Time balances and duties

            The world is opening up a lot of opportunity for me right now.   It is giving me great opportunities for discipline and for square success and independence.  This opens up a long standing internal conflict that I think most of us deal with on some level: the conflict between our empath/and or/ spiritual self/ and or/shaman self--   and that of our driven/legal/financial self. 
          I am reminded of two great persons that I have brushed up against over the years.  The first was a man on the nologo listserve on the summer and fall of 2001 named Scott.   He was reportedly working for a First Nations people in canada doing radical linguistic inquiry.   Insofar as it was mildly related to the discussion he shared his process with us.   One such occasion he described humans according to their function; as in homo-Sapien, homo-Faber, homo-Ludens, etc.  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_faber

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_names_for_the_human_species

This falls along the lines of you are what you do, or you are what you know. 
The more time passes, the more I see this as true for many.   Even more so if you consider disidentification (not just "non"  :-)  )  with work as a way to identify with others in a similar position. 

The other is Todd from wildroots in north carolina.    My brief but very open and enjoyable conversations with  him involved his process and eventual complete drop of bourgeois leisure society (and even out of agricultural society) into a deliberate hunter-gatherer leisure society.   Yes.   That's what I mean.   

to be continued....must run to potluck brunch.