This Darkness Has Got to Give: Post-Kindergarten Lessons from the Grateful Dead

This Darkness Has Got to Give is an adventure story, a coming-of-age memoir, and an insightful, sharply analytical musical journey. It is also a unique portrait of America's last half-century, at times hopeful, at others harsh and enraged. As Donn Harris delivers a scathing critique of our institutions and beliefs, the narrative also reveals the unshakable hope and free-flow energy at the core of his soul. Donn Harris takes us on a long, strange road trip as he follows the iconic American rock band The Grateful Dead fromcoast-to-coastacross parts of three decades, physically and in spirit, while pursuing his own high-impact passions in an edgy, diverse life: high school drop-out, peacetime soldier, actor, teacher, California Arts Council Chair, national arts education thought leader, public arts school principal, Harley-Davidson rider, world traveler and freelance writer. His personal journey takes him to the high Himalaya, where various strands of culture and experience seem to merge - for a moment, in the midst of a potentially dangerous storm, as he discovers the perfect triple haiku if he can find a way drop one syllable. Through it all, Harris makes a compelling case for a different way of living in the millennium, valuing authenticity and inspiration, living life as fueled by poetry and music and the beckoning unknown, as opposed to the fear and conformity that dominate the current psychological climate. It is time, he tells us, to ask the big questions and face the answers; we are led on to roads toward outcomes that seem to be inevitable, but we actually have more control than we think. And this is not a dress rehearsal - it's the real thing. The long strange trip is not quite over.
ASIN: B0CHL9TL55
VSKU: BVV.B0CHL9TL55.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Harris, Donn Kenneth
Binding: Paperback
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Condition Notes: Book has little sign of wear or use