I hadn't noticed the cross in the heart prior to you pointing it out. Both my grandmothers were Jews, I don't know what that makes me ,but, in discussing it with the current owners of Yasgurs farm it goes "to every mother a child born" so I guess I am Jewish. I tend towards Buddhism for a long time now, that is more of a study of earthly standing as it pertains to heaven and God. Learning to do well and to do well towards all beings is more to my ability wot with my feeble mind and all. A Buddhost saying goes' to do well to yourself and to do well with others should be your ministry and teacher. Take this with you wherever you go no matter what others, even me, have told you. Which is to say, finding what works well for you and giving that to your fellow-person should be religion enough, without alot of theosifising. That said I also tend toward panentheism with an agrarian bent and tend not to try and possess god, from the time that we worshipped each other to we looked up to the mountain unto the Sun and stars and then beyond unto a vast and limited space including in "black holes'' such a strong gravitational pull that it devises our eye's to a minds eye barren of any sight but that which we can percieve throughout our lives and, then, only an instant in time. Micro-cosms and macro-cosms are in quantum amounts far better thought about by minds much better equipped than mine own and with a much higher degree of discipline that even these humble descriptions cannot attempt to discover the deep love I feel for my fellow human being and others. " For in the light of the fire in the circle we may see the same light in the eye's of those with which we share this flame, and that flame, so small in the eye's of the others is the very light of idea and infinitilism, finite and magnanimous ,we are made up of the very same things that the stars are made of ."
Zack Howards Bar-Mitzvah was a wonderful affair three or four years ago with his mitzvah being to end world hunger s of many kinds. Temple was in Livingston Manor, N.Y. after which we all went back to Yasgur Road and there entered the barn in which we spent the month prior to that organizing and cleaning it was proven to be a wonderful space in which to sup buffet style of many Jewish dishes and of my favorite "Kasha-varnitchkes"(buckwheat and noodles in a wonderful sauce) being vegetarian I delved perhaps a little too much into that. We had a rock band from Manhattan and a Jewish folk singer that made Rabbi exclaim that he feels like he was conducting Arlo Guthrie's Bar-Mitzvah. Zack Howard may be the one (or one of) that inherits Yasgur Farm should something (God forbid) happen to his father. There are four other children,I believe all of them of Jewish faith, but Zack is the youngest and the one I know the best knowing him 14 of his 17 or 18 years on this earth. (June 10th was/is his birthday but don't quote me on it. My daughter would know better, ad those two are good freinds, of which I am a single parent, the Howards/Abrahamsons took her in like she was one of theirs).
I do wish you could have made it to the farm when you were in New York,but, understand it is/was a very busy time for all of us. I did try to get to Woodstock,N.Y. on the Monday that you were there,but,I had to get my daughter started in semester as they started college session on the 20th, I had to get her settled in a new apartment. We used to spend the better part of the summer on the farm.
I think you got that email from Woodstock Nation web-site.
Peace and Love,
Banjo