On a Monday in June, I loaded myself and a couple friends into my van and went on a pilgrimage to the desert near Bishop, way out East on I395.

When we arrived the sound system hadn't started up yet, so we set up camp and I helped park cars for a while. The music that night was fairly interesting techno.

The next day, John Kelley played house. He played some of the cheeziest house tracks I've ever heard -- but somehow, it all worked. And I began to form a theory (more on that later.)

My trip, if one person can be said to have one trip, is that everything is connected -- I tend to focus on the social aspects, this person knowing that person and how and when, stretching off towards infinity...but it's not just social, EVERYTHING connects.

Internally, though, I still have some things segregated. In a large way I still see meditation as something sacred, and as something seperate from "better living through chemistry."