Of course we need each other to find center. It's because the two of us may just be so far off center, that we found something else. (I used to refer to all that I did--drugs, sex, dancing, studying, meditating, hiking, big city, little city, running a triathlon-- as falling towards enlightenment. Not seeking it necissarilly, that assumes forethought, but happening towards it. A sort of Siddharthra with a habit.) Let the fools look for it, there's way too much absurdity in life to think that following a clear and straight path will bring you anywhere closer.

That is why the most funny, or fun loving, old people that we used to see (Remember how we'd look and say to ourselves, I want to be like them? Remember the 70 year olds that paced us in the canyon?) were random travelers with loud laughs. No one truth can bring you somewhere, you've read way too much to believe that.

So, onto your next move, just do it and have fun. You deserve to laugh more than I've heard you laugh over the last two years. It should echo off these big glass jokes that I live near. One thing that I've noticed about the "spiritual people" we know-- this isn't meant to be a cut, just an observation-- is that they do take themselves, and this world, way too seriously. The greatest religions and the greatest buddhas and philosophers all teach the lightness of weight. Regardless of culture (read Cambell) That, as you know, is the biggest mystery: How the most serious thing in the world is the utter absurdity of it.

Love you, take care and do something silly tonight.

[submitted 05/07/03]