Spread of Early 09 Journal Cover

This book is about one individual's quest to become better than yesterday, by taking every brutal karmic blow as a hidden blessing and coming to terms with the idea that serving humanity is the only worthwhile pursuit.

The cover contains a list of my self-imposed, some somewhat frivolous, identities: taxi driver, anthropologist, vexillologist, geographer, cartographer, manual laborer, ethnomusicologist, bicyclist, alchemistic barterer, scrounger, scavenger, scalp-shearing barber, space consolidator, trilingual interpreter, collage journalist, perpetual optimist, quasi-kabbalistic altruist, scatological squatter, pseudo-percussionist, aspiring acordeonista, wide-eyed pilgrim, cumbiamberito, eco-urban tour guide, dormant pedagogue, voluntary communalist, pied piper of urgency, punk at heart, skanking leo, megaphonic martyr, athlete, etc.