2015 - Booted Out of Nepal; Fire in The Home; A Cabo Christmas; The Last Dead; Simmering Dissatisfaction – Two of Linda’s Poems
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One of Linda’s most ambitious intended trips was to Nepal with Alia. The plan: meet a small group at a monastery, then follow the monks on a pilgrimage around one of the tallest peaks in the Himalayas and into Tibet. It did not go well.
Despite having flown halfway across the world, the group “disinvited” them, leaving them high and dry in Kathmandu. The chief monk was evidently not pleased, and in special sessions spent time with both Alia and Linda. They were wondering what they were going to do when the second thing that didn’t go well made it all moot.
Linda’s home in Morrison caught on fire.
It seemed to never end, Grateful Dead tours and shows and the tours labeled “the last” shows. But this seemed legit. Other than long-dead Jerry Garcia, the rest of the original band still alive promised a last series of shows, three nights in Chicago.
Linda and Alia flew up, Paul drove with Jared. At Soldier’s Field the performances were indeed memorable, the band sounding more polished and committed, more harmonious with faster beats than their usual “elder shows style” that often to Paul sounded like a record at too-slow a revolution. Of course, to Linda the Dead could play no wrong: they always were “great,” “cosmic,” and always for Linda and her growing band of Deadhead compadres across the country, the shows remained perfect.
Read more about Linda’s musical journey and predilections.
In retrospect, Linda’s continuing training and expansion of her skills symbolized and certainly typified her life course. A garage and bedroom full of books told the story. On topics from the psychic and spiritual, to alternative healing techniques, to women’s biographical accounts of their life challenges and passages, Linda read vociferously and trained endlessly. In 2015 she finished courses and certification in her “Botanical Medicine: East and West” education. She trained in aromatherapy, and various schools of acupuncture. It never ended, reflecting her search for higher meaning and greater relevance.
