Jack: Hey Banjo. I’m glad you could stop by the campfire tonight.

Banjo: Here’s your newspaper. I brought it from town today.

Jack: What’s this water stain on the newspaper, and is this toothpaste? Have you been reading my newspaper in the bathroom again?

Banjo: Well, I suppose I was.

Jack: Suppose? C’mon. You did or you didn’t.

Banjo: Not to change the subject, but there was an interesting article in it about the Enron bigwigs. They were found guilty of stealing money and cheating investors.

Jack: “Not to change the subject?” That’s exactly what you were doing.

Banjo: Anyhow, they should go to jail forever for cheating people like that.

This is a place for campfire wisdom if there are visitors, warmth for cooking or sleeping, or temporary respite from things that yowl in the night.

Posts in this category are in the spirit of friendly speculation about life, how things work, the mystery of the universes, and whatever else strikes the mind lightly.

Sometimes one can see where one needs to go, or where the path leads. Sometimes not.

On those occasions, when there seems to be a path worth commenting on, it will be posted here.

This category will contain posts of enlightenment.

If there’s nothing except this message posted here, it either means that enlightenment didn’t happen yet, OR there was no one left to post anything here after enlightenment.

The reader is left to decide which has happened - or not.

Sometimes the only thing to be done is to hermitize yourself for while, to try to put the pieces back together yet again. If you do hermitizing correctly, you let the pieces float away, and then eventually molt to the next layer of understanding.

If there’s some temporary insight gained, it will likely be posted here.

Sometimes life is the pits. The dragon is sometimes a Buddhist symbol of enlightenment, but for the ordinary Buddhist, it’s sometimes hard to distinguish between dragons and snakes in the shadowy depressions. (Yeah. I know. Flames and legs are clues IF you can see them. But sometimes life just has this scaly feeling.)

This category is for the occasional “life sucks” type posting.

Much of life is the mundane business of staying alive, living with others, and dealing with a world that is alive, ornery, joyful, and full of misery all at the same time. Believing this world doesn’t exist is delusion, and believing it does exist is delusion.

So, until this delusion is transcended, much of ordinary life is dealing with things as they really appear to be, while not quite believing the appearance.

Comments about current events will fit here.

Over the ledge or off the wall. What’s the difference?

Things that don’t make sense, the nonsensical, humor, or the far out fit in this category

In China some mountain paths sometimes include trails where the only means of continuing is to scale a vertical cliff by means of iron ladders. Sometimes Buddhism is like running into a wall, or contemplating a wall, or risking life by using an iron ladder of indiscernible repair.

Posts about things that drive me up a wall will fit in this category.

This category will include things that either reference Christianity or might be of interest to those few Christians that aren’t sure they know everything.