Walk: Hood, Birthday shopping
Distance: 6.25 miles
So why does Ciwt stand back and devote 3 days to just pictures and songlists of the Grateful Dead's 60th anniverssry celebration in their home ground, Golden Gate Park?
Good question. She's not a Deadhead. For one thing, she was back East when they were in their Jerry Garcia prime. But after being out in San Francisco a decade or so she did spend time following Phil Lesh and and Bob Weir's offshoot, Furthur. So she knows the energy that is/surrounds the Grateful Dead. And she respects it, stands back and lets it occupy the space.
There's no point trying to describe it. Many have tried, and it has eluded all of them. It exists in its own realm beyond words. It's not just a stoner or LSD thing although there is likely much of both (and other drugs) in the crowd. And it's not just a 60's summer of love thing; people of all ages join on every day. The Dead's music itself is in the same category. There's a reason the band wecomed people making their own tapes of the concerts right from the beginning. Tapes could abound, but they knew the feeling that accompanied the music couldn't be captured. Maybe it joined the other Greateful Dead energy and kept burgeoning and burgeoning over the years. Who knows? Anyway, the spirit of it was for the moment; the notes on the tapes were left but not it.
Ciwt feels lucky she knows why people stop their daily lives, get on airplanes or anything that transports them to make it to Dead concerts; many for 60 years and thousands of concerts now. It's a people thing, a music thing, a heart/spirit, a strong, palpable but indescribable energy thing. And Ciwt honors it .
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