| My dear Alicia, It has been a year since I met you, and I have finally gotten in touch with you! I don't know if you remember me, Lauren (Sage) Maurer, from the Herbal Conference? I was hoping to find a way to contact you, and get your address to send that zine of mine (a new issue just came out) that had some of your book pages in it. It has been hard to get a copy of it because I only make copies for friends...but I have one and I want to send it to you! I am in Jamaica Plain, working at a health food store called Cambridge Naturals, and studying herbalism at two schools. They both will be finished soon, and I am forming a school of my own called The Gaia School of WiseCraft to teach herbal healing, magic, and energywork. The class starts in March, and I would love to send you a brochure for it so that you can see what I'm up to. I'd also love to send you the latest issue of my zine. I will have to go out and make another copy for you! :) I hope that life is beautiful and full for you, wherever you may be right now! Drop me an email with your mailing address if you get the chance. It was so wonderful to meet you when you came to the conference last year. I have always treasured your book. Green goddess love and blessings )0( Sage (lauren m.) Sage is in her early twenties and has been
publishing for some years a 'zine focussed Shari Elf is an artist/songwriter/musician with an
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| Letter to Ayala Talpai at www.fiberfanatics.com Hi,
I love your website and all the pics by Alicia Bay Laurel.
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on the Earth when I was in Mendocino
last year. It was just a little more wonderful the second time around. All Love, Safety, and Joy to you, Sandi |
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| i got your book this weekend! i love
it thank you so much alicia...what a sweet inscription :-) love you hadley |
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| Dear Tracy, I just received your very cool package - mahalo nui loa - that was quite neat. Alicia plays excellent slack key guitar! I enjoyed her cd. Shari Elf is so refreshingly bizarre - her cd was just too fun! Thank you! Love & Aloha, Jane Voice of the Goddess: Wildflower Revolution |
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| Quicksilver Messenger Service and
Open Communications and Mass Sightings with the Ships. Those were the days. Yes they were. It's a great thing we have such back up! Remember Quicksilver's "Pride of Man"? Check out the lyrics: Pride Of Man Turn around, go back down, back the way you came, Can't you see that flash of fire ten times brighter than the day? And behold a mighty city broken in the dust again, Oh God, Pride of Man, broken in the dust again. Turn around, go back down, back the way you came, Babylon is laid to waste, Egypt's buried in her shame, The mighty men are all beaten down, their kings are fallen in the ways, Oh God, Pride of Man, broken in the dust again. Turn around, go back down, back the way you came, Terror is on every side, lo our leaders are dismayed. For theose who place their faith in fire, their faith in fire shall be repayed, Oh God, Pride of Man, broken in the dust again. Turn around, go back down, back the way you came, And shout a warning unto the nation that the sword of God is raised. Yes, Babylon, that mighty city, rich in treasures, wide in fame, Oh God, Pride of Man, broken in the dust again. The meek shall cause your tower to fall, make a new pyre of flame, Oh you who dwell on many waters, rich in treasures, wide in fame. you bow unto your God of gold, your pride of might shall be a shame, For only God can lead His people back unto the Earth again. Oh God, Pride of Man, broken in the dust again. A Holy mountain be restored, and mercy on that people, that people. Light, Char ~* beloved alicia george naope is kahuna. he is maybe ordinary ancient hawaiian. somebady says <menehune>. i started hula lesson since this spring. my kumu(japanese) is naope's haumana. sometime he came okinawa. i amnot wanna be dancer,but i wanna access hawaiian culture deeply.hula is must. and dance is so pleasant,but little bit hard........ my partner donto loves george naope. when we stay hawaii,we looking for his concert,but not found it. however i saw him in okinawa ,nov last year. he came for king kamehameha hula competision in okinawa. i told him donto's story. he taught me his telephone number. i met him june this year when i stay big island. he gave me maile lei(most holy lei) for donto's 1year memorial ceremony. reality is most miracle......also you&me. couse i brought your book when we (donto&me)start before last trip for hawaii. mahalo! from okinawa with big love. Sachiho Kudomi (Sachiho is a bass player, vocalist and multi-instumentalist. Her CDs are available at www.cdbaby.com. Check out Amara, by the group Amara, and Rainbow Island by the group Umi No Sachi.) |
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| My entire way of being today,was formed
from my Wheeler experience. I was given more love than I had ever received in my life, learned about mother nature, family/tribe and a sense of belonging and responsibility, taught how to cook, chop wood, carry water, survive, give birth, raise babies, make love to men,garden, meditate, practice yoga, eat and prepare healthy wholesome foods, take care of my body and psyche, taught about Ahimsa and spirituality and resisting /questioning authority etc. etc. I have been
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| Dear Jodi, Jack and Tribe, Many thanks for your generous words about Living On The Earth. My intention when I created the manuscript was to make something for the people living at Wheeler's Ranch, a pamphlet to share on the land. I could see that, like me, most of us had never lived without electricity, running water, and telephones. Each of us had a piece of the information that all of us could use. So, I went around to people on the land, asked questions, took notes, and then I drew pictures. Later, seeing there was more we might want to know, I did research in the library and from other people elsewhere. By the time I finished doing that, I had over two hundred pages of notes, and I had to find some way to get it printed for free, since I didn't have any money. Ramon sent me to see Stewart Brand at the Whole Earth Catalog, and Stewart sent me to Book People in Oakland (his distributor), offering to put a review in the catalog if it got published. Book People had just started their own publishing company, the Bookworks, and my book was the second book they published. They printed ten thousand copies, which sold out within two weeks. No one was more surprised than I was. Then, without being approached by an agent (I had none), Random House bought the rights, gave it a lot of publicity, and sold 350,000 of them, including a lot of library copies. How did this happen? If I knew, I would have done it again! The creation of the book did not come out of a vacuum. At nineteen, when I began work on it, I had already made three (unpublished) handwritten, illustrated books, worked as a graphic artist at the LA Free Press, took a semester of fashion design and pattern drafting at Pacific Fashion Institute in San Francisco, briefly studied lettering at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland, studied life drawing with Charles White III at Otis Art Institute, worked out of my own art studio at the Industrial Center Building at Gate 5, Sausalito, was mentored by artist Jean Varda, and was home-schooled in art by my mother, a sculptor who has had gallery shows and taught at universities. Jack is right about Wabi-sabi. That idea, that drawings don't have to imitate photographs, that less is more, guides my aesthetic. I love raku-ware tea bowls for this. I wish I could get rid of things regularly as Jodi does. Between art I've made and collected (art and recordings by friends, folk art, favorite books, many by friends), materials and tools for art, music and writing, business papers ('way too many of these), a ten foot rack of homemade and second hand clothes (mostly purple, Paula), and the usual housewares, I hardly feel like the girl who lived in a quonsethut with one guitar, one dress, a Rapidograph, and one sleeping bag in 1969. Still, I am blessed to be able to go out of the house and be surrounded by the forest, with its symphony of birds, frogs, insects, and white noise. Bright blessings to you all, Alicia |
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| Alicia, I remember meeting you in front of the CO-OP, on Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley, a few days after the first printing of "Living..." You were trying to sell some, from under your arm, to get enough money to eat. Seems you were flat broke and crashing with friends in Berkeley. I can't recall if I gave you some change or if I was broke too, at the time. You looked very worried. I thumbed through the book and saw that it was a 'How To,' and they never interested me much, so I didn't take it very seriously. I read, recently, that 'Gone With the Wind' received 13 rejections from different publishers. Just think,....if the right person hadn't seen your book it could have become a forgotten project from the hippie days. But Goddesses/Gods planned it differently, eh? Thanks for the history, and the work, that led up to your masterpiece. It's a better world, for it. Into a folder, goes your story, for the friends who might ask. Cheers, Jack Hi Alicia, Me and Jennifer are looking at your amazing web site. She is a fan! she knows of your books and will email you. she wants to go to Hawaii. she's an artist here and goes to our arts meeting She loves your photos on your travel pages! She loves all the pictures of your beautiful and healthy friends but thinks you are the healthiest and most radiant looking. Wow, I was on the phone and we were looking together over the phone both on our computers. Did you do your web site yourself? It's amazing and your pictures are amazing. I would love to have a place on my web site for shari's travels like you do. I have to take a web design class I guess. any who, I hope she emails you, she was real inspired love Shari Elf Hello Alicia-- I have enjoyed your books for many years and now today I have mightily enjoyed your web site. Each and every picture is lovely and I have looked at them all, feeling like I've had a marvelous trip myself...I'm ready for a nap just browsing! I am wishing to come to Hawaii maybe in december or so, and I had phoned Shari Elf, asking her for any tips on visiting Hawaii's hippie world--she told me to email you to ask and when I arrived at your web site in search of said address, I recognized your familiar drawings. How fortunate the world is to have had you chronicalling (sp?) it's growing. I am a shamanic arts/ artist person myself, and am intersted in visiting whatever homes of alternative culture are flourishing there in the islands. If you could please give me some tips at your convience I would be so appreciative. Best blessings,
jennifer Field :) |
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| Heavenly days, there you are again,
Alicia I logged onto your website, put some
ice in a glass, forgot to pour the Keep being Alicia, MJ Harden |
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| Alicia. The other day, my world stress grief body was occupying too much room in my own body so, I sang and swayed myself free, to your most soothing voice and music. Also, we are babysitting a very bitty kitty. To help her adjust to this strange new environment, I played your CD. Almost immediately she crawled into her little bed and...basically, blissed out! Your music soothes both "man and beast"! Susan
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