Wow Marshall, your blog's very first comment! I'm honored!

As is usual, today you wrote about something that can't help but be beneficial to anyone who reads it. Up until today's, your entries always made me think so much that I became overwhelmed by all of the implications that could arise from even a brief comment and always ended up shying away instead. But this most recent one is different. Har Har.

Most likely, I feel comfortable commenting on this one because it is the one that I can most personally identify with. That is because, by your suggestion and influence, I have also taken an enthusiatic interest in meditation and have experienced, although in a more premature manner, many of the phenomenons you decribe. Just from observing the calm, consise, confident, and convivial tone that underlies the entirety of your entry I felt at ease and completely comfortable devoting my full attention to it (even when I'm fresh from running two miles and my head is still pulsing).

Considering all of the volatile emotional states I have been in so far this year, and especially these past few days, I really am in awe of the serendipitous effect a simple recollection of your personal experiences can have upon others. That retreat must have really been something and I'm glad that someone as astute and eloquent as yourself was in attendance.