The Lotus Festival

Thinking about the Lotus Festival lately and thought about this song. Back in '07, I was coming out of The Vintage Pheonix (my fave comic store in B-town) and started strolling towards the library when this distinct reggae ryhthm stopped me in my tracks. It resounded down the whole block. Then I heard this soft spoken slightly raspy voice start singin' the song below. It's not a cheery song at all, but it's great hearing it live. Here's a few links too if your interested in the festival, Vintage Pheonix, or Taj.

http://www.tajandadowa.com/

http://www.lotusfest.org/LotusFestivalMain.html (Cara Dillon, The Horseflies, Huun Huur Tu & Carmen Rizzo -I would like to say WOW on what I heard from the site-, Kinobe & Soul Beat Africa, Los de Abajo, Parno Graszt (white horse in Romani, can we say awesome gypsy music?), Rupa and the April Fishes (best video from the list of artists), and tons more. The great thing about Lotus is that you learn about all these artists you would not normally ever hear about.

http://www.vintagephoenixcomics.com/ (their web site isn't as great as the actual store at all, but I listed it anyway.)

LIFE

Looked out of my window and into the street got no money in my pocket no food to eat cry out for a hand but no one will hear this be my burden lord then I shall bear

hurts me I hate it this is my life hurts me I hate it I’ll pay the price

pockets of hope a suitcase of dreamsmy only redemption from life it seems strumming so hard hope wears thin my dreams are worn by the cold night wind

bow abide in strength relieve me arches sorely grieve me bow abide in strength relieve me archers everywhere

two lights are gleaming in the cold Rasta hesitates which way to goone is a cottage lantern the other a ray my destiny seems a million miles away

bow abide in strength relieve me archers sorely grieve me bow abide in strength relieve me archers everywhere

by Taj Weeks and Adowa

My First Travel Bug

So my travel bug dog tags came in the mail yesterday! I was so excited. I already knew what I was attaching them to. It's a copy of the very first trackable item I ever found. I found a copy by accident and have placed a few in caches as I go along. I'm excited to see the places it goes!

The goal is gonna be to visit my hometown of Bloomington, IN hence the pic with the IU symbol.





After the initial goal, I want it to go around the world.

And this ,my friends, is the original with some pirate booty I later placed in my first cache.