Components to building Maximize Loving Kindness Pedicab, or maybe better stated as UnityPeddler or Kindness Peddler as a media business : practice songs on guitar and vocals; engage people in public; blog; use social media
A benefit of pedicabbing in Houston is the cultural diversity while making more money than I would in Columbus, or can I do more to organize kindness with a regional approach that includes DC, NYC, Baltimore, and Charlotte?
11-27-2016
Due to over-using coffee and neglecting physical activity I cost myself in lost income about $200-250 at the OSU game and maybe $200 to $300 due to not cabbing the Ravens game, both due to knee pain.
8-13-2016
Form outreach modes, that are respectful. That I can use wherever I am, and involve a way for my customers and I to engage beyond the pedicab ride, if some of them want to. That way, we pack more life into the in person interaction and increase productivity of interaction beyond the immediate interaction —-
Layers of work planning, Community peddling on trike is one layer, working abroad another layer, media another layer, practical work local and abroad another layer such as gardening—–
July 27, 2016
It seems counterintuitive : don’t stress out about making money. If I do stress out about it, I detract from the amount of money I make, and from the security of my business relationships.
Like the other of my learned erroneous mental reactions such as getting angry when I make mistakes or getting sad and envious when I see others romantically interacting with one another, it’s a behavior whereby I think I’m emotionally doing what needs to be done.
The effective alternative to these ‘maladaptive’ behaviors is to strive to have integrity. The best way I’ve thought of so far for doing that is to strive to meet my needs and not be motivated by my wants, and to strive to meet my needs with minimal harm and maximal benefit to others.
The joyful challenge is to determine how that translates into decisions regarding details of my daily life.
I think I need to be ‘spiritually joyful ‘, to be lovingly kind to others while I’m under psychological stress. My ‘negative behavior’ toward some Way Home Festival shows room for spiritual growth. After not getting what I was looking for, I sang, “I hate Canada ” and expressed other negative judgments and verbalized insults
July 13, 2016 So far my blogging has been a conversation with myself. That’s not bad if I take that framework and engage other people. That’s what I’m working on, amid the logistics of meeting my mental and physical needs. To truly engage others, I must at least temporarily suspend my own conceptions of reality, as Brenda Dervin of OSU advised me 16 years ago. Thereby the ideas of my introspective blog entries become questions to ask others, not declarations.
July 5, 2016 Asking core questions about loving kindness can be useful when the other person asks me what I care about after I’ve listened genuinely to them regarding what they care about. Travel probably will work best if based on work that is based on maximizing loving kindness, but maybe the best way to do that is to set up a media framework, such as WhatYouCareAbout.com, with which to reach out and genuinely listen, and then, from that point share with others what it is that I care about, but not before reaching that point.
June, 2016 Had good feeling after working Confest, but not as much after working in Pittsburgh this past weekend, maybe because I didn’t apply media part of my business model while pedicabbing Pittsburgh.
2-6-16, 9p There doesn’t seem to be much going on in the Columbus in terms of events to pedicab. Basketball games have been low to no income, and frequently, pedicabbing late night Friday and Saturday is low to no income.
What are my options ?
Pedicab rodeo, and post rodeo events in Houston; pedicab Air Show in AZ; pedicab Coachella; pedicab Lightning in a Bottle. Again, the problem with this scenario is that I’m working as a community organizer.
A possible solution is to (1) build my light-frame pedicab; (2) ride it as much as possible as an all-purpose vehicle, while minimizing my usage of the motor; (3) use the light frame pedicab to engage folk in public places, while also promoting my pedicab business in places near my community engagement spots, such as pedaling thru downtown during lunch hour; (4) use an external mic when I’m near my parked pedicab, saying hello to people, and asking them “What do you care about?” communicating my on-the-record, community media effort to help bring a wide variety of people together for constructive common cause; (5) get money from Casey put into the Chase account when I give him custody of the white frame; (6) ride the light frame pedicab in the Short North, and in other parts of C-bus, greeting people and asking “What do you care about?” as I hold a conspicuous mic in my hand; (7) busk;
2-6-16, 3 p
The reason would be to stay in Columbus in order to, at long last, listen actively on street corners and other public places, such as where I pedicab.
There are good things I could do with that Houston Rodeo money, and it’s fun to be in other locales, but I’m concerned that if I go it’ll be June or July, when before I know it I’ll have regressed, not to mention progressed, on community engagement goals.
One possible solution is to identify the essential community engagement parts of pedicabbing in Columbus, and creating that in other locales.
Possibly, one way of doing it is to relax my emphasis on negotiating my fares. With less emphasis on charging, there may be more psychological connection with my customers and with people in general. But when I imagine doing this as it pertains to pedicabbing the Houston Rodeo, I see myself being more relaxed than I was the previous years, but I don’t seem myself using media to help bring people together while pedicabbing the Houston Rodeo.
There is creative, constructive energy to genuinely listening, but how does the listening I can likely do in Houston, AZ, and CA compare with the listening I likely can do in Columbus?
The difference is that engaging people in public in Columbus involves greater potential for followup and follow thru.
But what might be the community engagement benefits of being in Houston?
Working outside Columbus is not bad. But the issue may be that if I travel, I ought to do so as a community organizer.
Another factor is living my daily life as an organizer. Working in Columbus, the balance between making money and community engagement is good. If I pedicab in Houston, I can only, at best, dabble in community engagement.
My rationale for pedicabbing the rodeo has been having money to travel outside the US, having money to file bankruptcy. If I stay in Columbus. But to what extent is it the case that I’m best off to use the following standard: if I travel long-term (more than a few days) only do so if it’s directly relevant to community organizing?
1-26-16
I’m trying to imagine what could be a reason for deciding to not pedicab the Houston Rodeo. Aside from the exploitation of non-human animals, I imagine being at Broad and High and other public places with a sign that reads “Maximize Loving Kindness” and then talking with people about the sign, and also trying to see how things go with a sign that reads “What do you care about? ”
I imagine using drums and maybe guitar as well to enhance my engagement. I imagine giving my business card to people, and, as I do this regularly, most, if not every day, I’ll enhance my community ties and collaborate more than I am now in terms of so called ‘head, heart, and hands,” that is, intellectually, socially, and practically.
I’m concerned that if I go to Houston, I will not engage in this way on street corners and other public places, and even if I manage to find some time to do this, it’s much harder to follow up and follow thru with the people I engage, because of the schedule demands of pedicabbing the rodeo, and because, I don’t live in Houston, long-term.
But why not go to Houston to pedicab the rodeo, and then pedicab the airshow in Arizona and then Coachella and then Lightning In A Bottle, and then conduct my community engagement business plan when I get back in May? The possible answer is that if I pedicab that string of events, it’ll be late May or early June before I am in a frame of mind such that I am ready to do community organizing work. As with playing a musical instrument, singing, or writing, making progress is cumulative, requiring daily engagement. While it’s true that I’ve not been doing community engagement the past 3 years, it seems the case that I’m now ready to resume it.
To what extent is it the case that I damaged my financial situation while working with WCRS (2008 to 2012) and the Columbus Free Press (2009 to 2012) and posting a lot to Columbus Underground (2009 to 2012) not because community engagement is damaging, but because of the overly ideological approach/ close-minded approach I had? To what extent is it the case that I am now ready to build my pedicab work as part of my community engagement, in that I can now talk with customers and people in general, because I am not constrained by an uncritical embrace of progressivism?
There are two competing ideas that I intend to examine more closely : (1) if I pedicab the rodeo, the air show, Coachella and Lightning In A Bottle, I will have greater ability to develop my community engagement business model, given that—all else being equal—I’ll have paid down a significant portion of my debts, and thereby am likely to have more community engagement business options, including working outside the US vs
(2) if I pedicab in Texas and CA and am gone for 3 and 1/2 months, I will lose my community engagement momentum, and while I’m in Texas and CA my reading and writing will wane, and my community engagement mentality will wane, establishing a pattern that I’m not likely to break out of when I am back in Columbus in May; and presently I am itching or bursting, so to speak, with my desire to intensely resume my work as a community reporter, and I’m eager to stand on street corners and other public places to engage and build action-oriented social networks; and if I go to Houston, I’m not likely to do community engagement, and if I don’t do it now, I may never do it; and the reason why I need to stay in Columbus is that I am better off to begin now to build my relationships with local businesses, local not-for-profits, local media, and local government, so as to use my pedicab business as part of my community organizing/maximize loving kindness organizing efforts; and even though I will make less money in Feb, March, and April by staying in Columbus, I may do more good and be more fulfilled if I work as a journalist day to day, week to week, month to month; and even though I would make significantly more money at rodeo and Coachella, that is ‘not who I am’ or not ‘who I want to be.’ I can live day to day as a journalist and community organizer if I design my pedicab business for that purpose, using signage, microphones, and a camera, and make enough money while further developing my intellectual, practical, artistic, and social skills.
But as for (2), why do I now have that sense of urgency about resuming my community media/community engagement, when it’s time to get ready for working in Texas and CA ? I wasn’t doing it in Nov or December because I was helping Trinity in the hospital and in rehab, but what was I doing before that? As I recall, countless sunny, warm days went by without me making it out to Broad and High Streets and other public places to engage people. But that might be a very good way to meet people.
What are the pros and cons of pedicabbing Coachella ? I’m not against traveling.
What is it about (2) that I can’t be doing in Texas, Arizona, and CA ? I can have a mic mounted on my pedicab during the rodeo. I can have a sign that reads “What do you care about?” and then talk with people. Given that countless warm, sunny days went by without me engaging people in public, if I’m not comfortable presently with “maximize loving kindness” use “What do you care about?” because I’m more more able to work with that. With that approach, genuine listening will be an aspect of maximizing loving kindness.
Also, regarding (2), last year I chose to not pedicab the rodeo, and what came of that? I’m not sure, because, on the one hand, I did a significant amount of looking over and working on past writings, but I also recall as significant amount of writing that resulted in me feeling frustrated and empty emotionally, as it seemed I was wasting my own and other people’s time, such as the communication I had with Deb Steele and Michael Greenman. Also, during the intensive writing last January and Feb, I came up with an idea for community engagement that may have been a false start: asking people what they care about and putting it on a forum. Actually, that might not be a false start if I use such as forum to post what people tell me they care about.
Either way, what can I do in Columbus that I can’t be doing in Texas, AZ, or CA? One drawback is that follow up and follow thru will be less there because I don’t live in those locales on a regular basis.
1-25-16
Could there possibly be any reason to not pedicab the rodeo ? What about the fact that the rodeo involves the exploitation of animals? But what
1-20-16
I got the blues. One idea is to not pedicab the rodeo, and to stay in Columbus and resume doing community media work, including radio station work with Eugene. One idea is that if I do that, I will make less money, but still make enough money to cover my expenses.
But what about money I owe in local, state, federal backtaxes, and the money I owe Kemba ? What kind of payment plan could I possibly be on for paying down those debts ? Could I pay enough to prevent the City of Columbus from taking my permit for operating my pedicab business ?
What could possibly be my rationale for not pedicabbing the rodeo? The wisdom of staying in Columbus to build my pedicab business as a community engagement tool might not make sense, because I may be in a better position to build up my business in that way due to having various debts paid down, including making advance payments on rent and pedicab insurance.
I have an intuitive, maybe irrational, idea that to follow my heart, I must go against what seems common sense. How far-fetched is it to deem that if I stay in Columbus instead of cabbing the rodeo, I will intensify my community engagement, including my community media work, and thereby be more likely to gain traction, so to speak, in terms of my work as a journalist ? To what extent does it make sense to think that by staying in Columbus instead of going to Houston for the rodeo, I’ll build momentum with my community involvement-based writing, and thru that process encounter opportunities that I would be less likely to encounter, had I gone to pedicab the Houston Rodeo.
It’s hard to say because, on the one hand, I can see how I might lose my momentum in terms of writing about community engagement if I pedicab in Houston, and never really recover it. That brings to mind the question of whether I ought to refrain from pedicabbing Coachella as well.
The possible rationale of choosing to pedicab neither the rodeo nor Coachella might involve using a ‘measurement of progress’ that is based on ‘community involvement momentum’ and not on the amount of money I make, per se. But maybe a problem with doing that is that if I cab neither event, I may be so strapped for money that it detracts from the amount of time and energy I have to write and sing as a community organizer.
Maybe a solution to the problem of ‘losing community engagement momentum’ (but I’ve not been doing much community involvement here in Columbus for the past 3 years) is to cease exerting myself in terms of negotiating prices with customers, telling them “pay what you think it’s worth.” But as I’ve written before, while thinking about this idea, this approach would not be such that I allow anyone to get pedicab service. This is worth noting, because the price negotiation has been a way for prospective customers and myself to determine whether to commence the pedicab service. If I think there is not likely to be a ‘journalistic or community organizing connection’ between the prospective customer or pair or group of people, I should politely decide to not offer service, that is, still interact with them in a positive way, instead of acting as if the only importance they have to me is being a customer or a person to engage on-the-record. “On-The-Record Pedicab” ? Why am I obsessing about this ? I intend to figure out a way to make money via pedicabbing while engaging people on-the-record, and I intend to test the idea that I will, all else being equal, establish a ‘journalistic rapport’ with people who rode my pedicab and people in general if I learn to not exert the psychological effort to negotiate a price, breaking from my long-established practice.
But what might go wrong with that approach ? I don’t see how I’d damage the market for other pedicab drivers, because I’m not quoting a low price; actually I’m not quoting any price, but instead saying “Pay what you want; I run my business with an honor system,” or something similar. I could see other pedicab drivers having a problem with me quoting a price that is lower than what they and most other drivers quote.
But what if I got to Houston and try this, telling people “pay what you want” and end up losing hundreds of dollars, while not establishing a ‘journalistic’ rapport with customers ? Perhaps I am deluding myself by thinking I can ‘journalistically’ engage customers that ride in my pedicab for 3 to 6 mins. My guess is that with good signage, plus an external mic mounted on the cab, it could be done. But a countervailing notion is that it won’t work, and my notions of telling people to pay what they want and to then engage them on-the-record is delusional, and results from me not wanting to face one or more of the following facts : (1) pedicabbing as a community engagement venue makes a lot more sense locally where I can form working relationships with people, beyond the time they are on my pedicab; (2) as an aspect of follow thru with the community engagement that I or we start while pedicabbing and while standing on busy street corners, there are pursuits that I must engage in that go beyond pedicabbing and go beyond sitting with my phone or laptop blogging.
This seems to distill to two competing possibilities:
One is that I create more mental space and more time and energy for community engagement long-term if I pedicab both the rodeo and Coachella, in that, barring major, unforeseen disruptions, I have money to pay down my living expenses in advance, such as rent and pedicab insurance, and pay down other debts such as back taxes, and possibly also file bankruptcy, while maybe even having money to invest in working on an organic farm in a Spanish speaking country. It’s reasonable to assume all of that would promote long-term maintenance, if not improvement, to my capacity to ‘maximize loving kindness.’
The other possibility is that, despite scraping by financially, if I don’t pedicab the rodeo and don’t pedicab Coachella, I’ll be laying the groundwork for a ‘journalistic’ livelihood in that I will be making money, albeit a lot less than if I pedicabbed the rodeo and Coachella, while I engage people. With this second possibility, I’d be much less likely to pay a lot right away in back taxes, less likely to repay Kemba, and less likely to have money to file bankruptcy, but will have–all else being equal—the benefit of spending Feb, March, and April on developing as a gardener, and possibly also as a farmer. An additional idea regarding this second option is that if I forego the rodeo and forego Coachella I may resume radio work, due to its possible enhancement in terms of motivating people I encounter to talk with me on-the-record. But what is likely to happen if I further delay paying my back taxes ? I might make enough money to make installments to the City of Columbus, but there’s little chance I’ll be able to pay anything to the state and the feds, not to mention to Kemba or to bankruptcy law firm. On top of that, I still owe Eugene several hundred dollars from my trip last year for Coachella. With the approach of foregoing the rodeo and Coachella, would I somehow make monetary and non-monetary gains in my ability to meet my needs? As for back taxes, I probably could avoid losing my pedicab permit by paying installments to the city, even though I’d continue to not be able to pay the state and the feds, not to mention Kemba and a bankruptcy law firm. That sounds not so good, but to what extent is it wise to think I would, staying in Columbus, build my pedicab business such that I make more money by getting more business? But how am I going to get more business in Columbus? Even with strenuous promotion of my business, how likely am I to get a significantly greater amount of income, in terms of weddings and in terms of parties? How likely am I to make significantly more money via working an hour or so during the day downtown, before and/or after my street corner engagement ? How likely is that to work, in terms of engaging folk at Broad and High and then riding around downtown? Who is likely to ride, going from where to where, paying how much ? I imagine riding thru downtown, daily, with a large flag and a large sign that reads “Maximize Loving Kindness.” It might be wise to stay in Columbus to use my light frame pedicab to engage people wherever I go, running errands, or doing street corner engagement, getting rides wherever I go. But that might not work, because so far, I’ve gotten very few customers while using my pedicab as my main mode of transport.
A restatement of two essential, competing options is : (1) I can create time, energy, and mental space for long-term community engagement/max loving kindness by paying down my debts vs (2) if I pedicab rodeo and Coachella and Lightning In A Bottle, I will lose my momentum with community engagement (what momentum? I’ve not been doing community engagement during the past three years).
But to what extent can I remedy the possible problem of losing my momentum or the problem of further delaying my community engagement work/max loving kindness work, via engaging people with “maximize loving kindness” signs which I have on my pedicab at the rodeo and hold at street corners and other public spaces in Houston? Somehow I think that my foregoing of the rodeo and Coachella will involve me resuming my radio work, and that, somehow thru that process, I will build my networking, and long-term, reap non-monetary benefits on par with the monetary benefits of pedicabbing the rodeo, and pedicabbing Coachella and pedicabbing Lightning In A Bottle.
But a countervailing idea is that if I pay down debts, invest money into my pedicab business, I am likely thereby, all else being equal, to have more flexibility about whether to work a low -to-medium income event, when there is a non-income-generating event on the same dates. Also, if I have a mentality conducive to it, I may be able to build community engagement/maximize loving kindness ties in Houston, especially if I’m still in town and opt out of some of the lesser income events after the rodeo.
Here is something additional to consider. Actually, probably I’ve already said it but it might be helpful to express in writing the image that flashed thru my mind: pedicabbing in Houston with a mentality such that I maximize my capacity for having an on-the-record, community engagement rapport with my customers and with people in general. So, why do I keep thinking that I will somehow free up my capacity to resume as a ‘grass roots [Grass Roots Pedicab as my Houston business name or Maximize Loving Kindness or Loving Kindness Pedicab? I like the last one for my Houston DBA and for my Columbus DBA] reporter’ if I–all else being equal—relax about how much people pay me. That might work well, longterm, in that some customers might end up deciding to pay me more than what they would have paid me if I had quoted a price, and that could make up for those that decide to ride and pay me less than they would have had I quoted a price. Or, even if I end up, long-term, making less money at the rodeo, at Coachella, and at other events than I would if I quoted a price/ negotiated a price, I still may be better off long-term, factoring in the community engagement/max loving kindness benefit of being able to travel without having to postpone my work as a maximize loving kindness writer and performer, for lack of a better way of describing myself.
To what extent is it the case that the angst I’ve felt about the time away from Columbus from Feb to May of 2013 and to a lesser degree of angst Feb to May of 2014, and even the frustration while pedicabbing in DC in 2013 was due not to the type of work I was doing, per se, but instead to the mentality with which I was working?
If I hunger to maximize my psychological connection with a wide variety and large number of people, allowing people to pay what they want may be the best approach for me. With such an approach, my willingness to provide the pedicab service is based, I imagine, on the quality of the interaction the prospective customer and I seem to be having. Initially, I’ve thought this pay-what-you-want approach would make me more vulnerable to being taken advantage of and abused by people. But, as I think about this more, if I take the money out of the equation, I will be, or so I imagine before actually trying this, more keenly aware of the quality of the interaction in terms of the prospective customers’ tone of voice, choice of words, eye contact, and other body language. It may also be the case that if I am not focused on the amount of money the customer is paying me, I will be more willing, when need be, to speak up and/or end service when I deem the customer is behaving inappropriately. There have been several occasions in the past few years when a customer has been abusive either to me or to people we passed by with the pedicab, and I’ve not said anything or ended the service. Ending service or speaking up to correct inappropriate behavior isn’t always the best way to handle to situation, but sometimes it is. On a few occasions when I’ve not spoken up, I had an dissatisfying sense that I’ve prostituted my ethical values, such as when customers have shouted racist or homophobic or sexist or other intolerant and disrespectful things at others as they rode in my pedicab. Those occasions have been rare, but they’re worth mentioning in terms of how I can defeat myself psychologically by focusing on what customers pay.
But a doubt I have regarding this second possibility is
If I pedicab 24 days and only make $250 per day, that’s still $6,000. If I spend $500 on permitting my own cab, and spend $500 on other expenses, and spend $1,000 on housing, and spend $500 on plane fare, that’s about $2500. Even if I factor in another $500 in expenses that I wouldn’t have in Columbus, that’s about $3,000 in expenses. So, if I only make $250 per day, I’ll still net about $3,000. How likely am I to net $3,000 in Columbus during that period of time ? If I average $300 per day, and work 23 or 24 days, that’s $7,200, which is a net income of about $4,200. If I average $350 per day and work 24 days, that’s $8,400 gross and about $5,400 net. If I average $400 per day, and work 24 days, that’s $9,600 gross and $6,600 net.
The extra money from working the rodeo may finance one or two additional lithium batteries for my motor, in addition to financing paying in total what I owe the city in back taxes, and being at least a partial payment of what I owe the state and federal government, and maybe also paying the entirety of what I owe Kemba.
There is a business principle that seems to be true in at least some cases: to make more money, I have to invest money. If I have two additional batteries for my motor (the theft risk at Coachella and Lightning in a Bottle? Could I get some type of locking device for the batteries while they charge unattended?) could–all else being equal–result in me making hundreds more, if not a couple thousand more at Coachella, and, over the course of one year, (all else being equal) result in me making a couple or a year thousand more, working concerts, games , and other events.
It seems reasonable to think that by bringing in more money via pedicabbing the rodeo, and via pedicabbing Coachella and maybe other festivals, I am in a better position, long-term–all else being equal–to become more effective at my community engagement, that is, more effective at maximizing loving kindness.
The principle of having to spend at least some money in order to make more money applies also to the expenses related to doing the legwork for getting my Houston operator’s permit and getting my own Houston pedicab business license.
When I think about staying in Columbus to focus the rest of Jan, and in Feb, and March on growing food, it seems that not going to Texas might not be irresponsible. The rationale involved with that is that I can make more progress in terms of meeting my needs if I stay in Columbus to prepare my crops, to improve at composting and perhaps expand, to help Portia with her natural foods store, to stand on street corners with loving kindness signs, and to participate in OEFFA conference, to busk… Maybe if I stay in Columbus, I will be more likely to build my community engagement momentum, and
1-13-16
Cab or don’t cab rodeo?
If yes, fly to and from Houston to get license, which would require one trip, and then returning to get my license and my fingerprints would be an additional trip.
A challenge with this is that Casey plans to leave Columbus at the beginning of February. That’s a lot of time in Houston, during which I’ll have food, housing, transport expenses and not be able to pedicab until getting my permit.
But why does that matter ? What would I be doing in Columbus in February? I could be writing, and making plans to develop my pedicab community engagement model. One point to keep in mind is that the rodeo was lucrative for me in 2014 because I already had my permit. I flew to Houston less than a week before work started.
I wasn’t spending two to three weeks without being able to bring money in. But what’s the difference between, except for extra housing and maybe a little extra in food expenses, being in Columbus with only a few events to work, and being in Houston without my operator’s permit there? If there is a lot of free time while in Houston, I can work on my blog, thru my mobile device. Maybe my self-defeating anger in Houston in 2014 and 2013 was due to me thinking, erroneously, I could not be working on my writing.
Last year, I paid ahead on my rent, but by the time March came, I was low on money, to the point of stressing out about it. So, if I can write as much in Houston as I could in Columbus, and make more money in March than I would make in Columbus, why not do it ?
1-12-15. One concern I have is that since paying a deposit to pedicab in Houston, I feel trapped. Maybe the remedy is to go to Houston and stay at a hostel.
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My lingering doubt about whether to pedicab the Houston Rodeo involves me thinking that I will be better off to stay in Columbus during February and March.
My rationale with that is that making less money is not necessarily a bad thing. What is the point of making more money by working the rodeo ?
The rationale behind that is that I would get out of the way my debt to the City of Columbus for back taxes, and get out of the way the back taxes money I owe the State of Ohio and the Federal Government, and pay back the money I owe Kemba.
My line of reasoning has been that if I work the rodeo and Coachella, I also will be able to pay several months ahead on my housing costs and my pedicab insurance, and might have money to work in Latin America.
Also, an idea I have regarding addressing my concern that if I pedicab the rodeo and pedicab Coachella, I will risk a permanent delay on my street corner community engagement plan is the following possible remedy: relax about how much people pay me for pedicab rides, so as to increase the psychological, journalistic connection we have with one another.
If I don’t pedicab the Houston Rodeo, I might have enough money for basic living expenses, but am not likely to have enough money to pay lump sums to get my city, state, and federal back taxes, plus 2015 taxes, out of the way, not to mention paying Kemba.
But one of the reasons I have thought of not pedicabbing the rodeo is that if I stay in Columbus, I will make more connections with community groups. I imagine myself using soup kitchens and getting to know people who work there and use those services, and I can imagine how that will be a way for me to increase my community involvement.
Also, if I stay in Columbus, I will be here to start my crops for this year, and will be here to start my street corner engagement. But I am not likely to have the money to pay Kemba, and will barely have enough money to pay back taxes in installments. There is also the ‘risk’ that I will be so tight on money that I have to work at something in addition to pedicabbing, which likely would involve me having less time and energy to write, grow crops, busk, and otherwise help organize kindness.
But part of the reason I have lingering doubts about whether to pedicab the Houston Rodeo is that I get the notion that if I stay in Columbus I will develop my pedicab business as a community engagement tool.
To what extent is it wise for me to take a chance with staying in Columbus to build my pedicab business as a community engagement tool? I imagine that involving me using the pedicab on street corners to ask “What do you care about?” as part of Maximize Kindness On Earth. To what extent would the benefits of staying in Columbus to build my pedicab business outweigh the benefits of pedicabbing in Houston and Coachella and thereby—all else being equal—being significantly better able to pay Kemba?
To what extent is it wise to take the chance that if I pedicab the rodeo and pedicab Coachella I will in the longrun be more effective at organizing kindness, as a result of having—all else being equal–less financial pressure on me when I get back to Columbus in May?
To what extent is it reasonable for me to assume that if I pedicab the rodeo and pedicab Coachella, I’ll lose momentum in terms of ‘organizing kindness’ ?
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