Comments on: A mother’s day, the Berkeley way

By: Robin Rule

Robin Rule — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 08:50:25 +0000

gawd and i thought my kid was the only one who complained about berkeley moms and after he was three (yes, played under tables at the Med)we moved to mendocino county because i saw the light of the violence, terrible poverty, (versus creative poverty) and at three he said he didn’t want to go to any more poetry readings, (that was my “job”=donations please). son also complains about knowing all the lyrics to dylan’s songs up to “Under the Red Sky” without being asked first. sigh

THank you for a beautiful story which i intend to read to him over the phone, (the kind you have to dial…)
Peace, hell, yes. from Robin Rule, who still makes a ducat reading poetry

By: s z underwood

s z underwood — Wed, 12 May 2010 04:04:57 +0000

Thanks for the old memories and some good laughs. Glancing at Jane’s blog, I noticed that she’s not remained a 1960s wax museum figure herself, but has converted to Islam and written a book about her pilgrimage to Mecca. Not to take Jane’s musings too seriously, either then or now, I offer this paraphrase of the cliché about old soldiers:

Old Berkeley radical hippies never die, they just convert to radical Islam

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_hYSzRJe8ZM0/SbasBgQjiVI/AAAAAAAACyg/p6qh4z2C864/s200/6-30-06-10.jpg

(that’s Jane with her hijab on).

By: James Petersen

James Petersen — Wed, 12 May 2010 01:44:44 +0000

hehehe, and I was the head lifeguard at Lake Anza watching your kids while you read Sartre. :)

By: Wesley B. Tanner

Wesley B. Tanner — Tue, 11 May 2010 18:10:09 +0000

I never did recover from that party.

By: Peggy

Peggy — Tue, 11 May 2010 05:30:37 +0000

Amen and thank you.
“My mom is so Berkeley that she still thinks that nonviolence is still the only answer.”
And right on.

By: Cori Kesler

Cori Kesler — Tue, 11 May 2010 03:37:37 +0000

wonderful.