Full Steam Ahead!

Cindy turned 65 this year and with that the potential for me to acquire full time help for the first time during this fifteen year journey (and counting). I expected the help to come much sooner in the year but a series of unfortunate events instead led to less coverage than usual. That changed in late August when full time help not only became available, but as a live in! I have been premature so often with my expectations, but everything now is in place for full steam ahead!

The first task with “full steam ahead” is to rebuild my subscriber base after all the website changes and additions that have been done as part of My New Ten Year Resolution. Towards that end I put in a Subscribe pop up, abiding by the research that this is the most reliable way to get subscribers. If you were previously subscribed you still need to subscribe again to receive notice of posts … but now you receive a link to a free digital download of Humility, Faith, Courage by The Bards of Balance with your subscription!

The original intent of the blog was to enable the adversity of Cindy’s early onset to inform and inspire others with their own related experiences. Several people commented that the reporting of our situation often read like a love story. To give people what they apparently want one of the new themes moving forward will be to fill in the background on this “love story.” Perhaps a book will come out of this.

With over 900 blog posts already, I also intend to make a book out of the existing material, as has been requested at times from followers. To help facilitate this I will be reviewing and featuring past blog posts that have stood out either to me or to you. I will turn these into “Top Five” lists, as in top five posts from the pedicab years, etc. Towards this end you will find two new menu items up top, “Contents” and “Features.” The Contents menu provides a chronological ordering of posts, while Features highlights special categories of posts. I will be expanding the Features as we go along.

The overall content and features of this website align with the humanitarian worldview I developed as a long term caregiver and long distance journeyer, as embodied in the website’s tagline. For a focus on this humanitarian worldview please visit my companion website: Unenlightened Wisdom Project: Journeying from Brain Health to Democracy. A series of five main books will be published over a period of ten years for this project, with additional publications and databases thrown in.

If you like what you hear with your free digital download, also check out my humanitarian eCommerce site where you can purchase additional songs by The Bards of Balance. More of these songs will be available over time, as will the movements from the American Discovery Symphony. The site will also feature publications from the Unenlightened Wisdom Project and presentations with a humanitarian theme. Eventually there will be merchandise with the humanitarian tagline: “Love kindness. Build community. Believe in humanity.”

I am excited for what now lies ahead with this full time help now available to me, a new chapter in this fifteen year caregiver journey (and counting). I hope you are as well. Please subscribe and turn your friends on to this humanitarian/caregiver/journeyer content, for my sake and theirs.