passing the beetle
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> To: "Grant Balfour" <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxx.xxx>
> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 9:46 PM
> Van sent you a message.
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> Subject: It snowed, and the snow screamed
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> My Dear Mr. Balfour,
>
> I've been meaning to send you a profound note of thanks
> for passing "The Beetle"; I really could not put
> it down, that is, until I put it down to serve as a
> อุบาสก at a Buddhist monastery in Plant City.
>
> I'm actually headed back there in January and then onto
> Thailand where I will eventually ordain.
>
> I mention this because, even thought I am still very much
> at the "wax on, wax off" stage in terms of my
> tutelage under my master; however, the more time I spend
> meditating and the more I practice mindfulness, the more I
> find myself experiencing what I think of as
> "Grant-like" states -though they are difficult to
> maintain.
>
>
> As for our saison en enfer, I assure you it was in the
> winter; Remember the ice skating? Only tourists go in the
> summer, the same ones that run up to the ice cream wagon and
> expect ice cream.
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