| Dear Alicia, Thanks so much for your
CD, Living in Hawaii Style. I have been When I heard "Kanikau O Hawaii," I "wept
profusely," and then I read the I can't really say which song I liked best, but I do
have a great fondness for Once again, mahalo (thank you), Tita (sister), Mary Keel |
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personal note made me smile -- with all the wonderful
people you meet on your Meredith is a
friend from our days at Wheeler Ranch commune. She owns a
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Alicia, I have been trying to find this book for awhile now{living on the earth}, as it had been a book I used to own. I refound it on my birthday in Borders books and I'm thrilled! It was like finding an old friend again. It fills me with light, joy, fire...and more happy things. Sometimes ! I'd given up on the way people live and think, and then I saw the book again and it's given me such inspiration! Thanks for the vision and the revision................................. Blessings, Christina Cohn |
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| Good Sunday
Morning Alicia, I apologize for delaying my response to you. Of course you can publish my letter on you web site! When you last e-mailed me the timing was so amazing though I guess I wanted good news to convey. You speak of how much more simply performers are staging their shows since September 11, and my eyes drifted to an old photo of me at the other extreme: the "affected", existential look of me with my guitar singing under THE bare light bulb. I mentioned I was an artist but for the past four years my being deaf has influenced my paint. I was so accustomed to painting to music, allowing that joy to glow through the translucency that painting without it had become just a chore. Then an LA Times reporter did a story on late deafness like mine that read like it was written about me so I e-mailed her. She connected me to a lovely gent who has hammered away at me to get a cochlear implant, a CI. His how-to emails have been frequent, and pushy when they need to be, opening the doors for me to restore some hearing . (Money is all that's causing any delay.) Your emails seem to arrive at encouraging plateaus in this quest. He and others though say music is so unlike music through the CI processor it's a great disappointment. Well, maybe I wasn't supposed to get one before but yesterday he took me to his CI support group where they also showed us the newest and latest devices and now the attachment makes music sound (almost) like music. That's the good news and there is no bad. There IS a battle to get this project going and dealing with the "govmunt" takes more energy than I knew I had. Now the image I se in my imagination is somewhere down the line and instead of a bare light bulb stage I see me under my skylight loading up the canvas with beautiful colors and faces with headphones on , listening and dancing to tunes. When you e-mailed last it was a couple days before that my first and only grandbaby wound up her ten day visit to meet me. What an absolute joy. Remember her name is Elanor Sylvie. YES, there are surely more of us who want you to issue a new edition of Sylvie Sunflower! When you can tell me more about you and the reason you sign off with "aloha". I hope I find you well today, better yet, happy! Kathy |
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Aloha from Okinawa! how you doin' alicia? mahalo to beautifull card. I love that painting. so lovely. I fix about next january plan. my friend yuko reserve memorial service at hilo hongwanji .27th,jan . could you come and sing? harmonium player of amana can go there. african insturments player can't go. if you know jembe player,please say come and join us! off corce everybady wellcome. and.....my wish ....could you make flayer of this ceremony&concert if you like. monk of hongwanji adviced for me.my friend yuko who lived hilo make copy and distribute. maybe I will arrive big island. stay there about 1month.see you soon!! mahalo nui roa! Sachiho Kudomi
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just finally had both Hi Alicia, But this morning I visited Alicia's
beautifully constructed site, www.aliciabaylaurel.com and
her Nicole Savage (posted on the Hippie Museum
newsletter in response to a piece I posted last night.
Museum What did the hippies believe in? What is the
freedom that hippies tried to achieve? What I am reading two wonderful
books about Mayan village life and spirituality, Secrets
of the Talking Jaguar and We wanted intimacy--not a
neighborhood where you didn't know anyone on the block,
or you competed, kept We wanted a culture which
acknowledged the human body, not just for sex, but to hug
each other, to be We wanted a culture that
thrived on gift-giving. We hitchhiked, shared our
food and drugs, gave away our We wanted to live without
the constraints of time. We wanted to wake up each
day and decide what would We wanted new ways to
value one another, rather than by wealth, status,
looks, achievements, machismo, We wanted a spirituality
that actually caused you to grow as a person, not one
inwhich people attended We wanted live in harmony
with the earth, the plants and animals, the indigenous
peoples of the earth, with We wanted to make with our
hands the things we wore and used, grow our food and
medicine, feel all kinds We wanted to live our
mythic selves, give ourselves names that resonated with
our souls, dress in costumes We wanted to see life
without violence. We wanted media that contained truth.
Some of us risked our lives We wanted to live
without stupid, arbitrary rules, either for ourselves or
for our children. Some of our children, This piece isn't intended
to be a definition of who we all were, but what we
aspired to be, and why. I could write But, overall, the culture
we are hoping to document in the Hippie Musuem was
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| beloved alicia we (amana)are talkin about hawaii everyday. we are very happy to go & play there. hongwanji temple have only one mic. we can so simply concert only. and time is about 1hour. i think we are verry happy if we play one more anothr place especially pahoa.i like pahoa. could you ask your friend rainbow? if we can do it ,it is special party. yesterday i talked with woman who have natural foods restaurant in tokyo. this restaurant name is alicia. she loves you still 20 years and more. i send her your cd. she can sale your cd on her shop. and i offer interview for you if you like. japanese magazine<latina> publish about special parson who lived hawaii. this magazine is not so large.about world music. they introduce your cd for japanese listener. mahalo nui loa! Sachiho Kudomi Dear Alicia, I think your piece is great! I Love
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