Brianland

The  Rose  of  Hope
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Election  Night  2008
by Brian Hassett
Early morning in the Universe  –  sunrise over a New America.
I arose from the floor of a Harlem hotspot dreaming of something way bigger than me.  And right off the mat, the Election Morning Ritual of tea & subtlety, pacing & breathing, and dreaming in the bright new light [...]

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THE ROCK PARTY  and  THE FALL OF NEW YORK
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It was a really magic night!  Until the nightmare. 
Couldn’t sleep the night before  –  up at 6 AM watching the camera follow Don Imus into his polling station with a long line of people out the door waiting to vote, and him saying, “I’ve Never seen [...]

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Lights dimmed, room hushed, MC in silhouette at center stage blessing the packed room of book-reading edge-cutting hipsters from all over the world thanks to email and web sites and a collective unconscious that keeps them striving for the new, for where the heart pounds, the eyes twinkle, the women aren’t treated like girls, and [...]

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