Jason Rhode

"I want everyone who reads this to know, I generally approve of pies." - Jason Rhode

"AvaTor, the Last Torbender" - Jason Rhode

"I aim to please. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped..." - Jason Rhode

"**DRINK.** **DOWNERS.** **UPPERS.** **WEED.** My grandmother used to rant about the old days, a time of peace when the Dealer kept balance between *the Drink Tribes, the Opiate Kingdom, the Upper Nation, and Drum Circle, also known as the Weed Nomads*. **But that all changed during Heisenberg's Comet when the Upper Nation attacked.** Only the Dealer could master all four elements of the drug world. He was mankind's tie to the spirit world, the world of hallucinogens. Only he could stop the ruthless firebenders. *But when the party, and the world, needed him most, he vanished.* The Dealer didn't respond to calls or texts. A hundred hours, or maybe it's a hundred years, have passed and the unsleeping Upper Nation is nearing victory in the war. Two years ago, my father and other drunks of my tribe journeyed to the Opiate Kingdom to help fight against the Upper Nation, leaving me and my brother to look after the keg. Some people believe that the Dealer was never reborn into the Drum..." - Jason Rhode

"Right on, man. I have a notecard by my bed; on it I have written a vow I made. I promised myself that when I got out of my own issues, I would help heal others. My own version of the Four Vows of Buddhism. I think we are probably peas in a pod in this regard. It's funny, it's like nobody knows how much they know, or what they have learned, until we begin to write this stuff down for others. A chain of compassion forged link by link by the understandings (and all-too-often) the sufferings of others, or of those who have gone before. What wisdom is locked up in the minds of those who have always had healthy assumptions! When we are naturally successful at some endeavor, we do not often consider what we are doing right. I come from a happy family. I didn't realize what my family did *right* until I had seen unhappy families, and only then did I know what they did *wrong*. Perhaps this is why many of us do not fully recognize the progress we have made in our own journey. Perhaps this is..." - Jason Rhode