Shelby and I are in our final week or so of preparation the book the power of the double circle.
 Our next big order businesses is how to have regular meetings to train people to begin working with groups in the region. Although we hope to work with correctional officers this is been a daunting task. It may be that we will find easier groups to work with.

 I would like to put out feelers to people that have helped us in the past as to several issues. One would be where to have regular training group leaders meetings. We have the Alachua Presbyterian Church available as well as my home.

 There are some days that I don't seem to be able to write anything. So I decided to blog.. So far nobody reads my blog so it's safe to continue writing nonsense. About the time I get on the crest of a wave I'm sucked back into the past. But reworking the past is Not as much fun as it might seem; more honestly one returns to the past the more ridiculous it seems.  When I look at 2015 I realize that a lot of things have started. Some may be completed and some won't. The dementia scare brought me to get a trainer and begin physical exercise. So I'm into it now about five months and my trainer Gary  thinks things are a little better  and I see some improvement myself. The most remarkable thing looking over the last year  was the wonderful to visit from the grandchildren from Minneapolis. Their collective and individual personalities were so harmonious as to defy description. But even with that harmony  they are total individuals. They seem to listen to each other very carefully and avoided  but not appeared to avoid negative comments. It's practically an impossibility for siblings to be this good.  But I have to accept what I see.

 It is giving me the courage to  launch a trip to Dominica. So far Ariel is aboard, as well as Dougie, and now Harrison. I wish I could find a way to get Bennett over here but I guess he's a bit young to travel along such a distance.  I think that Hannah and Erin are too tied to boyfriends at the moment to consider a grandfather trip.  I wonder about what Kaitlin  would like?

The book is complete except for a possible final chapter called "conclusions". But I can't seem to write it so it may not be there. Meanwhile the big decisions about the house has been made which I hope I don't renege on. I will give up the house and hope to obtain an RV that David and I will tool around in. I hope to go to local prisons and encourage officers to submit to the group process of the double circle group. I will offer almost anything but beer to get them involved.

 I am enjoying the pleasantries of platonic relationships with several ladies. That's not necessarily my wish but it is my ultimate testosterone. There is no intelligence in testosterone but a great deal of unconscious stomping about and waking up as if out of a drunk. One friend says I need to have at least five orgasms a month or more. These  solo ones lack pizzazz,  but lack the danger of experimental relationships.

We decided to have regular meetings of the Double Circle Training Group at the Alachua Presbyterian Church.  They will be held at 2 PM each Sunday.  I hope that you can attend some of these meetings.   Although the Double Circle Group is a central topic we are experiencing a great deal of attention to the correctional officers and their plight.  So in some sense the meetings will be a correctional officer booster club.  We hope that some family members could be attendance.  We also hope that by having the meetings at Alachua that we will be able to get  participants from Suwanee, Lancaster, RMC, UCI, FSB and even Columbia eventually.

  We have set a meeting of the double circle group process at the Starke Cedar River restaurant.  It will be on October 15 at 7 PM which is a Thursday.  Doug is bringing several people from Lancaster.  I am now in the process of inviting correctional officers from this area.

I am happy to report that after four weeks of physical training with a certified trainer I can now say you feel the difference.  Perhaps it will be possible for me to go ahead with the long-term project for the supportive person endeavor.  I am extremely grateful for many friends including those in  AA  who have helped me get this far along in the process.

Meanwhile we completed the rough draft of the  Janus- Springer  group guide.  It is now being submitted to readers and if you are seeing this blog I would like to be your reader please contact me by  phone 352-213-4610.

 I need all the help that I can get in setting up this first dinner meeting.  It will be held at the Starke   Cedar River restaurant.  We need to find a time that works for most correctional officers.

Is now two weeks into my exercise program and I firmly believe that it is working.  It is very difficult and I am very conscious of being short of breath and weekend my legs.  But that is getting better and what is most interesting is that my enthusiasm for writing and carrying out my chores is improving.

  Meanwhile I have selected the the Cedar River restaurant in Starke Florida as the site of our meeting.  Hopefully this will include quite a number of correctional officers but it will take a great deal of effort to get them there and hope that they find some usefulness in what we have to say.

I am reminded by what happened in our meeting this morning that  Bill Wilson was a great  risk taker.  When one looks at the big picture, the risk of starting an AA program that became worldwide, was without a doubt beyond any comprehension on the part of Wilson and others that it would ever come about.

  I am very encouraged by the reader program as I have already been told of serious issues within the manuscript that have to be dealt with.  I am grateful to  several who have already helped a great deal.

    And I now need to  develop a formal business plan and a regular meeting of the folks who have been crucial in the development of the program so far.

Recently I have been focused on consciousness.  Several weeks back I attended the Mickey Singer Temple of the Universe service in Alachua.  Mickey focused his talk on consciousness.  Since then I have been reading about consciousness as the ultimate reality rather than what we see as matter.  I will keep working on this issue but it is difficult for me to think of consciousness as ultimate reality.

Meanwhile in a less troublesome arena we were able to have a supportive person process meeting on Sunday using my four grandchildren and one of the grandchild's boyfriend.  It was a great help to all of us who have not been getting much input from young people.  The input to the grandchildren and Ben gave was very helpful.  I am now beginning to move ahead with the book in seeking readers will no doubt will help us make the book have more clarity.

I hope to stage the next support a person group process meeting and some place in  Lake Butler and right now it seems to be the hospital.  I hope to get some correctional officers to participate in the group along with our regular crew.

On a personal note I have decided to begin an exercise program with an exercise specialist.  I have now completed four sessions and hope to continue through a full set of 24.  My shortness of breath and muscle weakness is probably mostly due to inactivity  as well as age, diabetes, and lung damaged by heavy smoking.