Q1: Describe a significant experience that has happened in the past year. How did it affect you? Are you grateful? Relieved? Resentful? Inspired?

Through a series of poor judgments I won’t go into here, I found myself on a ferry from Tasmania to Melbourne occupied by a cult of Lion-worshipping hedonists and a former sportscaster claiming to be God. I won’t bore you with the details, but one thing led to another and “God” was eventually eaten by the lion right in front of me.



Was I grateful to have witnessed this firsthand? Immensely. Was I relieved? Who wouldn’t be? Resentful? Only of myself and my own hubris for thinking I had found a system of belief that was superior to the beliefs of others. Inspired? Well… yes. I was inspired to cast away magical thinking and embrace those closest to me… to listen to and support their own journeys as opposed to silently judging them while attempting to convince them to join mine. I think I can die in peace now. Amen.