Place of Doubt. Go back to Ingathering.			Place of Decision. Go ahead to Workshops.

This year I took a workshop from Greg Greenway: Music and Social Change. We sang songs such as "Keep your Eye on the Goal", inserting our words in the refrains. He gave us several exercises to do, such as find the two most influential songs in our lives. I chose John Lennon's "Imagine" and Simon and Garfinkel's "Sounds of Silence". Others selected "Long Black Veil", "Alice's Restaurant", "Tamborine Man", and "Shenandoah". Except for the last, they are all songs of the 1960s counterculture. The most interesting song was "Bittersweet Symphony", which turned out to be a classical adaptation of one of the Rolling Stones' songs; a video of this song shows a man walking down the sidewalk ever forward in a straight line, in a strictly linear fashion, knocking people down and walking on cars on the way. That's not the way pilgrimages are. They are winding and twisty at times, although sometimes they can be relatively straight. That's why the SUUSI pilgrims' path above is wavy.

The image to the top left is Greg at our workshop in the basement of Ingles Dorm. (By the way, inglés is the Spanish for English.) On the top right is Greg and I at the Closing Circle. To the bottom left is his performing "Don't Make Me Sing" at the SUUSI Bookstore. The bottom right shows our workshop performing Friday Night at Cabaret. We performed "Keep your Eye on the Goal" and my lyrics were:

All the years we lived with oil,
Now we have to work and toil.
What we do when it runs out
That's what peak oil is all about.

Greg Greenway has a new album out, Standing on the Side of Love. I have always enjoyed his music, especially his existential songs such as "Runaway Train" and "Mystery of Life".