![]() It's a really relaxed vibe at this weekend festival in the northern California coastal hills. You really need to scan the scene closely to see those who might have been alive during the Summer of Love, no less recall the days of the Cuban Missile Crisis. From my perspective, this is a young crowd. It's early evening but, being just days beyond the solstice, it is still quite warm and there will still be light for at least another hour. And if that didn't make him anti-American enough, there was the time he'd come to the United Nations and banged his shoe on the rostrum, which proved beyond a doubt that the Commies were unpredictable, violent, and crazy enough to blow us all up." "We'll break down these walls with our music and our art" - from a prayer during the opening ceremony at the Enchanted Forest transformational music and arts festival I pause from my reading to watch some of the more talented dancers gyrating amidst the redwoods. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Their chubby bald-headed leader, Nikita Khrushchev, had crooked teeth and an ugly gap between the front two, which showed that Russians didn't even believe in orthodontia. "Yes we're gonna have a wingding A summer smoker underground It's just a dugout that my dad built In case the Reds decide to push the button down." - Donald Fagan, "The New Frontier" "The Russians were evil. ![]()
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