A Gathering of Voices

Essays from Oregon, covering decades of adventure -- true loves, children, heartbreaks, politics from the inside, births, deaths, mystical revelations, building a tipi, vision quests, anchoring Bend in the River with Ken Kesey, covering Bobby Kennedy and Gene McCarthy, star parties, the love of mountains, naked sit-ins, guys, teen car crashes, dancing, addictions, "pearls at random strung" and, ah, the writing life. This is the first of four volumes of essays, culling the most moving, personal and revelatory ones.