Yesterday afternoon, Dennis Wong and his 10-year-old son, Charlie Boy, came to pick up the bull calf that you already know about. ThatŐs the calf in the green hat, feeling a little excited about being out of his pen. Charlie Boy was so happy to have the calf. Charlie is there, behind his father in the background. He is a compentent young farmer already, knowing how to plant, weed and harvest a garden, and more amazingly knowing how to run a Bobcat! Anyone who knows about these hydrolic machines knows how complex they are, how hard to manipulate. This young man is a pro at it. Anyway, the new monastery calf is now his, a gift from his monk neighbors, and all we ask in exchange is that he care for the calf, raise him with love.

Yesterday the Ganapati Kulam editorial staff had a good meeting to make photo selections for certain articles in our special Iraivan issue this month. The Diaspora section will be focused this time, giving examples of various temples that have arisen around the world. The Healing column this month is important--debunking the common, media-hyped stereotype that women have to eat meat during pregnancy. Absolutely unnecessary!

>I was having an out-of-body experience one day so I grounded myself and got centered with the help of my spirit guides and almost astral traveled anyway, but the phone rang. I sensed the negative vibrations so I threw the I-Ching and checked my numerology chart and nearly had a primal, but my energy was too blocked, so I did some bioenergetics and self-parenting, took some flower essence and ate an organic oat-bran ginseng muffin, but my inner child wasn't feeling nurtured yet so I had a Rice Dream Frozen Pie too, but that made me hyper so I did the relaxation response while listening to my subliminal tapes, but I was feeling depersonalized so I did some polarity work, foot reflexology and past life regression, then rebirthed myself and called Moon Beam, the bodyworker, to make an appointment for a Shiatsu, Reike, Rolfing, Feldenkreis, Swedish, Japanese deep tissue massage, but she flaked out and never returned my call, so I decided to energize my crystals and do some positive imagery because all my visualization techniques and affirmations made my space feel invaded, so to get empowered, I got a psychic reading from Mother HeartLove around the issue of my assertiveness so I could feel my radiance and have some energy for my psycho-calisthenics and inversion swing before my harmonic brain-wave synergy session, which made me more focused for my actualization seminar,holistic healing class and dreamworkshop, so I'd be more clear for my Gestalt behavioral cognitive transpersonal Rechian Jungian Freudian Ericksonian hynosis session at the hot springs but my aura was weak for my trance- channeling group so I fasted until noon to recharge my chakras and I sensed my intuition was high and my cycle was focused,so I turned on my ion generator to open up for my neural-linguistic programming session, but I needed to have my pyramid recharged before my guided synchronicity meditation, so I got some cranio-sacral therapy, which aligned me for the fire walk, which was between my tarot card reading and my sensory depivation tank appointment, but after all that I felt what I truly needed was a meaningful relationship to mirror myself so I went to my personal shaman, and then to my guru, but they were no help, so instead I went to the Intensive Whole Life Earth Rebirth Cosmic Expo Symposium Workshop to find someone who really knew what was going on, but that didn't work either, so I'm locking myself in a calcium coated Orgone Box so I can go to sleep and maybe I'll "get it" in the dream state. "Oops! Will you please hand me my crystals!"******"Ahhhh! This is it!"