I woke up early and started doing dishes. I needed to contribute, and it is one of those cathartic things I like doing first thing in the morning. Besides, Arrowone and crew had recently goten into this space and they are still setting it up. The dishes had stacked up from the busy-ness of the week, as dishes sometimes do, and I figured it would be appreciated.

Soon Arrowone was up and she joined in and quickly the whole kitchen was reorganized. It was a good start for me and also she had some friends come over that morning and they got to work on the rest of the space; organizing and cleaning.

I then continued to get some more emails out via Yahoo and set up the website. Really frustrating. I wish I had never used Yahoo. I could have just used my own webserver's service, but somehow thought Yahoo would be easier. Then we got directions online and a map and went shopping in L.A.; Napa, Kinko’s, Healthfood store, Trader Joes. I talked to D.A. on the phone about Bisbee and got some contacts while in the health food store, then back to Arrowone’s to prep squash and rice for our dinner at Joan's.

Joan is a teacher and a friend of my dear friend Natasha in Portland, and when Natasha says I need to meet someone, I follow her advice. Driving to Joan’s we managed to get lost, but eventually found our way. We had a great dinner talk about creating sustainable culture, re-energizing our connection to time, travelling, intentions, discoveries, on and on and on. It was hard to leave, we could have talked for hours, but around 11:00 we headed back to the warehouse for another connected conversation with Arrowone before heading off to sleep.