Yearning has Faded

San Francisco, Spring 1982: In the house on Tenth Avenue that I shared with Quinlan the photographer, I had a dream one night, that I saw Carolyn my high-school sweetheart. I'd like to say she came to me and that she cared for me, but she just passed nearby with a glance. And I was filled to overflowing with yearning. I awoke, and the dream left me with the yearning, as if it had been yesterday.

Last night, I had another dream ...

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Best Friends

Kanab, Utah, April 22, 2008 -- Adrienne has gone to the dogs, and it's just great for her. Over the last several years, she took on volunteer work. First she found a 'shelter' for dogs which was actually kind of a collector's nightmare, with scores of dogs kept in small pens, all day, every day. There were ups and downs, but in the end the place was shut down and Adrienne placed 96 of the dogs in homes and in other shelters. A better life for all those jailed puppies.

She's been studying the Secret, and she made a vision board. She was living in a little apartment in Mount Shasta, and not really finding work that touched her heart, and then one day she woke up, and she thought ...

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The Amazing Fork Trick

Weed, California, April 14, 2008: This weekend my brother David and his new wife Annie came to visit me. My little brother is now 48 and is working on a larger project in Silicon Valley that involves General Dynamics and the gubbamint. So they kindly drove up to the mountains to say howdy, and I discover that I'm awfully proud of the fine man my brother has become and Annie is just a delightful woman, whose company I enjoyed.

We mostly just talked about happenings in our lives (moves and kinfolks), what we're studying (Tolle, the Secret), and we ate delicious meals and drove around to scenic vistas.

And they showed me the Amazing Fork Trick.

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