I am a fellow traveler passing through this existence trying to stay sane in an insane society while stopping to smell the roses and the garbage as well. I've been a political activist since 1968 when my active duty military experience compelled my opposition to the Vietnam War, American imperialism abroad and American fascism at home. I've been arrested for my activism most notably in 2004 when I demonstrated against the coronation of a war criminal during the Republican National Convention in NYC. My views are influenced by eastern philosophy i.e. Buddhism as a way of life rather than a religion, the socialism of Marx and existentialist writers Nietzsche, Camus and Sartre et al. Along the way I've concluded that we live a life that requires a new way of living. At 73 I remain Billy Joel's angry young man in search of that new way of living.