YOKO ONO GOES BACK TO THE FUTURE WITH 'ACORN'

"Grapefruit" is one of the great books of the 1960s, a work of subtlety and elegance that frames the world itself as a canvas for art. It was this sensibility that first drew Lennon to Ono when they met at London's Indica Gallery in 1966.

Yoko Ono is returning to her roots. In June, the 80-year-old avant-garde icon (and widow of John Lennon) will publish a follow-up to her 1964 book "Grapefruit": "Acorn," a collection of 100 conceptual instructions which function as Zen-like incantations for how to live a mindful life.

Two years later, the couple did their first conceptual piece together, planting two acorns for peace at England's Coventry Cathedral. In 1969, they sent acorns to a variety of world leaders, with a letter reading, "Enclosed in this package we are sending you two living sculptures -- which are acorns -- in the hope that you will plant them in your garden and grow two oak-trees for world peace."

Lennon referenced the project in the closing verse of "The Ballad of John & Yoko": “Caught the early plane back to London / Fifty acorns tied in a sack / The men from the press said, 'We wish you success / It’s good to have the both of you back.'"

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