Dear old friends and hopefully new friends: It has been two years since I quit the list and followed other paths for awhile. A few weeks ago I rejoined the FW list and it felt like coming home. Gee, you guys have all gotten so much smarter that I feel slightly intimated in posting.
Still, as I have my walks along the Salmo river with my two dogs in the wilderness of the Kootney's in Southern B.C., I find myself still thinking about the problems of the world. And so, once more I venture into this heady company. I do not have the access to the books as the Public Library Service is marginal and requesting books takes forever - so I'll have to compensate by just being outrageous and original. Like Ray and Brad, my basic perspective is from the arts. And so for all you highly trained and educated people, you will just have to put up with our wild and wacky ideas, for we see the world differently - not better, just differently. Where I live now is paradise and it is populated with the remmants of the 60's. Back to the land, dope smoking, acid dropping, mushroom tripping interesting people who follow every spiritual discipline known to man as well as raising some of the healthiest, most balanced children it has ever been my pleasure to be around. Money is not the most important thing in these small communities - life is - friendship is - personal growth is - clean air and healthy food is - and intellects abound. People who have dropped out of the rat race, artists, musicians, poets, metaphysicans, explorers in consciousness. I feel at home here. I'll try and let you into this world as you sit in traffic jams or wrestle with your complex income tax forms - for there are different worlds out here in the world and for some, the adventure of discovery is more important than the adventure of success. So, let the adventure continue, may we share the same campfire, light up a dubbie and kick back and look at the stars and listen to the rustle of wilderness, feel the oldness and immensity of the mountians, hum gently to the chuckle of the mountian stream and know that life is life. Let us discuss the Budda, argue about Sufi dancing, talk about channeled entities, relate our latest drug induced trip to places others don't go - and snuggle up to our ladies or play with our children. Our economy is the economy of happiness and we will be happy no matter what the world chooses to do for here remains the last holdout of that social phenomena of the 60's, alive and well and into the third generation - and it can only happen in Canada. Respectfully, Thomas Lunde
