im off

wont be online for a week or so but wanted to leave one last omage to the family and the "d" man. it has been a trip to say the least, the fun, the learning, the ease and the speed of this journey have been incredible. i can only hope that the influences i have left here are as valuable as the ones left on me from this experience.... it has helped me get a lot closer to what is next, for sure.

congrats

i just heard that a good buddy of mine is closing on a house down the road from me on friday. it will be great to have a groovy neighbor in the hood for a while and im very appreciative that he is giving me an excellent comp of $53/sqft for selling my house. welcome to the block smt.

last week...

...with the dante, vic and andrew here in n. georgia. it has been everything i wanted it to to be, an incredible time to relfect, disect and analyze my own life while being witness to the beginning of another. i will miss my adopted family but will be encouraged to try and find my own sometime sooner than later. back to tulsa next week, after stops in alabama, tyler and denton. i have a full schedule for first 2 months there, mostly woking on the house but also getting my social fix, as ive been jonesing hard for the last few weeks:)

hiking dudes

to the top of table rock, in south carolina this weekend. i have hiked more in this past 8 months than the previous sum and it may have made a mountain guy out of me. hopefully things will work out where im back to them soon. 4.5 weeks left here, then spinning through denton on my way back to tulsa. lots of work ahead of me on the house and hopefully after that transition, it will sell, allowing me to move on my way. short list is as follows: taos, pueblo, oregon?, charleston wv, rochester but there is still some research to go, always it seems:)

blue baby

ok somewhat of an unrelated picture, but it is the best i could do....
so one more entry on this book im reading " the Omnivores Delimma" which is a good read for all of who "eat". the people/farmers ( i call them the modern slaves) who work for peanuts making this number 2 corn that our food industry basically exists b/c of, are having to protect their babies from what they call "blue baby syndrome". this is when the local water becomes so toxic from the fertilizers they are using for the monoculture corn, that the town goes on alert.....water for fuck sakes:( "the city of des moines puts out "blue baby alerts" in the springs b/c of high nitrogen levels in the water supply. the nitrates in the water convert to nitrite, which bind the hemoglobin, compromising the bloods ability to carry oxygen to the brain.." when are we going to get it... we are what we eat and all that goes into it. "your going to turn into an orange" my mom use to tell me, as i drank up the weeks supply of orange juice. in this case we will all become some from of hybrid corn, or better yet the fertilizers and petroleum used to produce it, which is good because we are in a shortage, dont you know...and by the way, our solution for that shortage is..... grow more corn???

Langerado - Music Review

so me and the family went to sunrise florida for langerado, my first weekend music festival, dorve down thursday night and got back late last. we braved it with an 8 month old in a camp site with 3000 crazy music, drug loving people and dante was great. the weather was in the 80's and humid, i finally found out the true meaning of "dirty hippies". for me, the highlights were toubab krewe and medeski martin wood. i saw taj mahal, who was groovy but doing old stuff, cat power was decent with a joplin vibe. sound tribe sector nine had something funky going on and i would love to see more of them, micheal franti and spearhead were throwing out a reggea beat with a groovy message. trey took nine songs to get the thing rolling, widespread was widespread, with a huge crowd i could not bear. lotus impressed me, tea leaf green did not, yerba buena was good but the sound guy killed them. i missed MOE which was ok and soulive which was not. avoided pepper and los lobos... i have never seen so many drugs for sale in one spot:) all in all a really groovy time, maybe not my gig again but very glad to have spent the time with the family.

Another....

picture of me....
and another book.... (didn't know what kind of pic to include for the book?)
it is rocking my world a bit and in a sad disgusted way. just like "a diet for a new america" did years ago (1993 to be exact and it turned em vegan) except instead of making me feel bad for the animals, this time i feel bad for us. how in the hell have we let ourselves as a nation become the unhealthy puppets of the industrial food business, eating on the average 300 extra calories or "corn" per day. " An Omnivore's Delimma" by Micheal Pollan. is an eye-opener to how we have become "corn people" and that most of the food eat has consumed more calories of petroleum in its making than it give us to eat (organic salad a that yeilds 80 calories tkes 4600 calories to grow) so much for becoming an organic freak too... local is the way to go, and if i can find a place with a good local, organic market, im moving;)

finish strong

taking pictures of myself, that is what it has come down to:) not too bad for a winding mountain road in north georgia. while driving i had this theory of the 2nd half, come up... its never how you start the game of life but how you finish, important for me as i go into my second half and even more important for those that i love as they are entering the 4th quarter. btw month 2 of non smoking... hard to remember even doing that. back in college i was well known for having an unlit grit in my mouth at parties and never smoking it until the end... but a pack a week w/ beers never felt right.