RHYMES WITH CRAZY: Swami dearest: Lenore chats with the Krishna next door

See this story at BrooklynPaper.com.By Lenore Skenazyfor Brooklyn PaperWhen he was 19, Richard Slavin, a nice Jewish boy from the suburbs of Chicago, went backpacking in Europe for two months.
“Hey,” I told him. “I have a son about to do the same thing.”“But,” Slavin added with a twinkle, “I never came back!”With that he gave a hearty laugh — as jolly a sound as the ice cream man’s bell. Pure joy. He could laugh now — he was laugh