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January 6, 2002 as it should be If living doesn't teach you, you aren't living right.  So what did I learn in 2001? Easily the most important lesson I learned involves my feet.  Thanks to Phil Bronstein, I will never go barefoot unless my feet are well-tanned.  I may never have a chance to "hang ten" with a Komodo Dragon, but there could be Louisiana reptiles or even fur-bearing animals who, like the Komodo, mistake pale feet for food. I learned that force of will does not apply to matters of the heart.  In fact, force of will is useless in everything except getting up in the morning to go to work. I learned that music is important to me whether I am scrambling eggs to a Wyman and Watts rhythm, singing in a choir, harmonizing to a power tool's pitch, or wishing I had a river I could skate away on. I learned that loneliness is in league with The Beast. I confirmed that people do not understand addiction or mental illness unless they battled them;  more importantly, I no longer blame them for their lack of understanding.  It is as it should be. Probably everything can be as it should be.  But it won't be.  And that is how it should be.

©  2002 by the beastmaster