The (Not) Very Helpful Self-Help Book author Fluthipper Whartsandes offers pithy yet inane techniques for enduring life’s challenges. 

Though not a trained or even educated Buddhist, Fluthipper plays one in his imagination.

Please humor him.

The days loiter into autumn, sun sinks sooner under fuller moon, night chills and bones rattle.

No wonder All Hallow’s Eve arose to express the horror of the approaching winter.

So many will freeze to death from lack of love and compassion in a “Christian” realm where the homeless, impaired and ignorant are ignored.

Tents standing lonely against the weather nestle against one another for a square block in NW Vancouver.