I am considering whether I ought to go to DC this week or not. One idea is that I should not do it. Here are the ideas that come to mind regarding why I should not go to DC. I want to go thru some sort of process of purification of my motives. I don’t want to motivated by egotism. Here are ideas that come to mind regarding why going to DC is not a good idea. It will cost me about $160 round trip via bus, plus more money in terms of what I have spend on in terms of food. Also, given my concerns about peak oil, climate change and my emphasis on making the wisest uses of my resources, there are problems with the idea that I have to go to DC to somehow enhance my activism. Yet, on the other hand, I am getting some sort of feedback that indicates to me that I’m bored with living in Columbus. But if it is the case I’m bored with living in Columbus, and decide to go to DC, it seems part of my motivation involves wanting to relocate to DC. One of the reasons I would have for relocating to DC would be to perhaps improve my social life, given the greater variety of people there. My life here in Columbus has been romantically barren. That may have something to do with living here. Yet, I’m not sure how going to DC would somehow relate to me moving in the direction of relocating to DC. One concern I have about moving to DC is that: my bad credit would make it hard for me to rent an apartment in DC; I might not have the type of pedicabbing option there. It’s not far-fetched that I could use the money I have and relocate to DC, finding a job in time for having enough money to pay my living expenses. But how would going thru that process affect my ‘work as a reporter’? Well, actually, I presently am questioning the value of ‘working as a reporter.’ Rigorous writing is important to me as part of my process for continuing with my moral development. But even if I only focus on the process of writing and the related reading I do in terms of that. To be more brief, I suspect that if I were to relocate to DC, I would spend so much of my time and energy on finding housing and a job and otherwise adjusting to the move, that I would have significantly, if not drastically, less time and energy for that which makes my life spiritually rewarding. I don’t like the idea of needing to live in DC in order to help build a nonviolent movement. My guess is that my focus on going to DC and moving to DC. But on the other hand, if I were to relocate to DC, I might have better options in terms of doing media work. But, again, it may turn out that I would have to work in food service again in order to just have food and shelter. Pedicabbing is better for me than food service work on multiple levels. One idea in terms of not going to DC, is that if I don’t go to DC, I prevent myself from spending about $200. I will spend money on food anyway here in Columbus, but the bus fare is about $160. If I were to go to DC three times during April for the various Occupy events, that’s about $470 just in bus fare. Me thinking I need to go to DC to help with movement building might be similar to me thinking back in fall of 2008 that I needed to buy a $1400 video camera to progress as a journalist. Perhaps it’s part of my attempt to not repeat my mistakes to realize I don’t need to go to DC to progress spiritually( I don’t mean that in the religious sense when it comes to my own life.) Yet, when I think of my experience in DC during the Occupy events there in October, it seems it was one of the more meaningful experiences of last year. But, the essential project or the essential venue for addressing issues isn’t necessarily Occupy. So, what is the key issue? The key issue may be engaging with people more effectively. How do I do that? One idea is to be on the street corners, at the bus stops, on the buses, in the jails, and other places, engaging with people and writing about it.