I wrote this letter when my son Aaron was in a bit of a pickle, now i have another son that is going through some hard times away from me, hopefully he will see this and get some thing from it. Love you Jake. I think all of us could take some thing away from this, even if it is just a good laugh.

Hey Aaron,
Good to hear from you. Have you done any of the rope stuff yet?
Are they really going to teach you to rappel? I was thinking it would be kind of fun for us to go repelling. We should be able to repel all kinds of people, if we do it
Right, hell if we take Al along, we could probably empty out the Wal-Mart in
Two maybe three seconds. whad’ya think?
How are the mosquitoes up there, down here, they are getting huge. Wednesday, one tried to carry Shyster off the deck, Sean jumped on it and rode it like a horse, for a good 20 minutes, he finally broke it. He keeps it tied up on the deck, calls it Godzilla. Makes a great watchdog, does not bark, and we have get rid of all the bodies every morning, But nobody walks through the ally anymore!
Mom just got done reading me selected parts of the letter she sent you, she’s absolutely right about excess baggage. We went on a little trip the other day, she took 14 bags, 3 backpacks and 20 reams of paper, she was really upset that there wasn’t any electricity out where we were going, till I told her she could always plug into a current bush. So she packed the computer and printer in to.
On a more serious note, hope all things go good for you.
There are times in most every bodies life when they have to stop and think and answer this question, Are we going to just let life live us or are we going to live life (think about it. It is really not one of them no answer Zen questions)? It is hard question, some people never answer it ( at least they are smart enough to see the question), some never really have to ask it ( I pity them, cattle one and all), some don’t understand the question and are lost from day one, and some of us need a 2×4 to help the answer along, like I did.
However, once you get it, life gets much better, not easier, but better. It really doesn’t solve anything or get rid of the stupid in us. But once you see it, make the decision, it lets you see things differently, more sides, more answers to the problems. When your in a mess, instead of sitting down and crying, “It’s not fair, they did this to me”, you say “well hell, I fucked up, now what can I do to get me out of this hole.” instead of sitting there saying, “Wow what a nice sunset, to bad I got nobody to share it with.” You sit back and enjoy, because it’s great being you. Instead of feeling like a midget in the land of the giants, it makes you a giant in a land of midgets. Any how, think it through, someday you will see. I hope you are seeing now. Anyhow, enough of this Zen shit, miss playing chess with you, and I will always be here to help if I can or laugh at you, whichever I think will do the most good.

Love

Live it like there is no tomorrow, later zenlogic.