Happy Birthday Claudios!!!

Brothers
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There's a famous Zen story about two guys lost for days in the forrest and upon finding each other jump with delight, each embracing the other and feeling immense relief until it dawns on them both that they are no more found being with another lost person than when they were previously simply lost on their own.

How is this story different when two beings meet who feel themselves everywhere "found" or at home? Well we still often jump up and down and do the crazy laughing and celebration of two ecstatic friends just delighted by being and by being such great friends.

We all have, for I have discovered that there are so many who feel a similar devotion, the greatest of brothers in this wonderful human being. Claudios is a brave adventurer, fellow traveler, moon lover, fire dancer, ecstatic raving prophet (and they say I am hard to shut up?! :), silent knower and true..... True Friend.

Our is the usual story: We met under the crystalline aqua flows of enchanted Asian waters, flocks of tropical fish blowing us kisses from above, many meters deep and a half mile off the shores of that one "secret" Thai beach (you know, from the movie "The Beach"). Really :))

The Great Thief has stolen my heart again, sent a special Polish agent, a shining eyed trickster from my own planet, and (thank God) i will never be the same again, and again and.....

Claudios,
...I bow.