Tweety,Jerry Brown, Ronstadt, David Harris, Zen master Baker at a wedding [View All]

[DeepModem Mom]

Absent Tweety, I'd like to have been there --


New York Times, "Vows"


Jessica Brandi Lifland for The New York Times
Chris and Kathleen Matthews.

....They were married on July 9 outside the Point Reyes Seashore Lodge in rural Olema, Calif. They recited their vows before the Rev. Paul Lee, a Lutheran minister, under a canopy of elm and willow trees, while a Swainson's thrush volunteered a melody. The ceremony included Sufi and Tibetan blessings, the latter given by Ms. Baker's father (Zen master Richard Baker). Afterward guests offered an only-in-Northern-California serenade of whistles, kazoos and Tibetan bells.

Among their guests were Ms. Ronstadt; Mayor Jerry Brown of Oakland; Chris Matthews, the cable TV anchor; and various other friends and David Harris, the writer and former husband of Joan Baez who went to prison rather than serve in the Vietnam War. "Where else would you have an ex-con hanging out with the polo crowd and everyone enjoying it?" Mr. Davis said....

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/fashion/weddings/31vows.html?oref=login