The Grateful Dead only opened a show with Franklin’s Tower once in their career — 5/9/78 in Syracuse, NY — but it’s where this series opens. The lyric ‘If you get confused, just listen to the music play’ is the seed syllable for this project, and leads us where the four winds dwell.
Some days I find myself suspended between feeling too much and not wanting to feel anything at all. Buddhist philosophy points to a middle way between these two extremes.
For the coyote in the Warner Brothers’ cartoons, hitting the ground usually meant he was about to get crushed by a boulder and mocked by his quarry, the roadrunner. “Meep meep!”
What does it mean for us?