AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY Martin Frumkin, born a boomer in Lower Manhattan in 1948, escaped middle class morality and malaise in his travels throughout North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. His journals became his compass -- a guru of sorts -- often in conflict with his own attempts to integrate East and West while wrestling with God. Five years of open-ended, spontaneous backpack travel morphed into a career in the trenches of psychiatric social work. By serving society’s have-nots and homeless, Martin found the balance, Buddhism’s wa, he sought; compromise between American corporate tyranny and Timothy Leary’s psychedelic mantra, “tune-in, turn-on and drop-out.” He just didn’t “drop-out.” First called “don Marteen” by fishermen in the Canary Islands, and later by friends and enemies, he has lived in Colorado with his wife since 1977.