My New Mind's Eye - Indroduction and Intent

Welcome to 'My New Mind's Eye' - a joint collaborative blog between Nick and Aisling Fernandez. We are a married couple in our mid-20's, living in South Central Washington State. I am an Energy Analyst at the Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, and Aisling works on an organic/conventional produce farm in Eltopia that provides a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) program to the Tri-Cities area (Richland/Kennewick/Pasco, WA). She will be starting graduate school at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, OR in the fall in a Masters in Public Health program with a focus in Epidemiology and Biostatistics.
The name for the blog comes from a Nick Drake song called Northern Sky. It has special meaning for us because it was the last dance song at our wedding. The name also describes well the theme of our blog, which is essentially a process of awakening to the true state of our very complex and interconnected world, how we fit into it, and what are responsibilities are to ourselves and to other members of our global community for whom our shared fate is intertwined. What we have come to believe so far is that in an increasingly constrained world, the optimization of the economic, the environmental and the social realms of our society are thoroughly linked, and that this systemic optimization is very much driven by the practice of traditional codes of morals and ethics.
In addition to these considerations, the blog may also feature other tangential aspects of our lives and things we wish to share with each other or with the rest of the online community. We hope to share this blog with our friends and family, but are also leaving this completely public and open, with the anticipation that perhaps other people may have some interest or input to the discussions we are having. We welcome anyone to comment on our blog, even if you disagree with what we have to say. We always like to hear the other side, if we are missing it. We do ask, however, that all comments be kept civil and constructive.

Cheers,

Nick