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Hemet
Union High School,
Class of ’64
Hemet, California
I
am
Shakurallah
Mujmiea bin
Ibrahim /
Daniel Beck Zwickel
ben Avrám &
MacJean of Hoss, of
Winter and of Wicks.
Son of Abraham, son
of Jean, I am a
Life-afirminist
rationalist mystic
ovo-lacto
activist-pacifist
eco-feminist
zen-neo-pagan
Judeo-Sufi-Christian
secular/religious
humanistic Unitarian
bio-theistic
trinitarian
pan-theistic
existentialist
Universalist, a
birthright
Jewnitarian and
Truebadour of Jazz.
Namaste, the Divine
within me greets the
Divine within you.
My pronouns are he,
him (or, as a
confirmed
chocoholic, more
properly, Her-shey).
 I
currently live on
Suisun & Karkin
land (Vallejo), Mare
Island Bio-region,
Alta California, 3rd
Rock from the Sun.
My
parents, Jean and
Dr. Abraham (D.C.)
Zwickel met
while on a civil
rights march from
the Harlem Ashram, a
pacifist, Christian
interracial
intentional
community in New
York City, where my
mother (as well as
James Farmer Jr.)
was living, to
Washington, D.C.
calling for the
abolition of Jim
Crow, in 1943. My
father was a
Chiropractor, son of
a tailor (hence the
last name Zwickel,
meaning "gusset"; my
school- and piano-
teacher mother was
the daughter of the
Rev. Dr. Frank Scott
Corey Wicks, All
Souls Unitarian,
Indianapolis. They
spent nearly their
entire lives toiling
in the vineyards of
peace, social,
economic and
environmental
justice. My father
served as a
conscientious
objector in a Quaker
CPS firefighting
camp; my mother was
an independentista,
passionately devoted
to the cause of
Boricua, Puerto
Rican independence
from U.S. colonial
rule, and once
testified before the
United Nations
Committee on
Decolonization on
its behalf.
I am a
second generation
pacifist and
conscientious
objector and
life-long vegetarian
(ovo-lacto), a
professional
musician,
singer-guitarist and
classical and jazz
violinist (Fiddler
on the Hoof),
songwriter and
composer, singer-web
designer and book
editor. I am an
Ashkenaz Jew, like
my father before me,
grandson of Chayim,
called Charles, so
"L'chaim" is, to me,
more than a toast to
life — it is a toast
to my grandfather! I
am a Unitarian
Universalist,
courtesy of my
Unitarian mother and
a religious
humanist. As a
violinist for
Sufi-rooted Dances
of Universal Peace I
adopted the name
Shakurallah
('Shakur' for
short), meaning
"grateful for the
many blessings of
Allah." As a
musician and
entertainer, Abe and
Jean are "Daniel's
parents"; to the
larger peace and
justice community I
am "Abe and Jean's
son." To the Puerto
Rican and Viequen
community, native
and ex-pat, my
mother is "Abuela
Jean"; to the
sheriffs of Contra
Costa County and
protectors of the
Concord Naval
Weapons Station, my
father is "Old Abe."
They came to be
treated by the Bay
Area LEOs with
affection and
respect, as was
their due. To them,
"changing hearts and
minds" was not
simply a goal: it
was an achievement.
I am, humbly, my
parents' son, and to
whatever extent I am
of value and benefit
in my beloved
community, I am my
mother and father's
legacy. May that
live long and
prosper.
Live fearlessly,
justly, with
compassion and in
health, observing
recommended health
and safety protocol
in the COVID-19 Era,
Daniel Zwickel ben
Avrám MacJean of
Hoss, of Winter and
of Wicks,
Pronouns he, him
& his,
SuisunKarkinland
(Vallejo),
Mare Island
Bio-region, Alta
California
MY BYWORDS:
“Thou shalt keep a
distance of four
cubits, cleanse thy
hands for no less
than 2,736 rega’im,
cover thy mouth and
nose and touch not
thine eyes; thou
shalt congregate in
numbers no greater
than six times a
dozen. Fail not in
these commands, lest
ye be cursed unto
the thirteenth
generation.”
—Covidicus 20:19
“And a little child
shall lead them.”
—Isaiah 11:6,
prophesying the
coming of Greta
Thunberg
“Children are not
our future — they
are our present!”
—Fr. Anthony Perkins
“A pandemic has been
declared, but not
for the 24,600 who
die every day from
unnecessary
starvation, and not
for 3,000 children
who die every day
from preventable
malaria, and not for
the 10,000 people
who die every day
because they are
denied
publicly-funded
healthcare, and not
for the hundreds of
Venezuelans and
Iranians who die
every day because
America's blockade
denies them
life-saving
medicines, and not
for the hundreds of
mostly children
bombed or starved to
death every day in
Yemen, in a war
supplied and kept
going, profitably,
by America and
Britain. Before you
panic, consider
them.”
—John Pilger,
Journalist
“This will be our
reply to violence:
to make music more
intensely, more
beautifully, more
devotedly than ever
before.”
—Leonard Bernstein
“The Bible contains
6 admonishments to
homosexuals and 362
admonishments to
heterosexuals. That
doesn’t mean that
God doesn’t love
heterosexuals. It’s
just that they need
more supervision.”
— Lynn Lavner
“Socialism is
‘merely Christianity
in action’”
—Five times U.S.
Presidential
candidate of the
Socialist Party of
America, Eugene V.
Debs
“Every gun that is
made, every warship
launched, every
rocket fired
signifies in the
final sense, a theft
from those who
hunger and are not
fed, those who are
cold and are not
clothed. This world
in arms is not
spending money
alone. It is
spending the sweat
of its laborers, the
genius of its
scientists, the
hopes of its
children … . This is
not a way of life at
all in any true
sense. Under the
cloud of threatening
war, it is humanity
hanging from a cross
of iron.”
—Dwight D.
Eisenhower, farewell
speech to the
American people.
“The warrior is not
someone who fights,
because no one has
the right to take
another life. The
warrior, for us, is
one who sacrifices
himself for the good
of others. His task
is to take care of
the elderly, the
defenseless, those
who can not provide
for themselves, and
above all, the
children, the future
of humanity.”
—Chief Sitting Bull
“In time of
universal deceit
telling the truth is
a revolutionary
act.”
—George Orwell
“There is no flag
large enough to
cover the shame of
killing innocent
people.”
—Howard Zinn
“Peace comes within
the souls of people
when they
realize...at the
center of the
universe dwells the
Great Mystery, and
the center is
everywhere, it is
within each of us.”
—Black Elk
“If you succumb to
the temptation of
using violence in
the struggle, unborn
generations will be
the recipients of a
long and desolate
night of bitterness,
and your chief
legacy will be an
endless reign of
meaningless
chaosans.”
—Martin Luther King
“At the moment of
commitment the
entire universe
conspires to assist
you.”
—Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
“True peace is not
merely the absence
of war, it is the
presence of
justice.”
—Jane Addams
“Justice is what
love looks like in
public.”
—Cornel West
“The arc of the
moral universe is
long, but it bends
toward justice.”
—Rev. Theodore
Parker
“Whatever you do
will be
insignificant, but
it is very important
that you do it.”ť
—Mahatma Mohandas K.
Gandhi
“Never doubt that a
small group of
thoughtful committed
citizens can change
the world: Indeed
it’s the only thing
that ever has.”ť
—Margaret Mead
“A dream you dream
alone is only a
dream;A dream you
dream together is a
reality.”
–and–
“All we need is
love” … and
chocolate … and
coffee
—John Lennon
(+chocolate,
+coffee)
“When the power of
love overcomes the
love of power, the
world will know
peace.”
—Jimi Hendrix
MY PHILOSOPHY:
Socrates:
“To be is to do.”
Romper
Room:
“Do be a do bee.”
Fred
Flintstone:
“Yabba dabba doo!”
“Woah, oh, oh …
listen to the
music”: Doobie Bros.
Cheech &
Chong:
“Did somebody say
doobie?’”
Jean-Paul
Sartre: “To do
is to be.”
Willie the
Shake: “Doobie
or not doobie?
That’s a question!”
“Do Be Do Be Do, be
do, be do.”
—Francis Albert
Sinatra
“I love the java
jive and it loves me
Coffee and tea and
the java and me
A cup, a cup, a cup,
a cup, (yeah)!”
—Francis Albert
Sumatra
AND IN THE END (OR
THE MIDDLE,
ACCORDING TO YOUR
PERSPECTIVE),
“Many of us have
been running all our
lives. Practice
stopping.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh
“Be yourself.
Everyone else is
already taken.”
—Oscar Wilde
“God is a frequency.
Stay tuned.” —Alan
Cohen
I invite you to
Visit:
My
patrón
and friend,
Guillermo Muńiz of
the New Mecca Café,
Pittsburg,
California and I
on the pitcher’s
mound at the ’Stick
for the National
Anthem in front of
47,000 screaming
Giants fans,
sometime back when
the world was
relatively sane. I
miss my brother
Memo.
Moi,
at my church,
MDUUC
in the Creek,
back when the
World was
Young
Daniel@PeaceHost.net
Truebadour@Earthlink.net
(Either, your
choice, but, please,
not both)
Shalom uvracha
(Peace and
blessings)
Daniel / Shakur
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