Beautiful! ...Love the photos of you when you were young.
I love you, Panache!

Brilliant! What you say toward the end is exactly what an old Indian friend of mine always tells me when I implore him to write and share his experience and wisdom with the world. He says "I'm not a guru, I am only a mirror..." He and I embarked on parallel journey's more than 15 years ago (unknowingly, at first... it took a year before we discovered it, even though we worked together every day) and, even though I have manifested a beautiful life for myself in Singapore (after traveling the world working and living in beautiful places along the way), and he is still in the USA, we share via email a dialogue that will go on for the rest of our lives (I introduced him to backpacking in the mountains - at first he hated it and didn't understand why we couldn't stay in a hotel and do day hikes... I told him to just relax, continue his meditations in the wilderness, and he will see. He came out of the tent one morning on the third day, tears streaming down his face, walked up to me and hugged me, saying... thank you, my friend, thank you for forcing me to experience this wonderful experience of wilderness. Now I know what you were talking about all this time. He had had one of the most enlightening of experiences in his life that previous night. The trip that this happened on was our third together).

I'm glad I 'found' you. You give me hope for this world and for mankind.

Thank you!

Roger Ingraham, marvelous work..
Christie Strong, lovely editing...

Panache,

I love how the Universe uses ordinary people to create extraordinary circumstances that transcend many lives.

Love, Eric