The journey has light ahead but yet I am in the thicket. Network up and running, reconfigured it again after a reboot and will have to do it yet again as I took a screenshot of the desktop before I closed it. I wanted to remember the environment. Perhaps I'll use this wallpaper...

Looking too far ahead, reading further along in the installation manual I began to feel somewhat overwhelmed. It was a foreboding sense of awe as you stand at the base of a mountain and remember it's magesty. I've had that feeling just now. I was overwhelmed with the awesome task of compiling code from scratch on a slow ASUS EeePC 4G. I wonder if this small thing has become a mountain.

Like in the picture above the land ahead is flat but the path is not clear. So instead of looking up the mountain I will look right beneath my feet...where the traps and snares lay waiting for my distracted attention.

Time passes...that's for sure. And with time so pass the things we may have grown to become attached to. In childhood it happens all the time. You grow too big to wear a favorite garment, you grow too tall to sleep in the small bed and have to move to a real bed. We experience this all through our lives. The concept of impermanence is lost amid the chatter of a people consumed with a fear of scarcity.

I sit here on one laptop working on another one and I am at the critical juncture, and so early in the journey...do I format the disk and essentially wipe off the installation of BodhiLinux I have already installed and working ---though memory is tight! o_O---or clear the way for a journey that could take some time.

Like in my knitting....you don't finish if you don't drop some stitches. The only way to finish is never to stop, no matter how many stitches you drop. It has been a while since I've administered Unix systems in the work place. So...one last time...here's the desktop I'll say goodbye to and hopefully by the time I get the system optimized the gtk2 theme that matches the e17 theme will be upgraded to gtk3. I'd love to revisit that combination.

for now....time to let go and start over--------