DON'T FORGET PRECAUTIONARY COMPUTER ROUTINES

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IN A NUTSHELL

1.  This is just a friendly reminder, since the original bulletins are  "submerged" from view -- and some friends may not have yet chanced upon them.  This link explains all (please click here).

2.  The time is fast-approaching (if I can help it) where such information will have a permanent home in a place where you're sure to be reminded when it is most needed.

3.  The whole goal is to help us humans stop ourselves from "reinventing wheels" so unnecessarily, wastefully, and often.   Stepping into life's very same potholes (or missing the very same good chances) which earlier victims (and beneficiaries) might have made known and useful to us, had they only been able to -- in good time.

4.  We've got far better things to do than trying to remember -- usually in random fashion and at random success-rates -- all those wise, practical, and inspiring things which ought to be built right into the automatic portion of our "life-control panels."

5.  And, it is certainly unhelpful to suffer the added risk of overlooking or even not knowing to look -- where the answers lie ready and waiting to meet the questions we probably should be asking.


6.  Here's to human betterment and to everything we can possibly contribute to advance it.

David Nelson




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STRATEGIC AGENDA FOR "THE MENTOR ENTERPRISES / ELMS"

Posted:  20 Aug 14

MENTOR SYSTEM-MODULES 

COMING SOON!

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BUT FIRST, TO GET US ALL TO THE SAME DOOR,

LOOKING THROUGH THE SAME KEYHOLE

WHAT

The Mentor Enterprises / ELMS is the working title for the collection of major endeavors I am resolved to undertake within and with this life.  It is also the name of a corporation being formed to develop and perpetuate the "Mentor/ELMS Concept."  ELMS stands for "Entire Lifetime Management Systems" and that is the exact function I am determined to put to the test.

A "mentor" may be defined as a wise, trusted counselor -- an adviser of great importance.  I believe that the common wisdom -- "the great human knowledge base" -- (the parts written and the parts yet-to-be written) -- can be better harnessed -- to free the species -- to realize, fulfill, and transcend its greatest potential -- within a thorough system -- of mutual, "self-mentoring" measures -- which rationally -- recognizes, develops, taps, and applies -- our fullest human genius  -- and I mean to prove -- that this challenge -- not only can -- but should be -- tackled and wrestled to the ground -- with all due dispatch.

In other words, we are our own best mentors in this particular life --
and every rational being has much more to contribute and gain

if and only if we can share and exchange our wisdom readily.
In this area of life, we humans have a lot of room for improvement.  
URGENT IMPROVEMENT.

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WHY

Presently, the corporation is forming to establish, test, and perfect two public-service enterprises which I believe will sufficiently address a serious "market niche" -- which our society and, indeed, ALL OF HUMANKIND -- need to have served.  I will discuss that market niche/social challenge, separately.  But work here -- works toward the ultimate aim of -- optimizing -- human well-being and betterment -- to suit our general and particular cases.

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HOW

The Strategic Concept is to divide the perceived "totality of human existence" into two major, interdependent aspects: (1)  One's Private Existence (self, family, household, friendship circles) and (2) One's Civic Existence -- the public side of life (neighborhood, city, county, economic area, state, time-zone, nation, civilization, the human species, the planet, beyond).  Each aspect is a focus of a corporate enterprise (The Private Mentor and The Civic Mentor Enterprises) -- with the aim of bettering the life-experiences, BOTH for every individual human being AND for the entire species, as a complete whole.

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WHEN

Here, then, is my strategic agenda, as things presently stand.  I believe I've just about overcome my most serious problems -- in formulating and designing -- the organizing-framework -- to control the corporation, The Mentor Concept, system development, and system-delivery operations -- all together as one simplified thing.

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MENTOR SYSTEM-MODULES 

COMING SOON!

These system-modules are to be 

• complete, self-contained management systems --
• based on The Internet (as an online "electronic replica" of our universe) --
• to help any fellow human who desires to participate -- 
• to methodically manage each major element -- 
• comprising and determining the TOTALITY 
• of their individual and collective existences -- 
• more systematically than ever possible before --
• to the extent that these can be managed at all -- 
• and tailored to suit their unique and common circumstances -- 
• all from one convenient, free, comprehensive, integrated -- 
• network of management-systems -- 
• which is ALSO designed to enable all participants -- 
• to cooperate and coordinate together -- more and more easily --
• whenever circumstances warrant or are anticipated
• in calling for greater power
• ALWAYS FOR THE GREATER INDIVIDUAL AND COMMON GOOD

Here is the present work sequence being followed.

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STRATEGIC AGENDA

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PRIORITY ONE

Civic Mentor / City-Element / for Pittsburg, CA
Civic Mentor / Neighborhood Element / Neighborhood Management Systems and Alliances
Civic Mentor / National Element / National Information Super-system

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PRIORITY TWO

Civic Mentor / County Element / Contra Costa County, CA
Civic Mentor / Areal Element / San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA)
Civic Mentor / State Element / California
Civic Mentor / Time-Zone Element / Pacific

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PRIORITY THREE

Private Mentor / Individual Element
Private Mentor / Family Element
Private Mentor / Household Element

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PRIORITY FOUR

Formalize Corporation "The Mentor Enterprises /  ELMS" (circa 2016)
Broaden the product and service lines to address specific identifiable organized entities, nation-wide.

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PRIORITY FIVE

Civic Mentor / International Element
Civic Mentor / Global Element
Civic Mentor / Extraterrestrial Element
Civic Mentor / Galactic Element
Civic Mentor / Universal Element

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David Nelson

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SHIFTING TO NEXT GROWTH-PHASE FOR THIS CITY-JOURNAL

Posted:  1 May 13

1.  PURPOSES

To inform my readers of a few developments that will affect production and maintenance of this Pittsburg City-Journal (PCJ) over the short-term, as PCJ Version 2.0 is developed and brought on-line.

• Please be patient, for the result should be a far superior product which incorporates the lessons learned during the closing, months-long current start-up phase -- and the ideas and information developed and accumulated over a far, far longer period.
• In essence, I must temporarily shift priorities from (1) rapidly and regularly publishing daily updates (2) to concentrating on development of Version 2.0 of this Pittsburg City-Journal -- and I still may be able to do catch-up, in batches of bulletins, as I continue system-building -- and as opportunities can be created to do the daily chores.
• Further, I am now able to begin automating many of my routine tasks (since I now know what they are), which should get me back on track with maintenance duties, pretty quickly.

It's tricky to extensively modify an active blog and keep it fresh for readers at the same time as the larger work proceeds.  I have delayed doing the public aspects of this drastic re-work until absolutely ready to proceed.  That time has now arrived.

2.  THE FAST-EVOLVING SITUATION

I am bearing down hard on developing Version 2.0 to this City-Journal to maximize its service to our community (and beyond).  Here are some of the changes coming down the pike.  

Upon completion of this redesign phase, 

I expect to have achieved the following in-roads:

2.1  The PCJ will become a purely Pittsburg-specific communications vehicle -- separating "not-exclusively-Pittsburg" information into more logical web objects (blogs and traditional websites), under development.  The PCJ will become a subset of 2.2, below.

2.2  Our County will be served with a web-site/blog system called "A Civic Mentor for Contra Costa County."  Links to every useful bit of County information I can find will be consolidated in the Civic Mentor, together with daily bulletins of focused application:

• for the County, as a whole, 
• AND for each individual City and Unincorporated Community comprising the County. 
• Separate "City-Journals" and "Civic Mentor Systems" will begin to emerge to explicitly serve the unique needs of each individual jurisdiction -- as subsets of the County Civic Mentor.
• Please note -- this is not to compete with other individual and group Internet presences - rather this is to help increase awareness and promote and celebrate ALL of them where they belong -- within our consciousnesses -- more fully -- and with better timing -- than is presently the case.

2.3  Our Economic Region, the San Francisco Bay Area (SFBA) will have its own Civic Mentor, which will address it, as a whole, along with the nine counties (and communities) comprising it -- with the Civic Mentor for Contra Costa County becoming a subset of this.

2.4  The same will be done to methodically address all the other jurisdictional levels that surround and affect us, concentrically (for we are interdependent with the whole, vast thing): 

1. the State and its other economic regions and counties; 
2. the Nation and its other states; and 
3. the World and its other nation-states

--- "RE-INVENTING" OF THE WHEEL WILL BE MINIMIZED -- for fine minds and hard work of our fellow citizens of this world have already done (and are doing) much of what needs doing.  It makes little sense to duplicate the efforts and achievements of others, rather than to use and build upon these valuables -- giving full credit where it is due.

• It's just that their contributions are still largely scattered around the landscape and are not always readily accessible.  
• I mean to bring their work together in one efficient place, so we can access the fruits of their labors at exactly the right moment when most needed.  
• I don't know all there is to know, but I do think I see how these things can be brought together to maximize their value and timely access.

2.5  THE RESULT WILL BE AN INTEGRATED, COMPREHENSIVE, COHERENT "civic information management system-model" which will eventually consolidate, all in one convenient place, ALL the information a citizen (or resident) might ever need to fully access and monitor the TOTAL changing environment and to thrive within it.

2.6  SIMULTANEOUSLY -- "General Management System Models" will be offered to guide and assist anyone who wants this help, in using this vast information-array to better manage all the significant aspects of day-to-day existence.  

--- 2.6.1  Specifically offered with be a complete and integrated set of management system-models for the people to use, as they see fit, at the "grass roots," where we ALL reside -- AT OUR VERY FINGER-TIPS -- all models blended as one cohesive and coherent system-of-systems -- with sub-systems (below) that can be readily customized to meet specific user requirements -- and which will make it easier to do all the things that we feel, know, or don't know need doing, in this life, in proper turn, as self-fulfilling, civically-responsive human beings.

--- 2.6.2  Accordingly, there will be personalizable management sub-systems for the following aspects of our existences, to be made freely available to all who desire such advantages:

• Individual affairs
• Family affairs
• Household affairs
• Work and Leisure
• Neighborhood affairs
• City Affairs
• County Affairs
• Regional Affairs
• State Affairs
• National Affairs
• Global Affairs

3.  OVERARCHING RATIONALE

To make the most of this "puzzle called life," it makes sense (at least to me) to systematically identify, examine, reconcile, and logically arrange ALL THE PUZZLE PIECES, EVERYWHERE (for they all have at least some bearing on us) to insure that nothing important is left out -- or out of balance -- and that all pieces are assembled for ease of use and maximum practicality -- and that we can coordinate these usages, together, as efficiently and effectively as possible.  In other words, satisfactory systems tend to be sufficiently thorough -- and all systems tend to be subsystems of successively larger ones.

I am resolved to do exactly as I have stated, in the time remaining.  This is just a beginning, to the extent of wisdom available to me.  The real power will come when there exists something suitable on which all of us can (and are willing to) collaborate and concentrate our collective genius, wisdom, energy, and good will to help refine and perfect what is yet to be perfected.

4.  THANK YOU

Thanks for your understanding.  I will do everything I can to minimize any inconvenience and to make any delays well worth your/our while.  And, I will keep you as closely informed as is possible and reasonable.


Respectfully yours,

David Nelson

P.S.  As are we all, I am still learning and growing.  Plans change in light of new developments.  All plans are subject to fate's final arbitration.  The above is an expression of my will -- always with the humble concession that fate sets the ultimate agenda.  The best that we mortals can ever do is to offer our best efforts.  And, that I shall.


All Original Content © 2013 , The MENTOR Enterprises / ELMS, All Rights Reserved -- BUT, I hereby suspend those rights, to this extent: You may freely copy and pass this along, if you think it will do some good -- as long as it's free of charge, unchanged, and you include this statement.

PCJ STRATEGIC APPROACH: Emergency & Disaster Readiness Element

Posted:  3 Apr 13

THIS CITY-JOURNAL's NUMBER ONE JOB!  

(A glimpse at the Master Strategy)

From:  USA.gov
Subj:  Emergency Tech-Readiness
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According to The American Red Cross, the Internet - including online news sites and social media platforms - is the third most popular way for Americans to gather emergency information and let their loved ones know they are safe. Make sure you are tech ready during an emergency with these tips from FEMA. You can also get text messages from FEMA sent to your phone. To sign up, text PREPARE to 43362 (4FEMA). You can unsubscribe at any time by texting STOP to 43362 (4FEMA). Text messaging and data rates apply to this service. Learn more about using technology to prepare for disasters and emergencies. End of message MISSION AREA #1 -- PRESERVATION OF LIFE AND PROPERTY FROM:  THE HEART -- Where else? Element 1:  OPERATING IN THE EMERGENCY AND DISASTER READINESS REALM BACKGROUND 1.  Over the months of its existence, this City-Journal (the PCJ) has published a lot (but not nearly enough, YET) of invaluable information to help us prepare for those ABSOLUTELY INEVITABLE moments when life takes those sudden, serious, unfavorable turns -- which it surely WILL, as it always has done -- resulting from acts and omissions by humans and by nature -- in an imperfect world. 2.  You can find much of this vital information scattered throughout, by using this blog's search box and/or the disappearing black tool bar, which hovers at the right scroll bar, by selecting the key words:  "Emergency" and "Disaster."  I hope you will take a look, with pen and paper nearby -- and a determined commitment to take the material seriously. FAST APPROACHING 3.  In future months, as Version 2.0 of the PCJ and it's spin-off systems develop, the information will no longer be scattered. The whole idea of the PCJ is to gather sufficient practical and interesting information (of all types), all in one convenient, enduring place -- so that you can get to it easily and reliably, exactly when wanted -- AND HELP US MONITOR AND DEAL WITH CHANGES (favorable and unfavorable) IN THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT.  The Internet blessing offers enormous hope that we humans will finally adjust, to greatest advantage, our ages-long inter-personal fragmentation -- which so impedes our functioning as a singular, fully optimized living species. NEXT STEP 4.  ONE of the PRODUCTS which I humbly think will ultimately shake-out from all of this will be nothing less than a comprehensive, integrated system of "how-to-and-when" PROCEDURAL MANUALS and web objects for citizens (and/or residents), in their particular territories, to use to better operate, cooperate, and coordinate together, and maintain the social machinery and fabric which concerns them -- in mutually favorable ways. There will be suitable system-linkages provided for smoothly integrating these things into people's normal (and enhanced) life-routines -- where they are most likely to be actualized -- as ever pleases them. A UNIVERSAL, SUPPORTING TRUTH? 5.  Surely, all reasonable people want such as this -- it seems impossible that they wouldn't -- if they understand it -- since you can't do much better for a society (and oneself) than to get all its members pulling together in reasonable, agreeable, and complementary directions.  Who can seriously deny this?  But such a course is hard to see (if it even exists on a wide scale, yet -- which seems not to be the typical case), much less pursue, without it being brought together and presented as a workable, "personalizable" system -- thrown wide open to whatever fine-tuning is needed, by anyone, to make the thing work in their unique situations.  Even if we throw the system out, we can use the lessons learned to create something better, for all eyes will be looking at the same opening door and all minds concentrated on the same task. PUSHING THIS BOULDER UPHILL 6.  This is just a beginning.  We're still in start-up -- and a life-long dream is finally coming to pass.  I've encountered surprising, disruptive, disappointing obstacles, but so far, none that I can't overcome (I believe).  It saddens me that the often unnecessary delays mean that I can't move as quickly as I feel I need to.  But, fate has its own agenda, which often proves wiser than my own -- and that will have to do.  "That's life in the big city," as they say.  And, I suspect that, while troubling and unpleasant, these are, somehow tempering me for the tasks that remain.  Both my doctors and my much beloved wife are forcing me to slow down for a month or so, but I don't think you'll notice -- though every delay is a serious cost and risk. At my stage of life, one often becomes extremely conscious of their own mortality -- which induces an added sense of urgency to get things done in time -- especially when failure may be costly to many.  Time is often the best doctor, but the patient always dies in the end. And for me, in my twilight years, all of this is a "now or never" proposition -- and the project is of a nature which MUST be performed and tested in public -- even though it's quite uncomfortable to expose one's soul and most cherished beliefs to the rough handling and testing this journey promises -- for it renders the serenity, which is so essential to concentration, into a scarce and elusive thing.  But, everyone bears a "cross." This happens to be mine -- so who's complaining? ON A WIDER LEVEL WE THE PEOPLE 7.  We are all busy doing our best to achieve whatever life has "assigned" and equipped us to do. I know this to be true, in the cases where reason prevails -- as it usually does, when freedom is present -- and where good will, reliable information, and adequate resources are available -- as they often are. The beauty of the whole thing (in my opinion) is that, by working -- individually and together -- AND METHODICALLY -- to make the best of ourselves and our circumstances, we automatically help the whole grand scheme of things.  I find a lot of truth in Adam Smith's beautiful "invisible hand" concept. THE POWER IN OUR GRASP -- UNITY OF SPIRIT 8.  We need for each and every individual, family, neighborhood, business (profit-seeking and non), government level, society, civilization and humankind, as a whole, to do their parts.  None of us can go it alone for very long -- nor should we even waste ourselves in the attempt.  WE ARE ALL INDISPENSABLE PARTS OF ONE GREAT INTERRELATED THING -- fundamental system-units in a powerful system-of-systems -- pursuing the greatest good. GOOD SEEDS, FERTILE SOIL 9.  In my experience, it seems that the greatest rewards in this life stem from doing good service for others -- and surely, the greatest happiness stems from seeing to the happiness in others.  It further seems reasonable to posit that the greatest level of security is only attainable when ALL are secure.  And, I think that's absolutely grand. Therefore, it also seems reasonable to suggest to all (self included), to: Do your best, as individuals and families, to survive and prosper -- so that (among many other things) when disaster strikes, you can do much on your own, without drawing down on scarce common resources -- and so you will be strong, knowledgeable, and equipped well enough to pitch-in, effectively, on behalf of those who will surely need you. Do your best, as neighbors, to do all the wonderful, needful things that would be impossible or difficult to do as individuals, families, and small groups.  Besides, there is a lot of joy to be found there -- for neighbors are (or can be) a very special class of friend.  EVERY SINGLE NEIGHBORHOOD (everywhere!) needs to be organized, around good sense, and to operate methodically, at the grass roots (where every single one of us resides), for us to truly flourish as well as such a great and literate people surely can -- when proper (and, yes, loving) arrangements have been made, both in advance and on the run -- but always, together. Do your best, in cheerful partnership, with the overworked, under-resourced government levels that strive so hard -- and succeed so well, but have so much left to do. Be the best employer or employee possible -- productive humans, all -- doing honorable work-- so that the world's goodness inventory only increases, to squeeze out the evils that still abound -- as humankind, in its many social forms, continues the centuries-long (even millennial)  process (and struggle) of healthfully maturing toward fulfillment of the greatest of this great species' promises. Count our blessings for existing at such a glorious moment in this remarkable human adventure -- and the lucky privilege of being integral to the great, human chain-reaction.  For we all matter, big-time -- and that is undeniable.  The waste of any one of us is a setback for all. PRACTICALITIES --  TURNING THEORY INTO ACTION But, it would never do to merely suggest all of this without offering carefully thought-out, practical, adaptable, and easily do-able methods and systems for actually doing so -- to be constantly refined in light of ever-growing collective knowledge and wisdom -- and those methods and systems are coming -- using the PCJ (and spin-off systems) as the development and delivery vehicles -- as the system-building tools!!! The Entire-Lifetime Management Systems (ELMS) Under Construction:  The Mentor Enterprises / ELMS Unless fate is playing terrible tricks on me, I believe that the TOTAL circumstances of my 6.4 decades on this earth have positioned me to see a vision of what truly can be and have equipped me to make a serious attempt at bringing it to pass -- or, at least, to get this particular chain-reaction started.  Not alone, but as a catalyst, among many catalysts. I believe that, with this PCJ (and quite a few other things coming into play, faster and faster) as a beginning, I/WE can (and, therefore MUST) do much to help individuals, families, and neighborhoods to mobilize and sustain an effective, happy, and fruitful partnership with EACH OTHER and with ALL the other social systems that are doing so much, already -- for the best of possible outcomes. I believe that there has long existed a "structural gap" between us, at the grass roots, and the rest of the social systems that have built-up through much blood, sweat, and tears, into daunting, yet brilliant, complexity. It's time to close that gap, and I believe I see a way FOR US to do it.  The Internet was the missing ingredient.   It has changed the entire ball game.  We truly do stand on the shoulders of all who came before -- greatly aided by those, of good will, who are moving us all forward, even now -- as we and they write our own chapter of human history.   I will explain more, as I tame the enormous complexities involved, to try to give you a cogent, thorough, defensible, and convincing (I hope) statement (and demonstration) which will reveal to your eyes and hearts what is so clear to my own.  Stand by. Respectfully yours, David Nelson Unattainable perfection is not the main thing.  Earnest pursuit of it is.  For this is what makes the most sense toward the truest, surest betterment of a flawed, yet priceless existence.  I seek to be superior to NO fellow human -- only to what I was, yesterday -- and to help leave this fabulous world and life adventure even better than we found them. All Original Content © 2013 , The MENTOR Enterprises / ELMS, All Rights Reserved -- BUT, I hereby suspend those rights, to this extent:  You may freely copy and pass this along, if you think it will do some good -- as long as it's free of charge, unchanged, and you include this statement.

IF YOU KNOW OF ANY WEB-SITE OF PUBLIC INTEREST ...

8 Jan 13

If you discover or create a web-link which you feel serves the public good, feel free to post it into the comment space provided below.

Let's all celebrate the human genius, energy, creativity, industry, and good will (and suppress the bad) -- which is being increasingly unlocked -- because of one of humankind's greatest achievements -- ever -- The Internet and the related technologies!

So much is now possible -- only because of this great human advance -- and the determination to use it for good reasons, only.


And a very good reason to use it -- here -- is to help every one of us flourish -- for this is a logical step -- toward the kind of existence we crave. 

In time, if suitable, I will transfer your contributions into other systems under development, to increase the chances of survival and prosperity for our fellow humans (and you) -- in a complex life and world.  

We all need one another and must rise, together, because it's far better this way.

David Nelson


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USA.gov -- MENTOR THE CHILDREN!!!

Posted 7 Feb 13

Help Inspire a Child During 

National Mentoring Month

1.  January is recognized annually as National Mentoring Month, and it’s a chance for you to get involved in helping children in your community.

2.  Mentoring usually consists of pairing a young person with a caring adult, helping create a successful path of growth and development for the child. 

• Mentoring can lead youth to be more engaged in school, finish high school, go onto college, and form more positive social attitudes and relationships.

• While mentors are not a replacement for parents, guardians or teachers, they play a supplemental role of inspiring and engaging youth.

• If you’re interested in mentoring a child, there are free resources available to help get you started. 

• You can use a “Mentoring Tool Kit” to learn more about what mentoring entails. 

3.  You can also find National Mentoring Month resources including bookmarks, posters, thank you mentor note cards and more at Serve.gov.

4.  Learn more about National Mentoring Month and how you can get involved.

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THE STRATEGIC CHALLENGE BEING CONQUERED BY THIS PCJ -- and why

Posted:  1 Jan 12

... many worthwhile things are hard to achieve, but rarely impossible -- given enough time, sweat, guts, luck, help, and a sufficiently powerful dream.

Dear Readers,

I thought I should tell you nine things

(if you can squeeze this in... as I can only hope).

OUTLINE

1.  A much bigger picture

2.  Presumption and intention

3.  Monitor (and share) the unfolding dream, if you please

4.  About that puzzle

5.  Eager anticipation

6.  The true costs

7.  The minimum hope and expectation

8.  A strictly limited time-frame

9.  Rationale for saying all of this

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1.  A MUCH BIGGER PICTURE

This "City-Journal" blog is just a tiny, preliminary "puzzle-piece"

-- a single "grape" from a whole "vineyard" of maturing ideas

-- sprouted from a life-long project 

-- in full play, personally, for over 5 decades of
-- grasping for,
-- preparing for,
-- seeking,
-- discovering,
-- philosophizing,
-- conceptualizing
-- inventing,
-- innovating,
-- accumulating,
-- sorting,
-- reconciling,
-- systematizing,
-- testing,
-- refining,
-- and proving.

To help my fellow human beings 
-- fight and win their daily battles 

-- for a better life, 
-- at least a little, if not a lot. 

The invention of the Internet 
-- makes it feasible to try this 

-- with a reasonable hope 
-- for a happy result.  

Incredibly,
-- even providentially, 
-- the Internet came into being 

-- almost at 
-- the exact moment 
-- I most needed it to hand. 

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2.  PRESUMPTION AND INTENTION

2.1  "This puzzle-piece" blog 
-- is not even close 
-- to being as good 
-- as I intend 
-- and of which I am capable
-- given enough time
-- with top priority being given 
-- to substance over style
-- (whenever pursuit of style delays development of substance)
-- as the best approach,
-- all things considered.

2.2  But I figured 
-- the blog useful enough, 
-- that I'd better place it 
-- in everyone's hands, now, 

-- rather than continue denying any present value to them, 

2.3  While I 
-- eventually perfect 
-- this part 

-- of a vastly larger picture.

2.4  For, I need it IMMEDIATELY
-- as a vital system-building tool
-- to serve not only my own, relatively large "neighborhood-of-four-neighborhoods,"
-- but to serve as many others as possible, also immediately
-- and eventually, all neighborhoods,
-- (as things are worked out)
-- throughout the territory,
-- (and even far beyond our own immediate surroundings)
-- hence reaching all the people
-- where they live
-- and are most surely to be found

AT THE GRASS ROOTS OF OUR SOCIETY!!!

-- in fullest cooperation BOTH with
-- advanced and
-- newly-uniting neighborhoods,
-- and with similar initiatives, 
-- world-wide, 
-- as these are discovered.

2.5  TO DO THIS, I MUST SOON BEGIN TO SYSTEMATICALLY MAXIMIZE READERSHIP (I'd really like to do that after Version 2.0 is ready, but fate may have other ideas)
-- UNTIL MOMENTUM TAKES OVER
-- rather than continue to rely on word-of-mouth, alone
-- with considerable success (thanks to many)
-- as was necessary in this hectic early stage,
-- now drawing to a close, finally.

2.6  Which will mean that we will have
A RELIABLE DELIVERY VEHICLE
-- which people will want to visit,
-- HENCE GROWING NUMBERS OF PEOPLE 
-- WILL BE HIGHLY LIKELY TO VISIT
-- REGULARLY OR
-- WITH ADEQUATE FREQUENCY
-- TO BE ABLE 
-- TO NOTE AND 
-- CONTEMPLATE
-- AND ADOPT MORE AND DEEPER PROPOSALS
-- MORE QUICKLY THAN OTHERWISE POSSIBLE
-- FOR SOCIAL ENHANCEMENTS
-- because they will come to know that
-- every effort is being exerted
-- to ensure that their every visit
-- will always be rewarded
-- with some mix of
-- practical, valuable, pleasing information
-- which they might not have otherwise gained
-- or might have forgotten
-- over the course of busy life

2.7  AND THEY WILL SEE THE PROPOSALS
AS A MATTER OF COURSE
-- to return
-- and consider
-- at their leisure.

2.8  IT GIVES SYSTEM-BUILDERS
and system-improvers
a ready and RELIABLE means 
for TRYING TO IMPART
THEIR SOCIAL MESSAGES
toward a large part of the populace,
thereby helping:

to develop and SUSTAIN
-- a far wider "sense of community," 
-- and common purpose,
-- and cheerful cooperation,
-- and a reduction of any sense (or reality) of alienation and aloneness
-- and then,

to engineer
-- a reliable, enduring, perpetual
-- means of taking
-- even more 
-- effective and timely action
-- together, 
-- as logical social units,
-- so as to do things NEVER DONE BEFORE

2.9  A means of ESTABLISHING
AMONG THE PEOPLE, 
-- various, highly practical systems,
-- from all available sources,
-- as these show greatest promise
-- for advancement
-- of the greatest and increasing numbers of people
-- (preferably all of them)
-- at greatest convenience to them,
-- always toward
-- the highest individual and common good,
-- that ever-changing circumstances
-- will permit.

YOU COULD BE A MIGHTY BIG HELP, IF YOU'LL PASS THE WORD -- FAR AND WIDE -- and share your wisdom, as the mood strikes.

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3.  MONITOR (and share in) THE UNFOLDING DREAM, YOURSELF, if you please

So, if you find this site 
--  useful enough to "bookmark,"
-- and return often, 

-- you will see it 
-- getting better and better, 
-- especially, as: 

(1) people continue to comment 
-- and show me 
-- what they truly want 
-- and need, 

(2) contribute ideas 
-- to help us keep refining things, and 

(3) as all the other many pieces,
-- in the works, 

-- come together 
-- into the single 
-- fun, 
-- easy, 
-- thorough
-- practical, and 
-- completed 

-- end-product I'm working toward...

 The rest of the huge, completed puzzle.  

This will also help 
-- keep you connected with me, 

-- so I can keep you closely informed 
-- on breaking developments 

-- which you might wish to exploit, 
-- without undue delay 

-- all placed in your hands 
-- so much more easily and surely.

THIS IS A JOURNEY OPEN TO ALL, 

FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL

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4.  ABOUT THAT PUZZLE

You probably know (or can imagine) 
how much effort it takes 
-- to put a 1000-piece puzzle together, 
-- WITH the help of the clear, detailed 
-- PICTURE on the box 

-- to guide the work.

Now, 

-- imagine one 

-- with hundreds of thousands 

-- (even millions) of pieces,

-- and NO completely clear 

-- and ready 

-- "box-picture" 

-- to go by,
-- for it's still unfolding before my own eyes
-- as I transfer it from my crowded brain and copious notes
-- into more finished form,
-- to my great, much longed-for relief!

Also, a table-top 

-- is not nearly enough room

-- for a puzzle, 

-- ACRES IN SIZE!

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5.  EAGER ANTICIPATION

I can hardly wait to show (and freely give) you the rest of the thing

-- and so you can see it altogether, for yourself (and use it)

--  in optimally full and productive service
-- and so I can see it, myself,

-- somewhere else, (where it's supposed to be)
-- besides inside 

-- my most focused and persistent imagination 

-- and within my own integrated set of life-structures,

-- built-up over much time 
-- for the very tasks at hand.

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6.  THE TRUE COSTS

As you might imagine, 
such a vast, 
but do-able task 
takes much 
-- time,  
-- energy, 
-- enthusiasm,
-- exertion,
-- inspiration, 
-- stress,
-- pain and disappointment,
-- information, 
-- deliberation, 
-- planning,
-- designing,
-- programming,
-- testing,
-- managing of material and human resources, 
-- sweat

As well as
-- continued good fortune,
-- sincere dedication 
-- and commitment
-- to the public good, 
-- in all good will.

AT THE VERY SAME TIME
While directing 
-- an extensive neighborhood organizing campaign
and building 
-- a practical knowledge and experience base 
-- to share and exchange
-- with all neighborhoods
-- system wide

I hope I have, 
or will have, 
whatever is necessary 
and sufficient 
to do a good job for us

-- paramount of which is acquiring lots of new skills 

-- which I am trying to absorb as fast as I can
-- and use them
-- along with as much of the accumulation of 
-- inspiration 
-- and wisdom,
-- as can be further developed, sustained, and exploited
-- in the very limited time remaining.

For I now rank with society's elders -- and take the role very seriously.

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7.  THE MINIMUM HOPE & EXPECTATION

All I can say is, "the best that I can do, is all I can do." 

-- The rest is up to a larger fate.

  

But it would be nice to, at least, get "this ball rolling" well enough, 

-- that it will continue 
-- to build in speed and expand in scope,

-- while ever-self-refining, under the common wisdom
-- and ever-increasing 
-- our personal and collective power 
-- to maximize the good, 
-- and only the good,
-- in this sacred life,
-- whether I continue to exist and shepherd it, or not.  

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8.  A STRICTLY LIMITED TIME-FRAME

I am simply convinced that,
-- somehow, 

-- I'm "supposed" to try 
-- to leave this world 
-- far better 
-- than I found it 
-- as so many others have done, 
-- and are doing, 
-- for us all. 

I can see no other more reasonable alternative, 

-- when I am so certain 
-- this is the right thing to be doing, 

-- and that I can actually do it 

-- "with a little help from my friends.."

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9.  RATIONALE FOR SAYING ALL OF THIS

I just thought it might be best 
-- that you know these things, 

-- rather than not know.  

So that, 
-- when you're ready, willing, and able,
-- you can pitch-right-in, 
-- to help change our world 
-- for the much better
-- following this dream
-- or your own.

WHO DARES SAY WE CAN'T, WHEN IT IS ACTUALLY BEING DONE, ALREADY?

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Most sincerely and humbly yours,

David Nelson

Fellow Citizen of a Magnificent World,
On Its Way to Becoming an Even Better One,
As Fate, Determination, and Abilities 
Direct Us All

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