GONE BEYOND

July 14, 2000
A 3-hour Tribute to Kenneth & Miriam Patchen was held at the Tate Modern, London,
'For Kenneth & Miriam: A Poet & His Muse'.

Miriam Patchen 86, a longtime Palo Alto resident
& peace activist, died March 6th, peacefully, at
her home in Palo Alto, California. Her life was dedicated to peace & justice & to the writing
& art of her husband, fellow anarchist
& poet, Kenneth Patchen.

Patchen was also known for creating painted poems.
He collaborated with the composer John Cage on
the radio play The City Wears A Slouch Hat
(broadcast in 1942), in the 1950s he became famous in poetry circles for reading his poetry to the accompaniment of jazz music. He died in Palo Alto, California in 1972.

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July 12, 1895 - July 1, 1983. (aged 87)
R, Buckminster Fuller, known by his friends as "Bucky", invented, among other things, the Godesic Dome. He was a philosopher, visionary,inventor,architect,engineer,poet,
mathematician,cosmologist, and second president of Mensa. One of the first futurists, and a global thinker, it is he who coined the phrase "Doing more with Less" as well as the term "Spaceship Earth". His work inspired and paved the way for many who came after him and much of his work was about exploring and creating synergy, a subject he called Synergetics, a "Geometry of Thinking". Bucky recieved 44 honorary doctoral degrees and dozens of other honors and was nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller (wikipedia)

"Let architects sing of aesthetics that bring Rich clients in hordes to their knees; Just give me a home, in a great circle dome Where stresses
and strains are at ease. ~ poet Bucky Fuller

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~ STEPHEN GASKIN ~
Feb. 16, 1935 ~ July 1, 2014
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"The key to the future is service.
Part of what made Kennedy great was the idea
of the Peace Corps.. As the world becomes more crowded, each way of making money becomes precious and money is charged for things that
used to be given for free or for love.
Service becomes a revolutionary act."
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Stephen would say,
"Lets talk about how we're gonna be."
Not "how we're gonna stop the war"
or "how we're gonna make it fair,"
but "how we're gonna be."
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Feb. 16, 1935 ~ July 1, 2014
Stephen Gaskin was an American counterculture Hippie icon best known for his presence in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco in the 1960s and for co-founding, The Farm, a famous spiritual intentional community in Summertown, Tennessee. Stephen Gaskin's Monday Night Class was an important part of my Hippie education along as were the books I read and the folks I met in those far ahead days of my coming of age.
Stephen was a remarkable man who lived his life true and his life's work remains an ongoing testament to the clarity of his vision of how to live a creative life in harmony with our earth and each other. ~ nicole,sfheart.com
Stephen Gaskin (Wikipedia)
***New York Times obituary
@Altman photo

Stephen Gaskin Monday Night Class
~ Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco.
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