You ever listen to Nick Cave singing Into My Arms ? God, the angels and love. "...In the end all was said about him is forgiven because of this one song." I didn't say that - someone wiser than I. Give a LISTEN.

I've never driven over the Golden Gate Bridge. I've never driven Divisadero Street - you know they don't get snow here. New Dimensions Media had me in Ukiah today. Justine Willis Toms & Michael Toms gave me tea and talk. They're good. I'm excited about hearing the broadcast. Will post when I know it's going on the air.

My friend Blue is blue. He's a Lower East Side kid, not cut for here, by the Bay, he says. But he's recording on Bill Evans' piano for 3 hours on Friday, a gift from his co-magazine friends at Wired.

I'm reading at Books Inc. tomorrow night, Wednesday - in Opera Plaza. At 7 PM. BUT, Books Inc. is working with City Youth Now, and together they've arranged for me to meet two groups of "juvenile offenders" tomorrow morning. I'm their English class. I'm told mostly Black kids, some Latinos. Some Pacific Islanders, if I remember. The City Youth Now people are picking me up and going with me to Juvenile Hall. I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know how I can help incarcerated kids. Say something someone remembers, that touches something deep enough to change a world for the better? I don't want to just be entertainment. So how do we help change the world for kids, make it safer, head their lives from hell to health and happiness? Isn't that Tikkun Olam, isn't that what sanctity really is? I don't know what the words "religious angle" really mean, but I'm thinking about them a lot these days. The whole Interfaith Voices thing. "I was in prison and you came to Me", that's Matthew, isn't it? Or do we need to use the word "God" to make it all so obvious? I don't know, I'm just asking - I'm not an expert on the "religious angle" thing. Sister Maureen Fiedler says of the story of inviting our five bigger boys into our family, taking them in as strangers, feeding them when they were hungry, tending them when sick, clothing them, taking one from prison when that happened and keeping others from its clutches, Sister Maureen Fiedler says "the religion angle isn't strong enough for our show..." I keep thinking about that "religious angle" thing.

Yes, Harish, I'll take photos. I should have done that with the Toms today up in Ukiah. I will tomorrow in Juvenile Hall, at least the outside of the building.

"If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there..." ...okay, give yourself a gift. Just CLICK and listen and smile. And come to Book Inc. on Van Ness. domo arigato.