Chapter 1 

I was more or less a humble man from the planet Earth. You wake up one day and think you are something wonderful and life stretches out like a hungry dream. The parameters are spacious! You are encased in the solid confidence of human arrogance. Then, as suddenly you enter a village of strangers and they pull you down so you don't know what is up any more. You thrash around and when you've cried out the last tear they show you a narrow path and you start to walk and you understand, at that moment, the reality of the Earth. You are a man tumbling with her. All else is silence.

But now liberated I was neither humble or arrogant. I was what I was supposed to be and Earth was an epic dream that I always remembered fondly but the massiness of it was gone.

You would think that I would be desperate for companions but that was not the case at all. After the shock and the initiations, I had gone through that is. After all the images that bled through the vacuum from the surface of the Earth that is. "You will simply be the one," was how I put it and then let things unfold as they wanted to. Maybe as they were compelled to.

Someday all this viciousness will stop but that's neither here nor there. We can find the still point. We can go where there is no infection. We know where the universe hides its wonderful graces.

David Eide
January 24, 2014