Wet My Mouth with Honey

1967 through 1969: The United States is embroiled in an unjust and illegal war. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy are assassinated. College campuses explode in riots and rebellions. Cultural and religious norms are challenged. Out of this tangled thicket of national chaos, comes a story told through the poetic voice of Sylver Smith who, after surviving a near-fatal accident, examines her life to find it lacking and without purpose. At twenty-eight, Sylvi is a mother, a career woman, and a lost soul who looks for life's answers in the next party, or the next drink, or the next many drinks, until the car wreck. A few months after her brush with death, her jazz musician friend blows into town from New York and turns her on to pot and peyote. Her psyche awakens to the Oneness of all sentient beings and the power of Love in the Universe. Her practical self awakens to the horror of the Vietnam War and the urgent need to bring it to an end. Through her conscious choice to evolve, open her heart, and become part of the peaceful revolution, she opens her door to a diverse group of people, among them, McKenzie Raintree, called Z, a marijuana dealer from Acapulco. The magnet that pulls Sylvi and Z together is their heart for a revolution to free oppressed people, in the U. S. and throughout the world, from corrupt governments and corporate systems of greed and exploitation. Inspired by Gandhi, she envisions non-violent change, while he sees violent overthrow as the only option. A compelling love draws them close, but their commitments to differing ideologies cause tension between them. Sylvi, with two failed marriages behind her, refuses Z's marriage proposal. Instead, despite their differences, they pronounce themselves a union under God without imagining where the road they'll travel together will take them. What happens when legal entanglements separate her from her two young daughters and imprisonment looms in hers and Z's future? Can her devotion to the t