The Secret Cycle, Part 1: The Summer of Love (Pt. 1)

A monumental collective miracle happened to the Sixties generation. We were aware that it was the beginning of a new Renaissance for all of humanity; we were the first generation to see not only through the eyes of our minds but also through the eyes of our souls. We were the young Peace Generation speaking to the youth through art, poetry and music without any intermediaries from the older Generation.

This work of creative nonfiction is more memory than imagination, but it is not a perfect account of what happened. It is about a young man from an Italian-Catholic background, who grew up in an inner city neighborhood, studied Buddhism and Kung Fu in an underground temple in Chinatown, and his evolution into college student, hippie and antiwar revolutionary. It is also a story about finding love and the loss of innocence.