I don’t know, maybe it is the high-stakes election, maybe it is the fact that Judith Malina is still blowing people’s minds advocating for the beautiful anarchist revolution and Paradise Now! after all these years (I need to go see that show!!) maybe it is the mix of terror, frustration, futility, fatalism and schadenfreude that is the economy, maybe it is that I’ve had a cold for four days and I’m exhausted and feeling kinda crummy. Maybe it is because my last two birthdays sucked huge donkey junk. Maybe it is because as I reach the event horizon from which I can see my own eventual mortality, I want, more than anything, to be transformed. And I want you to transform with me. I want us all to take this spaceship to the next level and evolve. I know we can do it, I just know we can. We have to.

So come with me to celebrate another trip around the sun, welcome the ghosts of past and future (because you know that there are backwards-ghosts don’t you?) to breach the space-time continuum and join with us in a timeless invocation of endless possibility.

I don’t know how we’re going to do this so bring your imagination and a costume and  I think there’s gonna be cake. My trusty support team tells me there will be cake. Bring your best self, come dressed as what you fear most and let’s exorcise fear and move forward with hope, conviction and vision.  Peace. Dig it? Amen.

This is my happening and its freaking me out!

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