Angela Davis is important.

Yesterday I was sitting in a funky little hair salon in my neighborhood. The hairdryer is right near the window, and people passing by and driving by can see right in. I didn't realize that my reading material, Angela Davis: An Autobiography would catch anyone's attention.

About twenty minutes into the dryer thing, and someone called the salon. "Angela Davis? There's no Angela Davis in here," said the hairstylist who answered the phone and was working alone in the salon. She then saw the book I was reading. We talked for a brief moment about what happened--10 minutes later. It took us that long to realize that Angela Davis is that significant of a person that someone would respond to watching someone else reading her book.

Shiva or Krishna?

The Vedanta Society of San Francisco came out today in the newspaper with some statement as to the Hindu belief that Jesus is
a kind of avatar like Shiva. Jesus's birth this year, and most years, is celebrated three days after the solstice, therefore on Saturnalia. Isn't Shiva associated with Saturn?

Rodney's Goodbye

This is Rodney Brown's swan song from Access San Francisco cable tv studios. I was the director, camera person and editor for this piece. Rodney has moved to Los Angeles and will be working with Spacetime Productions. Good luck, Rodney!


Thanks to my friends at Digital Etchings, for hosting the video.
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Now and Zen Mermaids and Guitars, Lovers and Love Energy

Now and Zen I just wrote a long, lengthy blog that got put on another website!!! Silly me, I haven't written a blog since July. There's too much to catch up on.

The blog had to do with playing an open mic tomorrow night. I played my guitar and tried to remember my old songs. The open mic will be at Sacred Grounds in the upper Haight opposite the Panhandle on Hayes Street. It is a place full of love energy. One cannot get enought Love Energy.

I'm on a cable access program on Love Energy called The Bro Jud on Love Energy show. I'm the "reader," and I often read from the techies' tome, The Rise of the Creative Class. I used to also read from Amma. I will again. The show is full of love and I think people will appreciate it.

Tomorrow I will also go to Love of Ganesha, a store in the Haight. I will meditate and talk with the people who work there who are from Thailand. They are beautiful spirits. Full of love energy.

About three weeks ago now I met a potential lover at Love of Ganesha. He is from Nicaragua and makes jewelry. There is a considerable difference in our ages. I really admire his sense of freedom, to think about going anywhere he wants. He lives at home with his parents and sometimes with girlfriends. He is a dread head but meditates very often at Love of Ganesha in which there is beautiful mediation room. Somehow I can't get him off my mind even though I went on a date with someone else two weeks ago and had a visit from an old lover who is going back to India last week.

Ah, the heart. It wanders. It ponders. I yearns.

Mermaids and Guitars plus Love Energy and Good-byes

I played my guitar tonight. The back is coming off of it. About 12 years ago I bought it for $90. from a French guy who had bought it in France. It's an Ibanez and therefore was probably made in Japan. I always had a problem with the high end being kind of gritty, but the guitar has been around a long while and has it's own unique sound like all guitars do. I was watching a Naveen Andrews interview on tv about six months ago, and he has a massive acoustic guitar collection. I'm sure real musicians do, too. My guitar collection consists of the Ibanez and and a Gretsch electric. My preference is to play electric, but to do open mics one has to use an acoustic guitar--for some reason!?

Tomorrow night I want to do an open mic at Sacred Grounds, a very love energy kind of place in the upper Haight on the Hayes Street side of the panhandle.

Love of Ganesha will be my stop before I go off to the open mic. Love of Ganesha is on Haight and Central and another store on Ashbury and Page. I love these two stores (how can one love a store??) and try to go to both as often as I can. There are meditation rooms in both stores.

I met someone through the Love of Ganesh store. He is from Nicaragua. He makes jewelry. Our relationship for that one evening and part of the next day was special to me in some way. Perhaps I admire his sense of freedom. He lives at home with his parents and doesn't have to worry about necessary bills. He doesn't even own a pair of shoes that he bought to fit him! He has dreadlocks and considers himself part of the young hippie love scene.

The show Bro Jud on Love Energy is a cable access one that I am on once a month. I've been with the show for 5 years. We are always considering different methods and modes and ways of speaking about love energy. I must have something in common with my young lover and therefore we were brought together. He called me "La Sirena." It is a quandary to me why mermaids are often depicted alone. Can anyone help me with the details of the myths about mermaids? (I'd like to make a song of it.)

I'm so glad to be blogging again!