After the biggest Drumming of the Year...5-30-10

There you are..............

You look and you look and then all of a sudden an entry. Here it is fresh from the chair here in the outskirts of V town. I go up the road every day, by the now almost full lake Kaweah. Up further along the raging Kaweah RIver, by the Cort Gallery and up to the park where I've been working again in the Fire Dept. in Sequoia National Park, home of the bigest trees on earth! Its been really really cool all month!This is big news around here as you might guess. By now its usually in the 90's and hundreds and we're sweating. But for us now we're just starting to get the hot weather. Yesterday it was getting close to ninety. Today though there are some clouds and still its starting to heat up. If you get out in the area where you can see the mountains, you'll see lots of snow packed peaks. This week I went up to a couple of high areas in the park and there lots of snow along the road. Its dirty snow, but its about 6 feet along the roadside. Snakes are just now starting to come out and you can bet their grumpy and full of venom! Tourists are swarming into all the areas of the park, most didn't even know that there's so much snow. Most are also unprepared for the cool temps. Just don't bring your inner tubes of air rafts into the park cuz there isn't anything that you can get into and not drown. I don't mean maybe but for sure! The rivers bringing all that snow down fast. Any sun melts the tons of snow into water and gravity brings it down all the way into the town of Three Rivers, by the Gallery where we'll be drumming tonite with the thunderous sound of the freshest water on the planet. Come on up and get by the riverside and splash some of that blood of the Sierra on your face...................

Drum Circle Rant.........

Drifters, Loners, Hitchhikers, Strays, Artists, Rainbow types, Hippies, Loafers, Wannabe’s, Soul searchers, Dead Heads, Players, Fringe elements………We get em all. They show up at the Gallery in some way or another. They stay and sometimes work for their keep. We all end up sharing our lifes experiences around a meal or at the Drum Circle. This is mandatory as in a soup kitchen having to listen to a sermon. If you show up at the Gallery in this condition and stay you have to attend a Drum Circle. Sure many come who are right with the world, you know right in what they say you have to be right in….a good job, a mortgage, a family. But, you can have all this and still be searching for something.
Its surprising how many times people think that what we do is religious. They think that we are the fringe elements who are practicing some kind of spiritual something that they think is cool but they wouldn’t be caught dead coming. Somewhere in their lives they missed out on something that was socially acknowledged to all and they weren’t there. Call it a rant here but I got this from someone this week and so I thought I would put it into words. We’re just having fun drumming. Its our religion, outdoors with dancing and drumming and fellowship and all that kind of churchy stuff. But we’re real and it’s a big groove and we’re celebrating life brothers and sisters, life by the river. Come on up tomorrow night, don’t be scared.

One of our Singers.........

A Thought to get You GOing...........

Man, I'm really a slacker for not updating you. I'm sorry for all the long wait for you my faithful and dependent friends. I'm still here for sure and the Drumcircle is too. Every Sunday is what we've been telling em. Every single Sunday of the year, rain or shine cold or hot.
We had a great one last night. A big groove put out by the core drummers talking to each other in that kinda way...thumping the highs and lows and making the spectators question their morals and then just going ahead and dancing anyways. Yea, we're all looking, but who really cares. Its free and its dark and its a great big groove that comes at you with this pull to the dance floor thats pretty darn irressitable. Thats what its been like for the past couple of weeks for sure! Lots of people too and drummers and dancers and lookie lou's and just plain people who are looking for something else in their lives. Something that gets them ready for the work week. Going to bed with drums in their head...............