Thomas Brill and myself, Brian Parks, meet once a week to discuss the nature of existance and other topics of interest. We figured why not speculate on a specific topic each week just for laughs. Our first one is big. The 81 chapters of the Tao the Ching written approximately 300 or 400 BCE. This week we start with chapter one. We are laypersons with no special training or knowledge giving our first impressions of the 1989 Hendricks translation.