If you know Johnny, you will love this book. If you don''t, after reading, you will want to meet him - by reading this book. Who else can provide such a good-humored, big-hearted, modern Socratic quest into the nature of human happiness, and the myriad paths to finding joy? Johnny lived in India - and in the remote Eastern Oregon town of Ashwood. He''s spent years in prison - as a generous visitor creating dialog circles to bring lively thought to shadowed lives. And all the time he was writing these zesty morsels of insight, poem, story, meditation, and manifesto just for you.

- Kim Stafford, author of As the Sky Begins to Change