1 00:00:02,07 --> 00:00:07,97 Quick. Google. 2 00:00:10,51 --> 00:00:15,35 Google. Go. 3 00:00:19,22 --> 00:00:25,64 Well contest your purse back to. I'm Jean Duncan and I'll be the host today 4 00:00:25,65 --> 00:00:30,66 a senior perspectives is brought to you by MC T.V. 5 00:00:30,86 --> 00:00:37,03 And the senior center and we're in the Mendocino Coast television studios today and 6 00:00:37,04 --> 00:00:42,95 our guest is Marilyn mother bear 7 00:00:43,42 --> 00:00:47,37 Scott and she's a poet and 8 00:00:47,38 --> 00:00:51,04 a priestess. And so that should be 9 00:00:51,05 --> 00:00:56,17 a really interesting interview and she hung out with can keys each as 10 00:00:56,18 --> 00:01:02,40 a lot of interesting background so welcome to our show well it's 11 00:01:02,41 --> 00:01:07,89 a pleasure to be here Gene I actually I've hung out with really I have to say 12 00:01:07,90 --> 00:01:14,81 a lot of interesting people in my life starting back so I know Keesey is of 13 00:01:14,82 --> 00:01:21,78 a local interest. I know absolutely people want to hear about but gosh there's 14 00:01:21,79 --> 00:01:27,49 an awful lot where shall we start well you tell me that you went to then it 15 00:01:27,64 --> 00:01:33,69 Bennington and maybe we should start there or did you want to start before there 16 00:01:34,02 --> 00:01:40,25 well I went to Boston University and Bennington and then back to 17 00:01:40,26 --> 00:01:43,45 Boston Mary and do 18 00:01:43,46 --> 00:01:49,71 a lot of things that we can talk about there that's where. I started dance at 19 00:01:49,72 --> 00:01:55,97 Bennington. And I loved it that we didn't have to do gymnastics that we could dance 20 00:01:56,86 --> 00:02:00,35 to aspects and I had studied dance as 21 00:02:00,36 --> 00:02:06,77 a youngster too in Philadelphia but when I got to Bennington we could do dance 22 00:02:06,81 --> 00:02:13,79 every day and did it was it was wonderful and then when I went back to Boston I 23 00:02:13,80 --> 00:02:20,74 continued my dance practice and. Performed in several companies and also created my 24 00:02:20,75 --> 00:02:23,88 own theater group. I've been into theatre since I was 25 00:02:23,89 --> 00:02:29,25 a child into words into performance I used to make all the little plays in the 26 00:02:29,26 --> 00:02:35,68 living room on Thanksgiving and other family occasions one that danced before you 27 00:02:35,69 --> 00:02:42,41 mention Merce Cunningham and few others that. You were involved 28 00:02:42,42 --> 00:02:43,59 with there was 29 00:02:43,60 --> 00:02:50,32 a wonderful organization in Boston during that period of time just started up 30 00:02:50,33 --> 00:02:54,77 really called dance circle I don't know if it's still going on it might still be 31 00:02:54,78 --> 00:02:59,71 going on at the time they would bring in master classes you could attend master 32 00:02:59,72 --> 00:03:02,82 classes there and have periods of time like 33 00:03:02,83 --> 00:03:08,33 a couple weeks for you danced with that person Merce Cunningham and Osaka lob Jose 34 00:03:08,34 --> 00:03:14,23 Limone and just I can't remember all the names at this moment but all the did you 35 00:03:14,24 --> 00:03:19,92 ever meet talk my life tar and actually I met her briefly once but she came 36 00:03:19,93 --> 00:03:21,80 a little after that period but what 37 00:03:21,81 --> 00:03:28,34 a wonderful choreographer I adored her and so. The 38 00:03:29,03 --> 00:03:34,45 theater I created my own theater at the at the time it was called often little see 39 00:03:34,46 --> 00:03:40,96 in or I incorporated and we did plays of social and political significance things 40 00:03:40,97 --> 00:03:47,92 like Lorca and the one nights of Saran and birth ball Greg Oh wow those 41 00:03:47,93 --> 00:03:53,67 kind of pieces that we hoped would bring awareness and all it was started down the 42 00:03:53,68 --> 00:03:59,21 church basement them went to the wards before they were all rebuilt in Boston and 43 00:03:59,22 --> 00:04:00,18 we created off 44 00:04:00,48 --> 00:04:07,57 a loft there and an Maslow was the created the ark our A and. My 45 00:04:07,58 --> 00:04:12,53 husband and I created the theater an open person Ian Feodor and it was really 46 00:04:12,54 --> 00:04:18,68 wonderful colliery and now her use to come to our plays and we got good reviews and 47 00:04:18,79 --> 00:04:20,07 how it was 48 00:04:20,08 --> 00:04:26,78 a very wonderful period of. Yeah I was sent off then Theatre in Berkeley and I am 49 00:04:26,79 --> 00:04:31,83 certainly resonate because they are doing some interesting things there too then 50 00:04:32,70 --> 00:04:39,52 Well one thing that I would like to say is that even though the Adult life is you 51 00:04:39,53 --> 00:04:45,02 know kind of fascinating the young life my youthful as 52 00:04:45,03 --> 00:04:51,94 a child that life was very important in the way my energy and focus 53 00:04:51,95 --> 00:04:54,84 went and I didn't have 54 00:04:54,85 --> 00:05:01,70 a clear idea what I wanted to do when I grew up when I sat and 55 00:05:01,71 --> 00:05:04,61 thought sense what it was as a child and no that was in 56 00:05:04,62 --> 00:05:08,06 a Philadelphia all. My father I'm 57 00:05:08,07 --> 00:05:13,05 a first generation American on my father's side he was born in Scotland and came 58 00:05:13,06 --> 00:05:19,34 over at eleven so. We lived in northeast Philadelphia and 59 00:05:19,64 --> 00:05:26,46 he volunteered for the to go into the war in the 60 00:05:26,47 --> 00:05:33,27 second world war and lost his life so I He lost his life when I was seven and it 61 00:05:33,28 --> 00:05:40,12 really did create an open pathway of spirit for me and I consider him my 62 00:05:40,13 --> 00:05:46,86 first spiritual teacher and so that's why I brought this one 63 00:05:46,87 --> 00:05:48,92 piece I don't know if this is a good time it's 64 00:05:48,93 --> 00:05:50,96 a good time to read it yet because it has 65 00:05:50,97 --> 00:05:57,49 a little bit of this background in it OK I call it solitaire and I'm sure 66 00:05:57,50 --> 00:06:01,93 a lot of people love playing cards I know I grew up playing cards I still like 67 00:06:01,97 --> 00:06:08,88 cards. The deck of cards sat on the end table begging to be played I 68 00:06:08,89 --> 00:06:12,04 wish that my grandson were here we always enjoy 69 00:06:12,05 --> 00:06:18,32 a game of five hundred or rummy or has seen oh He's fifteen now so many other 70 00:06:18,33 --> 00:06:24,65 things to do I taught him to play cards when he was young and I encouraged his 71 00:06:24,66 --> 00:06:30,24 interest and pressed the digit Taishan and other magics even younger than he is now 72 00:06:30,25 --> 00:06:30,99 he could hold 73 00:06:31,00 --> 00:06:37,80 a small crowd with his banter and legerdemain his grandfather my father 74 00:06:37,81 --> 00:06:38,04 was 75 00:06:38,05 --> 00:06:44,66 a magician too he entertained crowds in the church basement my sister and by along 76 00:06:44,67 --> 00:06:51,55 with other church kids sat in the front row I watched every move he made and still 77 00:06:51,56 --> 00:06:58,34 was an all one time he let me and my sister help he held out the top hat I put in 78 00:06:58,35 --> 00:07:02,04 the flower she put in the baking powder we cracked 79 00:07:02,05 --> 00:07:07,87 a couple of eggs into the fact that he dipped his magic wand into the hat stirred 80 00:07:07,91 --> 00:07:14,78 a few times around passed the wand over the hat in canted the magic words. 81 00:07:16,27 --> 00:07:23,23 Kadabra he reached in and brought out fully baked cupcakes offering them 82 00:07:23,24 --> 00:07:30,17 to all the kids it was an every day during those years the war time forties that 83 00:07:30,18 --> 00:07:36,93 we were treated to cupcakes I was so proud he was the king of hearts in my deck of 84 00:07:36,94 --> 00:07:43,66 cards I picked up my deck feeling the comfort of how it fit in my hand fingertip to 85 00:07:43,67 --> 00:07:50,54 thumb I felt the edges lifting up some of the cards letting the remainder of the 86 00:07:50,55 --> 00:07:54,65 deck fall open in my hand releasing the cards 87 00:07:55,49 --> 00:08:02,10 a free fall. Made the deck whole again I repeated the process several 88 00:08:02,11 --> 00:08:02,81 times 89 00:08:03,07 --> 00:08:09,88 a shuffle then wrapping the sides of the deck on the table I even up the edges separated 90 00:08:09,89 --> 00:08:16,38 and hands sand the two parts into one that unique riffling sound 91 00:08:16,89 --> 00:08:23,03 impossible to replicate more words then I tapped the deck on the table rap rap 92 00:08:23,17 --> 00:08:29,27 ready to deal my sister and I played cards with each other and with cousins on my 93 00:08:29,28 --> 00:08:32,91 father's side the Methodists encouraged 94 00:08:32,92 --> 00:08:39,40 a bit of fun the Presbyterians my mother's side were more stern I'm not sure if it 95 00:08:39,41 --> 00:08:45,90 was really OK to play cards in their book but we did it was not long before the fun 96 00:08:45,91 --> 00:08:52,66 was on the card playing the magic acts the church basement Sundays church pew 97 00:08:53,01 --> 00:08:59,99 my Scots born father volunteered to defend America's freedom for us his kids all 98 00:09:00,00 --> 00:09:04,92 kids within a few months of the service he was gone it was 99 00:09:04,93 --> 00:09:11,35 a crying shame that war ended soon after his death the flickering cards in 100 00:09:11,36 --> 00:09:13,55 a fashion awful life's 101 00:09:13,80 --> 00:09:20,69 a magic act now you see it now you don't I deal the cards placing 102 00:09:20,70 --> 00:09:27,65 them on the table one lamp six down one up five down one up 103 00:09:27,69 --> 00:09:28,39 or down 104 00:09:29,24 --> 00:09:35,61 a game of solitaire sets my mind at ease. Now it's wonderful 105 00:09:36,19 --> 00:09:42,94 caring thank you thank you for meeting man. So 106 00:09:42,95 --> 00:09:49,45 you were. Quite young when when you lost your father and that that 107 00:09:49,50 --> 00:09:56,30 changed your life to make you go into the things you later did yes and 108 00:09:56,31 --> 00:10:02,34 it is an unusual surname really I've never told of I don't think in public but he 109 00:10:02,78 --> 00:10:05,29 came to me every year on his birthday in 110 00:10:05,30 --> 00:10:11,80 a dream and spoke to me directly and also answered like 111 00:10:11,81 --> 00:10:13,92 questions as I grow up because when 112 00:10:14,17 --> 00:10:20,58 a child is set loose of his moorings as mother and father you know he's 113 00:10:20,59 --> 00:10:24,41 cast he or she is really cast adrift and there's 114 00:10:24,42 --> 00:10:31,14 a lot more individuality that occurs because that Maureen is gone 115 00:10:31,55 --> 00:10:37,29 I grew up after that my mother went to the Pocono Mountains and my sister and I 116 00:10:37,30 --> 00:10:43,64 were brought up by my grandparents they were just wonderful and very steady and you 117 00:10:43,65 --> 00:10:44,33 know it was 118 00:10:44,34 --> 00:10:50,88 a good place for us to be but there was an element of that was had moved on that 119 00:10:50,89 --> 00:10:57,76 had disappeared and and so my father's. Company like Cain 120 00:10:57,95 --> 00:11:02,98 he came to me like sometimes I feel like oh my gosh as I was growing up by to do 121 00:11:02,99 --> 00:11:04,61 that you know that was not 122 00:11:04,62 --> 00:11:10,99 a good thing. And he would like his words were just it would be from him somehow in 123 00:11:11,00 --> 00:11:16,41 my head and saying oh don't worry about it you did that that's done and you know 124 00:11:16,42 --> 00:11:17,09 you have 125 00:11:17,55 --> 00:11:22,45 a lot more life to live and you can make your own choices and that and I hearken 126 00:11:22,46 --> 00:11:27,90 back to those kinds of languaging and words because you know I always say follow 127 00:11:27,91 --> 00:11:34,57 your nose long enough to get to where you're going. As that's what I did you know I 128 00:11:34,61 --> 00:11:40,30 kind of went in that way the things of choice and freedom and loyalty and 129 00:11:40,56 --> 00:11:47,19 family and those kinds of things were the Scott. Claim you know 130 00:11:47,45 --> 00:11:52,86 baggage you know lulled and he was that the early love he was 131 00:11:52,87 --> 00:11:59,04 a human and humane person so everyone said oh you're like your father we're all own 132 00:11:59,05 --> 00:12:06,04 that race by your father's parents no my mother's mother's Yeah what was she doing 133 00:12:06,05 --> 00:12:08,44 going off to the Poconos when she was 134 00:12:08,48 --> 00:12:14,87 a little girl well I suppose that she married young and 135 00:12:15,47 --> 00:12:20,85 had two children one it nineteen and one that when he wanted to do something like 136 00:12:20,86 --> 00:12:27,03 that and she moved in with her grant her pair parents and then it just got 137 00:12:27,04 --> 00:12:33,68 a little top heavy and I often. Thought. About acting there are 138 00:12:34,16 --> 00:12:38,37 no she went to the pope is this a good question because she had 139 00:12:38,38 --> 00:12:43,53 a wife the sparkle of my mother had definitely had quite the sparkle in her eyes 140 00:12:43,54 --> 00:12:48,64 and was a very sweet wonderful woman sometimes a little you know sad 141 00:12:48,68 --> 00:12:52,61 a lot of things that happened in their life but she went up there my mother and 142 00:12:52,62 --> 00:12:55,25 father were both bookkeepers and she got 143 00:12:55,26 --> 00:12:57,99 a job in the Pocono Mountains away from only 144 00:12:58,00 --> 00:13:02,54 a hundred miles away I when I say how can I when every summer and I thought maybe 145 00:13:02,55 --> 00:13:03,58 she was she was 146 00:13:03,59 --> 00:13:10,53 a comic or something. No she this is fairly serious but very sorry and funny. 147 00:13:13,29 --> 00:13:19,94 OK Well there's so much to talk about in your background because. Well we don't 148 00:13:19,95 --> 00:13:25,25 know how you got out of West for one thing OK we should jump to that because sight 149 00:13:25,33 --> 00:13:27,03 after I graduated from 150 00:13:27,07 --> 00:13:31,85 a school was very important to me that was another part of my life that developed 151 00:13:31,86 --> 00:13:37,26 more fully almost because I didn't have my mother and father there my grandparents 152 00:13:37,27 --> 00:13:41,78 were very steady but you know they were kind of of the what are you going to do for 153 00:13:41,82 --> 00:13:43,36 a living what do you want your for 154 00:13:43,37 --> 00:13:50,11 a job and it. School my mind I was saying that my 155 00:13:50,12 --> 00:13:56,28 intellect gotten encouraged and you know I did very well I love to perform and when 156 00:13:56,29 --> 00:13:57,09 I got in 157 00:13:57,27 --> 00:14:03,42 a lot of positive energy back it it served me well I was the director of the high 158 00:14:03,43 --> 00:14:08,96 school play I did see it or all the time both when I went to church and when I went 159 00:14:08,97 --> 00:14:14,30 to school and it was in my high school days that my spiritual. 160 00:14:15,53 --> 00:14:19,35 Pathway started to on fold into 161 00:14:19,36 --> 00:14:26,04 a more diverse. Relationship with all that is. If people 162 00:14:26,08 --> 00:14:29,75 ask me you know what is your practice who are you 163 00:14:29,76 --> 00:14:35,69 a religious leader spiritually say something like And let's see if I can put it 164 00:14:35,70 --> 00:14:40,93 together right now. And indigenous. 165 00:14:43,18 --> 00:14:49,92 And indigenous Who do you know pagan. Mystic 166 00:14:50,04 --> 00:14:56,93 Christo. All that collective. Big we're not 167 00:14:56,94 --> 00:14:57,98 really going to put this in 168 00:14:57,99 --> 00:15:04,28 a box I don't know I think that's part of my nature you know and I think it was 169 00:15:04,29 --> 00:15:09,22 part of the times part of the late fifty's part of you know I graduated in fifty 170 00:15:09,23 --> 00:15:13,98 five and Joe you're fifty five and went to the Pocono Mountains and stayed with my 171 00:15:13,99 --> 00:15:20,98 mother and then. You know I was had been accepted into the Boston University for 172 00:15:20,99 --> 00:15:22,41 radio and T.V. 173 00:15:22,78 --> 00:15:29,58 Because that performance thread still working right and. But at the 174 00:15:29,59 --> 00:15:30,82 time they had opened up 175 00:15:30,83 --> 00:15:35,97 a new little school that was taught by Harvard people called the College of General 176 00:15:35,98 --> 00:15:40,87 Education I think it was the basis for general education classes afterwards but it 177 00:15:40,88 --> 00:15:41,37 was like 178 00:15:41,38 --> 00:15:48,28 a. A integrated class structure that you had 179 00:15:48,29 --> 00:15:53,49 one theme like the division of western civilization and you did the politics and 180 00:15:53,50 --> 00:15:58,22 humanity in the English Channel all around that team so you get the big idea of 181 00:15:58,23 --> 00:16:01,57 that that part of our history and it was 182 00:16:01,58 --> 00:16:08,19 a wonderful experience and I just like accidentally you know got put into it all of 183 00:16:08,20 --> 00:16:12,62 us who were in that class of us P.R.C.'s school public relations and communications 184 00:16:13,18 --> 00:16:15,13 placed into that we ended up with and they 185 00:16:15,14 --> 00:16:21,67 a degree and I was very spoilt for. Us for the public relations the 186 00:16:21,68 --> 00:16:27,17 communication that it just didn't carry the gravitated I seem to need to go on and 187 00:16:27,36 --> 00:16:31,65 I transferred to Bennington and then came back and got married and did all this 188 00:16:31,66 --> 00:16:38,03 other stuff we talked about and plus in the midst of all that 189 00:16:38,04 --> 00:16:44,65 theatre got involved with. Leary Timothy Leary and Richard 190 00:16:44,66 --> 00:16:51,07 Alpert who became known as Rom DOS and so we did 191 00:16:51,11 --> 00:16:57,87 that energy and we're really on the creative edge of the psychedelic revolution 192 00:16:58,44 --> 00:17:05,43 and. Through that energy we became interested in going to San 193 00:17:05,44 --> 00:17:11,62 Francisco with flowers and. Right that's not where we really ended up my first 194 00:17:11,63 --> 00:17:13,61 husband was an engineer and he got 195 00:17:13,62 --> 00:17:20,15 a job. One of the you know Mountain View places down there 196 00:17:20,50 --> 00:17:26,34 and they paid for our or our transportation and we took the whole summer and not 197 00:17:26,35 --> 00:17:32,88 a beautiful trip west on that trip west that was one thousand nine hundred sixty 198 00:17:32,89 --> 00:17:39,86 seven the summer of logs and we were on the edge of the 199 00:17:40,64 --> 00:17:46,30 age edge that the kids later said we shouldn't trust anyone over that but we 200 00:17:46,31 --> 00:17:53,08 weren't to create them and. We did go witnessed during that time and this is one of 201 00:17:53,09 --> 00:17:59,01 the magic of of that trip and I'd love to read it but I think it takes too long 202 00:17:59,02 --> 00:18:00,21 right now I have 203 00:18:00,22 --> 00:18:05,84 a story about that trip and I'd love to do it I don't know I think you should do it 204 00:18:05,85 --> 00:18:10,25 but I want to ask you first how did the fall Earth Catalog fit into that and now 205 00:18:10,26 --> 00:18:15,44 that's after we get there so we can probably. Write way though I mean I know you 206 00:18:15,45 --> 00:18:20,09 were also involved I was that I want to ask really interested so was very 207 00:18:20,10 --> 00:18:25,43 interesting we're going west on the story will tell little bit about it and truly 208 00:18:25,47 --> 00:18:30,23 we stop it was at the time I know you said if you use your hands and here I am I 209 00:18:30,24 --> 00:18:36,29 can't help myself but when you went on the road in the summer of sixty seven you'd 210 00:18:36,30 --> 00:18:38,69 be like this you know oh yeah 211 00:18:38,70 --> 00:18:43,90 a few things to ever do to other people who were travelling and and you'd stop in 212 00:18:43,91 --> 00:18:49,61 towns and you'd get directed magically to the swimming hole and things of that 213 00:18:49,62 --> 00:18:53,65 nature I went to one of these and Ohio and 214 00:18:53,69 --> 00:19:00,55 a coming out someone from your set. Can't What are you doing here and I said oh my 215 00:19:00,56 --> 00:19:05,51 name's fun kids and of course you look just like my Frankish she lives in Palau 216 00:19:05,55 --> 00:19:09,87 that when I thought oh well that's strange us just where we're going as you said oh 217 00:19:09,91 --> 00:19:16,63 here and wrote down her name and that kid it was part of the kit 218 00:19:16,83 --> 00:19:23,54 and McClanahan family and is part of the Stamford writing group at the time with 219 00:19:23,55 --> 00:19:24,41 King T.C. 220 00:19:24,42 --> 00:19:30,83 So that I went from the least I would add to that and that in for writing group Oh 221 00:19:30,84 --> 00:19:36,73 alright I'll try Sis You know I don't know we may have end up not having so much 222 00:19:36,74 --> 00:19:43,50 time stillness and flights you want me to do this yeah OK sitting in 223 00:19:43,51 --> 00:19:50,48 this corner window looking out into some filtered forest I remember long Honda I 224 00:19:50,49 --> 00:19:54,11 was still a young mother too perfect children a girl and 225 00:19:54,12 --> 00:20:00,78 a boy slim and pretty with long legs stretching to embrace the melodic ravenous 226 00:20:00,79 --> 00:20:07,21 hillsides the seashore so close you could sometimes see between the tree 227 00:20:07,22 --> 00:20:09,55 tops sun shining on 228 00:20:09,56 --> 00:20:16,47 a watery horizon unconditional love there was the seeking I have come 229 00:20:16,48 --> 00:20:21,90 from one coast to the other and I wasn't the only one it was the Summer of Love 230 00:20:22,35 --> 00:20:25,02 across the country I went with my husband 231 00:20:25,03 --> 00:20:30,39 a bright young engineer who made Mescal when in the basement of our Victorian 232 00:20:30,40 --> 00:20:36,81 Boston duplex and our two children leaving all our upper middle class positions in 233 00:20:36,82 --> 00:20:42,35 the hands of the Mayflower movers who ripped us off royally and broke what they 234 00:20:42,36 --> 00:20:46,30 didn't steal. The National Parks were still 235 00:20:46,31 --> 00:20:49,88 a secret club that summer they had issued the gold 236 00:20:50,04 --> 00:20:53,96 a gold club card you could stay in any park for 237 00:20:53,97 --> 00:21:00,82 a full use flat fee of ten dollars for the summer our nine window micro bus bought 238 00:21:00,83 --> 00:21:05,62 the year before was fixed to sleep the four of us and we camped out all the way 239 00:21:06,03 --> 00:21:11,25 sometimes using mesclun to enhance the already mind blowing spectacle of natural 240 00:21:11,26 --> 00:21:16,75 splendor we played in mountain streams for hours we packed the kids up mountain 241 00:21:16,76 --> 00:21:22,59 peaks photographing seeded weeds against the breadth of blue and purple mountain 242 00:21:22,60 --> 00:21:29,57 peaks and getting so close to alpine meadow flowers that I can still smells the 243 00:21:29,58 --> 00:21:36,37 soil I can't remember without weeping with the joy of being there 244 00:21:37,62 --> 00:21:44,04 that summer I recall putting on make up in the pure wilderness I was an Oriental 245 00:21:44,05 --> 00:21:49,61 quartersawn putting paints on my face against the background of snow covered 246 00:21:49,62 --> 00:21:56,37 mountains or meadows of tall flowered studded grasses from there I became unadorned 247 00:21:56,73 --> 00:22:02,00 I stopped wearing make up I took off my clothing and walk naked in the alone in the 248 00:22:02,01 --> 00:22:08,85 meadows feeling the grasses caress my body I can't remember without my senses 249 00:22:08,89 --> 00:22:15,78 awakening my heart opening to embrace I gave up bras. Driving 250 00:22:15,79 --> 00:22:21,30 on highways we passed other buses and cars filled with flower children old and 251 00:22:21,31 --> 00:22:27,20 young our fingers spelled of the for the victory of recognizing the loving one as 252 00:22:27,21 --> 00:22:33,67 that we were the intense and secret look of initiation piercing the mystery of the 253 00:22:33,68 --> 00:22:38,98 Mona Lisa smiles that passed between worlds ages. 254 00:22:40,56 --> 00:22:47,01 We were on our way home to where the heart is to the land where every door is open 255 00:22:47,70 --> 00:22:53,09 ponds of people mixing in the mud special places you found out how to get there by 256 00:22:53,10 --> 00:22:59,23 being there in the right place and going with the flow those people in places lead 257 00:22:59,24 --> 00:23:06,17 to other people and places we were the people the original ones returning to the 258 00:23:06,21 --> 00:23:12,27 earth in our life time more than the messengers we enacted the dream we were 259 00:23:12,28 --> 00:23:18,66 bridging the time before to the time beyond we were between worlds we saw the 260 00:23:18,67 --> 00:23:25,49 horizon way with sparkling fullness the highway turn to country roads the hillsides 261 00:23:25,50 --> 00:23:31,86 cut to red roots hanging bare rocks crumbling to the ground trees thinning to 262 00:23:31,87 --> 00:23:38,58 rolling hills then grass top to do ocean worn rock holding shell and stone sea 263 00:23:38,59 --> 00:23:45,21 water and we'd Sandy sure's it was seventy two degrees that first Christmas in 264 00:23:45,22 --> 00:23:47,28 California we were 265 00:23:47,29 --> 00:23:53,85 a long way from Boston impulsive the beach sought us of it moonlight sought us out 266 00:23:53,86 --> 00:24:00,30 midday moments the window was not enough we had to be there alone 267 00:24:00,36 --> 00:24:06,77 together playing like children playing with children with bunches of people into 268 00:24:06,78 --> 00:24:13,77 the valley we danced where oversized antique dresses discarded military garb on our 269 00:24:13,78 --> 00:24:19,72 way in and. New way I taught at the private school my kids went to and logged we 270 00:24:19,73 --> 00:24:26,32 all loved learning and teaching and loving it was almost the same thing and we did 271 00:24:26,33 --> 00:24:32,93 it all the time between teaching and learning there was an intense stillness in the 272 00:24:32,94 --> 00:24:35,10 flight it is 273 00:24:35,11 --> 00:24:41,09 a different window I look out of now I am alone and still I love the trees seek me 274 00:24:41,10 --> 00:24:47,69 out the sunlight and the darker it is almost all the same thing between the 275 00:24:47,70 --> 00:24:52,79 sunlight and the dark there is an intense stillness 276 00:24:54,98 --> 00:25:01,70 you know wonderful writer thank you again. I really like that I have your 277 00:25:01,71 --> 00:25:08,58 husband was an engineer but he wasn't certainly typical and. I think we were all 278 00:25:08,59 --> 00:25:15,13 bitten by the both times the bugs of the time so we were fortunate I believe in 279 00:25:15,14 --> 00:25:21,90 that way because you know. Not everyone got the 280 00:25:21,91 --> 00:25:28,45 opportunity to explore those doorways that we've got to explore 281 00:25:28,50 --> 00:25:34,15 and co-create even so certainly the engineers I work for the most time my wife 282 00:25:34,50 --> 00:25:41,08 never had those opportunities. Or in any culture at all does you know 283 00:25:41,42 --> 00:25:47,90 so then I got here in the first thing I did was go to see it the Little Thing 284 00:25:48,23 --> 00:25:52,02 She led me to Peninsula School I had already gotten 285 00:25:52,03 --> 00:25:57,33 a job at Stanford. Gave notice once I took 286 00:25:58,21 --> 00:26:03,88 a peninsula because it was just so wonderful for my children the main kind of 287 00:26:03,89 --> 00:26:09,71 progressive school and and so we all were there for six years we did 288 00:26:09,72 --> 00:26:16,02 a commune then and then another commune on Skyline Boulevard 289 00:26:16,48 --> 00:26:22,94 and during that period of time the Whole Earth Catalog was being formed and we 290 00:26:23,45 --> 00:26:30,44 we all lived up on that Skyline Boulevard next door to each other and and did you 291 00:26:30,45 --> 00:26:37,45 do some of the writing for it did you do OK Well actually my. My 292 00:26:37,46 --> 00:26:44,02 first husband and I separated and I was together with my second husband then only 293 00:26:44,03 --> 00:26:50,82 not married yet and he was building airplanes for steward and real did 294 00:26:50,83 --> 00:26:54,54 a lot of social. I didn't have 295 00:26:54,55 --> 00:27:00,38 a job there I have worked at Peninsula School but I went over and played volleyball 296 00:27:00,39 --> 00:27:05,47 with them all the time and we were part of the whole movement of what it was and 297 00:27:05,48 --> 00:27:11,40 actually gurney Norman put my second marriage into the last Whole Earth Catalog 298 00:27:11,41 --> 00:27:17,40 that's the story of divine right that goes page page on that book and gurney was 299 00:27:17,60 --> 00:27:22,76 Norman as one of the fan for writers also with that group and so he wrote that it 300 00:27:22,77 --> 00:27:22,90 was 301 00:27:22,91 --> 00:27:29,05 a page page thing in and in my wedding so my second husband is on the back page and 302 00:27:29,18 --> 00:27:35,13 all through the book is our spiral wonderful oh that's great well we only have 303 00:27:35,14 --> 00:27:41,42 a minute left so I didn't what would you like to do and then it time flies 304 00:27:42,03 --> 00:27:48,79 and we're all really does say I wish we had more time why you tell me well I just I 305 00:27:48,80 --> 00:27:53,76 don't think we have time to read another one I wish we did because I really love 306 00:27:53,77 --> 00:28:00,25 your poetry how long would and Jim and I went one minute could you do and one will 307 00:28:00,26 --> 00:28:07,00 go fast will see I wrote this just last week because my birthday is June eighth and 308 00:28:07,00 --> 00:28:13,47 . And I did it on texting that shows you how modern I am and realized I'd be I'd oh 309 00:28:13,48 --> 00:28:19,78 yeah well just like that two years moving into our birthdays our 310 00:28:19,79 --> 00:28:26,67 birthdays D A Z We Gemini's wander the open them beckoning road wonder 311 00:28:26,72 --> 00:28:32,70 at the destination embrace what is forgive what is not 312 00:28:33,22 --> 00:28:39,90 focus on what we will as it appears so suddenly at times it blows my mind 313 00:28:40,17 --> 00:28:46,95 and we weep and sing and dance and pray that all beings will give up war 314 00:28:46,99 --> 00:28:53,86 and be happy reshuffling the cards resonating with spirit wings taking us. Opt 315 00:28:53,87 --> 00:29:00,22 into OUR be lofted air pure and redolent we swim in flowers 316 00:29:00,47 --> 00:29:07,47 sway with divas touch what is God Goddess goodness plunged 317 00:29:07,48 --> 00:29:13,94 to earth in love with being human and humane breath and body 318 00:29:14,19 --> 00:29:20,59 we enter the all to live and logged in whatever is next 319 00:29:21,29 --> 00:29:27,38 thank you so my to us wonderful aveira and I'm sorry we have to end so quickly but 320 00:29:27,40 --> 00:29:28,06 that that was 321 00:29:28,06 --> 00:29:34,28 a wonderful scene that was my pleasure and everyone be there and go to the 322 00:29:34,77 --> 00:29:40,88 center and when you sit Bannockburn your thought bottom about other actors. And the 323 00:29:40,89 --> 00:29:45,97 electronics. Go. 324 00:29:50,93 --> 00:29:51,48 Thanks.