Comments on: Reflections on the Grateful Dead: Saying Yes to Fun http://rexfoundation.org/2009/03/10/reflections-on-the-grateful-dead-saying-yes-to-fun/ The Rex Foundation: Furthering a Tradition of Grassroots Giving Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:38:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeanne http://rexfoundation.org/2009/03/10/reflections-on-the-grateful-dead-saying-yes-to-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-65 Jeanne Mon, 25 May 2009 10:00:39 +0000 http://rexfoundation.org/2009/03/10/reflections-on-the-grateful-dead-saying-yes-to-fun/#comment-65 My travels to see the Dead always left me feeling connected, overwhelmed, confused, uplifted, caught in the tide of something greater than myself, swept toward a both lighter and darker place. <br />When I wrote my novel Freaked, my editor and I talked about where these abstract feelings came from and how best to put them into words. The drugs yes. The music yes. The act of growing up--surely. But we also seemed to be moving toward something beyond even this kind of knowing.<br />I believe we have seized too much control of our world, that not enough people are invited to let themselves drop away from its concrete borders. Emotional experimentation is scary for parents to watch and yet it breeds independence and revolutionary thought. <br />Here is to the long strange trip and our barefoot walks into the unknown. Thank you Barbara for a thoughtful and inspiring post. My travels to see the Dead always left me feeling connected, overwhelmed, confused, uplifted, caught in the tide of something greater than myself, swept toward a both lighter and darker place.
When I wrote my novel Freaked, my editor and I talked about where these abstract feelings came from and how best to put them into words. The drugs yes. The music yes. The act of growing up–surely. But we also seemed to be moving toward something beyond even this kind of knowing.
I believe we have seized too much control of our world, that not enough people are invited to let themselves drop away from its concrete borders. Emotional experimentation is scary for parents to watch and yet it breeds independence and revolutionary thought.
Here is to the long strange trip and our barefoot walks into the unknown. Thank you Barbara for a thoughtful and inspiring post.

]]> By: MaryE http://rexfoundation.org/2009/03/10/reflections-on-the-grateful-dead-saying-yes-to-fun/comment-page-1/#comment-63 MaryE Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:39:40 +0000 http://rexfoundation.org/2009/03/10/reflections-on-the-grateful-dead-saying-yes-to-fun/#comment-63 "these organized endeavors did not provide the level of community or the little doses of magic that appeared spontaneously among the Deadheads"<br/><br/>YES. EXACTLY!<br/><br/>Might like to ride just one more time... “these organized endeavors did not provide the level of community or the little doses of magic that appeared spontaneously among the Deadheads”

YES. EXACTLY!

Might like to ride just one more time…

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