Wednesday September 10, 2008

this journal had
an entry, titled
“Back to the Garden,”
quoting Don Henley’s
song “Garden of Allah.”
Henley’s Garden is,
of course, not a
religious concept,
but rather a
Hollywood hotel.
(Think “Barton Fink.”)

An echo:

“We are stardust,
billion year old carbon.
We are golden,
caught in
the devil’s bargain,
and we’ve got to
get ourselves
back to the garden.”

— Joni Mitchell

In memory of
one not caught in
the devil’s bargain —
W. Deen Mohammed,
who died yesterday —
a link:

Ramadan,
Counterculture,
and Soul.