CORNER MARKET WITH RICH FIELD

      Our 1968 house qualified as a commune because there were over 15 people living in a two bedroom home.  One block from campus.  One of the most coveted spaces was a basement stairwell with a Hindu tapestry.  We did not rate full hipness status because we had no eloquent activists in the upper echelon of the SDS or demonstrators who had actually been arrested.   We still knew the correct slogans and made the scene in full regalia.  For me, the most boring aspect was the constant vocabulary of smoking dope.  I did not like it.  I don't regret some other trips of alternate or expanded consciousness, but once you learn something there is a real high found in returning to good mental and physical health.    I was about to let myself be convinced that my musical equipment (acquired through working construction) should be liberated to the eloquent upper echelon because it "belongs to the people."   Then it happened.  Wh...

  Generated hate is an energy that impacts both sender and receiver.  These times present hate as the dominant energy field created by distraction  I had tried keeping to myself prior to the 2016 election but I had mentioned that I enjoyed "Think Like A Champion", Trump's book in 2006.  Seemed like a good Mind Set study to me.    On the morning after Trump was elected I was attacked with venomous looks and shouts.  I was not to be forgiven for my remembered observation.  I'm bored with snide and misanthropic conversations about his unpleasing (to some) personality so I had not become a member of the President hater club.  This automated me to the 'supporter' outsider club so the frustration of such a drastic change is directed to those of us who do not seem sufficiently angry and frightened.   But this is about my allowing my own participation in the 'angry club' to subvert some real respect and value away from a life's interest.  I...