wavy and walt whitman

wavy gravy at camp winnarainbow reading to the kids

Wavy Gravy's actually reading Wavy Gravy in this photo from morning reading at camp winnarainbow - but i could imagine him reading some other transcendentalist, too, in fine voice, reading poetry the way only another poet really can. robert hunter in memory of jerry garcia, or d.h. lawrence in memory of chet helms, or dr suess or calvin trillin- could be anything, wavy's choice; camp winnarainbow in the morning in the thee-ah-tah. it's a toward the fun, not too late to seek a newer world kind of day... let's start it out with some Wavy Gravy and a Walt Whitman's Sampler:


"This is what you shall do: love the earth and the sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.... " (Walt Whitman)