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LETTERS Barred Entry To Dead Show While entering a "Bill Graham Presents" Grateful Dead show, my prop bag was searched. When the staff found my juggling equipment inside, they barred my entry because they said they had prior "problems with you jugglers." I finally gained entry without props. It was a Dead show where I first watched jugglers pass clubs and decided to learn this mystical, obviously fun sport... Now jugglers aren't allowed. What are we to do? Is this the beginning of juggler discrimination, or just an isolated incident? Bill Clancy Lockwood, Calif.
Give Trixie's Dad Juggling Credit I enjoyed reading Mark Nizer's article on Trixie in the summer issue. However, I must question the statement that Trixie's father was not a juggler. Some 40 years ago, in Idaho, I caught a juggling act by a man in his middle-to late 50s who claimed to be Trixie's father. He seemed quite proud of the "fact" that his daughter was the highest paid juggler in the world. He put on an entertaining act featuring tennis rackets and small balls. He seemed quite convincing. Can Juggler's World clarify this matter? Stephen Campbell Engelwood, Colorado
Trying To Be A Good Sport I'm not going to let it bother me that I was left out of the article on the Edmonton Street Festival by Dana Smith (Spring 1990). I'm not going to let it bother me that I am a poor struggling street performer trying to make it big in the annals of Juggler's World. I'm not going to let it bother me that I am originally from Edmonton, a Canadian, a female, a solo act, an IJA member and I was left out of the article on the Edmonton Street Festival. I'm not going to let it bother me because thanks to the Edmonton Street Festival, I'm now in Japan - with Dana Smith! And I'm torturing him each and every day for the next seven weeks about the fact that he left me out of the article! Kristi Heath (Madame Buskerfly) Toronto, Ontario
Try Christ Instead Of Tarot I have several students in school who are jugglers, all of whom read my issues of Juggler's World. However, I have serious reservations about letting them read the Spring 1990 issue. I reject and renounce the presentation by Billy Gillen of the Tarot as a means to ''become familiar with all aspects of consciousness and how that reflects one's particular nature." The article presents a very persuasive view that we should pattern our decisions and our lives after "revelations" received from a deck of cards.
Has
Juggler's World reached the point
of exploring occultist doctrine, methods and teachings? I am
sure that I am not alone in taking offense to it. We've been shown a
look at the "dark" side of juggling, now let us take a look
at the "light" side. I, for one, serve my Lord and Savior
Jesus Christ by offering my juggling to Him in worship and imitation
of what He has done in creation and in my life.
The
article proposes that through use of the Tarot our world view will
change from "the personal to the universal and reach
enlightenment." However, let me propose that upon choosing Christ
as Savior, our world view will change from the personal to the eternal
because He is enlightenment. It's so simple. Ask Him into your heart
and believe that He will save you. No need for Tarot; no need for
astrology; no need for numerology. Only the need for Christ.
It
never ceases to amaze me that we as a people will look to the stars,
to printed cards, to numbers and to the very stones beneath our feet,
but we refuse to look to the Creator of the universe. That is why I
juggle, to worship and imitate the One who loved me enough to die in
my place, so that I can be with him forever. And maybe I can use my
juggling to share the truth that I have found in Him with others who
are thirsting for peace, grasping for hope and dying for love.
How
'bout it, believers? Juggle up, all. Mr. Gillen- I'm praying for you. Todd Chadwick East Randolph, New York |