Goodness, it’s been many months since I posted here.

I read Mormon Enigma (both versions – the original, before they knew Mark Hoffman’s documents were bogus, and the revision). I then re-read Rough Stone Rolling and In Sacred Loneliness, plus the bit of Mormon Polygamy: A History that deals with Nauvoo-era events.

My hypothesis (that Joseph didn’t consummate any of his ‘marriages’ to women other than his first wife, Emma Hale) is consistent with the facts in these tomes, though he undoubtedly did institute polygamy and teach his closest followers that it was correct.

While I’ve been letting these thoughts brew in my soul, I’ve been off doing good in the rest of the world.

I’ve been blogging about getting de-cluttered over at 300boxes.blogspot.com and was interviewed for Brooks Duncan’s Paperless Document Organization Guide.

My reason for actually getting de-cluttered (aquaponics!) bloomed into another blog, 3x5aquaponics.blogspot.com, where I documented my DIY system which can make Aquaponics affordable for the adventurous advocate of home-based sustainable agriculture. I’ll be giving a ‘lecture’ at the upcoming Aquaponics Conference in Orlando, Florida this September. My shtick will be putting together my inexpensive DIY system in an hour from scratch (which will then get auctioned off at silent auction).

So the facts and thoughts and plots about Elvira and Jonathan have been maturing in my head and heart the way raw ingredients in a compost pile mature over time into fertile black gold.

The image of being purified like gold or silver may be more generically inspiring than the image of a steaming compost pile, but I’m currently a gardener, not an artisan who works precious metals.
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P.S. – I went ahead and approved all the past comments on this blog that might have been associated with a human who’d actually read my posts and cared.