Month: May 2016

I have not kept up with blogging like I meant to. Life gets busy sometimes. I am trying to learn to keep myself less busy.

I am excited to be returning to Ohio. I enjoy seeing other parts of the world, but Ohio is a special place for me. I am going to be coming back to Cbus briefly for a friend’s wedding in May and then will be back in the beginning of August.

A lot has happened. I helped out with the last of our AmeriCorps Signature events, the Cape Cod Canal Cleanup event (http://www.americorpscapecod.org/volunteer-opportunities/annualsignature-events/canal-clean-up/).

Over lunch I did a magic show for the volunteers. It went really well, though I messed up the finale. Live and learn. Shouldn’t happen again… I am hoping to make magic a side job and have made a website and business cards. We will see how it goes. Here is the link (www.bensillusions.com).

Also, Parker and I finished our film. It is on Youtube now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5ttOLHaRrI). We have submitted it to the Woods Hole Film Festival and will find out if we are in around June 1. It was a lot of fun to shoot.

Miss you all!

Ben

 

Wrote this on paper on 3/13/16

Once again, it’s been a while since I last wrote. Today I am sitting at Monks Park watching a sea gull scour for clams, fly up with them in its beak and then drop them on the rocky shore to break open the shell and eat the shellfish inside. I started shellfish farming class last week. It was very informative, but I feel like I am trying to do too many things. There are a couple shellfisherman out in the bay here today.

I did a workshop on how to keep goats in your backyard. It was awesome! I do still hope to ‘herd’ goats someday. Probably just two. Nigerian dwarf goats seem the most practical from what I learned at the workshop. They are the jack russell terriers of goats.

I worked through a bad time dating. Expressed doubts in a really ineffective way, caused hurt, but learned from it.

Trying to think ahead for what is coming next. Working on a film project with my friend Parker. We are going to finish in the next week or so. We will be entering it in a film festival.