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| :: www.freedomwriters.net :: MAY 2005 Greetings Fellow Travelers, We hope that you too are keeping patient with yourselves and the universe as we are all struggling to shape experience into love into rage into hope into peace into infinity into home. As a collective we have gone to faraway places trying to find new homes within every present moment, every hectic minute, every precious meditation, within every named and unnamed travel. Recently, on May 26,2005 the Cross-Cultural Center at UCSD celebrated its 10th Anniversary --Ten years of struggle, pain, love, war, peace, crying, yelling, breathing, (un)earthing, (de)constructing, meditating, smiling, whispering, searching for home in the space between each other, searching for joy in the eyes of strangers. The Freedom Writers were asked to return home, to the Cross-Cultural Center, a place so familiar and distant, so deep in our hearts. After sharing a ballroom with kind-hearted community members and their stories, we offered our perceptions of a home, of a travel, of a journey, of a life always lived, of inspiration from our angel Joy de la Cruz. Whether we are looking on from Europe, Philippines, Oakland, San Diego, Modesto, Vallejo, Los Angeles, Florida, the sky, the earth, the dirt beneath your new kicks, we are collecting stories. At the 10th Anniversary many storytellers spoke to us. Wanted us to find a connection between their experiences and ours. The Collective WE. From novels, journals, on-line quotes, poetry, and other inspirational writing we pieced together a puzzle of where we be-at, the beat, the sun, the moon. We offer this script of our reading that night and hope you take part in embarking on a journey to find home. Maybe that word HOME is tossed around too often, but for good reason. Never stable, always changing. Sometimes, never found. Find. Love. SOME KIND OF STORY ABOUT SOME KIND OF HOME assembed by Freedom Writers Collective Be, FW :: SUPPORT, FEED, COLLECT, CONNECT :: Soulations: Autobiography of A Breath by Vejea Jennings PURCHASE ALBUM by visiting www.vejea.com Yesterday Mourning by Jay Perez PURCHSE ALBUM at www.blacklava.net visit www.touchblue.net for GOOD-SOULED COMEDY [email protected] |