In addition to the sources cited in the Acknowledgments of our original Stardance novel, we drew upon Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind by Shunryu Suzuki, Everyday Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck, Walkabout Woman by Michaela Roessner, How Do You Go to the Bathroom in Space? by William R. Pogue, Carrying the Fire by Michael Collins, and Zen to Go by Jon Winokur, in completing this book. Further assistance was derived from Kenya AA and Kona Fancy coffee, Old Bushmills whiskey, and the music of Johnny Winter (who was playing guitar 20 meters away while Jeanne wrote the Prologue), Ray Charles, Frank Zappa, Harry Connick, Jr., Benjamin Jonah Wolfe, Davey Graham, Michael Hedges, “Spider” John Koerner, and Mr. Amos Garrett, as well as Co-Op Radio and all the other jazz and blues FM stations received in Vancouver.
—Vancouver, B.C
4 August 1990