Things They Ask
Getting offers left and right to blog in other peoples’ blogs… for free, of course. Not so sure I want to take up any of these offers because I already have my own blogs (more than I know what to do with, if truth be told), but it’s interesting that people are noticing my writing and making these offers. Also getting some strange traffic in my stats from various governmental servers. Not so sure I like that kind of attention, for obvious reasons. (”Mother, can I trust the government?” - as Pink Floyd once sang. And I don’t think I do.) I’ve been spending an inordinate amount of time over here, reading and posting. Meeting some interesting people there, some I admire, some I don’t.
BTW, B.D., I’ve meant to reply to your email for a while now, but I’ve been unsure what to say or how to say it, up to this point. I’m very flattered and I think you are waaay too kind to me, more than I really deserve (am I really that down on myself? Yeah, maybe so). On the other hand, if there could be said to be a universal religion (although I dislike that word), I should think it would be Love, it’s the one thing all (I think?) religions have in common. I have a long way to go on this enlightenment-path-like-thing I’m on (for lack of a better term for it, and that last Belief-O-Matic test I took has pointed something out to me that I think I need to explore), and sometimes when I look ahead I get a little discouraged (that’s putting it mildly) from time to time because the way seems so far, and our time Here, so short (in the grand scheme of things). I love you too. There. Here is a bit more complicated, as you know. 
So now, for the next little while, it’s time for me to explore Mahayana and see where that may lead me.
March 29th, 2005 at 10:35 pm
Have a blessed Journey, it’s not as far as it might seem.