the picture here is one from last years great evening in London Town.

Just been reading the new Greenbelt leaflet and a fine and wondrous one it is.
It really comes over well the whole of the festival
full of vibe
I want to be there
and I will.

Check it out online and get yourself on the mailing list
and
if you can
Consider a visit for a day
or
best bet
the whole week-end.

For about 15 years I used to front two shows at Greenbelt.
I designed them and evolved them and led 1o x two hour shows over the four day festival (+ a couple of extra late nights at both ends).
We had up to 40 humans in the team which included dancers, a film crew, games crew, lights and video projection and Dave the DJ/VDJ.
One was called
"The Rolling Magazine"
....... a big top, 2000 teenage bhp's, up and dancing to the grooves. Live artistes, hundreds of games and extremely messy - some of them.
Others were deep and meaningful - spiritual even.
We had such mad and deep moments.

The other show was called
"The Very Stinking Late Show"
It was fronted by Martin W and myself, full on videos, live music/artistes, interviews, great fun and laughter ......... and all the video stunts which were created with our film crew.
It was electric .........
stinking WOW!

I will be doing 'Trustee' functions at the festival but I am sad that I am not doing any shows, workshops or talks this year.
I have not pushed myself forward - and I have not been asked - I guess a change of staff and key others has meant I have slipped the frame.
I will spend a lot of time with beautiful humans of course - late night through to early morning ........... loveitloveit .....

The last three years I have fronted the "iPod Show" which has been something beautiful.
Maximum participation
Maximum participants
All ages
Creative at the core.
Sad it is not in the programme this year.

If you have never been ....... it is impossible to describe in words .....
The whole is as beautiful and special as the individual item of art and programme.
Please don't think it is a typical festival.
You don't have to camp - there are lots of options.

It is a place that feeds our every breath - meets us at the point of our deepest yearning .......... consider?




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When I return home from and all giving gig
and Joan is away
I feel the signals of 'loneliness'

When I enter the presence of a new group
and we know nothing of each other
I feel the signals of 'loneliness'

When I enter a residents dining hall
and ask if I can sit with another, or a group of strangers
I feel the signals of 'loneliness'

When I choose to sit alone in a residents dining hall
to give others the choice of sitting with me - or not
I feel the signals of 'loneliness'

I feel the signals of 'loneliness'
I feel the signals of 'loneliness'
I feel the signals of 'loneliness'
I need to be able to recognise these feelings
feel them
note them
but through that 'clocking' of them
not being controlled by them.

Feelings, are signals, not judgement on us
not declarations against our worth
not a battering ram against the self esteem of our unique soul.

I am not scared of feeling
I am not controlled by feelings
I am excited when the spectrum of feeling extends.

New experiences are opportunities for growth
new feelings trigger new searches for understanding and sensitivity
new feelings feed the soul
the heart of us
the core of us
the place where God places his unique finger print
the place that turns ever breath into a prayer.

Breathe on me breath of God
fill me with life brand new .........

I feel the signals of 'gratefulness'





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.... yes
I am on Facebook
thanx to my Nowegian friend Torgrim who registered me with my
academic honours degree,not, = BHP.

So you will find me under::
'Beautiful Human Person'







Cartoon by Dave Walker. Find more cartoons you can freely re-use on your blog at We Blog Cartoons.

...this_is_Greenbelt

.... see this exciting new link to iTunes
a PODCAST (click here)

all about Greenbelt hey hey

>>>>>>>>>>B.H.P.'s<<<<<<<<<<<<

beautiful
human
persons

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ALL Art does something - I suppose

art stimulates
interests
feeds
turns the head
soul

but some art
cuts

"A person is always startled
when he hears himself
seriously called
an old man
for the first time."





Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Basic research
is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing."




Wernher von Braun


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>>>>> I have toothache <<<<<<<






.... I cannot tell
I see that nice fixed smile
I see you looking good
I see the surface of a correct person
I cannot see your toothache
your inside
all must be well inside
....... is there anything inside?



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..... AWAY IN A CONFERENCE CENTRE WITHOUT WI-FI ...... WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO?

This place was a sortof-mini-retreat centre.
Ideal for small groups.
Bit too holy for me.
I like wholeness not the holy!!

So I have not told you who I am for such a long time and want to offer that.

"why am I afraid to tell you who I am -
because if I tell you who I am
that is all I have"

Title of my favourite book.
You can see from the title that it is about
revealing
self revelation.
ridding the masks
peeling the onion
getting inside to se the Russian Dolls in their fullness
wholeness!!

Over the past weeks
I have been revealing my self to others.
It leaks out all the time
it is sometimes
deliberate
on purpose
sharing the vulnerable bits
lots in there you know
that is the tough bit
I strive
He who was rich became poor..........

Also I see those around me
amongst
contacting
working with ..........
I have experienced
the locked in
the hurting locked
the fearful locked
the tender locked
the untrusting locked
toothache
....... and what does a human think about when they have toothache?
TOOTHACHE.

But I don't have a key
only they can unlock
only they can decide
only the can take the risk for their own development.

ALL I can do is unlock myself
show they are not alone
in inadequacy
in hurt
in damage
in disability
emotional disability

Then there is something fantastic happening
electric
liberation
salvation
freedom
because all the energy used
misused
in keeping the locked
locked in
can then be used to be real
be free
be liberated
be unlocked to work on that damn toothache.

Sometimes I reveal a hurt
and there is no response
(someone throw me a life-belt)
I feel that isolation
but believe it does not stay untouched
every drop of honesty
touches another
beautiful

I ask why do this
why I behave like I do
analysis
my behaviour
my communication
my transactions
body mind and spirit?

And others
I seek to understand
the hostile
the obnoxious
the blunt
the hard
the hard hearted
the non-listener
the pointed finger person ..........

....... and I journey on along the road less travelled
and I get tired
and I love it love it



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