Been a long time again

But I have been working on my DP still, just in a notebook instead of on my computer. I actually got started with meditation last night, and hopefully I'll be able to keep on doing it regularly for the five month requirement. Most of my DP work has been the reading of books (currently reading Drawing Down the Moon) and connecting with the land where I live. I don't know if I mentioned this earlier, and I'm way too lazy to go look at my blog posts now, but I live in a highly wooded area. It's cut off from pretty much everything, trees and lakes all around. Man-made lakes, though, not natural. My road is a dirt road, not asphalt, and the entire property is encased by trees; mainly tall pine trees, but I have also identified some that could be maple trees of some sort and there is also one magnolia tree. There are many others, but I have had trouble identifying them. Anyway, because of the location, we have no waste disposal (that I know of). Trash all gets burned. I do not even know just how much this is harming the air around here, but that is how everyone does it and I have never seen a garbage truck around here. Forget about recycling, only recycling possibilities are in the town ten miles away, and that's for scrap metal. there's also dropping off plastic shopping bags at the local wal-mart that I work at. I have not noticed any sort of recycling program for plastics, glass, paper, etc. And that truly saddens me. I do have plans to ask some of the locals if they know of any place I can drop of recyclables, however, as my online research attempts have yielded no results.  

Where I live, there is trash build up three years in the making. it's a mess. I hate that it's to be burned, but I also don't want it sitting on the ground outside anymore. It's not even my trash, but trash that my parents have been building up. But there's never any "time" or "energy" to deal with any of it. So I'm making "time" and I'm making "energy" and doing what they haven't had "time" or "energy" to do in three years. The yard already looks much nicer. I have some before and after photos that I'm going to upload at some point in the future (probably once I actually finish the work I want to accomplish). It will take a while since this is three years of trash, but once it's gone, things will be so much better.