Not that I didn’t feel that total communion with our heartland, not that anyone didn’t feel it, experience it, and live it together. Not that I didn’t quote my father’s tear-jerking, emphatic memory of how united the city was when he was cleaning up Ground Zero for a decade. Is everyone defying conformist capitalism sleeping in the L-Train terminal? Bleeding more music into tunnels? Growing pot in boarded up warehouses and charging triple its worth to the corporate class? Or are they all going to overdose underfed in a mask-wearing society that doesn’t see them or anyone for what we are…One. Aside from manipulating gluten and calling it vegan. Aside from wearing underwear in the subway for the sake of nonchalant publicity.

What are the spiritually inclined New Yorkers doing to free their brethern’s spirits in this universal time of chaos and fear?Īside from sacrificing more trees to print more conspiracies to shove in strangers’ faces. So move to the woodland rocky coastline in Maine an hour from a smaller city, five minutes from one of the country’s best breweries? Hear the coyotes all night and see David Grisman the next? Be encompassed by tourmaline dripping mountains and near-blinded by the stars? In a community of self-sustaining homesteaders who haul their spring water, chop their wood, and grow their own food? Anyway. Yes, hipster loft parties are fun, but at what point do mystical animal-named bands start sounding the same? At what point do you stop trusting $2 well drinks that have you lose your fairy wings and make out with a caterpillar twice your age on a rooftop? At what point do rooftops cease feeling infinite and largely become entrapping? So what's really going on in the city? Am I afraid? Or I am no longer called? Go home to begin the New Year, finish the rest somewhere else. Vulnerable island, high population, international crisis.Of course I will go I haven’t missed a year since.whenever this five or more or less year-run began. But for the first time, I’m hesitant to return to Manhattan for Phish New Years. There are some really great cultures uprising right now, and it’s totally important for my 11 th house uptonian hopes and dreams, let alone the collective Uranian liberation.

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