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.