The Opening Scene From The Novel Journey Home:

A screeching halt of automobile tires burns out on the street as a young woman is thrown out of a stopping car. She rolls to the curb in one toss and rises. A voice calls from the car, "here have a beer," as a bottle of Coors comes at her brow and smashes against a wall. The voice from inside the car reeks with sarcasm and insightful abuse, "trash," it bellows and without pause heads off. Ducking, a sigh of relief, and a bottle of republican brew smashes into tiny shards of discontent. It shatters its political campaign donations into public hazards. Glass lay all over the street. A cut foot and more blood shed in the road. Human nature I suppose.

The girl picks herself up and steps back onto the sidewalk. A bloody footed boy groans. He looks at his toes and feels the wet blood cool against his foot. His one sandal is soggy. He raises his head, the choice being made, the dice rolling and speaks to the girl. "Are you alright?" No reply. She made her choice. But the problem with choices is that they keep coming. "... look I just sliced my foot open. Do you mind acknowledging my existence?" She didn't care but she did turn her head slowly and stared in disbelief. Eyes smoldering she said nothing. He bent over to reexamine his foot. The cars filing by didn't care one bit about them. They didn't care about each other and they might not even care about themselves. In fact no one cared about anything at all anymore.

Journey Home

Blurbs

About me:

Look Inside The Novel Now!
“Phenomenal on so many levels...tremendous!”

"I recommend the hell out of it." - - Jonny Bear

"Journey Home Made My Top Lip Sweat..." - - Jay

"You Found Your Voice Paul" -- John Hammond Legendary Blues Musician

What a fantastic journey! As I keep reading I so don't want it to end ... Dave

Paul - you're an absolute inspiration! -- Night Clouds (Roger, Steve & Angie)

Hey Brother I bought your book and I am definitely digging it ... Devin

Hello from the United Kingdom. Thanks for a brilliant book ... Terry

Well done my friend!!! Loved it ... Woody

I must tell you how truthful and inspiring it was ... Debbie H

"A notably fearless use of stream of consciousness!" ... Rob

"Paul, I eagerly devoured Journey Home. You proved to be a great companion... YOU ROCK" ... Ken

"The unexpected twists and turns continued to peak my interest, and the first night I read till I could see no more. A book of this quality is an amazing gift for all to read....and understand!" ... Dusty

"I was in awe Journey Home shines and it is a great adventure. I am so glad to have read this book!! Glad it arrived on my path."...Debbie

"Journey Home conveyed an immense array of existential thoughts and questions, not easily verbalized by most because of their intense and provocative nature. While some passages are often cerebral, they are met equally by the heart." ...A.J.

"I just finished reading Journey Home and I can't tell you how bowled over I am. It is so insightful and powerful and it emanates such wonderment of reality...Phenomenal on so many levels...tremendous!" ... Aimee'

Paul Burke is some fantastic, writer. I loved this book and highly recommend it as a must read!! ... The Knowledge Tree Bookstore

Who I'd like to meet:

Journey Home is the story of Danny and his band giving it one more try as they venture through Florida and Louisiana looking for a steady gig and something to eat. Their travels take them from an old brothel on the back bay in Florida through Mississippi in the middle of the night and straight into the heart of New Orleans. Their wild and chaotic ride forces them to run, hide and confront a crazy world that is more terrifying and beautiful than they thought.

Burke takes us to towns fraught with crimes, indifference, and cynicism. The characters are disillusioned and broken souls. But even so they have their dreams and their music. Whether they will eventually fulfill their dreams or not is only one of the interesting points of his new novel.

Journey Home is a philosophical exploration of life and its realities. With protagonists that breathe and live music, this book no doubt will please music lovers. But this work is not merely about music. Paul Burke makes an ultimate statement about life and living, one that will inspire and challenge every human being about the world we have built for ourselves.

Paul Burke has a long and rich background in the visual arts, broadcasting, music and theater. He has been creating in one medium or another for over forty years. He spent ten of those years as a leading contributor to a public radio station he helped to start, guide and define. He championed and interviewed individual artists such as The Allman Brothers Band, Doc Watson, Tom Rush, Rory Block, and Arlo Guthrie. His show was dedicated to non-commercial artists and environmental causes. Through public radio grass roots organizations were able to express their civic concerns stopping a trash incinerator in an ecologically sensitive waterway, banning the burn of trash and waste off the coast, and moving a major manufacturer to recycle.

Journey Home is a result of the thirty plus years Paul Burke has spent in the world of audio and visual arts, performing at small venues, touring as a stage hand, and passionately championing environmental activism and advocacy.

Project R&R: Release & Restitution for Chimpanzees in U.S. Laboratories

HSUS MySpace Page | Stop Puppy Mills Website

Latest Blog Entries

Nov 28, 2011 Movie and Documentary Reviews for 2011 - Hidden Gems
Oct 3, 2011 No Title
Aug 31, 2011 Restore the Wolves, Restore the Environment, Restore the Economy
Aug 31, 2011 Play For Free
Aug 31, 2011 Every Generation - Egypt, Syria and London

Top Friends (40)

Status and Mood

Paul Burke Mitt 'Not Concerned with the Very Poor' Romney Visits West Philly, Gets Lesson in Keeping it Real .. http://t.co/MmuP7Lrh
Yesterday from Twitter
Paul Burke Pew Research Center finds that clean energy has far more support than fossil fuels support across the political spe… http://t.co/yOw4PZXv
Yesterday from Twitter
Paul Burke Pew Research Center finds that clean energy has far more support than fossil fuels support across the political spectrum — except among cons
Yesterday

Comments

Music

My Playlist

10 songs • 9/21/2008

1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
The Fool And Me (2007 Digital Remaster)
Robin Trower
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Dimples
Allman Brothers band
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Tripe Face Boogie (Album Version)
Little Feat
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Big Easy Boogie
Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88’s
1. Play
2. Play Next
3. Add to queue
Busting Loose
Rebirth Brass Band

View Full Playlist ►

Interests

General

Order Now!
“Phenomenal on so many levels...tremendous!”
____________________
Journey Home is a story about us all and it all and the power that is creation, the revelation of creations existence to our eyes and all that we see without and within.

In the end this reality and all that it entails, surrounds, and enjoins with us is art, which is creation, which is consciousness on all levels, and the process that comprises it's make up is both seen and unseen.

And so, "isn't it amazing" is a more than appropriate frame of mind as we live through our lives and unfold and have unfolded upon us the beauty of it all.

Paul Author-Journey Home

Journy Home's Paul Burke Jam in G

U.S. Senators and Congressional representatives have accepted $37,619,373 from the coal industry.
Enter your zipcode to see how dirty your congresspeople are:

.. .. .. .. ..

.. ..

..

HSUS MySpace Page | Get web badges

____________________

____________________

..League of Conservation Voters & Robert Redford - Watch NOW!

..

Alaska's Wolf Slaughter!

_________________________

McNeil River Bear Slaughter - Watch NOW!

Mountain Top Removal - Help Save The Blue Ridge

The History of Coal

_________________________

Pierce Bronson and the International Fund for Animal Welfare

.. Allman Brothers Band, Walter Anderson, Audubon Society, Long John Baldry, Rory Block,Edgar Cayce, Marc Chagall, John Coltrane, Cousteau Society, Salvador Dali, The Grateful Dead, Tinsley Ellis ,Alberto Giacometti, Screamin Jay Hawkins, Edward Hopper, Arlo Guthrie, Mississippi John Hurt, Thelonius Monk, The Mozart Project, Museum of Modern Art, Natural Resource Defense Council, Reef Relief , Otis Redding , Philadelphia Museum of Art, Big Mama Thornton, Van Gogh, Francisco "Pancho" Villa, The Viper's Drag, Antonio Vivaldi, Muddy Waters, WLFR , Andrew Wyeth ..
Music
Allman Brothers Band, The Grateful Dead, New Grass Revival, Rory Block, Jerry Douglas, Allison Kraus, Little Feat w/ Lowell, Rolling Stones, Led Zeplin, Carlos, Bob Marley, Leo Kotkee, The Band, Otis, Coltrane, Monk, Hank Mobly, Toots, Beatles, Tom Petty, George Harrison, Peter Frampton, Doc Watson, Tony Rice, Arlo...
Movies
Petrified Forest, Casablanca, The Day The Earth Stood Still, The Wolf Man, Monkey Business, A Night at the Opera, True Romance, King of New York, The Bad Seed, Slap Shot, Spinal Tap, The Holy Grail, Almost Famous Directors Cut, Animal House, Garden State
Television
Band of Brothers, That 70's Show (go figure), Legends of Hockey, Rescue Me, The Daily Show and Cobert Report, AMC Classic Movies, The Discovery and History Channel, Animal Planet!

This Petrolius Commercial is a Keeper!

....
Books
The Journey Home Cover

Order Now!
“Phenomenal on so many levels...tremendous!”

....
Some Authors I Love:
Kesey, Hemingway, C.G. Jung, Alan Watts, George Orwell, Mark Twain, Vonnegut, Hermann Hesse, Saul Below, Ray Bradbury, Shakespeare(no really), Hunter S. Thompson, T.S. Eliot, Tolkien, Huxley, H.G. Wells, Blake, Faulkner, Shelby Foote, Kerouac, Salinger, George Bernard Shaw, Heinlein, Jimmy Buffett, Carlos Castaneda, Homer (D'oh)

Support:
Your Local Book Store
Order Journey Home
From My Friends!

Prince Books
109 East Main Street Norfolk, VA 23510-1691
(757) 622-9223

Valley Bookstore
P.O. Box 590 125 N. Cache
Jackson, WY 83001
Tel: 307-733-4533
Heroes
Jaunn Man Hugs Video Watch Now!

....
_____________________
I Miss George Harrison So Much!

....

..________________..
This is some serious heart and soul! Thank you Sara!

....

________

Middle Aged "Author" Caught Groovin' to John Mooney

________