be true to myself and my heart's desires

To be true to myself would be to honor that I was an incorrigle child who needed a lot of love and stimulation and needed to be raised by the world. I was lucky – I got the world. I want to give something substantial back to the world as my thanks. I want to create a model community where we can heal people by working together and playing together – taking the fringe people. The lost kids, the marginal kids, the single men, the childless, mix everyone up and they will gravitate towards each other as they share the tasks of running a community.

To be true to myself would be to say I want to live in community and I want to help other people who are lonely too. I want to share the wealth of the stars of the sky, the bounty of the earth witht the urban bound hopeless street kids so they see there is more.

I have decided to drive from the Southwestern corner of Colorado to Toronto, Ontario to visit my daughter and see her perform in a high school play in which she is starring. This trip is about 2800 miles and will take me through Nebraska where my mother is buried and through Chicago where I was born. I will hang out in Toronto for as long as I want and then I plan to return more trans- Cananda and down through Montana and Wyoming. I plan to do this trip by myself, a lot of great music and with the company of the friendly people I know live in both countties whom I will meet along the way.

I am so stoked! I used to drive cross country and all around the country and was so impsired by the goodness of this land and the kindness of people. I think that there will be a lot of opportunity for talking to poeple about what’s on their minds and what’s important to them. I think that I will be inspired to be hopeful about America. Maybe we will conme up with ideas of things to do to make things better.

But mostly, I am excited to be able to visit my daughter with such an open ended opportunity. No plane to catch. We can hang out and drive to Niagara Falls and I can just be there without a schedule.

How much fun is that?