New Book Out Now!
Fool's Paradise
Dead Nun's Curve and the Santa Fe Impact Crater
STORIES OF RELATIVE TRUTH
On April Fool’s Day 1973, the author, a star-eyed hippie at the time, began his journal. A love triangle and hitch-hiking around the wonders of the Southwest US form the backdrop to his poetic musings on just about everything. The story ends with a surprise encounter with a Tibetan lama in Arizona. Half a century later, he blends together two tales of his discoveries in Santa Fe. Things are not as they appear! Enjoy the stories and ponder just about everything!
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Nine Lifetimes in One: A Memoir: the last 300 years
The author has been writing poetry and songs since 1966. This is his first collection, containing 14 poems and lyrics to 61 songs. Many of the latter can be heard on Bird’s three albums: “Now Here This,” “Prayer Wheel,” and “Offering,” as well as on YouTube, Spotify, and other platforms. From expressions of passionate love to philosophical meditations—he says it all.
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Nine Lifetimes in One: A Memoir: the last 300 years
Songwriter, musician, poet, failed scientist, hippie activist, bi-polar Buddhist, and author of Extreme Times: Diary of an Eco-Buddhist, Bird Thompson weaves together his seventy-seven-year-long life with the lifetimes of nine poets, musicians, leaders, scientists, and masters from 1730 to 2021. All our hopes and fears travel through spacetime at the speed of light. Our planet spins toward 2030. Karma means the past is present, and so is the future. This is an autobiography and nine biographies rolled into one small book. Enjoy!
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Radio Review of "Nine Lifetimes"
“Santa Fe songwriter, musician and explorer Bird Thompson introduces his delightful memoir Nine Lifetimes in One (The Last 300 Years). Readers may initially think this is a book about reincarnation, but far from it. It perhaps belongs in a History niche as Bird reveals little-known facts about people many of us have admired. Bird (his real name and that of his father and grandfather) reflects on the lives of the nine famous people who have most influenced him throughout his life and helped to guide his own journey which he sets in the context of more than 50 years practicing Tibetan Buddhism beginning during his days at MIT. We’ll “meet” Ludwig van Beethoven, Chief Cornplanter and John Lennon among others as we listen and learn.” – “The Last Word” on KSFR Radio.
Extreme Times: Diary of an Eco-Buddhist
By Bird Thompson
“Extreme Times: Diary of an Eco-Buddhist” is also available on Amazon.
Synopsis:
Day to day, subjective life of a student of Tibetan Buddhism and climate change. Bird is also a songwriter and single man in search of love. From December 2010 until September 2011 he journals about his trip to Florida, cab driving in New Mexico and two trips to Colorado to see his spiritual teacher. The Buddhist teaching that all is impermanent is tied into the science of climate change and the necessity for compassion for all beings. The Tibetan Buddhist teaching that all is impermanent is tied into the science of climate change and the necessity for compassion for all beings.