Reflections on Detroit, before I leave. This City is mythical - and it fulfills my expectations. It's one of the most wrecked, addicted, ravaged places on earth. Friday night everyone on the street seemed high on heroin, yet among Occupy circles people were soberly expressing gratitude around a campfire behind a squat. The neighborhood was spacious with big yards, like West Hollywood, LA, but here one in five houses is abandoned.
The Occupy movement has somehow gotten a huge activist space to work with at 5900 Michigan Ave in downtown, and the adjoining block long field of grass is being converted into a patch for strawberries and lettuce and flowers. Local organizers like Jessica work with the local kids and teach them where strawberries come from. They are turning the wastelands into a farm.
I am grateful for the fellow activists I meet - they are so full of light. I sometimes worry about the holes in the schedule for this tour, and yet I always seem to meet the people I need to meet, and they seem to be THE people I was meant to meet. People who ask to see my book, and ask to buy it before I have to do the hustle, or the song and dance. The songs came naturally yesterday in a golden sunset in the garden off Michigan Ave. Despite the junkies and the recent robberies, the kids frolicked and doused each other with a garden hose, drenching each other, while I sang "The Diggers Song." Perfect for the moment: "We work the wasteland in common / and make the wasteland grow / this Earth divided, we will make whole...." Music has become more and more central to this tour. It elevates the vibration I am sharing.
Here are some gaps in the tour schedule. If you can help out, that would be great.
TOUR HOLES:
JUNE 11 Monday Columbia, SC or environs?
JUNE 12 Tuesday OPEN DAY
JUNE 27 Wednesday Roswell, NM
JUNE 28 Thursday Albuquerque, NM
JUNE 29 Friday Sante Fe, NM
JUNE 30 Saturday Taos, NM
JULY 1-Jul Sunday Flagstaff, AZ
JULY 2 Monday Sedona, AZ
JULY 3 Tuesday OPEN DAY
JULY 14 Saturday Eugene, OR contact Tsunami Books?
JULY 15 Sunday Portland, OR
JULY 16 Monday Seattle, WA
JULY 19 Thursday Salt Lake City, UT
JULY 20 Friday Jackson Hole, WY?
The Occupy movement has somehow gotten a huge activist space to work with at 5900 Michigan Ave in downtown, and the adjoining block long field of grass is being converted into a patch for strawberries and lettuce and flowers. Local organizers like Jessica work with the local kids and teach them where strawberries come from. They are turning the wastelands into a farm.
I am grateful for the fellow activists I meet - they are so full of light. I sometimes worry about the holes in the schedule for this tour, and yet I always seem to meet the people I need to meet, and they seem to be THE people I was meant to meet. People who ask to see my book, and ask to buy it before I have to do the hustle, or the song and dance. The songs came naturally yesterday in a golden sunset in the garden off Michigan Ave. Despite the junkies and the recent robberies, the kids frolicked and doused each other with a garden hose, drenching each other, while I sang "The Diggers Song." Perfect for the moment: "We work the wasteland in common / and make the wasteland grow / this Earth divided, we will make whole...." Music has become more and more central to this tour. It elevates the vibration I am sharing.
Here are some gaps in the tour schedule. If you can help out, that would be great.
TOUR HOLES:
JUNE 11 Monday Columbia, SC or environs?
JUNE 12 Tuesday OPEN DAY
JUNE 27 Wednesday Roswell, NM
JUNE 28 Thursday Albuquerque, NM
JUNE 29 Friday Sante Fe, NM
JUNE 30 Saturday Taos, NM
JULY 1-Jul Sunday Flagstaff, AZ
JULY 2 Monday Sedona, AZ
JULY 3 Tuesday OPEN DAY
JULY 14 Saturday Eugene, OR contact Tsunami Books?
JULY 15 Sunday Portland, OR
JULY 16 Monday Seattle, WA
JULY 19 Thursday Salt Lake City, UT
JULY 20 Friday Jackson Hole, WY?
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