I own a software company in Austin. It's unlikely he also lives in Austin, and I've never met him personally.

Anger comes quickly, kindness takes time. If DR happens to make it to Austin one day, it's unlikely we'd meet.

But I think I'd still buy the first drink for something as simple as his effort toward empathy when anonymous anger is a choice, and being motionless, always easier.

Here's some Howard Bloom for 4am and the third glass of tequila:

"I’ve been searching Gods all my life, now I know them. There is a meaning to life. There are things worth believing in. There are things worth being passionate about.

"All of this plays a part in trying to give a positive sense of something to believe in. A positive crusade of thought, of meditation, of emotion – that you can use to advance humanity tremendously – and that excises deliberately the God of War.

"When you find the Gods inside yourself, you’ll find the God of war and he will be one of the most powerful passions in you. You have to freeze him in his own private hell and make your positive Gods the Gods that take you over.

"And by the Gods that take you over, I mean you have to find those passions that are so much more powerful in you than anything you’ve been allowed to express in your life – and making those things the things that you work on – not putting off until you’re 40 or 50. The things you feel passionate about at the age of 15 and 16, and going directly to those things and trying to implement them when you’re 20.

"Pass go, forget the 200 dollars, go directly to Park Place and put your life there, on the line, with all the emotion, power and passion and insight in you.

"And fuck the God of war."