Professor Morse Brulay is writing to us from his jail cell in Ecuador. Brulay is a roamer and a seeker of the mysterious, the new, the erotic - but also of enduring wisdom. In his search for the Deep Code - the secret of time travel - he runs afoul of the Fomors, the dark spirits of the Druidic world. Cursed with terrifying ashbacks to his prehistoric past, Morse loses his moral bearings and ees to the Amazon jungle in search of spiritual rebirth. There among the Indians he finds the knowledge he seeks and is joined in his new vision by Lotte, the beautiful biologist.

In their effort to protect and nourish this knowledge, Morse and Lotte now nd their own lives in danger. Only the power of the discovered wisdom will determine what happens to them, and to the wisdom itself.

"Toward Campoluna" captures the romance and excitement of a unique generation in a unique place. In 1955, lifeguard and surf bum Corky McCork and his bighearted artist friend, Reebar Tornay, hit the road for some adventure. When they come to the aid of barefoot and bleeding Eliomara Vasquez, the three become interlinked in an international adventure that lasts a lifetime.

The men help the feisty Eliomara to escape the border patrol authorities who want to send her back to Mexico, and then Corky, Reebar, and Eliomara continue on to individual journeys, facing countless dangers and challenges, before their lives again intersect, many years later, in a joint quest for meaning, purpose, and peace.

The three come back together, this time joined by Lumina, the beautiful Bulgarian eccentric; Tireseo, the blind poet-revolutionary; Sylvia, the enigmatic spy; and Pulo, the breeder of fighting cocks; to form Campoluna, a rugged artists' colony in rural Mexico.

Meant to be a haven in the face of a drastically changing world and the Vietnam War, Campoluna becomes a test of the precarious balance between the magnificent loneliness of individuality and the arduous pleasure of human bonds, as well as a testament to the power of collectively embracing life with vigor and hope.

"Vivid characters, an overwhelming plot, strong passions, defeats and hopes and longing, compassion and loneliness.this is literature." -Edvard Hoem, author of "Ave Eva" and The Ferry Crossing"

Professor Morse Brulay is writing to us from his jail cell in Ecuador. Brulay is a roamer and a seeker of the mysterious, the new, the erotic - but also of enduring wisdom. In his search for the Deep Code - the secret of time travel - he runs afoul of the Fomors, the dark spirits of the Druidic world. Cursed with terrifying ashbacks to his prehistoric past, Morse loses his moral bearings and ees to the Amazon jungle in search of spiritual rebirth. There among the Indians he finds the knowledge he seeks and is joined in his new vision by Lotte, the beautiful biologist.

In their effort to protect and nourish this knowledge, Morse and Lotte now nd their own lives in danger. Only the power of the discovered wisdom will determine what happens to them, and to the wisdom itself.

"Toward Campoluna" captures the romance and excitement of a unique generation in a unique place. In 1955, lifeguard and surf bum Corky McCork and his bighearted artist friend, Reebar Tornay, hit the road for some adventure. When they come to the aid of barefoot and bleeding Eliomara Vasquez, the three become interlinked in an international adventure that lasts a lifetime.

The men help the feisty Eliomara to escape the border patrol authorities who want to send her back to Mexico, and then Corky, Reebar, and Eliomara continue on to individual journeys, facing countless dangers and challenges, before their lives again intersect, many years later, in a joint quest for meaning, purpose, and peace.

The three come back together, this time joined by Lumina, the beautiful Bulgarian eccentric; Tireseo, the blind poet-revolutionary; Sylvia, the enigmatic spy; and Pulo, the breeder of fighting cocks; to form Campoluna, a rugged artists' colony in rural Mexico.

Meant to be a haven in the face of a drastically changing world and the Vietnam War, Campoluna becomes a test of the precarious balance between the magnificent loneliness of individuality and the arduous pleasure of human bonds, as well as a testament to the power of collectively embracing life with vigor and hope.

"Vivid characters, an overwhelming plot, strong passions, defeats and hopes and longing, compassion and loneliness.this is literature." -Edvard Hoem, author of "Ave Eva" and The Ferry Crossing"

Faced with the decline of the traditional family and the explosive growth of the over-65 population, the Japanese are looking for new ways to care for their elders. This timely study documents the birth of a major social phenomenon in Japan--the planned retirement community.
In the mid-1980s, Yasuhito Kinoshita spent a year living in Japan's first such community, Fuji-no-Sato. His collaboration with Christie W. Kiefer, a cultural gerontologist, is the first detailed study of a retirement community in a non-Western culture.
Fuji-no-Sato is a social community with no visible traditions. Kinoshita and Kiefer show that its residents' preference for long-established relationships creates the need for the invention of relationships that have no precedent in Japanese society.
This book reveals much about Japanese culture, and about the "graying of society" that plagues the newly industrialized countries of Asia. Its lessons about sensitivity to the elderly's values and the need for clear communication have important applications in other cultures as well.