*HeyYa, Ganika! Here's a sacred tortoise pic for you!*

I got in touch with Kevin, the fellow who co-ordinates the Edmonton Drummer Meetup ... made a page up from a newspaper story about him and the local scene: bentrem.sycks.net/kevin/
Found some Invitations sitting since Sep06!! OMG!

*Waves at Ganika and the kidz in Godizus*

Wrote a longish item in the very newly formed WorldDrumNet tribe (see below) ...
... know what? Not everything in the world is sweetness and love. Phenomenal world is never other than brilliantly glorious, but the light and love delusion, well, that just plays us as suckers.

Thinking that way got me to post something in my LJ:
hfx-ben.livejournal.com/801716.html

And I posted a few pics, including this new avatar. *points at avatar*

Sooo, like that.

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KC:

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Rhythm of life
In the drum circle,
your inner beat finds its voice,
bringing therapeutic release and sheer joy

... that kinda says it. Sorta kinda.

Drum spirit ... the way of the drum ... it's something to be lived, not just taken off the shelf once a month the way folk and their once a week on Sundays wind-up "god".

Something I wrote kev earlier today ...

The way I figure it, drum circle is about following the vibe ... "the Tao" some DIY Buddhists would call it, ever so clever with the wuhrdz.

I can relax and connect ... hearing/feeling the strands others are putting out.
Or I can use them like stuff, to cue my own vibe.

When I hear/feel others' strands, tune in, I have the option of contributing, nurturing, cooperating ...

When I just cue my own stuff, just clue into my own vibe, I usually find myself wishing hoping pulling others to come along with me.

... collaborating and nurturing others strands, I find myself playing stuff I wudda never played if I had taken off on my own.

See, it really is like Indra's net ... t's a go around / come around sorta cosmos ... like fractals with their dynamical balance, feed-back/feed-forward ... biological ...

I find that people stop it from going around ...
... so it doesn't come around, and I lose.

It's in my interest to have heart-rhythm felt by everyone, everywhere, all the time, everyplace.
It's in my interest to have drum-spirit and circle-attitude daily, mundane, like baked bread.

It's in all our interests that folk get with it.

Some talk about Tao ...
... some watch their breats, and bob their heads to the rhythm of life itself.


luv ya
WillowBear