MICHAEL VENTURA
LETTERS AT 3AM –
HE TOOK THE CAT TO TEXAS: Part 2
Austin Chronicle – Oct. 4, 2013
“It is my very strong feeling that real pacifism, real positive political change, cannot be effectively motivated by guilt, but must come instead from a joyful reverence for life, from a fervent desire to make our own lives more glorious and more ecstatic, and from the very selfish desire to share that joy with all the people and all the living things of the universe.”
Mayer Vishner wrote that when he was young, and, a lifelong activist, he lived those words, or attempted to, for real. Not in an ivory tower or a commune, but on the street.
Continue reading Michael Ventura on his friend’s last quest, part two