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Benjamin Franklin is famously quoted as saying: "Content[ment] makes poor men rich, discontent makes rich men poor." In Franklin's time, as in our own, it was unusual to find a person who was content. But what Franklin said made sense, both then and now -- if you are poor but content you are "rich" although you may not have the financial wherewithal to materially demonstrate it to someone else. If you are rich but discontent, what use is the money -- in effect, you are poor. 

It would be interesting to speculate how the experiences of Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn would have impacted their lives when they had become men. More than a hundred years after those books were written, the "adventures" of Irving Berkshire, the protagonist of Idyllic Creek, demonstrates that the early "vivid" experiences of childhood affect us more deeply, profoundly, recurrently, and unexpectedly than might be assumed or sometimes desired. 

Upon meeting him, most young men might gladly trade their life for that of Nathan ("Saz") Warren. In the prime of life, Saz is well read, a friend of the rich and famous, and aesthetically oriented with an almost maniacal eye for detail (as evidenced in his personal residence at the St. Regis hotel in Dana Point, California.) With no need for a job, Saz spends most of his time planning and executing strategies for successful "trysts" with the opposite sex. And, he has been living this way for years, ignoring the occasional failure or rebuke. Can or should he change?

Robert Eggleston has been convicted of counterfeiting. But instead of being sentenced to prison for many years, he has voluntarily agreed to be housed for nineteen months at the Truman Treatment Facility, one of several "treatment facilities" throughout the United States as part of a little-known government program which has been in existence for decades. These facilities are managed by private for profit corporations.

An individual without firmly adhering to the Divine Path of life can be compared to "a single piece in an enormous mosaic puzzle; however, the nature of that single piece, like the other pieces in the puzzle, is not consistently solid and thus cannot retain its shape for very long. Therefore, that single piece, just like the others, temporarily fits different missing spaces or gaps in the puzzle which itself is continually morphing. The result: the picture that the puzzle was originally supposed to represent is not always recognizable; or even if it is, the picture has changed -- and continues to change."

In the works!