Nothing qualifies me to be an Abbot, other than that I prefer to consider my site to be a sort of online monastery. Since I created it, I can make myself the Abbot. Since I'm not affiliated with any Zen school, I am free to be without qualifications or certifications. I have no robe or bowl. The site picture is of a Catholic Monastery near where I currently live in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas.

I was born in Burbank, California, the day after Christmas, 1940. When I entered the USAF in 1959 I had lived at twenty one different addresses and attended thirteen different schools. Outside of having moved a great deal, my childhood was uneventful, without any psychic events.

I married at 19 when in the Air Force, fathered four children, maneuvered into the burgeoning computer programming business, divorced, and managed finally to move to the beautiful Southern California beach town of Hermosa Beach.

In Hermosa I had the great good fortune to have had Either/Or, a privately owned bookstore which had one entire section devoted to what is now referred to as New Age publications. Therein I found the books that have been most influential in my attempts to understand. Those books are listed under a separate link.

I met my long-time partner Kim in Hermosa, taught her how to ride a motorcycle, she and I quit our jobs, stored what little stuff we owned, and departed for a year and a half on a motorcycle camping trip that eventually included Canada and most of the US, going as far East as St Johns Island in the Maritimes. We spent a winter in New Jersey and there, along with a business friend, formed the basis of our own computer service company which we later established in Southern California.

Kim and I continue to be together, she traveling the world, me occasionally accompanying her, she devoted to butterfly photography, research and book publishing, me devoted to continued pondering of the ineffable and dabbling in computer programming.