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An authentic recapturing of the 1960's. With evocations of tastes, smells and most of all the music sounds Blue Denim Days transports you back in time. Prose-like poetry and stream of consciousness brings you out of the Beat era and into the hippies' summers of love. I felt like I was once again hanging out at City Lights bookstore.

In the introduction to his collection of poems, Robert
Champ warns the reader that they grow out of his
experiences of the 60s and 70s and that they have a
touch of nostalgia about them. To be sure, his subject
matter is very familiar to anyone from that era who
grew up in the shadow of the drug culture, the antiwar
movement, and a presidential assassination. He
mentions the song writers of the era, many of whom are
now dead: Joplin, Hendrix, Morrison, yet within the
poems they remain ever alive, giving listeners
alternatives and rhythms to sustain budding romance
and first kisses, confusion over career choice rather
than hitting the road to roam along American highways.
What Champ does capture quite well are the
specifics: the marijuana fags, the vinyl records
stored in cardboard boxes, the streets of Chicago
during a riot. But more than that, he infuses the
poems with the sensibility of an older man reflecting
on what these early experiences meant to him then and
even now. Thus, we also get the old man whose days of
flirting are only memories but who can look back with
fondness at his early blushes and stumbling at
lovemaking. We also get the musical ghosts that linger
in his imagination, the songs that sound in his ears
even when the radio is dead. We see his musings on old
friends, some of whom are absent, others of whom are
still in his imaginative life. Altogether, his
collection does invite a read and makes the reader
hunger to learn what else happened in his life.

Wow! What a great new book. I found this has been really needed in my recovery. It has a step by step approach that I've been following which has been very helpful in my life.

Dr. Lori Miller has written a clear explanation of the relationship between recovery and your body. This book explains addiction, recovery and Network Spinal Analysis very well. It is short and to the point with useful suggestions and a plan of action to help change your body and your life. I am very grateful to her for bringing this information to the world.

Not to repeat the comments offered earlier, just to note: Art Kleps, back in the tune-in, turn-on, drop-out days of the hippie culture, had an idea with a certain logic. Kleps and his friends wanted to use hallucinogens without fear of law enforcement. They found that the Native American Church was permitted to use Peyote (a type of cactus containing the hallucinogen mescaline) as a sacrament. Thus, they reasoned, if we incorporate as a church and name halluginogenic substances as sacraments, the government will let us use them legally.

The Boo Hoo Bible records the sort of joyous, wordy, free-association creativity that characterized that "underground" subculture.

Of course, Kleps et al made the too-common error of thinking that government agencies in the USA are bound by (or capable of) of logic or reason; Native Americans might be permitted to continue to induce sensory restructuralization through organic chemistry, but young scraggly-looking white people from Frisco are a different story. If the initial goals of providing a safe haven for acid-droppers had succeeded, the Neo-American Church might have surpassed the Unitarian Universalists in total membership by now; as it stands, this published "catechism" remains as a vivid artifact of its time.

... When you've searched everywhere else, and have turned over every stone, and you still feel like there is something missing from your life, then it is time to GET REAL. ... You may THINK that this book is a joke - but it is NO JOKE. ... Or, paradoxically, like the Native American Holy Man - THE HEYOKA - who does everything backwards from standard and conventional procedure; like Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters; like the Buddhist Holy Madmen and Zen Master Sages; and like the true Christian Saints who are "Fools for Christ," those who have "ears to hear and eyes to see" the truth in the pages of this book will be called by the Great Holy Spirit to walk that Eleusinian path into the halls of enlightenment and bliss - even though to most normal people this looks like a Comic Book for Hippie Freaks! ... The Boo Hoo Bible is the closest thing you will get to truth in the English language outside of hearing yourself talk during the peak of a major acid trip. ... You don't believe me? ... Read this book; then take 500 micrograms of pure LSD and read it AGAIN! ... It will all be clear. ... Psychedelic - in ancient Greek - means "pure soul" ... and you can't get any more spiritual than that! ... YOWZA! - The Aeolian Kid

Father's Day, I was in Santa Barbara visiting my daughter. We got sandwiches on lower State Street at the Greek Deli, which, along with Joe's Bar (one of the places I used to look for my old man), I told my daughter that was about all that was left from the 60s and 70s when lower State was Santa Barbara's skid row, and her grandpa lived in the YMCA in that's now a parking lot across from the Greyhound Depot. I could see the more I went on about it, anyway, the distant past held little interest on a day when the sunny boulevard was full of tourists and students shopping boutiques, hopping from sports-bar to dining on tapas in fountained patios. I shut up about her grandfather (who everyone else recalls only, when they bother, as the most essentially alcoholic of men), unable to shake his ghost in parking lots and single occupancy furnished rooms that no longer exist.

I read this book dutifully, thinking, "Okay, I'll do my duty---but we've lived this story, so do we have to read about it, too?" My guess is yes. We haven't heard the end of it yet, and we haven't heard about it in this way before. The untold stories, post-mortem dreams and oblique inferences Sikelianos composes for THE BOOK OF JON cast smoky shadows of hope in the pungent colors of lived experience. Instead of another regurgitated tell-all memoir in the genre as currently marketed, instead of detailing in conventional melodramatic or operatic naturalism the body blows causing the wind to be knocked out of all the childhoods under these kind of fathers, Sikelianos structures THE BOOK OF JON tellingly and evocatively through elision and inference juxtaposed with a poet's snapshot-apt observation. Someone close to me (who's back in rehab again at the moment) once yelled at me, "Never, ever write anything about me! My problems are not the subjects of your poems!" And Sikelianos's BOOK OF JON isn't playing back her father's self-destruction for dramatic effect, for an evening's entertainment. She's not selling her own damage for the sake of authenticity in the market for reminiscences. Instead, with hard looks and casual bluntness, she's made a book of beaded moments that blesses both father and daughter even-handedly. THE BOOK OF JON honors that difficult duty. Its courage reminds me of another memoir, William Stafford's DOWN IN MY HEART, which describes a poet-turned-firefighter's experiences as conscientous objector during a popular, and perhaps necessary, war.

while our backgrounds are somewhat different, I could relate pretty explicitly to the world from whence this book comes--a kind of poisonous vernacular. And also the subject matter: the father as an unreachable, doomed anti-hero. Sikelianos engages with the subject matter in a vital fashion, interacting with it on its own terms, but never becoming poisoned by its refulgent mediocrities. A kind of postmodern rethinking of "On the Road," peering unflinchingly at the realities behind the myth of "rugged American individualism." Though it atones all involved with its reaching, a kind of absolution by way of narrative blurring, an alchemy that turns plastic fake wood panelling into gold...

I'm a Marine vet. In the Marines, I studied literature on weapons, combat, hand-to-hand fighting, and all the rest. But nobody from the U.S. Government or from the top rank to the bottom ever told me I couldn't read the Bible,Henry Drummond's The Greatest Thing in the Word, the Upper Room, As a Man Thinketh, or the Saturday Evening Post. That's from one of the most stringent training units in existence. The Marines don't censor the mind, or the literature, or freedom of expression. But that's what my friends in recovery get thrown at them all the time. They mention the Bible or Jesus Christ, and right away some character sounds off that this violates the Traditions, that such material is not "conference approved," or that A.A. is spiritual but not religious and hence doesn't consider these outside issues. But that's not A.A. as I read it in Dick B.'s books. I have to distinguish what individuals did and can do from what someone tells them they can't do. And the best answer is history--the history of A.A. itself. This simple little book shows just how broad the reading, religious study, use of the Bible, and employment of devotionals was in A.A. It's not a secret. It's just that people don't know it and get intimidated by nonsensical remarks. I'm very grateful for this excellent review of all the books AAs studied - about God, about the Bible,about Jesus Christ, about prayer, about healing, about Quiet Time, about religion and the mind, and even about William James, Carl Jung, Dr. Silkworth and all the rest. People in recovery are not in a cage, nor should they let anyone put them there. Again the answer is history, and this is the book that shows precisely that there never was a cage. I recommend it to those who want to be free and are scared to death to say so. Take heart you kindred souls: Read, Recover, Enjoy. Remember God

The Big Book suggests that there are many helpful books that can be read in connection with the Eleventh Step. And early AAs read all kinds of literature, which is covered in this guide. Their books were those on Quiet Time, prayer, healing, love, forgiveness, daily devotionals, the Oxford Group, and New Thought writers like Fox, Drummond,Clark, etc. Dick plumbed the sources from Dr. Bob's Library, Anne Smith's Journal, That Amazing Grace (what Clarence Snyder had in his library, Henrietta B. Seiberling (what her children told him about her library), the books T. Henry Williams read, all the Sam Shoemaker articles and books, and the immense number of Oxford Group books Dick collected. Here is a concise description of the books you will find helpful to your spiritual growth, just as I have. And see Dr. Bob and His Library, Anne Smith's Journal, That Amazing Grace, DR. BOB and the Good Oldtimers, AA The Way It Began by Pittman, New Light on Alcoholism, and The Oxford Group and Alcoholics Anonymous

Outstanding reference text for those interested in the REAL evidence for/against herbal medicine and botanical remedies. The authors provide detailed information on the history, traditional usage, laboratory evidence and clinical findings associated with dozens of herbals. The result is quite an exhaustive body of information that should serve as an authoritative reference text for any health practitioner or scientist with interest in this area. if you want to know more about botanical medicines, this is the book to get.

A modified version of one of the herbs discussed in this book, Astragalus, was featured as a CME (Continuing Medical Education) course for physicians in the International Journal of Integrative Medicine, which is nothing short of a stellar endorsement for the material found in this book. If you want the best in scientific and evidence-based information on herbal medicines, this authorative and well-researched text is the best choice for both doctors and the educated lay person. As a practicing doctor with over twenty years of clinical experience, multiple credentials in herbal medicine, the author of the book "Viral Immunity," and numerous academic papers on herbs, I highly recommend this book.

Guiltbusters!-Thank you Dr. Anderson for giving us a darn good reason to take care of ourselves, putting ourselves at the top of our list of things to do: If we take care of ourselves, we won't relapse. Do we have to feel guilty about having this information and not going to therapy? Should Donald Trump read this book? Thanks Dr. Anderson for giving us the benefit of your years of practice and obsevation in an easy-to-read format. Betty Winston

This well-written, easy to understand book makes the often-ignored point that chronic anxiety lies beneath addiction and that "if you are chronically anxious, you do not take good care of yourself." Dr. Anderson gives page after page of practical advice on taking care of yourself in effective ways that can reduce or eliminate the chronic anxiety and make the path of sobriety a true path of recovery. The subtitle to this book is ambitious: "Stop Addiction Forever!" By looking at how to deal with anxiety as a root cause of addictions(alcohol, food, sex, gambling, smoking, etc.) Dr. Anderson provides a roadmap for permanent change. This book is very helpful for anyone who has struggled with addictive behavior, as well as for counselors and substance abuse professionals who play a significant role in the recovery process.

This is an excellent textbook for health professionals working in cardiovascular care. It provides the reader with a comprehensive review of the most current therapy in cardiac care and a complete compendium of the most current standards of care for the treatment of the cardiac patient using evidenced based medicine. I hihgly recommend this text for the experienced professional and for an update in the arena of cardiovasular medicine.

This is an excellent textbook for health professionals working in cardiovascular care. It provides the reader with a comprehensive review of the most current therapy in cardiac care and a complete compendium of the most current standards of care for the treatment of the cardiac patient using evidenced based medicine. I hihgly recommend this text for the experienced professional and for an update in the arena of cardiovasular medicine.

This book is about a young girl (Larceny) Who finds herself living on the streets.. It is about her incounters with other people and her seroundings. It isnt just about a girl on the street. It talks about her and her parents and how her spirit lowers and rises and lowers and rises. Definitly a great book for young adults

Okay, so right now I'm the only person with anything to say about this book, I just hope that now that someone has said something, other people will buy this book. Avon Tempest has the greatest authors with the best books, how do they do it? This one is set in Australia, the main character being an unstable fifteen year old who thinks she has killed someone, so she runs away. She does, however, manage to stay on top of everything, which is a lot!Read this book, and enjoy it as much as I did, then find other avon tempest books to enjoy as well!

Kipp Klyde shows tremendous insight, intellect, and care throughout these useful word recipies. They are obviously designed to help children and parents use their own common sense in dealing with daily peer pressure and the temptations of drug use. They have to be read and reread to get the full understanding and effect of Klyde's messages. Great material for helping stimulate conversation with your children about drugs!

Kipp Klyde shows tremendous insight, intellect, and care throughout these useful word recipies. They are obviously designed to help children and parents use their own common sense to help deal with daily peer pressure and the temptations of drug use. They have to be read and reread to get the full understanding and effect of Klyde's messages. Great material for helping stimulate conversation with your children about drugs!