TheBeatGeneration

kate, you were right about the mountains. i remember middle school. you used to draw mountains, great towering dreams in a big big world. in fact i have one taped up next to my bed, a reminder that, as craig finn put it, “we can all be something bigger.” i have finished jack kerouac’s dharma bums. at the end of it all, he is alone at the top of a mountain, a life he built for himself. he finds hope in desolation peak. he drinks his coffee and performs glorious headstand meditations and finds a whole universe, empty and                 Awake. i do not know if he was right about everything, but he was right about something: