MAY 16, 2025 ON MY CORNER MEET YOUR VENDOR Revolutionary love Spring has sprung and spring is the time of rebirth. Revolutionary love is born again. I recently clicked on the FaceMarius Johnson, vendor No. 672 In one sentence, who are you? Marius Johnson. Where do you usually sell Groundcover? Main Street and State Street. When and why did you start selling Groundcover? I started about six weeks ago and my friend suggested I try it out. What is one place in Ann Arbor that feels like your own personal sanctuary? The Northside of Ann Arbor. What’s your life motto? Do it big or don’t do it at all. What advice would you give to your younger self? Don’t get distracted. What is your comfort food? Italian and Chinese. If you were stranded on a desert island and could only bring 3 things, what would they be? Water, shelter, food. If there was a theme song for your life, what would it be? "Under Ground Kings" by Drake If you could travel anywhere, where would you go? Space. What is the weirdest food combo you swear by? Fries and milkshakes. What change would you like to see in Washtenaw County? More of people trying to help each other. book prompt, “What’s On Your Mind?” I posted, “Revolutionary love, let’s get in compliance with the heart of reality.” I chose the pretty symbol for the word heart. I tagged 50 people and so far got a few responses. The word compliance has a psychic burden. Maybe revolutionary love is not in compliance with the cultural framework that confuses love with romance and revolution with the past. On the other hand, advertising turns those two words into separate commodities. In the 60s and 70s many of us signed our writing Love/Struggle. Valerie Kaur has some TED talks on Revolutionary Love. Her children’s book “World of Wonder” is coming soon. She is on my list for continuing education. When her tour bus was at the Ann Arbor library, the public hall on the main floor was packed. The energy was clearlight radiant. I walked in as the program was beginning. I found a seat in the front row. I could hear Valerie Kaur tell the story of the Sikh tradition and the evolution of revolutionary love! Of course I gifted her a Groundcover News. We are at a tipping point for a more complete understanding of what it means to be a human being. The struggle for genuine freedom is entering a new phase. As Antonio Gramsci said, “We are in a time of monsters.” We will rise to the challenge when we are ready for the heart of reality. Appearances are holy in supremacism that is marching naked in the street. It does not care if it loses as long as it takes everything down with it. This nihilism and cynicism finds a home in many broken hearts. The cure is to heal ourselves KEN PARKS Groundcover vendor No. 490 their impermanence but will break your heart if you attach to them. Obsessive compulsive disorders will be healed and control freaks will dissolve into the vast expanse of sunyata (the Buddhist concept of “emptiness”). Jack Kruse, neurosurgeon, quantum biologist and polymath, shows us that reality is not centralized and all our schemes to be masters of the machine blow back, with unintended consequences that destroy the beauty of natural law. Natural law is often invoked by bourgeois intellectuals as if it supports only their assumptions. Many of us learned to spell "assume" and then its perils: It makes an ASS of U and ME. Compliance often refers to the chain of command bureaucratic social/political/economic order. Rules are important and work best when there is consensus for their intention and the subsequent exceptions to the rule. When rules appear as an order from the chain of command, we will find increasing dysfunction. Challenging the status quo becomes even more important as the tide of chaos rises. Authoritarian thinking is based on a using the faith that we sing and pray about. A teacher is near. There are countless spiritual friends who help you grow your faith in the sacred nature that is dormant in so many hearts. Open your eyes and explore whatever appears. Discriminating awareness is a better approach than fixating compulsively on anything. I have written about natural breath many times and have to admit I am still a beginner. Khenpo Choephel at the Karuna Buddhist Center has pointed the way towards the next step on the stages of the path to liberation. The discipline to start the day with a focus that benefits self and others is a breakthrough of revolutionary love. Compassion and loving-kindness will become a habit as we mature. The Karuna Buddhist Center has upcoming events for Shayamuni Buddha and his expression of revolutionary love. DARE TO STRUGGLE, DARE TO WIN is an important slogan for the working class. The struggle to realize the seamless nature of body, speech and mind and experience the interrelatedness of everything is the freedom that both politics and religion refer to. I believe we can do this. Groundcover will help you discover Revolutionary Love. It’s beyond sexy! GROUNDCOVER NEWS 3 The new Snow White movie Me and my boyfriend, Richard, went to see Snow White — the new, live-action version — and it was a great movie. The movie was so beautiful. The story was just like the original animated “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” but it was better because it had all races and colors of people in it. The movie seemed more real. It had very pretty colors and animals and beautiful nature and fruits and vegetables in it. I like the seven dwarfs, too. They were funny and they helped Snow White and her friends a lot. The movie was about people working together in friendships cooking and they enjoyed each other’s company. It shows how there can be love and happiness even when a person of power is evil and in control. “Snow White” is a great story DENISE SHEARER Groundcover vendor No. 485 about caring and being loyal to your friends no matter what; it shows that love overpowers evil. and family. It was about a community of people working together and caring about each other even though there was an evil queen in power. They had fun together
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