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26 April 2008 ~ Hourglass
Lindsay and I worked with Mr. Pollack all day today. She was happy to be out of the house and we both learned a lot. I think Mr. Pollack even learned a few things from Lindsay. It was a lot easier to communicate with Lindsay around. She's used to me by now and can usually figure out what I want without having to write it down. It made things run a lot smoother. I'm pretty comfortable with working with the air now that I've had the chance to learn about it from two different sources. I can't seem to match them for strength, but I'm not worried about it since I can do more than just the one thing whereas they seem to be limited to just working with the air.
I still can't quite figure out what it is that we are doing to the air exactly. The energy we are working with doesn't follow the same laws of nature as everything else, but it does seem to work under its own set of laws. I'm slowly coming to understand what those laws are. There's really no way to put them into words. Everyone just seems to suddenly have the ability to manipulate their body energy in a new external way. There do appear to be limits to what and how much can be done. After working with our abilities all day today Lindsay, Mr. Pollack and I all feel drained. Not our bodies and not our minds, something else is just not there. I can feel some of it returning now that I've been home and not working with the energy required to use it for a while. Lindsay is the same way. In some ways it is similar to physical exertion, but very different in other ways. Lindsay had a good way of explaining it.
Our abilities are like sand in an hourglass. The energy we use is the sand and the amount we can use it is the size of the hourglass. If whatever we are doing with our abilities is a scale then the more sand we use the more effect we have. There is always sand slowly filling the top of the hourglass, but it can only fill the bottom to its limit. When the bottom is full it remains the same size, but as it empties as the sand gets used the size of the hourglass grows. The less sand you have the faster the bottom grows and the more sand you'll have the next time it fills up.
Just make sure you have enough sand for what you need.
25 April 2008 ~ The Pollack's Talents
Early this morning after making sure someone was awake to take care of Mary I went into town to see Mr. and Mrs. Pollack. Mr. Pollack was already out helping one of his neighbors check on family that lived out in the countryside. After twenty minutes of me trying to get my point across with hand signs Mrs. Pollack found a pad of paper and a pencil for me to carry around so we could communicated. Once she finally knew what I was trying to ask she agreed to work with me more in learning her ability to make dirt flow like a liquid. We decided together to call her talent liquid earth, just to give it a name. She, and I, seem to be limited to moving dirt or sand that doesn't have very many rocks in it. If there are rocks they seem to kind of float down to the bottom of whatever patch of dirt we are working with, being too heavy to flow with the rest of their surroundings. I found that if I increase the amount of energy I am focusing that the density of the dirt I am moving decreases, which allows rocks to simply float to the bottom of the less dense dirt moving around them. Moving dirt in this way is more difficult when there are more rocks present, particularly if the rocks are heavy. By the time Mr. Pollack returned home this evening Mrs. Pollack and I had moved every inch of her yard to a new location. All of the heavier rocks had shifted to about two feet below ground level because two feet was as deep as either Mrs. Pollack or I could get and still make the dirt move. Unfortunately our practicing also left most of her yard void of any grass. On the positive side new grass shouldn't have any trouble growing considering the soil is now clear of rocks and freshly turned, not to mention perfectly flat across the entire yard.
Mr. Pollack wasn't too happy about the ruined grass, but he still agreed to work with me to learn his talent. I picked up on what he does much faster than I did Mrs. Pollack's talent because Mr. Pollack's abilities have to do with manipulating the wind and uses the same air energy that Lindsay uses. There isn't a lot to Mr. Pollacks talent beyond using energy to push the air around how he wants it to move. The most difficult part of learning what Mr. Pollack does is using energy that he creates outside of his body. Until now I assumed that when people used their abilities it was by creating energy inside of their body and then moving it outward to do what they do. Mr. Pollack says that is how he does it too, but that's not what I'm seeing. There is nothing and then there is something. Even when Mr. Pollack describes where his energy is I can't see it until he gets to the part where he describes how he changes the feeling of it to grab the air. At that point I see the energy he is describing surrounded in a yellow glowing aura. It really threw me at first. I think I know what it means now. The energy that we create originates inside of us, but it isn't until we change it to a usable form that I am actually able to see it. My mind translates the energy's aura into a color so my mind can process it. The different colors are related to different uses. At least that's what I've come up with. Now I need to figure out how to tell where the energy I can't see is at. Mr. Pollack has agreed to help me try and figure it out.
Lindsay is upset that I keep going into town and leaving her at home to be bored. I agreed to take her along with me to the Pollack's tomorrow while I work with Mr. Pollack. Maybe they'll be able to learn from each other as well since they both use the same kind of energy, who knows. Mary overheard us talking about it and wanted to come too, but I'm not ready to let her leave the safety of our house just yet. I'm still not comfortable with everything that's going on in town. I don't really want Lindsay down there either, but at least she's old enough to know that it is dangerous. There weren't any explosions in town while I was down there today, but that could just mean the ones doing it felt like taking a day off. I'll have to be a lot more comfortable with it before I let Mary or Grandma come into town. Grandma seems to be content with staying home. Mary might be a little trouble though.
24 April 2008 ~ Mary's Garden
Mary spends every waking hour working with her garden. We no longer call it mom's garden. It's Mary's garden now. She's taught me a lot about how she does what she does, but she works with it so often she's always learning more. The weather has been too cold lately and even with my help her garden wasn't doing well so I told her we could start a garden in the basement for her. We keep the fire lit when it gets too cold so the plants will be able to grow without any problem. Most of the open space in the basement was cleared out to make room for firewood, but I cleared out the storage room shelves to make room for Mary's new garden. The stuff on the shelves I just threw out into the grainery where the firewood used to be. All except for the canned food I didn't know was there before. That went into the cupboards upstairs. Mary and I were in the process of filling buckets with dirt from the old garden to move down to the basement when I realized that I knew a better way to do it. I left Lindsay to help Mary with the dirt and went into town to get Mrs. Pollack to teach me how she is able to make dirt move like a liquid. By the time I was able to make dirt move where I wanted it to Lindsay, Grandma and Mary had already filled more than half the storage shelves with potted soil. Between being able to easily fill buckets with dirt and levitate them down into the basement the remaining shelves were filled within no time. It's passed midnight and Mary is still up tending to her new basement garden. There are already little shoots popping out of some of the pots. I'll put her to bed when I finish writing this, for now she's having fun.
Working with Mrs. Pollack today was an eye opener. Just since learning to create the type of air energy that Lindsay uses and the type of plant energy Mary uses I find it easier to learn the other types. Mrs. Pollack works with a kind of earth energy to move dirt around, which is similar to the plant energy Mary uses. I have decided to make it my primary goal to learn as much as I can about the different types of energy people use and see if I can learn to do all of the things that I've seen others do. I don't know why I seem to be the only one who can see and understand what is happening when people use their abilities, but I plan to take full advantage of it.
For now it is time for bed. Tomorrow I start learning as much as I can.
22 April 2008 ~ Getting The Hang Of It
I've spent the last two days doing pretty much nothing but working on levitating objects. Lindsay finally got fed up with me and left me to work on my own earlier this afternoon. I've come a long way. I can lift two things at the same time as long as neither one is very heavy. Lindsay's still way ahead of me in that regard. The most I've seen her lift is five things at once, but she did that pretty easily so I imagine she can do several more. If there's only one thing to lift though I can lift just as much as her. She wasn't too thrilled when she found that out. She got back on top again when she realized she could lift as many as three different objects of the same weight when I was limited to just the one. She's pretty proud of her ability, and protective, so I think I'll focus on learning what Mary does now so I'm not intruding on her territory too much. I think if I wasn't her brother she wouldn't even consider teaching me anything.