MATTER

MEANING         PURPOSE      JOY

PEACE  COMPASSION   FREEDOM

        INTEGRITY        CHOICE  

CONTRIBUTION    APPRECIATION 

     MOURNING               BEAUTY


AUTHENTICITY       PEACE OF MIND

INTEGRATION           HARMONY

    SPACE       EASE            ACCEPTANCE

INCLUSION    EMPATHY     PRESENCE

SUPPORT    SHELTER       HEALTH

WATER              PHYSICAL SAFETY

FOOD       SUSTENANCE      REST

PHYSICAL MOVEMENT     TOUCH

SEXUAL EXPRESSION    MUTUALITY

DIVERSITY     TRUST        EQUALITY 

CONSIDERATION        CONNECTION


COMMUNITY               BELONGING

NURTURANCE                WARMTH 

EXPRESSION          WELL-BEING

UNDERSTANDING      CLARITY
 
SECURITY     STABILITY      ORDER

AUTONOMY       INDEPENDENCE.

I believe, that being familiar with these

words and there definitions and searching

out the experience behind these words can

develop a balanced full human experience.

Obviously, if people live in a tyrannical

country, some of these experiences are

beyond their grasp. (Freedom, It is of the

greatest human importance.)

 Please consider these possibilities into your

life.


Reflection.

I imagine, a healthy person, unaware of the

list of universal  human needs, but

practicing them through primal intuition,

would feel a sense of balance as well.

Many paths lead to the same destination.



How dose the list of universal human needs 

relate to a group or team?

I believe that the universal list of human

needs should be one of the first discussions

a newly forming group should consider as a

regularly scheduled conversation.

I believe the list of universal human needs

can increase the continuity and effectiveness

of a group.



More about teams and groups.

I love the radio. I listen to NPR and the

BBC. I hear a lot of interesting bits of trivia.

Several month’s ago I heard a snippet that

fascinated me pertaining to groups.

 “ A group retains its continuity until it

exceeds seven people, then its continuity

and its efficiency, begins to break down.”


Team work.

Lets say there is a football field and at one

end of the field there is a stack of  one

thousand bricks. For some reason a person is

charged with the task of  moving all of the

bricks from one end of the field to the other.

What are some of the feelings that could go

through that persons mind while considering

and moving the stack of bricks? First I

imagine, a feeling of dread, followed by a

slight depression. If  the person is not in

shape it may even feel hopeless. Carrying as

many as four bricks it would take two

hundred and fifty trips, that person would

walk one hundred fifty thousand feet. All of

these negative emotions make that person

less efficient and resistant, not to mention

exhausted from physical activity and stress.


If that person was able to recruit some help,

say seven of his friends, and he asked them

to recruit seven of their friends, their would

be three hundred forty three people. Now to

move the bricks from one side of the field to

the other would only take three trips per

person to complete the brick moving task.

It would be done in less than a half hour.

Because of the large number of people that

showed up to move the bricks, the

individual peoples efficiency increased

because of the lack of resistant emotions.


So, when a group of people forms around a

shared interest to perform a singular strait

forward task, the forming and presence of

the group empowers the individual

amplifying the potential of the group.


About forming a group of travelers.

This book has evolved from a fictional story,

to a journal and a plan. As the plan has

evolved, it went from me on my own, to a

search for a female companion to share the

trip with, to a invitation for other folks to

participate in the journey.


I and led to believe, from what I understand

of groups, to keep the traveling group to

around seven. The question is, what rolls

will each of the seven play on the journey?


Some ideas.

1) Writer

2) Computer genius

3) Cinematographer/ Filmmaker

4) Yoga instructor / Dietitian

5) Motor cycle mechanic 

6) visual artist / painter

7) me/ writer

Do any of these rolls appeal to you the

reader?

If so, please contact me through my profile

Page on my blog.


Have a great day.

I thank you for your readership.

Seth Galli

See you in a future past life, Chapter 15

       See you in a future past life.

                  Chapter 15

 The almost daily Journal, journey, life.


In my local area, the area I have been living

in for the past three years, I have come to

know a lot of people and people have come

to know me. I make a practice of visiting as

many people as possible when time allows.

I tell these good folks my stories or rather

condensed versions of what I am up to and

what ever is inspiring me at the time. Lately

many of my friends and acquaintances have

been reading my blog. I see in them a

softening of their view of me. Several have

expressed interest and excitement.

One of the results of sharing my inspiration

with the people around me is that the fine

people share with me the different sources

of information that has or dose inspire them.

This source of inspiring information is

priceless to me, it reenergizes my passion

for the search. Looking at the word search at

the end of the last sentence, I pause.

A spiritual journey, a search, to me, is about

illuminating the unknown and drinking in

the experience, of illumination, of revealed

knowledge, and learning methods of adding

it to me. I added up, become legions of

knowledge’s, empowerment, determination

and  hope.


I have been sheltered on my life path. How

is that, you might ask.

I started out living remotely in a hippy

community,  then on a ranch, where TV and 

mainstream culture was nonexistent. I

missed the musical experience almost

entirely, besides the Patsy Cline tape stuck

in the hay truck tape player.

 I spent my summers building dams in the

creek for fishing and dipping holes. Ranch 

work dominated my life. I always had some

thing to do. From milking a cow before

school, to gathering cattle out of the rugged

mountain terrain of central Idaho on horse

back or on foot. 



As time passed I remained an outlier and

traveler, missing most of the mainstream not

out of avoidance just the remoteness of my

journey and the lack of relevance the

mainstream had in living my daily life.


So, at forty two I am discovering a lot of

things the mainstream has already digested

and absorbed. To me, these old perceptions

are fresh in my mind and newly written on

my heart. As my search for perceptions

evolves and expands, the diamonds of the

mainstream past give me fresh perspectives

on the world now.


In these chapter journals I will  write about

my new discoveries.  I will call this section

of my writing activity; “People, places and

times.”




#1 People, places and times.

     Today’s discoveries.

1) Bob Marley.
Two days ago I bought a video at Wall Mart,

It was a biography of Bob Marley,

A epic man! A profound thinker. He

energized people, empowered them. He

affected humanity on a large scale.

For a huge group of people he was the Jesus

of their generation.

He was a spiritual man, watch his

interviews. Listen to the translation of what

he was saying. He was half white and half

black, he came to peace with both sides of

himself and truly saw from his perspective,

the world as, One Love.

He was a holy man!
   



 Referrals I have not yet seen.

2) The movie/ documentary  “Happy” .

3) The magic trip.



Being a writer, is like chiseling a statue out

of stone with words.




Back  to the trip.

The search, to find people and places at

moments. Engaged in conversations,

laughter, curiosity, creativity, community,

sincerity, discovery and wholesome activity.


Reading Plato’s account of Socrates. I

uncovered a dynamic of society, I believe is

missing in quantity in our current society.

The market place. The market place in

Socrates’ time was one of broad activity.

The mainstream of their day happened there,


ripple effects of social change emanated

from these central points. If you could

imagine the details of that time as rock, dust,

dirt, wood, ruff cloth, shiny things, flowers,

crops, cattle, sheep, dogs, cats, birds and

people. So where all of those elements

converged is where the magic of that day

occurred. The market place of then was a

place to buy, sell, trade, and exchange

information, learn; an art, an act, or skill,

engage in politics, philosophize, practicing


plays, musical teachers and practicing 

students. Regardless of each persons

purpose there they where exposed to all of

it. I imagine that it must have been a

environment that directly reflected the

health of society day to day, it was the

weather, it was the news. 


The following is a short story, starting out

with the real condition of  things in

Anderson California, with a wholesome

imagined happy ending.


            The death of a town.

I don’t know all the causes of this slowly

dying town. I only see the skeletons of the

aftermath, blankly staring buildings. They

seem sad. A few weeks ago some young kids

got a hold of some paint drizzling lines

across a large abandoned furniture store’s

once uniform face. Across the street to the

west, a large bank sits empty, a gap for the

drive through, then connected store fronts

line the rest of the street up to the end of the

block, most empty and vacant. A going out

of business sale sign left in a dusty window

sill.

The towns main business are commercial

giants or chain stores. There are few unique

businesses. There is no cultural center of

activity with in the town. A place you can

stroll, a place to see a variety of things, to be

entertained and to commune with cultural

diversity. True, Anderson has one of the

nicest river front parks that I have been to.

The Sacramento River skirts the park with

its pure cool waters from Shasta Lake. The

waters that fill Shasta lake are, snow melt

from mount Shasta and the surrounding

rugged mountain ranges.

Anderson has a lovely park. But not a place

where people mingle on a daily basis year

around.

Recently I was on a journey to the east coast

to film trash, or rather to make a film about

miss placed trash, trash in the country, in

neighborhoods and city’s. while in

Philadelphia I went to the market place in

the old Philadelphia train station, it was

bustling with, soup shops, fish markets,

coffee shops, little spots to sit out of the

hustle, vegetable stands, cured meats,

aromas of a market, sounds of a market,

chance conversations, musicians,  it had a

buzz to it. I did not see any thing that could

not be recreated some where else in the

same proportions.


Anderson is divided in half by I-5, the

novelty of,  a open market cultural center,

the organic rebirth of a town, could draw a

large number of travelers off I-5 and

redistribute that wealth within the

community of Anderson and the surrounding

areas. 

In and around Anderson and Redding

localized agriculture has made a big come

back in the past four years.

This dead business zone in Anderson is

perfectly poised to become the towns

cultural hub.

 In the abandon furniture store, I imagine a

stage not large, a place for a few musicians,

enough room to perform a skit or to read

poetry, perhaps a perch for a comedian. A

stall that sells and repairs musical

instruments perhaps, with a person on call to

give guitar lessons. A stall selling spices and

teas. A juice stand selling healthy organic

combinations. A soup stand trying to achieve

stardom. Vegetable stands, winter squash in

the winter, fresh earthy vegetables in the
 
spring and summer. A harvest festival in

October, family friendly. Areas designated

for open debate and philosophy. A vibrant 

cultural cross roads.

As a town or as they call it the City of

Anderson, I can not imagine why they are

not using their location on I-5 to their

advantage. Other cottage industries flourish

along I-5 in and out of the state.

Corning, just south of Anderson is touted as

the olive capital of the world. A store called

the Olive pit, dose massive volumes of

business around a perception then delivers  a

quality local product.

The, “If you are passing this way you have

to stop hear at least once” , phenomenon.

Further south is Granzella’s, with a specialty

deli, nuts, candy and ice cream store with a

Italian restaurant. The reason people stop for

the first time is, the billboards along I-5 for

miles in each direction  counting down the

miles before they reach the little town of

Williams and Granzella’s.


 I imagine that Anderson California is not

the only community in the U.S. that is not

leveraging their circumstances to their

advantage. In these times of change it is

more important than ever for small and

medium size communities to be able to

redefine themselves by creating cultural

centers with local products, cottage

industries that reflect what the area has to

offer and what the area can produce.
    
    
As I travel around the U.S. I will be looking

for these potential cross roads of possibility.

I will draw on my readers to help locate

these small communities with potential. I

will go there and start a conversation. As the

conversation progresses from town to town,

I will write story after story of  the rebirth of

towns, sharing the knowledge learned with

all. I will also be looking for towns that are

going through the renewing process and

interview them to see what discoveries they

made to make it work.    

 
Thank you for your readership.

Seth Galli

See you in a future past life Chapter 14

                             Chapter 14
    
             A almost daily journey/ journal.


Reality, now.

Things are coming together. Friends and

acquaintances are indicating a strong

interest in participating. They have offered

ideas that I will integrate in to our trip.

One of my friends has already put in five

hours. It is amazing what can be done in

such a short period of time. In a few


chapters I will start introducing the people 

that are helping me, as timing and comfort

allows. I respect their privacy and want

them to want to become part of the written

story.


A friend of mine has been helping me with

editing, social networking (on and off the

web), trip planning, ideas, and book

development. She is a incredibly busy

person and I am very grateful for the time

she has spent on the project and her dedication to it.


Another friend of mine, I will call the

Director (film), has been a fountain of great

ideas. (In this chapter I will cover some of

these ideas and how they may be included in

our journey across America.)

My friend the director, also said the trip

needs to be filmed and film projects need to

be integrated into our traveling activities.

He also indicated that he would be interested

in editing and promoting the films.



Update;

I met a guy that is very knowledgeable

about motor cycles, he said I could call him

if I had problems on the trip and he would

help me trouble shoot them and find the

parts that I need. He is very knowledgeable

about trip planning relative to a motorcycle,

such as, methods for riding, gas efficiency,

tire ware, fuel grades, oil viscosity and on

and on, great resource .


All of these people that are helping me are

activated, they are passionate about the

journey and the idea of it. Most of my

friends want to go themselves. They just

might join me for a leg of the journey, who

knows.



Some of the ideas we have been working on;

One idea.

-A new haiku for you. Every day we have a

writing challenge, each member of the

traveling group, writes a haiku and gives it to some 
one they meet that day along the

way. 


Two idea.

On our journey we carry a three foot by six

foot, maybe longer, piece of painters canvas

rolled up in a tube. In each new town we go

to that has a art culture we find an artist to

add to the traveling patchwork painting .

Documenting its journey on film as it is

created.



Three idea.

We interview people on the road on camera.

Asking them to tell us a story true or fiction.

At the end of each week a story is picked

for; the tallest tail.



Four idea.

We do a series called garage sale stories. We 

interview some one having a garage sale,

asking them to tell us a story about some

item they are selling.


Five idea.

Each area we pass through we find or are

given a small object to affix to our trophy,

perhaps a motorcycle trailer that we choose

to ornament.


Six idea.

We stop and ask some one, in any town

USA, on the street on camera if they would

like us to hand deliver a message to some

one in the united states.


After we deliver the message we ask the
 
person receiving the message if they would

like us to deliver a message to some one for

them.


Seven idea.

Each time we pass a state line and there is a

town on the boarder, we interview people in

that boarder town and ask them what they

think of the state we just left. All filmed.


Eight idea.

To plan and break the trip into legs. The idea

behind this is to make the trip available in

small sections to people who might not be

able to participate in the whole trip. Also

making it possible for more people to

participate in the experience of the journey.

I imagine these legs could conclude in some

kind of event like a flash crowd community

renewal project. Which brings me to idea

nine.


Idea nine

Say twenty or more of us are traveling

across the nation. We are reaching the end of

a leg of the journey. Our plan is to meet at a

river, at some large camp ground. Knowing

ahead of time the destination, we plan a

community renewal project and promote it

as we approach the end of the leg.

The community renewal project could be as

simple as promoting a flash mob river clean

up, or a flash mob organic farm installation/

planting. 

Ideally our goal is to use mass participation

to enrich communities along our journey.

This idea will need further work and

exploration of uses of flash crowds for good.    


Stone soup.

The plan is developing nicely.

The attraction to this story is growing.

 As you can see we will be looking for a few

new members for this traveling creation.

We now need a few film makers to join the

journey, to capture these stories and events.

(I have some film making equipment.)

I think we need a guitar player and maybe a

singer or two, some drums…. Musicians

wanted!


We are open to any traveling and socially

interacting ideas you the reader might have

for us the travelers to do.

We will always be looking for good random

writing assignments and challenges.

More to come.

Tank you for reading.  
    
Namaste

Seth Galli