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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Fantasies, Dreams

On the ferry to Seattle this morning, out of the mist pops Mt. Reineer like a more rough Mt. Fuji guarding the Bay. It’s Saturday, our third day in a row of shows (book reading with music from Nine Pound Shadow) and we’re feeling more in the groove than we have yet. The sun is [...]

Daily Journal

Even the seers and psychics can only see so much
And besides, they’re often wrong
Stop doddering around in other people’s advice
Far above the mountains
Beyond the realm where petty thoughts can take root
There is a space
That only you can access
Nobody can take you there
No words from the master will carry you
It is so high that you cannot [...]

Nine Pound Shadow Joins Saltwater Buddha on Tour

My favorite band of all time, Nine Pound Shadow, hit the Saltwater Buddha
book tour with me today. We’ll be touring through Washington, Oregon and California together and they rock!!! (In a mellow kind of a way). I wrote about the band in San Francisco Magazine a few years ago. Here are our upcoming dates:
Saturday, June [...]

Northward

Brief update from the trail. Now that I’ve remembered how to sleep in my van comfortably — the secret is being incredibly exhausted from too much surfing — the northward journey is shaping up like a real adventure, just like Lord of the Rings but without any Nazguls lurking about. There have been a couple [...]