I've been going full throttle lately soaking up information on India. It really felt good to finally pick a direction in which to focus my energy. The library has been an amazing resource. I'm about halfway through the dozen videos, and I've been dogearing pages o'plenty in various Lonely Planets (North India, Indian Himalaya, Trekking in the Indian Himalaya). I'm having a lot of fun with it, despite the intimdiating aspects. The movie I watched last night was a DVD called The Yogis of Tibet and it was awesome. Lots of extremely exclusive interviews and footage of yogis who have spent the majority of their lives in mountain caves, meditating on who knows what. It gave a very good summary of Tibet's history, people, culture, and present situation, and I owuld highly reccommend it to everyone.

I ordered some books in the mail off a used book database and also from the folks at CrimeThinc. The used ones were a short autobiography by the founder my Shotokan Karate, Gichin Funakoshi and Zen in the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams. Today I picked up a copy of 1984 by George Orwell and The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment by Thaddeus Golas for $2. Not all used bookstores are equal as I've learned, but I found a really cool one today that exactly fits my preconceived notion of a good used bookstore.

I just sent in our (my mom and I) seed order for the year. In all, we'll be growing kale, swiss chard, rutabaga, corn, cauliflower, acorn and butternut squash, cucumber, peppers, green onions, broccoli, carrots, beets, peas, green beans, cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes, green and yellow zuchini, lettuce, spinach, basil, thyme, oregano, sage, rosemary, parsley, cilantro, chives, raspberries, rhubarb, apples, peaches, plums, and even walnuts, although there won't be too many of those last four. But how wicked is that? I'm stoked. The only other thing I would've liked is Asparagus and of course, more fruit.