thank you gunnar for asking that relevant questin! just what i wondered about.

Posted by another swede @ Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:08:27 GMT +0

in reference to the comment below...go Donna!!!!write me an email and come for a visit this summer...blessings sister..

Posted by onepine @ Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:17:37 GMT +0

Thanks for asking Gunnar...We do need a music tab! Here's a short list of our films musical talent:

BAND OF ANNUALS ( 'Let me live' CD on Amazon.com)

HARVEY SWANSON ( www.myspace.com/harveyswanson

MATT LEWIS BAND ( www.mattlewisband.com )

BRUCE HARVIE ( bruceharvie.bandcamp.com )

LINO ( linomusic.com )

LEAH LARSON ( google leah larson, singer/songwriter/violinist )

RUDY YULY ( www.discogs.com/artist/Rudy+Yuly

Posted by kevin @ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 12:53:44 GMT +0

Swedish television is showing this now. It's great to see this picture. Inspiring. But I am searching for information on the music. You should have a tab for the music to. What artists and songs is it ???

Posted by Gunnar Johansson @ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:55:11 GMT +0

I have just finished watching "Back to the Garden" which aired on UWTV's weekly television show "Backstory". Andrew Tsao interviews Kevin and asks about the process of making the film, then asks Kevin what changes have occurred in his life as a result of making the film. Kevin answers and my head shoots up and I think of my reaction as I watched this film and recognized that someone was making a film about my life and the culture of my youth.

An honest film that was spare. a film that did not hide the flaws or exploit the beauty of the way a group of people tried to live. The honesty that drew me to the film continued through to the last frame.

The film gave me time with the people of the Methow Valley that felt like several seasons although in reality it was no more than 90 minutes. I remember hearing Kevin answering Andrew, he and his wife live in the area part-time in a 400 ft cabin they purchased. He goes on explaining how and why he loves this setting...I lose my focus in their conversation and my mind drifts to my times spent living in Sonoma, Mendocino and finally Lassen County where as a single woman I raised my three children, living the hippie life.

I sit and ponder my hippie life as an African-American woman with 3 children. People of color were not as numerous. I grew up in San Francisco in the Haight Ashbury before the 'summer of love'. I attempted to build a cabin w/ my then husband and ended up getting divorced. My children and I moved to Lassen County and although there was no counter culture movement I managed to build community and raise my children there. I now live an ordinary life in Seattle and I want out. I've been promising myself to leave this life and return to the life I love next year. I am now facing surgery, in my heart I'm afraid I might have blown my chance to get away.

Kevin's movie gave me a peak back into the faces of women who like me were scrubbed clean without makeup, who dressed like me, gardened like I always have and still choose to do. Without fail every February the peas go into the garden.

Remembering the things I have not lost in this life I am hopeful again. I begin to plan in earnest how to save enough money and move back to where I belong.

Wish me luck... I'm on my way,

Posted by Donna Lawson @ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:12:47 GMT +0

Ohhhh!!! I hope EVERYONE involved in this film receives the many, many blessings that are NO DOUBT due to you!!!

This film resonated so deeply within my being, it re-lit my flame that had been blown out by mainstream television and ignorance amongst the general population.

We have been on this "train" for many years, choosing to cloth diaper, always recycle, grow many of our own food during the spring/summer... this film made me smile from the inside out! Greetings from The San Juan Islands! :)

Posted by Alison Calhoun @ Sat, 17 Dec 2011 18:49:30 GMT +0

Greeting from Australia. I'm a product of alternative education in the 70s and

lived the hippie dream back then. thanks for the memories and inspiration...

Posted by mike @ Mon, 12 Dec 2011 09:13:58 GMT +0

Fabulous film. I hold the makers of this film and everyone in it near and dear to my heart.

Love you all.

Posted by Rachel @ Tue, 29 Nov 2011 22:37:22 GMT +0

BEAUTIFUL! What an inspiration.

Jan

Posted by Jan @ Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:07:42 GMT +0

Carol Ann Butcher-Wood...I'd be delighted to forward your message to Jerry. Would you please email me at the following address and I'll forward your note: ktvc2001@aol.com

sincerely,

kevin

Posted by kevin @ Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:51:30 GMT +0