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“If you’re going to care, it’s an act of courage. If you choose to care about the world today, you’re going to be the salmon swimming upstream; it’s not going to be the easy path. If you look at our mainstream media sources, we’re not encouraged to care, we’re encouraged to be in fear. So, choose to be silly, be playful, be light, because the issues we’re facing are heartbreaking indeed. We need tools that keep our passion alive even if we come up against obstacle and obstacle again.”
interview with Elisa Parker, Wild & Scenic Film Festival, 2017
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Hi Julia…
Don’t know if you remember me but I met you way back in the day after the Luna vigil… at a bookstore on Haight… then did some volunteer work (very little sadly) at your Berkeley office.
I’m glad you’ve moved on… one cannot stay stuck in the past and you’re too valuable of a human soul to serve as a statue of your former self! I did wonder what you were up to today as I re-read “Luna”… now at 66 years old a fond look back on a wonderful message of love and caring for our planet.
I hope you’re doing well, happy, fulfilled and still, in a quiet way fighting for sanity in this amazingly chaotic time. For myself, I live in Dunsmuir Ca now and just spend time volunteering at schools and the local college, teaching maker technology and doing what I can. i have a lovely small property with bears, cougars, deer, foxes, possums, squirrels and all kinds of birds. The forest fires up here the last few years have been terrifying yet I still have many neighbors who scoff at the climate emergency and laugh openly at Greta Thonburg, who I think of as a savior of our planet as long as she, like you, can put up with the madness of being an archetype and persona.
If ever you’re up my way I’d love to sit over a beer and show you my tiny respite from the crazy world… I’m quite proud of the work I’ve done and the love we put into a very old house made of very old wood which will never be available again, and which I re-use every single piece of down to the slivers!
Be Well, stay full of life and may your future be soft, gentle, and joyful.
PS I was the guy who cried and told you how I harvested Christmas trees at the book signing ! lOL