Welcome home, Donald (you may still be underway :)...
How are/were your Oregon travels?
... enjoying Phil Lesh's "Searching for the Sound" book a lot in audio ... it would be inspiring me to read more highest quality writings in this genre (Cassidy, Jack London?, etc.), from the '60s, - but what Grateful Dead book next?
... and to search for the sound in music-making myself
... as well as to incorporate aspects of his thinking into my Harbin ethnographic book :)
I may explore developing World University and School, as a Friendly service project, in the new emergent very little Quaker Meeting, under the care of SFFM.
... was able to prepare my talk for a UC Santa Cruz philosophy class recently on World University and School and race (glad to be talking in the UC system about WUaS) for Tuesday, February 18th, significantly ...
... heading to write and make music and pipe soon (yea for daily playing) ... wanting to make this social (in real, real time eventually in a Google + Hangout?) and fun like the Grateful Dead seemed to make making ...:)
Hoping your travels are ongoingly illuminating.
:)
Scott
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I'm including here the Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh's autobiography "Searching for the Sound" autobiography in audio and digital text versions, - for which you might need to download the free 'Calibre' reader program. Here's a link to download a zipped Phil Lesh folder -- inside are ePub and mobi (Kindle) ebook files, + the audiobook. It's 160MB.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1924989/Searching%20for%20the%20Sound.zip
Enjoy - it's an inspiring read about a lot of musical creativity!).
Scott
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Hi Donald,
Stopped at Olompali State Park yesterday off 101 north of Novato in Marin on the way back from up north and saw that the Grateful Dead had hung out there (as well as the Coastal Miwok for 1000s of years), but what caught my eye on a park sign there, was that 'The Chosen Family' commune also found a home there from about '67-69 ... curious about Marin / SF Bay and communes in general in the 60s /70s and exploring their freedoms in bodymind even today (virtually) :) ... know of a history or good resources about this? Am listening for this in Phil's enjoyable GD autobiography :)
How was your trip up north?
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Hi Scott,
I don't know if there's a central reference for communes -- obviously google/amazon worth looking at... I can think of Whole Earth Catalog and CoEvolution Quarterly, a book about Esalen from the 80s, one I was interested in was the Kerista Community in the Haight, Family Dog, Diggers, a friend who lived in a (famous?) commune in Komche (west of Ukiah). Endless, I think, but maybe someone's done the work.
Nice trip north, rain but enough clear hours to visit the beach and go for a short hike at Oswald West State Park (S. of Cannon Beach).
Leaving right after M on Sunday for a family do, but will say hi if I see you.
Donald
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