The Temple Dog Soldiers
What’s going on there? I hope you are happy and healthy. I just went through three weeks of strep throat and a twisted knee, along with nicotine & hash withdrawals. Be thankful you weren’t here to see it. I wish I wasn’t. But everything is nearly better now, and here is something much more pleasant and interesting! The third book, now being written, will be c alled Temple Dog Soldier . That title was snatched from a piece by the same name that appeared in the second book, Reincarnation Through Common Sense. Once again, in consideration for my short attention span friends, it is presented here as a very short piece — less than 500 words! This chapter and that entire book is about my half year spent as a non-student, adopted lunatic being cared for in a very rural Buddhist forest temple in Thailand where no one else spoke English. The one official duty given me by the head monk there was “make yourself comfortable.” As is true of all my writing, everything except ...