There's always more to the story, and this Substack will delve deep into politics and history, as well as music and travel, in hopes of seeing the world in new ways.
Michael Shapiro writes about politics, travel, music, and environmental issues. A longtime newspaper reporter and editor, heโs author of The Creative Spark and A Sense of Place. His stories appear in National Geographic, AFAR, WaPo, and SF Chronicle.
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Transmitted Zen teacher, author, narrator (28 yrs w/ Ken Burns,author of 5 bks, used-to-be movie actor, politically engaged-orchestrated the first protest ever invited into the White house and worked for eight years for governor Jerry Brown