Keith Snyder has posted the foreword he wrote for Turtles all the Way Down on his blog. The book actually has a foreword to the foreword, so that I could explain Keith’s rather unusual foreword, which came out of his experience at this retreat. I think it’s a fascinating piece of writing. (In our emails back and forth, I misspelled foreword about every way you can. forward, foreward, and so on. I just couldn’t spell this word. lol)

FOREWORD
by Keith Snyder
to
Turtles All The Way Down
by Gordon Atkinson

The oy gevalts ricochet down the halls of antiquity. My great-great-great-grandfather slaps his forehead and gives me such a look.

"Hey," I respond with a shrug. "What can I say, the guy's not full of dreck."

"Not full of dreck," says the patriarch. "Not full of dreck is a good thing. It's a mitzvah. But communion?"

"Yeah."

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