Bret and I have known each other for 11 years. We met at St. John's College in Santa Fe where he was studying the great thinkers of the ancient East and I was attempting those of the West. Bret still lives in Santa Fe with his beautiful girlfriend, Brittany, and seems more the wiser for it. Santa Fe is beautiful and full of people who are just that with the St. John's community as this epitome.
Bret and I begin (as one always should) with the Lord Of The Rings. Bottom line -- there might not be anything better than Lord Of The Rings -- and I need to get back to the Shire and watch those movies!!! We talk New Zealand, the seminar table, "Sacred Hoops" & Zen, girlfriends, motorcycles, Halloween, the power and lack of power in language, translation, Moby Dick and the singular and myopic focus of Melville, 7-pages/day, and popcorn!!!
Bret, you are a pillar to yourself -- you know yourself -- you have built yourself you own republic and therefore that is why you stand a pillar to the community!!!
Thanks, Bret, and let's go to New Zealand!!!
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