“FACT CORRECTION re RECENT BOOK REVIEW”

Well with my book coming out this past Saturday, I guess my business is now ‘in the street’ and I’m just going to have to deal with it, being the extremely private person I am. If it helps wake people up to the urgent need to heal ourselves through healing the Earth — to act now while there is still time — it is all worth it.

But I must emphatically make a correction here, pertaining to an otherwise good review of Ghetto Plainsman that came out on Sept. 1 in Whole Life Times.

I greatly appreciate the compliments, but wow some facts in this review are wrong! I was not born and raised in the ghetto; I fell (deeply) down into it. As is very clear in the book, I actually had a very rural childhood, and ended up in the cities. And I did not have a crack addiction — I smoked crack only once in my life.

In my lowest, I did try nearly every drug at one point or another, but doing drugs was just never my thing.

The addiction was alcohol aided by utter despair and a sense of everything hopeless and collapsing, both personally and in the world.

It is very important for me to have the facts straight.

In other news, publicist Marvin from Jade Dressler Communications in NYC and I had a good time at our first event, In the Life Atlanta, over Labor Day Weekend, where I was one of the featured authors at the Literary Cafe. The response was great. We met a lot of folk from all over the country who are dong great work, and we were all glad to know of each others’ efforts to improve our tenancy here on Earth, from doctors fighting HIV/AIDS contagion in prison to women trying to help stem despair and violence in Detroit to artists, writers, singers from all over, and much more. We also of course sold books, and made a lot of friends. ATL is a great city, and Im looking forward to the book signing there that is being planned now for later this fall. Thanks to everybody who stopped by the booth in Piedmont Park on Sunday, and to all the organizers of ITL-ATL.