Shipping Pumpkin and Hare Krishnas

First, let me note that the Great Pumpkin Carols book which I talked about a while back is now available for preorder. And while I’m doing that, I’ll remind you both that when you preorder, Amazon will give you the lowest price they list the book for between now and when it’s released (often a bit of a savings)… and I’ll also remind you that The AAUGH Blog makes a little bit of income every time you click through on one of these links and order something. Yes, there is some underlying capitalism on this-here blog. But that seems far too short, so let me do a brief write-up on something that I’d hoped to build a bigger, meaty more post about, but really, the vital stuff can be carried quite simply. It goes back to 1987, in West Virginia, in a Hare Krishna commune. Now, those of you who have encountered Hare Kirshna folk fundraising or recruiting at the airport or wherever may think of these as gentle, goofy, misled souls… but at the time, the New Vrindaban commune was faced with…