Lately I have been posting about how I would like to do more, etc etc. Today I realized that at a certain point in one's life, you find your 'spot' that you work from to help others and do your service to humanity, if you will. I entitled this post 'The Ferry Man' referring to Hermann Hesse's character in Siddhartha. This guy went through it all, from having a tantric love guru teach him all about it, to wandering good like a sadhu should, to finally meeting up with the Buddha outside and in, so to speak. And when his travels were over, he settled down in the humble but necessary position of being the Ferry Man who takes his passengers over the river to the other side.

I realize more every day how important this F8 site was and is in my life and everyone here who contributes to it. We are ferrymen and women who take our passengers who come here to the other side of the river. This job is simple yet involved...we must first keep the ferry afloat and fueled, keep it calm and steady so the passengers don't get seasick, steer where we are heading and stay on course.

I no longer feel that we need to do something that we are not doing. All we need to do is to keep doing what we are doing and it will get better the same way one gets to Carnegie Hall, just by practice. I have noticed how some rough edges on me have broken off lately, and I did not even know they were there, sticking out and affecting others negatively. We all have blind sides to how we look to others and I appreciate honest feedback whatever it sounds like.