SUBHEAD: Take the quiet and peace you can find and cherish it. Be sure to plan a way to find more where ever you are.
By Juan Wilson on 1 July 2011 for Island Breath -
(http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2011/07/halfway-there.html)
Image above: The hand of Tara Nevins, of Donna the Buffalo, on the concertina at the Great Blue Heron Music Festival. Photo by Juan Wilson.
The year 2011 is half over and were on the back straightaway and heading for the third turn. We're on the mainland and when this morning is over my wife Linda and I will be heading over to the Great Blue Heron Music Festival (http://www.greatblueheron.com) in Sherman, New York.
It's mostly old time music, zydeco, folk, world and tunes that could (if needed) be played acoustically. It's on for three days and nestled in rolling hills and woodlands and surrounded by Amish farms.
Being at the Heron allows us to escape the predominant culture's expression of subliminal violence that is the Fourth of July weekend.
Every year that midyear celebration of patriotic militarism returns with the ritual charring of meat, waving of flags and setting off explosions. Whoopie!
The fact is there is not a whole lot to celebrate in much of America. Floods, fires, draught, and poverty seem to be spreading without control as the social fabric shreds and disintegrates.
In the last few days the state New York declared fracking for natural gas a good thing while th entire state of Texas was declared a natural disaster area... And don't forget the state Minnesota was shut down at midnight last night.
The second half of this year should be a corker. Greece is waiting in the wings to default as the Middle East continues to roil. Take the quiet and peace you can find and cherish it. Be sure to plan a way to find more where ever you are.
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By Juan Wilson on 1 July 2011 for Island Breath -
(http://islandbreath.blogspot.com/2011/07/halfway-there.html)
Image above: The hand of Tara Nevins, of Donna the Buffalo, on the concertina at the Great Blue Heron Music Festival. Photo by Juan Wilson.
The year 2011 is half over and were on the back straightaway and heading for the third turn. We're on the mainland and when this morning is over my wife Linda and I will be heading over to the Great Blue Heron Music Festival (http://www.greatblueheron.com) in Sherman, New York.
It's mostly old time music, zydeco, folk, world and tunes that could (if needed) be played acoustically. It's on for three days and nestled in rolling hills and woodlands and surrounded by Amish farms.
Being at the Heron allows us to escape the predominant culture's expression of subliminal violence that is the Fourth of July weekend.
Every year that midyear celebration of patriotic militarism returns with the ritual charring of meat, waving of flags and setting off explosions. Whoopie!
The fact is there is not a whole lot to celebrate in much of America. Floods, fires, draught, and poverty seem to be spreading without control as the social fabric shreds and disintegrates.
In the last few days the state New York declared fracking for natural gas a good thing while th entire state of Texas was declared a natural disaster area... And don't forget the state Minnesota was shut down at midnight last night.
The second half of this year should be a corker. Greece is waiting in the wings to default as the Middle East continues to roil. Take the quiet and peace you can find and cherish it. Be sure to plan a way to find more where ever you are.
.
1 comment :
maybe we could begin celebrating the independence of nations FROM the US Empire.
happy fourth!
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