An old friend of mine I’ve been trying to bring to the world via the Voice Of GO(r)D podcast has run into some difficult times.
Diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer in the summer, Kevin ‘Airport Mayor’ Bowman is about to begin a second round of chemotherapy, and it’s no stretch to say that he is fighting for his life.
Way back in 2002, when I was quite a bit younger, my cousin Samantha, who was living in San Francisco at the time, invited me to come visit her, and join her on a trip to this “party” in some desert out in Nevada. Little did I know what I was getting into, nor how I would end up going to that party six times throughout the course of eleven years, and all of the amazing people I would meet along the way.
One of those people was Kevin, who I met while working for Arctica, the organization at Burning Man which distributes Ice to the residents of the ephemeral and temporary place they call Black Rock City. Kevin was the manager of one of the three locations within BRC which sold Ice, and I was driving a shunt truck, hauling in the loaded trailers from the gate, and taking the empties back out, where drivers from the Ice company would go back and forth the 140ish miles between Burning Man and Reno.
(I could do a whole series of writings on my time and experiences at Burning Man, but it won’t be anytime soon; it was a long time ago, and I would have to fish out an old hard drive full of photos, as well as contend with the internal dialog between Me Now and Me Then.)
The Mayor, as we all called him, was one of those unique personalities well suited for Burning Man, full of a zest for life, and stories, stories, stories. The man is a walking encyclopedia of the counter-culture movement of America in the second half of the Twentieth Century. Kevin had been to the original Woodstock, was picked up hitch-hiking by the Manson Family a few weeks before the Sharon Tate murders, had rode his bicycle across Canada in the early 1970s, witnessed the Grateful Dead play probably more times than they actually took the stage, was also tied up with The Rainbow Gathering people in some capacity, and has worked at Burning Man for over 20 years, either managing the little Black Rock City ‘airport’ (people do fly to Burning Man) or working for Arctica. And all through this life, he maintained a teaching career that spanned 4 decades and two continents - Kevin was a math teacher in his hometown of Yuma, Arizona, and also did a spell teaching in Nepal.
When I began to seriously consider the suggestions made to me by more than a few people to start the podcast, one of the first potential guests who popped into my mind was Kevin. In the year since I first began recording interviews (holy crap, has it been a year already?) I have asked Kevin to come on a few times; alas, we either couldn’t make our schedules work, or some other challenge was facing one or both of us.
God willing, that interview will take place in the near future, and Kevin will put a few more miles on the clock. They don’t make people like him anymore, and the world will be a much better place the longer he is around.
Right now Kevin’s step sister Carol is in Reno, helping to look after him while he goes through the very challenging treatments necessary to defeat the cancer. Obviously, all of this is very costly, and I would ask of my audience and ‘fans’, if you have a couple of bucks to spare, to make a donation to help him out.
GoFundMe
There is also a website called Caring Bridge, where Carol is maintaining updates on Kevin’s progress, which you can find here.
Thank all of you in advance, and if you are the praying sort, a little message to God/The Universe/The Man would be well appreciated.
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https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/repost-ivermectin-may-defeat-cancer-041?publication_id=400535&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email
He will be waiting there for you at Heaven’s gate!!! 🤗🙏🏻