Hello friends

It has been quite some time since I have been in this mood, with enough time to sit down and write. Chances are, this is going to be one of those posts-of-old where I ramble on for a while, so please be prepared.

Things as they are...
I am back in the books for what will be my last semester at the U - at least in regard to seeking my degree. I will officially hold a bachelor's degree in environmental design. So... when you need some design in your environment, you know whose blog to visit.

Volunteering at the station is going well. Last week, we recorded three more "spots" I guess you could call them (two of which I did vocal work and one of which I chose the song [With My Own Two Hands - Ben Harper]) . All of them advertised which I intend to attend and two of them are linked in the events section below on the right. La Musgana is playing at the Cedar Cultural Center next Friday and even from what little I have heard so far, I can tell you that they are fantastic. The spot we did said they mixed the influence of Celtic, Spanish, and African folk musics and play all sorts of funky instruments. I would say there is even a little klezmer influence in there if I were reviewing it. I linked their site and you can check their discography for music samples. Anyway, hopefully in a couple of weeks I will be starting board certification training and be able to engineer shows shortly thereafter.

Emily... uh, I mean Ike... has started up a blog called Ike's Life. S(he) is already wondering at why s(he) isn't getting comments... I can empathize from my early blog days. He's a good dog. Stop by for a laugh and say "hello."

Holy Crap! I was just flipping through the Cedar's Calendar and found that Lunasa is (are?) coming March 25th. Just in time for my life to move into its 4th decade. A fitting birthday present from the cosmos. Though so far no one has found the world of Celtic folk as beautiful as I, please let me know soon if you are interested in going and I will get tickets, $18.

I have started yet another book to slowly creep through - The World's Religions, by Huston Smith. I first really heard his name when we saw him speak at the Unitarian Church this spring and have been hearing more about/from him since. I didn't know at the time how prolific he was in the realm of what he calls "the wisdom traditions." If this book is any indication to his quality of work, however, I am not surprised. He, like Joseph Campbell, writes on comparative religion, but Smith seems to focus less on the mythology and more the practical sense messages that the "primary" religions communicate. So far, my respect for Hinduism has magnified immensely and I haven't even finished that section. I am gaining an understanding of the two selves which I also hear from Eckhart Tolle's work and in a much more personal and... true-feeling... way than what I have learned from the psychological realm.

But now that I am talking about it, I want to read more... so I am going to do so.

Good night folks. Enjoy yourselves in what you do.



Oh...
and go see Children of Men.

I will be back, when the day is new
And I will have more ideas for you.
And you'll have things you'll want to talk about.

And I

will,

too.