I attended my friend Alison's prayer workshop last week and learned how prayers can be just about anything you want them to be - meditation, focus, rest, poetry, and so on. It's pure will projected outwards.Not a bad practice, as long as its not used in place of actual action.I also attended Ephemerisle, the annual 'burning man on boats' gathering in the Stockton delta. I hadn't been since 2015, but it was a great time once more, just a bit tricky with logistics of getting out there and sleeping.It was originally started by the libertarian Seasteading Institute which means no central authority, which sounds freeing, until theres no quiet hours and nobody can sleep, or the volunteer ferry is two hours late. Centralization is nice too!I learned about the Navier 'tesla boat' hydrofoil (apparently electric boats aren't a thing cuz gasoline is 15x more powerful than batteries pound for pound but the foil makes it work) and how to wakesurf using the wake of the boat as a wave, which is way more fun and easy on your body than wakeboarding farther back!