Table of Contents

Author's Note ix

Act 1 Waking

My Dinner with Ali 3

A Boyhood Dream 30

Easter Sunday 32

Interlude: Kuwait 34

Mouse Meets Muhammad Ali 35

Wings 55

Act 2 All Things Vibrate

Last Apple 59

Ali Offers Vocational Advice 71

The Zen of Muhammad Ali: Part One 91

Interlude: Desert Storm 110

The Zen of Muhammad Ali: Part Two 111

Interlude: Jann Wenner 130

Tokyo 133

Columbus, Ohio 137

The Reverend Doesn't Play Fair … 139

And Neither Does His God 141

A Mid afternoon Dream 142

All Things Vibrate 144

Of All Times 153

Manila 156

Twenty-Dollar Bills 160

Eleven Ghosts 164

Interlude: Marrakcch 179

Act 3 A Hymn for Agnostics

There Is Nothing in the Universe That You Are Not 185

Tonight's Dream 191

Our Dinner with All 196

Sam and Isaac 202

Lonnie 209

Children 210

Birthday 211

Charlie 212

Great Heart 215

Illumination 216

Everywhere That There Are People 217

From Adam Until Now 218

Acknowledgments 221