Harry,

I had the incredible gift to deliver Avatar to one of my childhood friends this week in Taos. We have known each other since the age of two and grew up only a few blocks from each other. Our parents still live in the same houses we grew up in. So it has been thirty years of being in and out of each others lives.

Over the course of this week I have had the great honor of watching her awaken. She has given me such a gift. A gift she is probably not fully aware of yet. Throughout the week I have integrated so many beliefs I had established as a child, especially about my definitions of family and community. I can feel so clearly now how our sangha, the Avatar network, is the family and community I have always intuitively been seeking, Ive already delivered Avatar to my biological family and feel so lucky and grateful to have the opportunity in this lifetime to extend my sense of family and community... our Sangha. Thank you,

Doug Andrews- USA- 2009