February 1, 2004 was the day of the Super Bowl and as the in-cabin monitors showed our position over the long trail of Aleutian islands, the captain came on and announced that he had picked up a station from Honolulu that was broadcasting the game, if anyone was interested. I don’t really care about football but thought it was pretty amazing that radio signals first of all reached as high up as we were and second that they could be picked up from so far away.

At that same moment, my wife was in Boston watching the game on a big-screen TV with our friend Jody. I only learned this after the fact, of course, but found the connection to be a special one, learning that through the miracles of football, advertising and radio technology, we could be connected just a little bit, though thousands of miles apart.

I don’t know where I am going with this or where this journey I am on will take me, as I look backward four years, but here’s to enjoying the ride and loving the new adventure every day brings!

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My foray into Buddhism began at the age of 12 when I was stuck in my grandmother’s oven-hot trailer in Florida, bored to tears and needing something to do. I found my way to a book store and bought the Dhammapada after reading the cover. Interesting book.

Since then, I have not stopped being interested and finding new layers of Buddhist philosophy to examine and appreciate. It’s a bit like the petals of a lotus flower, whose opening brings such beauty to the world and whose core is covered by the several intertwined layers of petals.

Such was the beginning.

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