Hello Everyone! I wanted to share that this is my Last Minute task before I take a 3 day trip on an Elementary School Event. I apologize for not being able to post the rest of the week, but I promise to have lots of thoughts to share when I return!

So I would like to leave you with this question to ponder, muse, and consider; Did you ever find yourself in a "Last Minute" situation and once you got through it, there wasn't a nagging feeling you still forgot something?
I worked a full day in the office, then drove home, ate dinner, and began packing. It's 12:52 A.M. and I am doing many of those "Last Minute" things now like posting one last post before the trip. I hope you like the black and white polariod, tipped on its side, courtesy of the Weebly photo editing tools, let's give a round of applause to Weebly on that one, Thank You Weebly for making me look cool!
I thought I would tip it in some hap-hazard way that doing Last Minute tasks leaves you feeling. Did you get that impression? Well the trip is not to the Grand Canyon, or any canyon for that matter, it's just somewhere Not Home, and thats enough to make me scramble to make sure I have all my comforts of home in one bag! (Well minus the electronic stuff.) I hope I am packed, and I read the check list several times, and its done, but I have ad hoc items that are not on the list that I am trying to review that I have. One of my Last Minute items was my daily vitamins, and my child's allergy over the counter medication. I found some spot in a bag that I could wedge it all in luckily!
So my Last Minute thinking is really rattling me and I am having a hard time trusting that sleep will make me feel better. I suppose if there is anything I think I am forgetting, my subconscious will work it out in some twisted and uncomfortable dream state. There are several interesting dream articles circulating the web right now, and I am sure Last Minute thinking and the meanings of dreams all relate somehow. If you want to confirm that or share your story of how your Last Minute thinking affected your dreams, let me know, I'd be happy to read and see what people experience.
So I do need rest for tomorrow and I attended the standard Parent/Chaparone meeting to be informed of all my responsibilities and duties, and it seems they require that I am mentally competent and can keep track of a group of students including my child.
With that, thank you for being part of my Last Minute routine, I hope you all continue to enjoy my site, my thoughts, my Blogtemplations, the ever evolving creativity and site development. I hope that a small but amazing community grows out of all of this, AND if you are a first time reader, then Welcome and thank you for reading!
Good luck on any situation you feel yourself being caught up into Last Minute details, and I hope you sleep well later that night too.
More when I return...

-The Establishment

Did you see the last Presidential Debate?
Did you read the last Propostion?
Did you find out about your local candidates for office?
Do you feel ready to Vote?
Did you sign up for the Early Voter Ballot?

If so, then what are you waiting for, VOTE!
I prefer you write and write strongly about your opinion and view, but in this situation, in this election year, with so much on the line, get out your ballot and VOTE, VOTE now!

This is a fairly short Blogtemplation, and not much to consider, don't wait any longer, stop being undecided, decide and vote.

-The Establishment

Dear Readers, Visionaries, Text Consumers, Radicals, Conservatives, Mentalists, Purists, Experimentalists, Spiritualists, and the many -ists, -ers, -ies, and -s out in the world, Welcome.
Today I realized that I needed some kind of sub-title to these Blog entires more than just "Blogtemplation Entry" and a date. So I will try to give these some kind of subtitles and hope that helps in clarification as this grows. As I have said from the beginning, this is an experiment and you will get watch me grow and learn. I admit I love the process already!
Please enjoy the new sub-titles.
Next on the agenda per the sub-title Physical Energy, Spiritual Energy and Other Energy!
This past weeked I did something I enjoy, and that is camping, also it was camping with scouts. I noticed that it took a lot of Physical Energy out of me when I woke up this Monday morning. I am further noticing that I am at another energy low, and I can't figure out if that is a Spiritual Energy or an Other Energy.
There is a big reason why I am concerned about this. It is because  I have Volunteered myself to attend an Elementary School function for 3 days and 2 nights. I imagine the experience to be much like a Scouting Webeloree, Jamboree, Scout-O-Rama, or other big production mixed with meals, activities, cold nights in sleeping bags, and adrenaline highs and lows throughout. So I have been taking some personal inventory and realized that I only have 2 days till the next event! Thus it brings me to looking at how I will personally refuel, re-energize, re-connect, re-everything myself to be mentally, emotionally, and physically prepared for this upcoming 3 day round.
I am drained from the weekend and the realization has been coming to light that I need a power-up feature within myself the next 2 days. So I ask the question about the kinds of energy that exist in the human body, mind, and soul. I am sure that rest and proper nutrition will nurish the physical needs I have, so I believe I can check that box, so long as I follow through on my eating habits and don't give in to too much junk food being back from a weekend of scout camping food.
I thought about how I began to feel after a healthy dinner last night and then this morning, and realized it was much more than just physical energy I needed to regain. So that brings me to Spiritual Energy. I began a little debate in my head, and maybe you can help in your comments to this blog as well. What are those other energies that make up the rest of our human existance and confirm for us that we feel complete, whole, rested, healthy, and mentally/emotionally stable again? When we are at our best, when we know that we can perform the most amazing aspects of ourselves with the highest rate of succcess, what is that energy and how do we replenish it?
Some and even myself, can claim that Spirituality is a big part of it. Others might define it differently, and even within the term of "Spirituality" we have  wide range of Religious and Christian beliefs. I have not taken a "Religions of the World" course to go into depth and detail, but I hope I can bring together my readers, without offense, that Spirituality is a rather large umbrella or balloon or choose the metaphor that works best for you that allows any and all beliefs systems to embrace in peaceful co-existance for the purpose of this blogtemplation topic, I'll give you a moment.....                   (Do you have one? Good!)
So there is this Spiritual Energy that needs to be replenished, what do people do to feed it? Read the right books, recite the right prayer, perform the right breathing and meditative state exercise, the list could go on, correct? I'd like to know how people learn that about themselves and how long it takes to rebuild and regain that energy. If you are so moved, encouraged, empowered, or inspired, please share.
Lastly, I have left an open space for Other Energy. I am but a human being pondering, examining, exploring and intrigued with my own existance, my own strengths and weaknesses, my own wiring, my own blueprint, my own user guide, among other metaphors about living, and I have to admit that there must be additional energies out in the world and universise which I don't understand and can't explain. There must be Other Energies that infuse into my living experience and creates the unique and amazing experience that is living as a human being! So if there is yet another Energy that you are aware of or have read about or experienced, please tell me about that. I am sure that there is something else that, at the moment, I interract with and must have high and low doses of throughout life because I can tell you that I feel something inside when I am more at my best than I have ever been and moments when I am at my least than I have ever been. So call it what you will, but I am willing to allow for an explanation of some common experience that people describe is "just how they are" or "how they are wired", and yet is un-studied, un-documented, or difficult to describe and examine under scientific proceesses.
One thing is for sure at the end of this Blogtemplation; I need to get ALL of those Energies back up to full power and strength by Wednesday morning, bright and early!
Thank  you for another journey with me. Please comment and write back, I hope to encourage all of you to write and create community and exploration of ideas. I look forward to anyone's feedback. I'll be putting time into gearing up and filling up my Energies in the mean time, let me know your success stories with your Energy. 

-The Establishment 

The Inspiration to Write
    What inspires you to write? This photo was taken in September of 2007, I was in New York visiting family with the memory of September 11th only a few days ahead. This photo is famous in Central Park, and I am sure it is not the first time it has been decorated with flowers, and I am sure it is not the last. I can look at this photo and it inspires memories, it inspires a feeling, it inspires a reason to keep writing, to keep creativity alive, to continue to Imagine, right?
    I have dreams of many things I would like to write, and I have some works in progress, but I need my short term goals too. I need to express my thoughts and share some form of authorship with the world, so here you have it. You are reading this blog because I had a dream that needed the light of day, and quite truthfully, I am enjoying the benefits already, just writing this blog.
    What inspires ME to write? Luckily, LOTS of things ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
One day I would like to have many viewers and readers and offer a topic that starts conversations between people, and offer my skills and career background to projects that need it, however I can be patient too. Until my writing can support an income, I write because it drives me. I write because there are so many topics to write on or about, how can one NOT be inspired to write all the time? Words, thoughts, expression, it flows from me so fast, so quickly, so rapidly that it is all I can do to find some outlett for the writing. I'll need editing and revision for my more formal work and for work that might have a chance for income, but I would enjoy that too. I am inspired to write because my heart beats as a writer, my soul operates as it recieves from the world and gives back in expression of words and text finding meaning and life in some form of media. 
    I saw the term "Blog" evolve as technology evolved over the past 10-15 years. There was this newspaper article talking about "Web Logs" and then the term "Blog" forged itself. I hope you enjoy my evolutionary change of the term for this site, as I tried to merge "Contemplation" with "Blog" and created a term I am coming to be more and more endeared with. I hope you like the continuation of the term "Blogtemplation". I am happy, blessed, and enjoying this accessible outlett to express and bring words and my thoughts to the reading world.
    My thoughts might tango terrifically, my ponderings might paso doble persuasively, my musings might merenge musically, my wanderings might west coast swing wistfully, and the metaphors might meander too long, and the similies smatter about too sporadically, however, all this can be fixed in the editing process. Concise control can be contained, aliteration can be aligned to standards, and spell check can run rampant before the final print. All these things I am inspired by in writing.
    In summary, I hope you find the thing that inspires you to write. If I can be a source or a support, let me know. The site will grow, my thoughts will expand, and writing will continue. Thank you for another flow of consciousness. I hope you enjoyed my writing again. Be inspired, and Write...

-The Establishment

More on Text, Images, and other Self Talk...
Good evening readers, I am still working on logo identity and text relation, if you can comment on this mini version, I would appreciate it. I am not sure if the blue head bandana is sending the right message, but I do enjoy the way it brings out a relaxed feeling. I am not sure if such a direct resemblance is the best either, and maybe a little vain to put logo identity with a goatee and facial hair reference. I might consider doing some drawings and trying to come up with something more universal and community appealing. I am not sure if an abstract face is the right gathering icon for people to want to gather around. I would appreciate your comments on this subject, and it will be used to continue my development. Thank you!
As far as other Self Talk goes, I am thinking about lots of things these days, relationships, what it means to have clients, the economies of scale to the small business owner, the task of balancing a budget, etc, but more to the point, what would draw in writers and readers to come together for creative exchanges of creative business?
I continue to have this dream that a community could exist where business projects come in and intelligent and creative writers are on hand to answer the challege of writiing for multiple needs; newspapers, magazines, print ads, theater houses, small stage performers, publishing venders, etc.
The dream would be how exciting it would be to have conversations with business people in need, scope out the project, outline the project details, dates, and deliverables, and assign the most creative writers in the valley to write for all these great needs!
Let me know your thoughts great readers, are you with me???

Building A Community... or at least new friends.
Well, I would like to share that I enjoyed launching this site and continue to be excited about having a blog to write thoughts and express myself whether be a call to arms, or providing news to readers about something that needs to be known to a wider audience. The only problem I now have is that I seem to have little to no audience to share it with!
I think it is important, being still only my sixth entry and in the first month of existance, that I share the experience I am having from the beginning. I am guessing that many have this position that they have something wonderful to share, but how do they grow the audience to share it!
I started a Facebook accout and I am contemplating a business facebook account, but the problem with my Facebook account is that I have to start reaching out to high school and college friends. Eventually I would like this site to be read by people I don't know but at first I have to get people I DO KNOW to read this and even spread the word about the site. I admit a little nervous intrepidation about telling friends to check this out, for some reason I would rather strangers read it first and find out if the general world population accepts me first, that must be odd to read right? That I would worry what my friends think first? Well that is exactly the position I am in. I believe in my friends and I have high expectations for myself, and well, I just worry that I would not live up to the person they know me as. This website is an experiment as well, and I dream and hope for success, but worry about it not making it or having not quite the impact I dreamed it would. I'm a first time writer, or first time public writer I should say. I have been a writer at heart all my life, getting myself enough pages to print or getting my words out to a viewing public, well that's been a long time coming.
So TA-DA!!!!!!!!!!!, here I am.......(cricket cue now....)
and that's where I am, still a lone voice in a location that no one knows about. hahahaha.
That is my dilemma, to get known.
Wish me luck, I have dreams to make new friends, and build a writing community.
Wish me luck you readers yet to view this site, I am coming, and I will be under your reading eye one day.

My Fifth Blogtemplation!
I would like to let you all know you can breath a sigh of relief because this is the last time I will be calling out the number of the entry in word form, the first 5 were important to me, as they are my First Five entries, however you will not see this blog page calling out "Twenty-Fifth Blogtemplation Entry", I will creatively write a title that best fits the blog of that moment. Thank you for playing along with the First Five.
I do however enjoy the term "Blogtemplation" and that may survive repetition...
Today's Fifth Entry is going to discuss a word that has been floating in my world and hemispheres of my brain lately, so I thought it might be valuable and deep in meaning to make it my Fifth Entry to round out the First Five entries.
The topic is the term "Intimacy"
So let's start with a Definition, and this comes from Dictionary.com, I hope the editors of Dictionary.com allow me the sharing of this term as I open up discussion.
The definition breaks down in this way:
Noun.
1. The state of being intimate.
2. A close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group.
3. A close association with or detailed knowledge or deep understanding of a place, subject, period of history, etc.
4. An act or expression serving as a token of familiarity, affection, or the like: to allow the intimacy of using first names. 
5. An amorously familiar act; liberty.

I would like to open up the idea that this term has many implications and unfortunately carries an ever extrodinary battle between deepening and destroying relationships between people. In the month of February when Valentine's day strikes the marketplace, the word intimacy is thrown about with passion and physical affection and tempting the thoughts of lovers abound. This has a place and certainly has the power to bring two lovely, peaceful, and nurting souls together, in physical bliss and satisfaction. I persuade that this finds itself true in the most positive and encouraging sense between committed endearing people.
There are some undertones that suggest a negative and destructive force in this term and that ellude to forbidden intimacy and also inflict upon the physical nature of this term. I will spend very little time on this particular avenue of description as it does not need to do any more damage than it already does without help.
There is a more enlightening, uplifting, theraputic, supportive, growth inspiring, balanced, and several more words I would love to write but need to move on to the point regarding this sense of the term. So I ask you to re-read the definitions above and key into the definitions that use the following words; close association, deep understanding, familiarity, an act or expression serving as a token of familiarity, liberty.
Liberty, of all words, liberty. As in freedom and an ability to express oneself with another freely. I propose that this term carries a power and an embodiment that people have either forgotten, or they secretly keep to themselves in small circles and are scared to admit or support it's powerful connection to unlocking the human spirit's potential and embracing a stronger, more powerful, and fuller sense of self that only perpetuates the fulfillment of people's dreams, aspirations, and connection to hope, confidence, and engagement into life that through the journey of life can bring success and happiness that the Constitution of the United States says we have the Right to pursue!
I plea to you, the society of people in small and large places across the world, that we open our eyes a little wider, stretch our hearts a little fuller in each beat, open our minds a little deeper to the possibility, and suggest to say that Intimacy is something that has a righteous and beneficial place in our lives. The definition even states "relationship with another person or group.", and it does not define that once you find that other person that your intimacy limit is closed, no, I believe that "close association" strengthens us as humans and as people, and we should look to the value which we experience because of intimacy. I promise that I will not be heavilty or overtly biblical throughout this site and the blogs to come, so I ask your forgiveness when I add that the bible even speaks and proclaims the intimacy that God wants with His people, and why can't His people be everyone on this Earth? Don't debate this one through detailed description from Revelations, it will just save everyone grief, however I am open to the merit of debate on this topic in whole, so do not be detered to respond. I digress...
Intimacy... I believe there is a beautiful and wonderful power in the purity of close association and deep understanding of each other in friendly relationships.
In Summary, this Fifth Blogtemplation Entry is a stance on the terms of understanding and acceptance of the word "Intimacy", the deep understanding of the term, the detailed knowledge of the term, the token of familiarity the term offers, the liberty we must not forget about this term and how we can believe in the hope it inspires and the promise it supports as we pursue our happiness.

Dear Readers, bibliophiles, reviewers, editors, literary critics, and more...

I am writing my Fourth entry tonight because I have been lacking in upkeeping entries in the last few days. I would like to share that it is my hope that I will have some regular entry for everyone to read and experience the text value of my thoughts. There will be times I will go out and camp, or get away to the outdoors for some volunteer experience, and for those days coming within the month, I hope the site continues to hold interest while I am disconnected and gaining more insight and experiential depth to my meaningful meanderings of the page that recieves this flow of thought before you. I'll continue to grow and share and maybe gain a fan or two, and maybe, just maybe grow a small community of writers that want to network and express words too, the exchange of ideas would excite me to no end. 
So as a bond and hand out of faith and trust, please know I will be continuing words, phrases, journal wanderings and challenges of contemplation to this blog and site.
Thank you readers, bibliophiles, reviewers, editors, literary critics, and more...

-The Establishment
 

GRAPHICS and TEXT
Call it art, call it abstract, call it a unique discussion point about my blog and this particular post.
I've often wondered where logos come from and how businesses small and large come to identify and define themselves by a graphic of some kind. Then, when marketing teams get a hold of it, changes occur in all kinds of directions. I am sure some logos have changed for the better and some have returned to their nostalgic beginnings when the new did not gain the public interest it needed to. So I offer a design I have been considering for my own development and eventual graduation into graphical identity. At the very least I expect that the duplication of the word "The" will be called out, and even I am unsure that it was needed, but I would like to think that any title could be place in the middle of the face, I am not looking to place the title "The Establishment of Contemplation" within this graphic face forever, it's a test for the moment, so fear not, this is not the logo I am resting on for this site, simply a use of familiarity to see what people think. So please, I encourage you, send me your comments, share your thoughts, let me know if my graphic instincts have any hope at all!
Also, Thank you all, please keep enjoying visiting my site, I am exited to share that I have learned there have been 100 Page Views, so thank you all that contributed to the 100 Page Views to this site in the past week!
-The Establishment

This will have to be quick but I have learned VERY quickly that opening a Facebook page with first name :Established, last name: Contemplator, is not the most friendly way to introduce yourself and your website to friends and potential readers of your site. So the question arises, how does one present a website presense and identity without personalizing too much to blatent authorship?
Should an author be more forward and brash about their creation?
Is it considered pandering, selling out, bragging, or otherwise a rude display of your accomplishments?
I am on a HUGE learning curve and wondering how website authors connect to social media, present their site, market their site value, and grow on their continuum without having to register multiple times in the limited identity of a singlar individual versus a broad and sweep view of goals and ambitions with which the site was created for?
How does an author grow the view of a potential community without being tied to encompass one unique identity?
If you have the answsers, any of them, or more questions to engage, please let me know!

Thank you readers and web viewing populations across the internet.