The Flower Child: My Unexpected Awakening (A true story)

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While standing on the sidewalk near my front yard on a muggy, steamy July day, I noticed a woman approaching from the street. Her rotund body was encased in a long multi-colored skirt and baggy light green top, with a white flower placed neatly on the left side of her brown hair. She was carrying a small zipped case with a University of Minnesota logo on it. She appeared headed for a transitional group home for mentally ill adults next door to our house. We exchanged greetings, then she came … [Read more...]

Spirit Road Radio: Traveling with the Spiritual Activism Movement

Mid-afternoons, fourth Saturdays of each month, my travel partner Rick Bernardo and I set out on the Spirit Road. With our feet to the floor and the wind at our back, we ride to places real and imagined - on the way to a better world.It's all a theatre of the mind - a figment of radio technology generated in a stationery basement studio. In actuality, we are "riding" airwaves beamed to seven metro counties from Air America Minnesota (AM 950), the local version of the nationally … [Read more...]