Something happens after dinner. All the pearls of wisdom and anecdotal information that starts the pistons of this process firing are erased. I guess I give them all back to the day. These fish are obviously not big enough to…
The ants went marching two by two. The little one stopped to tie his shoe and they all went marching down into the ground to get out of the rain. It has come. Threatening first and blowing eddies of cold…
Halva. A cool word. Something to eat. Some words fit what they describe. Some really blow it for the subject. The word that crossed my mind the other day was
Waiting. Its true. You never get back the time you spend waiting for things to happen. If you are constantly waiting for things then I guess its best that you find something really rewarding to do in all those holes….
I shall be released. Reporting in after the show in Victoria. Great fun to release the hounds once again. Played a bit thrashy at times but the more loose electric trio format is so much fun. There is so much…
Putting out an A.P.B. That
Altitude training. I
Haircuts. How many haircuts have I had in my life? How many times have I shaved? How many times does one person wash a car? Some of these things come more easily to mind than others. I could probably count…
Cell phone surrender. I just signed on to the devil
Look at my hands. They
Then all of a sudden I felt good about things. I
A bomb hit it. That
Repeat after me. Repeat after first application. Finished a shower and was drying off when I realized my hands were not really my own at the time. They were on some sort of repeat cycle. First rub head with towel….
I had a lazy idea. Steal someone else’s journal entry for today and just change the names to include my mom and some historical figures. I went to Blogger.com and picked the first one. I changed a few things but…
Stats from the Odyssey in an Odyssey 65 days travel All the provinces…no territories. From Vancouver to Cape Spear NF Ten of the US states Just shy of 27,000 kilometres only one night sleeping in the car Wildlife Spotted (some…
My host on the web decided to take some sort of summer vacation without telling me and the site was down for a few days. Apologies. I will be back on the program in a few hours. We have liftoff.
Feed a cold starve a fever. Its a struggle just to maintain concentration when whole sections of your brain are swimming in snot. Feed it. Starve it. Whatever. You just want to lie down. Its the one time that beer…
Back into the thing that got me here. Stay up late. Get up early. Do it until you can
Just read the one from yesterday. I swear I’m not a pothead. Speaking of potheads . . . the show at the Little River Rockfest in Minnedosa Manitoba was fun. The crowd was “classic”. What’s a four day “classic” event…
Sense of space. On an airplane to Winnipeg right now. Will enlightenment happen here? What does context do to initiate awareness. I can try to tune into this space but it will be shallower water than some other situations. I…
Home. More on that later. Hope to put up some stats tomorrow.
I did my research and found out that the speaker on First Nations issues I heard on CBC was George Erasmus at the 3rd annual LaFontaine Baldwin Conference in Vancouver. Tomorrow is the last day of the journey. I leave…
A footnote to that last posting. Heard half of a lecture by someone on CBC Radio 1 last night that melded with my own thoughts today. It was on a new discourse for first nations relations with the rest of…
What spin are you going to put on it? Perspective. Looking at the same object from different angles. Today we took the kids and my nieces to the Calgary Zoo. The zoo
Not ready to be separated from the herd. Keeping the family primed for evolution. Everyday punctuated by the intermittent revelation that I will have to wind this down soon. Ominous. Out here burning the postcards of North America into the…
On borrowed modem time in a campground. Cody Wyoming. Crossed MI, WI, MN and S.Dakota. camped in the Badlands, Black Hills and Bighorn. Can’t say much except the next installments will be epic. Batten down the blogger. Into Jellystone today…
Pearls of wisdom. Words to live by. I notice that a lot of the older wiser musicians have distilled their philosophies of life down to catch phrases. They have discovered their own mantras through the musical school of hard knocks….
I’ve got myself on the run again so just a quick summary. The “Kee to Bala” gig. Solid sweaty fun. Sold out and happy weekend crowd. Swam in the lake twice. The Ottawa Bluesfest: Incredibly fun. Closed out the last…
It
It all goes by so fast. When you are in uncharted waters it goes even faster. Loved rejoining the the CJBand tonight in a beautiful outdoor evening concert. If I didn’t try too hard the songs came back to me….
Drive-In movie. The only place where Dad condoned smuggling and deceit.
Fathers of Confederation. The bloated, boozy, rich, old white men with the big sideburns decided it all for us. Who better to guide the fate of the patchwork collection of immigrants, hostile post-imperial powers and first nations founders than the…
Fully committed. Remain fully committed. Driving in Montreal is about the flow. Some may claim it is terrifying and out of control but it is about the commitment to an idea. There is a definite improvisational art based on the…
What did your parents fear? I thought my dad feared nothing. This might have been really important to my sense of security. The omnipresence of fear was not something I needed to know about. Everyone is afraid. Its coming if…
Constant talkers. I
The sea. Do you have to live beside it? Something to make you feel small and powerless seems to be a necessary part of human existence. I have learned that the prairies or mountains can take the place of the…
Sorry about the hiccup in transmissions but campgrounds don’t have modems. Bugs they have. We’ve made it to the Atlantic. 12,000kilometres on the odometer so far and its off to Newfoundland in the morning. This is waht I wrote the…
Over the falls in a barrel. I can see the attraction. When you stand at the edge of Niagara falls and pick a spot upstream and follow an imaginary fish fin as it makes its way unsuspectingly to the most…
Children don’t like to wash. This makes camping better. Sure they love to play in the bath but the washing is not part of the equation. I think we can all learn from this.
Tailgating. A violation of human rights. Offensive behavior at its most lethal. There is one province in Canada where tailgating is perpetrated much more frequently than others. In this place it is pure passive aggressive behavior.
Museums of the future. Spent a lot of the afternoon in Lower Fort Garry. Its an important Hudson
Langenburg.
Respect your elders. Migration. Moving on to a better environment. Those damn pioneers were hardier than me. We
Dinosaurs. Mesozoic maneaters are big with the younger set. Drove into the badlands today and spent hours at the Royal Tyrell Museum. I find both the climate and subject matter dry at times. Paleontologists have to lie there with a…
At my sisters in Calgary after a great bonding experience with Doug Elliott’s sister’s family in Edmonton. Ruth is probably responsible for giving the Odds their first radio foothold. She pummeled the radio stations with continuous requests when our first…
Played for family & friends at the Sidetrack tonight. Everyone else was invited but they didn’t get much notice. Had a good time trotting out some closet material from Odds days and trying new angles on some new stuff. Also…
Bears. From the Ritz Carlton in Phoenix one day to fearing for your life in a tent in the Rockies 5 days later. I
Packing up the covered wagon. Steel covered wagon with bucket seats and a black plastic roof box. Time to introduce the young ones to the longest country. Might get spottier on the access to modems front but I will press…
Home. Looks like a tornado left everything it had picked up in another town. The inside of my head feels the same. Once again I have a reason to carry a keychain. I feel valued and without appropriate values. Craigy…
Heat and light. Midday running along Phoenix sidewalks. There is always something in bloom. The dryness makes things easier. Any measure of humidity begins to pull energy out to meet the moisture. Phoenix can feel like its giving you power…
I feel sorry for horses. I
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Its already begun before you know its beginning and its already ended long before you call it quits. All the time you try to be in the moment. The creative arc begins by taking you away to somewhere. The ramp…
Top down or bottom up. Its how you look at the city. Best to go top down with LA. Its all hanging out on the surface so set your signal for the heart of the earth and start to work…
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Validation. Do you really exist if your family and friends have never seen or approved of your best work? The hometown gig brings it all to bear. First you must ground your floating ego by doing as much yard work…
Down through the mountains. Bussing it to the coast from Edmonton. So far we
Been home two days and not for R&R. We
The fog is lifting. The cloak that has wrapped my brain in half sleep since 5:30 am is partially removed. I had to fly back to Vancouver this morning and Kevin and I were picked up absurdly early for our…
Twin Cities backsliding. Its a snowball effect. I take a day off the journal and sometimes it fuels my laziness. I
