I have been stripped by the lie-lashing winds, washed by the septic-banishing rains, and dried by the truth of the Sun.

Thus cleansed, I have come back into the essential arena of sobriety once again -  after so many rip-van-winkle years.

I am once again fully awakened.

Finally, I am ready for this quest of everlasting love and the challenge of immediate combat.

Though evil might yet deign to doom, I find the looseness of being-in-the-world most becoming.

I have learned this lesson: to whisper sweetly and genuinely to the deers, while yet howling earnestly like a wolf seeking wolfdom :: Treat all with compassion, strive for truth.