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REMEMBERING TOMORROW
SUBTERRANEAN HOMESICK BLUES (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
MASTERS OF WAR (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1963 by Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
CAN YOU PLEASE CRAWL OUT YOUR WINDOW (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
MAGGIES FARM (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1973 by Bob Dylan. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
DESOLATION ROW (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
A HARD RAINS A-GONNA FALL (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1963 by Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
ALL I REALLY WANT TO DO (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1964 by Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright renewed 1992 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
BALLAD OF A THIN MAN (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
MAN OF PEACE (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1983 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
WHEN THE SHIP COMES IN (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1963 by Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright renewed 1991 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
OUTLAW BLUES (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
FAREWELL ANGELINA (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1965 by Warner Bros. Inc. Copyright renewed 1993 by Special Rider Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
TIME HAS COME TODAY (Dylan, Bob). Copyright 1967 by BMG Music. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL (PT. 2) (Pink Floyd; Waters, Roger). Copyright 1979 by Alfred Publishing. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
FOR WHAT ITS WORTH (Buffalo Springfield; Stills, Stephen). Copyright 1966 by Alfred Publishing. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
FORTUNATE SON (Creedence Clearwater Revival; Fogarty, John). Copyright 1969 by Fantasy Inc.. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
NOTES OF A DIRTY OLD MAN (Bukowski, Charles). Copyright 0 1969 Courtesy of City Lights. All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Columbia, Harlem, Song for a Dark Girl from the COLLECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES by Langston Hughes, copyright (c) 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Used by Permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House.
GOOD DAYS COMING (Minh, Ho Chi). Copyright 1972 by Foreign Languages Publishing House (Hanoi). All rights reserved. International copyright secured. Reprinted by permission.
Acknowledgments
All memoirs depend on people and events populating their pages. In this particular memoir, various social movements and projects wrote the reality.
Thanks also to Lydia and Andrea Sargent who each painstakingly edited the whole book, giving it whatever stylistic merit it may display. Likewise, parts of the book were read and edited by friends who especially commented on interpretations and remembrances, including Stephen Shalom, Justin Poder, Peter Bohmer, Cynthia Peters, and Andrej Grubacic. A number of people mentioned in Remembering Tomorrow were sent the manuscript in advance and made suggestions to correct errors or clarify intent. These included Anita Albert, Arthur MacEwan, Sam Bowles, Herb Gintis, Michael Ansara, Ivy Hahnel, and Robin Hahnel. Hopefully, Remembering Tomorrow is true to our collective experience.
Finally, thanks also to Dan Simon and Ria Julien at Seven Stories Press, Dan for taking an interest and championing the book and Ria for editorial help with the final manuscript.
Wheel of Law
By Ho Chi Minh
The wheel of the law turns
without pause.
After the rain, good weather.
In the wink of an eye
the universe throws off
its muddy clothes.
For ten thousand miles
the land
spreads out like a beautiful brocade.
Light breezes. Smiling flowers.
High in the trees, among
the sparkling leaves
all the birds sing at once.
People and animals rise up reborn.
What could be more natural?
After sorrow, comes joy.
INTRODUCTION
Bang, Bang Goes The Beat Of My Drum
Whats In a Memoir
If you really want to hear about it, the first thing youll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kin of crap, but dont feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.
J. D. Salinger
A memoir recounts events, explicates a life, explores history, and draws lessons. A memoir should excite, tell truth, affront, and reveal. No preaching allowed. A memoir should be an honest novel.
My father, Melvin Albert, advised, cajoled, defended, and supported. He was a liberal corporate lawyer. Alzheimers killed him before he died. My mother, Pearl Fleischman, taught kindergarten and fourth grade and labored over house, home, and health. Mom was appreciated by all. A few weeks before her 91st birthday she died. Relentless cancer was her Armageddon. The ocean became her cemetery.
I was told my early family lived in the same building as the great comedian Milton Berle. Uncle Miltie reputedly said, If opportunity doesnt knock, build a door. Did I get my door-building predilections from Miltie?
My sister is nine years my senior. When I was five Anita was fourteen. She was a girl, then a woman. I was a boy, then whatever. Young, we barely crossed paths. Anita went to Cornell, in Ithaca, New York. I saw Cornell while visiting Anita and liked Ithacas natural gorges. As a high school junior, I summered at Cornell in a science program for budding Stephen Hawkings. Anita married Jack Karasu, from Turkey, whom she met at Cornell. Jacks business took Anita to Spain. When Anita returned to the U.S., an artist and teacher, she and I lived far apart. Years later, Anita moved nearer and we are now sister and brother sharing lifes circumstances. Anitas son, my nephew Marc, works in New York City in advertising. At Marcs Bar Mitzvah I gave him a copy of Ches writings. For his last fifteen years, Seymour Melman was Anitas partner. Seymour was a teacher/activist who spent his life fighting for peace and against military economy.
