God’s own country. With the Arabian Sea on the west, the Western Ghats towering 500 - 2700m on the east and networked by forty four rivers, Kerala enjoys unique geographic features making it one of the most sought-after tourism destinations in Asia. Enjoying hundred percent literacy, Kerala has the highest physical quality of life in India. Kerala is also the celebrated homeland of Ayurveda, the age-old, natural and holistic system of medicine. Its world class health care systems ensure the lowest infant mortality and highest life expectancy rates in India. Peaceful and pristine, Kerala is also India’s cleanest state.Kerala. Where all your five senses come alive to gift the body and soul a heavenly experience. And your sixth sense tells you there’s more to it than meets the eye. Whether it is a meandering cruise down the backwaters. Or a lazy day by the sea. Or an adventurous trek up the hills. A rendezvous with the wild. Wandering through the meadows. Spectacular evenings of fireworks and festivity. Rejuvenating traditional medicinal massages. Mouthwatering cuisine. The options are as varied as they are irresistible. The mountains. The sea. Cool hill stations. The romance of houseboat cruises in the backwaters. Wildlife and bird sanctuaries. Forests. Waterfalls. The allure of historic landmarks and ancient places of worship. Festivals. Cultural and art forms. The martial arts. The blessings of Ayurveda, Yoga and meditation. Experiences to treasure for a lifetime. Indus Holidays ‘Ushus’ Building, 34/1698, Edapally Cochin-682 024, Kerala, India. Tel.: 091-484-2340971, 2339542, / 4054543 Fax: 091-484-2340972. Mobile: 09946555654 / 093886 00887 E-mail: mailindusholidays.in .indusholidays.in

Journal writing can be simple, but it can also be anything you want. When you think of journaling, what do you think of? A diary of events in your day? Where you spill all your emotions? Where you practice writing stories? Everything you want to say out loud but can’t? What you write in your journal is your own business, but it helps to have a general idea of what you will record on a regular basis. Here I will discuss several different ways of journaling. You can choose one, modify or mix them, or come up with your own. It’s in your hands! 1. A Dream Journal. A dream journal can mean several things. One way is to record all the dreams that you have as you sleep as soon as you wake up before you forget them. Don’t worry if you don’t remember any some nights. That just means you were in a deeper state of sleep for most of the night, or you just didn’t find any of your dreams interesting. Once you’ve recorded your dream, you can describe and discuss what you think it means in your life. If you get really into it, you can get a book or search online for more information on dream interpretation. It is a surprisingly interesting subject. Another way to keep a dream journal is to record your dreams in life, in other words, your goals. You can write down goals and dreams in a list and consistently go back and review them and discuss them whenever you can complete something. For example, you can make a list of things you want to do in the next 5 years. Look over them often and try to complete them. Whenever you do, write about it. 2. Keep track of your life. When I think of journaling, I first think of just writing down about what I did today and what is going on in my life. This is probably the most common way to journal and there is no problem with that. If you don’t want to get fancy but just want a way to keep track of what’s going on in your life and learn more about yourself, than this is the way to go. 3. Practice writing. If you are interested in creative writing, or any writing for that matter, keeping a journal is a great way to practice. Just keeping a journal about your life will help your writing, but if you want an extra boost to your creative writing skills, you can take it one step further. Use your journal to write stories and poems, practice dialogue by recording conversations, hone your setting skills by writing about your surroundings, and come up with any other creative way to keep writing. If you are looking for even more great journaling ideas and creative writing prompts,go toJournalingTechniques.info. There you can find more about journaling and how to get started writing.

Last week while I was experimenting with some websites , I noticed a very interesting fact about a website named top10seotips.com.This is a website based on search engine optimization (SEO) giving out some very interesting tips on SEO (Search Engine Optimization).Though the homepage content is very good and informative but the fact which raised my eyebrows was the PageRank of this site.This site holds a healthy Google PageRank of five , in spite of having only six incoming links (checked with link: command) and eight Google indexed pages (checked with site: command).Though this website ranks well in Google for a particular keyword and has sitelinks too but how can a website attain a Google PageRank of five with just a few links and particularly when the links are coming from a webpage which itself hasn’t got any PageRank.Besides is it possible for a website to attain a high PageRank with just eight indexed pages. The two positives I drew from this website is its content and its Domain age.It has got original,unique and interesting content and it is about 3 years old.Can this two be the most important factors which has led to this high PageRank.If this be the case then I know many other website with powerful content but has poor PageRank.Though they are relatively new.So it is advised to the readers to build original interesting contents with few qualitative incoming links.All this combined with little patience might result in a good Google PageRank.Because if it is possible for one website then it will be possible for others too provided if Google is not preferential with website selection and believes in equality. Another reason this website has a healthy Google PageRank because it may be branded by Google.Though still a very complicated and controversial topic but this high PageRank may be result of Google Branding.Nevertheless the above two reasons seems more probable in this case.Because Google says ‘Content is King’. Best Search Engine Optimization tips

My first impression upon watching the documentary “Black Tar Heroin” was a portrayal of desperation and sadness. As the various characters were interviewed and they gave their stories it often seemed that, though they were most definitely heroin addicts, they didn’t want to admit that to themselves and were deliberately trying to act “normal”, as if they were no different from anybody else. The graphic visuals of broken and damaged blood vessels from heroine injections, and all the different parts of the body that were used for injection makes one wonder why on earth someone would deliberately do that to themselves. The scenes of a young man injecting drugs into his jugular vein were particularly nauseating. It’s a testament to the addictive power of heroin. The notion that the drugs were in complete control hit me when a long time heroin user was introduced. She had no veins left to inject heroin into so she had to inject it intramuscularly, which is a great hazard for septicemia and other blood diseases. She admitted to using heroin maybe fifteen times a day, and prostituted herself for the money to buy it with. Her body had become so acclimatized to heroin use that she was shaking and showing the early symptoms of withdrawal just a few hours after her last fix. Her next dose seemed to be all she thought about. As the video demonstrated, there are many different types of addiction and dependence. These include; physical addiction, psychological addiction, behavioral addiction, and habituation as a form of addiction. Physical addiction is where the body has become used to receiving a certain chemical to the degree that one’s body chemistry has been changed. Going without the drug results in physical withdrawal symptoms such as nausea, sweats, shaking, the perception of physical pain, and even hallucinations. An example of this would be the woman previously described who demonstrated an extreme need for heroin, but many other types of drugs can result in physical dependence as well. Psychological addiction can exist with drugs that may not always be considered physically addictive, but have received mental reinforcement in their use such as with marijuana and cocaine. Essentially the person likes the way the drug made them feel and want to feel that way again. One woman in the film, Tracey, had been in jail for six months and gotten over her physical addiction of heroin. But she began to use heroin again once she got out of prison because she said she enjoyed how it made her feel. Unfortunately, often such sensations are misremembered as being more pleasurable than they actually are, thus the wish to feel the way they remember becomes unattainable because the drug may not have had the desired result. Behavioral addiction is measured by what is called the “hassle factor”. Essentially it’s based upon how much you’re willing to go through to get the drug and how much you’re willing to change your life to keep using the drug. Such behavior can be the result of multiple forms of addiction. Though this film does not show the lifestyles of people prior to their drug addiction, it does show the downward spiral of people into criminal activity to support their habit. Another girl, Jessica, was so addicted in this fashion that she willingly worked as a prostitute in order to make the money to buy more heroin. Habituation as an addiction refers to the body’s ability to build a tolerance to a drug that is used regularly. A young man, Jake, displayed an extreme degree of habituation when he attempted to commit suicide by heroin overdose. He shot up four grams worth of black tar heroin and survived. In a person who has not been habituated to heroin, this amount would’ve been quite sufficient to kill him/her within minutes of its use. It’s commonly known that drug use has a direct influence on crime levels in any given neighborhood, but it’s not always known how it does this. The tripartite model explains this relationship in three different parts. The first is the psychopharmacological model. In this model crime is committed by people under the influence of drugs because of a situational lack of self-control. This is similar to someone who vandalizes a car because they were drunk. The second part is the economic-compulsive model, where people are willing to resort to crime in order to obtain money to buy drugs. Jessica, after having gotten sick of prostitution, was seriously considering robbing people for money to buy her daily heroin fixes. The third part is the systematic nature of the illegal drug market. Basically there is inherent violence in the world of illegal drugs. Drug dealers will contend violently with one another. People will often rob drug dealers because of the value of the products and money they frequently have on their persons. Addicts may occasionally get into violent altercations with their dealers over feeling ripped off when purchasing drugs. There are many different sociological theories which attempt to explain drug abuse, but in the context of the film, I feel the most pertinent is the General Strain Theory demonstrated by Jessica’s case. Its states that people go through stress, suffer negative affective states such as depression or anger, and then use drugs to cope with stress. In the film Jessica stated that she had been sexually abused regularly by her grandfather when she was young. I certainly feel that this would qualify as a major stressor and the cause of negative effective states. After using heroin regularly she initially worked for an escort service, and is considered a little better than a streetwalker on the prostitution totem-pole. She was later arrested and took a mandatory blood test, which indicated that she was HIV positive. If she was caught soliciting sex again she would be charged with attempted murder. She did it again anyway, but as a streetwalker this time. She began smoking crack and drinking along with her heroin use at this point. As the film continues its apparent that, aside from her addiction, Jessica is using drugs increasingly to shut out the world and avoid the stressors around her as her life spirals further and further out of control. The study by Hung-En Sung and his associates presents several hypotheses as to why some drug addicts use injection to take heroin while others use less invasive methods such as inhalation to get high. The Career-Intensification hypothesis seems to be the most relevant to the film. It states that a long time user is likely to progress from smoking or snorting heroin to using needles as they become more addicted to the drug. This is likely because a heroin user’s body habituates to the drug and it takes and increasing amount to get high. The injection method allows the body to absorb a greater portion of the heroin injected than snorting or smoking heroin. This allows the drug user to get a greater effect from taking the same amount of heroin. A young junkie by the name of Oreo recounted, as he was injecting heroin into a vein in his throat that he had told himself long ago that he would never resort to doing the very act he was performing. Before that he told himself he would never inject heroin at all. He had originally experimented with heroin by smoking it, but found too late that he couldn’t stop himself until he began using it regularly. It would appear that drug users initially set limits for themselves which they don’t believe they will exceed, but later do. This is a perfect example of the graduation process that a lot of junkies go through. In this case I believe that even if heroin were legal, it would still pose a massive social problem. Legalization does not eliminate the illegality of its implications as heroin users will often resort to crime to later support the extreme cost of their habit. The drug is incredibly addictive, so recreational use is unlikely. It has withdrawal symptoms that are bad enough as to kill people sometimes. An addict is completely unable to function while using heroin, and holding even a part-time job is hopeless. The addicts in the film were often talking about people who had overdosed and were dead, as if it were a common everyday occurrence. I suppose that from their perspective it is. It just shows how far gone these people are that death no longer fazes them. John Albers jragebellsouth.net

Gallery is defined as a building or a series of rooms devoted to the exhibition and often the sale of work of arts. Among the innumerable art: sculpture, photographs, illustrations, installation art and applied arts are exhibited in art gallery; and painting is commonly displayed medium. It is a way of promoting the unexhibited art and fresh artist. The art galleries let artists to display and promote their work in these venues with zeal. Contemporary art is in vogue. The term contemporary art gallery refers to a commercial gallery intended for private-profit-motive. These galleries are usually spotted agglomerate in large urban areas. For instance: the Saatchi gallery of London is a well known hub of contemporary art world. Contemporary art gallery are also open to the general public without any cost where they can purchase art. Non-for-profit galleries and art-collective galleries are also to be found that directly create opportunities to put on show regularly. Moreover, the artist-run-centre gallery exists on government funds. Art gallery can also be interpreted as the springboard for launching careers for fresh and young artist. Here is a short list of notable contemporary galleries: • Mumbai: The Arts Trust

If you find your sentences filled with commas, and they went from one topic to another, then you, like many people, may be guilty of writing run-on sentences. The run-on sentence is annoying. The run-on is boring. Most important, utilizing run-ons in your work is a sure-fire way of losing your reader. The run-on works in one instance

What Can a Freelance Writer Do For You? A freelance writer is an independent contractor who usually telecommutes (works from home). You might hire a freelance writer for a small project or on an on-going basis to do regular work, part- or full-time. Freelance writers can tackle any writing or editing project you may have, including: articles, reports, web content, proofreading, press releases, reviews, business plans, ghostwriting, e-books, brochures, letters, print ads, speeches, presentations, newsletters, scripts, contracts, questionnaires, training manuals, and more. Freelance writers can also do research, planning, brain storming, organizing, and branding. Additionally, many modern freelance writers are very knowledgeable about search engine optimization (SEO). Where to Find a Freelance Writer? It is fairly easy to find a freelance writer since the advent of the Internet. Some of the most popular web sites for locating freelance writers are elance.com, ifreelance.com, and getafreelancer.com. The way these three sites are set up is that people or companies with writing projects post what they need done. Freelance writers who are members of the web site can place bids on the projects. When the desired time period is up, the buyer chooses a bidder. Elance.com is probably the most established of the three sites. Elance.com offers dispute mediation, an optional escrow service to pay your freelancer, and allows the freelancers to verify their credentials (such as previous employers or degrees earned). Elance.com does charge a project fee of 6-8%. Ifreelance.com and getafreelancer.com basically just provide a way for buyers and providers to connect (no extras like mediation and escrow). All three of the sites allow the freelancers to create profiles where they can describe their background and skills and provide writing samples. The professionalism on getafreelancer.com is noticeably lower than the other two sites. Do not overlook Craigslist.org for posting your writing project. A company called Freelance Daily compiles a list of all the freelance writing jobs posted online (Craigslist.org, monster.com, etc.) every weekday and e-mails them to subscribers. The Freelance Daily goes out to thousands of writers. Additionally, you can also hire a freelance writing firm to handle your project. Many firms bid on jobs on these sites, but some do not. How to Write Up Your Project Proposal? The more detail you can provide for your freelance applicants the better. A good project description, like a good job description, is thorough, accurate, and informative. How many pages is the project? How many words should the articles be? Does the project involve research? Do you have a sample you can provide? Do you have a web address you can include? What is the subject matter involved? Is it double-spaced or single-spaced? Will the writer retain rights to the work product or will you? Will the writer’s name be printed on the work product giving him or her credit? To assist you in providing the proper details, you should know that, on average, a full 8.5” x 11” piece of paper full of single-spaced writing in 10 or 12 point font contains about 500 words. A similar double-spaced page contains about 250. The average blog post or web content article contains 300-500 words. Also, remember to ask for a resumé and three writing samples in your project proposal. Some other tips are to consider checking your writer’s work with CopyScape.com. CopyScape is a website designed to check if a document has been published somewhere else already. Even if just a portion of the document is plagiarized, CopyScape can identify that. Additionally, many providers on freelance writing sites are from India or other countries where English is not the native language. If you only want to hire a native English speaker, please specify that in your proposal. Also, if you want the writer to turn in documents in a non-traditional format, clarify this in your proposal. If you expect anything other than a .doc or .rtf document, let the applicants know. If the writer will need special software, clarify this as well. Lastly, if your project requires proofreading or editing, specify whether you want the freelancer to use traditional proofreading symbols or just “laymen’s terms.” If you want the proofreader to use a certain reference manual like the APA (American Psychological Association) or Chicago Manual of Style, specify this. Terminology to Know Be familiar with the correct terminology. Here are a few terms to help you out: Blogger/Blogging: A blog, or web log, is like an online diary or journal. Blogs may contain personal or business-related content. Blogs are typically updated with new content on a regular basis. Typically, blogs provide a place for readers to leave comments and feedback. People may subscribe to blogs, like newsletters. A blogger is someone who posts blog content. Blogging is the act of posting content to a blog. Copywriting: Not the same as “copyright,” which refers to intellectual property. Copywriting refers to writing “copy.” Copy is any text that promotes a business, service, person, or concept, i.e. marketing materials. Many copywriters work for advertising agencies, newspapers, or magazines. Ghostwriter: Someone who is hired to write for someone else. The writer allows the person who hired them to claim his or her writing as their own. A ghostwriter might write 90% of a book, and their name will appear nowhere on the manuscript. Proofreading: Light Proofreading–Correcting misspellings, grammar and punctuation mistakes, verifying references, and ensuring consistency Medium Proofreading–Light proofreading plus checking for tone, structure, run-on sentences, voice, tense, disjointed ideas Heavy Proofreading–Medium proofreading plus condensing wordiness, smoothing out transitions between paragraphs, readability, eliminating clichés, and any other correction or comment that may be noticed by the proofreader Re-write: Many companies are in need of having news items or similar content re-written. If this is what you need, specify that candidates will not need to create original content but rather just re-work or re-arrange existing content. The price for this should be less than drafting original copy. Web Content: Any content on your website, to include text, pictures, videos, or logos, is considered web content. White Papers: Articles that express an organization’s standing or philosophy on an issue. White papers are in some ways reports that may provide results of a recent project or conclusions made by recent research. How to Select a Writer From All the Qualified Candidates? Most likely any clear and concise project proposal you post is going to leave you inundated with applicants. Expect anywhere from 5 to 40 applicants per post. How do you determine who is the best match for the job? What many buyers do is ask the freelance applicants to write a sample article, give 10 ideas for sample blog posts, proofread a sample page, etc. By creating a “sample test,” you can weed out applicants in a number of ways. First of all, some applicants will be too busy to do your sample. Dedicated applicants who really want the job will make time. Second, applicants will turn in the test after your due date, misread directions, and otherwise expose their weaknesses. You can also consider conducting phone interviews at the final stage of the process. Still unsure? Hire the top 2-3 candidates on a conditional basis for a short project and decide after that. How to Charge and Pay for Your Freelance Writer? You have a lot of flexibility on how you pay your freelance writer: per word, per article, per page, per project, hourly, or on a pre-arranged flat fee. As far as paying your freelancer, PayPal is probably the easiest way, unless the writer is going to be on your payroll getting paper checks. If you use Elance.com, you can use their escrow system. Other Issues to Consider If you are doing a long-term project, consider setting milestones for the project, i.e. breaking it up into a series of small projects with intermittent due dates. You can also use a website like BaseHQ.com to keep track of the project with the freelancer. This site provides a common workspace for two parties working long-distance on a similar project. Also, if your freelance writer is working with sensitive material for your company, consider having them sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement. This document will bind the freelancer into keeping your trade secrets private. Another tip is to not be so specific with what you want done that the freelancer has no room to pitch ideas or give feedback. Freelance writers have extensive expertise in projects just like yours and may be able to add a valuable outside opinion. Take advantage of what you’re paying for. ———- This article was written by freelance writer Staci Marquez-Nichols. For more information, visit staci-marquez-nichols.com.

Many beginners believe writing picture books are a breeze, but it requires a lot of skill to pack a story into a few words. If writing a picture book is your dream, here are some tips to consider before you begin: 1. Keep it simple. You should be able to sum up the plot of your picture book in three sentences. Not every detail, of course, but the broad strokes. Use one sentence for the beginning (naming your main character and the problem or conflict he’ll face in the story), one for the middle (describing the gist of the efforts your character makes to solve his problem), and one for the end (how he finally resolves the conflict and reaches his goal). If three sentences doesn’t capture the essence of your plot, then it’s probably too complex for a picture book. Note: You’re concentrating here on plot (the action of the story), rather than theme (the underlying message). Don’t get into describing theme when you’re summarizing your plot. The theme shouldn’t even be an issue at this point. You want to construct the story so the character’s actions, and how he changes because of those actions, implies a lesson to your readers. 2. Think in pictures. The term “picture books” says it all: the illustrations are just as important as the words. The average picture book is 32 pages long, with about four pages of front matter (title page, copyright page, etc.) So you have 28 pages of text and illustration. If you aim for 1000 words to tell your story (the average length of picture book text), that gives you about 36 words per page (some pages will have more words, some less, depending on the pacing of your story). While you don’t want to obsess over precise word counts when you’re writing early drafts of your manuscript, do keep in mind that every page of your book needs to inspire a different illustration. So count out 36 words from your manuscript and note how big a block of text that is on the page. That’s about how many words you can devote to each illustration. After that, your characters have to do something - move around, change locations - so the illustrator will have a new picture to draw. One way to think in pictures is to convey the character’s problem, and her efforts to solve that problem, in concrete, visual terms. If your character is having trouble memorizing facts for school, that all takes place inside her head. But if she’s embarrassed because she can’t swim, then her attempts to learn are easily illustrated. Note: Some illustrations will span two facing pages, called a two-page spread. In this case, you’ll have about 70 words for that one illustration. But picture books are a mix of single page illustrations and two-page spreads, so keep the action moving at a good pace. 3. Keep a childlike outlook. Picture book characters can be children, adults, animals or fantasy characters. But all main characters must embody the sensibilities of a child between the ages of 4-8. This mean the problem your characters faces needs to be relevant and important to your target audience. The way your character tackles that problem must fit with the way a child would tackle it. Don’t create an adult main character just so you can impose some adult wisdom on your readers. Grown-up characters using the emotional, illogical and sometimes messy coping strategies of children can be a very effective, and funny, storytelling technique. Above all, the character must be the one to solve the problem, using methods that are accessible to children. If readers see themselves in your main character, then they’ll understand the underlying message of your story.

As the Internet get bigger and bigger as time goes on so does article marketing. If you can produce keyword rich articles that are written by you then the search engines will reward you by giving you a high ranking on the search engines. Also you can submit them to the article directories to gain more back links. Here is five easy steps you can take to improve your article marketing and to help you get better rankings. 1. Whatever niche you are going to write about you need to a keyword list, make it long the longer the better. Having a quality set of keywords is to your advantage in today’s marketing strategies. 2. Look for a keyword tool that you can bookmark and go to when you need to. The two that comes to mind with me are Google Keyword Tool which gives you a comprehensive list of keywords according to the main term of your topic. Also try Word tracker it will be free for a certain time period then after that you will have to buy a subscription. 3. Go on the internet and start looking for great titles! Go and have a look at your favorite article web page and start looking at the article titles on that page this will give you ideas on some good article titles that you can re-write. Create a file of potential article titles that are going to grab the interest of the reader. The title is a very important part of article writing if you don’t have good title no one is going to click on it. Make your title sound interesting grabbing the attention of the reader. 4. Having a good first paragraph is important too. You only have a small window of opportunity to grab the readers attention and get them to stay on your site and read the rest of your article. 5. Writing articles is a gift that writers have, you can adopt this with practice and write the best articles you can, and over time your writing is going to get better and better. Keep at it and try and improve your writing with each article make them helpful to the reader and try to keep it interesting thought your copyright. 6. Last and probably the most important, submitting your article to the best article directories around, don’t try and submit your articles to the many article directories that are available. You need to look at the page rank of every article directory that you look at. Page rank is important when your submitting your articles. For instance you might submit to twenty high ranked article directories apposed to 100 directories that are not ranked and will never be seen by anyone. So try and get the best ranked sites that you can to submit your articles too. Copyright 2009 Charles Goldie Charlie is a professional writer who does article writing as a hobby. He lives in Vallejo CA, with his wife and son. Charlie has been working in the maintenance field all his life but just recently attended college to get a degree in medical billing which he has taken an interest in. He also likes to be invovled with his home based buisness in his spare time. You can visit charlies blog at :Home Business Ideas And Opportunities Blog

One evening on the outskirts of the Kingdom of Ayatana, an old man in rags with one eye, leading a lame white horse, came upon an old beggar who lay dying by the side of the road. The old man gently sat the beggar up, and holding him up in his arms, gave him some water. But the beggar could not drink; he could barely open his eyes. With parched lips, the beggar looked up and murmured, “My king.” “It’s been a long time, my friend,” the king quietly said, “but now I will hold you as you once held me in my darkest hour. Do you remember my promise in the blacksmith’s cell?” The jailor didn’t answer. He was quiet for awhile, and then managed to whisper, “I see you have found your key, Sire.” “Yes, it was never far away,” the king replied, “just here,” as he pointed to his heart. The jailor’s breathing was labored, but he managed to say that he was trying to make it to the forest, just as his king had done. But he knew that it was too late now; he was just an old man, all alone, whose time had come. And he was frightened. The king held him for a moment. Then he said, “There is nothing to fear. You are as a splendid sunbeam that danced on the earth for a moment, and will now stream back into your destiny only to stream forth again and again, and each time, you will be stronger and wiser. Just as a beam differs not from the sun which it is born, you are truly the sun, and the sun is all of you. Soon you will see the truth of this for yourself, for your faltering efforts to reach the key with your last steps have made all the difference.” The jailor looked up for the last time, and smiled. And then, his eyes closed. They remained by the side of the road; the day was ending. The king held the jailor’s lifeless body as passersby shook their heads at such a sight as two apparently drunk, old beggars trying to prop each other up. The light waning now, the king carefully lifted his friend’s withered body, holding it close to his heart, and carried him up a nearby hill. He laid him gently under the branches of a little tree - a tree that would serve as the jailor’s forest. And then, as the king walked slowly back into the woods, away from his kingdom. a crippled, white horse followed in his footsteps. And the old, one-eyed man had a smile on his face, and he had peace in his heart. The king was happy. (THE END) (hr) E. Raymond Rock of Fort Myers, Florida is cofounder and principal teacher at the Southwest Florida Insight Center, .SouthwestFloridaInsightCenter.com His twenty-nine years of meditation experience has taken him across four continents, including two stopovers in Thailand where he practiced in the remote northeast forests as an ordained Theravada Buddhist monk. His book, A Year to Enlightenment (Career Press/New Page Books) is now available at major bookstores and online retailers. Visit .AYearToEnlightenment.com