I WAS MOVING WITH BROWNIAN RANDOM MOTION, BOUNCING WITH THERMAL RESENTMENT. MY POWER DISSIPATING IN MANY USELESS DIRECTIONS. MY SENSE OF PURPOSE SEEMED REJECTED BY THE EXISTING STRUCTURES. I NEEDED A SHOCK TO MY SYSTEM.

THEN I RECEIVED WORD FROM A FRIEND IN CALIFORNIA THAT A FRIEND NOT 50 MILES AWAY HAD AN IDEA AND DARED TO ACT. THIS IDEA BECOMING A REALITY IN THE "OUTSIDE" WORLD. PEOPLE ARE COMING TOGETHER - SPURRED BY A SPARK. SO MUCH WAS ALREADY THERE AND NOW HAS AN INTERACTIVE FOCUS. MINDSTREAMS WORKING TOGETHER - COLLIDING - CREATING. CREATION BUILDING PRESERVING THE INSPIRATION. OF COURSE, IT COULD ALL DIE THE HEAT DEATH OF DISSIPATION. BUT AN ACT OF CONSCIOUSNESS GUIDING ENERGY - POTENTIAL BECOMES KINETIC. MEANING SEEN IN THE FERTILE CHAOS NEG-ENTROPIC ORGANIZING PRINCIPLE. THE UNIVERSE(S) SEEM TO BE A BIG ENOUGH HEAT SINK TO ALLOW A SHORT LIFE FOR THOSE WHO CARE WHEN THEY UNDERSTAND DEATH IS INEVITABLE - DO THEY SEE MEANING OR MEANINGLESSNESS. MAY AS WELL MAKE LEMONADE OR IS IT OMELETS? LIFE OF THE INDIVIDUAL - THE SYSTEMS MICRO AND MACRO - REQUIRES ENERGY INPUT OF THE PROPER KIND AND MAGNITUDE. TOO LITTLE HEAT AND THE ELIXIR WILL NOT FORM. TOO MUCH AND IT IS BURNT. WATCH THE FLAME, TEND THE FIRE, AWARENESS IS EFFORT UNENDING. PASSERSBY MAY SMELL AND SEE THE SMOKE, THE CURIOUS MAY INVESTIGATE, SOME MAY HELP, SOME MAY BE SHOCKED AND TRY TO TIP THE POT. IF YOU SURVIVE SET IT BACK UP AND GATHER THE INGREDIENTS. AFTER ALL, WE ALL HAVE TO EAT, RIGHT?

SAM "KIPPLEHEAD" MC QUOID

(special prizes will be awarded to those who can correctly identify the origins of "kipplehead". -rlm)