My appologies for taking so long to think. I have recently changed states, slipping through many dimensions at once, causing me to live according to the direct of people to each other. I honestly haven't been online for seven months.

To answer your questions, I say that only love is your credential to speak honestly with a person, and any other credential with avoids this language, a commitment to the other, not to meantal health, or moral integrity. Love allows me to advise someone on subjects that are as vast as life and death, or as simple as inidng a shelther.

I served as a "free public adviser" for five years, sitting on various urban corners, and making myself approachable on any level. This outreach-like theater is based on a series of conversations with a Rabbi named Simch Zev that I had when I was a runaway kid. He made sense to me, when I made sense to no one. I bage to give advice in the summer of 2000 in NYC, and then I did in Philly and in Miami. Since my move to Boulder, I have only take a few nights to sit on pearl street and talk with the people who step up.

I hope that answers your questions, and more importanlty I hope that you'll excuse my absence. I will try to become more live in this virtual realm, as there is no way of measuring the value of an honest conversation.

Love,