I am trying again to blog.
Every time I sit in a wireless area and start to click
humans interact
humans want to catch up
humans ................
how terrible
humans wanting to connect
but
loveitlove
beautiful humans

so here I am with two humans talking to me and clicking one word at a time and then I go into eye contact.

Last night there was 47 talks from Greenbelt online
go to the greenbelt website and view the wide choice and download heaven to your ears.


There is on by me about Gangs.

Philip Yancey - top speaker
and loads a stuff

I have been involved in the festival
but I have never been to one single talk
(I will hear the lot in the next month via MP3)
I have only caught three bands.
I have still not seen the whole site - all the venues.

But it is all great here - Level Five heaven
meeting new humans
tripping over lost and distant L5 friends.

Love it

So I will get back to you later.
you are beautiful

I normally have one a day and I haven't had one ice cream
I normally have one a day but not had time to blog.

Here I am at Greenbelt and I have lead on two seminars today and that, with the build up and follow up with conversations, has taken the day. But I did catch Emmanuel Jal and Michael Franti on main stage but ....
I have not seen the site yet. I have started to walk around and see all the tents and venues but then there are humans in the way ........ always more important to sop and talk.

Met humans I worked with25 years ago (they are looking so old and yet I am still me!!!)


Joan arrived today and is drained after to weeks with her Mother living with us. She has been on the front line and is mentally tired - the physical too.
I hope she can catch some of the festival because there has been lots asking about her.

Some pics here of some of the humans I have clicked when I stopped a while. But last night I had to leave the late night group at 2am to go and prepare for today.
All went pretty well thanx
I hope I can blog tomorrow but I have to get online on GB site.
I have an iPod Show tonight at 9.30 pm.
exciting .............

bhp

It is far too late and busy to Blog but I want to.
The moving Greenbelt Festival images on the screen of my iPhone above ...... I think gives a real fantastic beautiful taste of the festival.

The Bruce Cockburn song moves gently through as the images pace the mood.
'Nothing is too big to fit in your heart'
love it love it.
'God is too big to fit in a book'
loveitloveit .....

Say hi if we see each other - and remember I suffer from memory loss .......

The first event I placed in my diary was this
SATURDAY 10 am
Remembering John O'Donohue
A Special Tribute to the great man and friend who we lost only a few days into 2008.

It is in the largest venue at the Greenbelt Festival this Saturday.
Thousands of humans will be there but STINK, I have only just realized that I have a clash because I have been programmed in a 400 seater venue to do my Gangs Workshop/Seminar at the same time.
I scream.
The one and only place I want to be, and participate in, stink.
I don't blame anyone for missing my session.

Please keep your eye on this blog and the Greenbelt web-site because there will be pics/vids/sound clips and news from all over the Festival four days.
One early MP3 to download - I am sure - will be the special John O'Donohue Tribute.

Hope to see you all at the Festival and, if you cannot make this year - please make diary insertions for 2009 ............
STINK

............... tomorrow penultimate Greenbelt.
I need to answer some emails
some fantastic emails from humans, maybe yours?

Then I need to finish off my seminar prep
Pull the 6 foot Blob Tree from under the bed,
pack the books for sale::
The Rolling Magazine Book
You are a beautiful human person
Blob Spirituality
Blob Tree CDR
..... yes you can buy them at Greenbelt.

Then there is the 6 day personal stuff
Jeans - forgot to put jeans on the list.
(I have been wearing shorts for months)
Didn't forget 'wellies'
and emergency 'bad gut tabs'.

Yes - busy tomorrow and after a journey up North,
to drop Joan and Joyce home,
I will reverse and drive to GB -
to be with the most beautiful humans
that I want to be with,
all beautiful imperfection!
(that is why I feel at home!!)

What colour are you?
What colour describes your personality - your character?
This is a real question.
I would ask you to consider an answer,
it would be good for me,
good for you.


I feel I am red - passion - compassion
All over this glittering striking bright red
there are cracks.
All over
like lightening cracks
and they open up and reveal yellow.
That is my vulnerability.
I feel I am bright on the outside
but I carry hurts
and I try not to show them
I try to show them.
That is my colour.

.... and you?

@ Greenbelt .......


Help us remember that the idiot who cut us up in traffic
is a single Mother who has worked nine hours that day
and is rushing to Greenbelt to cook a meal and settle the kids down so they can have a good first day at the festival and spend a few precious moments with her friends
who have saved hard to get to Greenbelt.

Help us to remember that the pierced, tattooed, disinterested young man
who can't handle his change correctly is a worried YMCA Hostel resident who is behind in his rent and cannot afford the cheapest hotdog on site.
At the same time balancing his apprehension over his fear
of not getting on well with the group he came with.

Remind us Lord, that the scary looking young woman
rolling her eyes and cannot stop moving her body,
is a recovering slave to addictions
that we can only imagine in our worst nightmares.

Remind us that the scars of the self harming woman,
scarred for life,
is just like me with my scars
that and hinder and equip at the same time.
And remember that we, maybe,
can just hide ours better.

Help us to remember that the old couple
walking annoyingly slow through the festival site
and blocking our process
are savouring this moment,
knowing that, based on the biopsy report she got back last week,
this will be the last year that they will be at Greenbelt together.

Creator God, remind us each day that, of all the gifts you give us,
the greatest gift is love.
That it is not enough to share that love with those we hold dear.
But those for who,
on first impressions,
make us shudder, or sigh or grunt with irritability.

Open our soul and press your finger tip right on that part,
the part to raise your love to the surface.
So it touches the practical.
The proactive.
The love department.





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Greenbelt Festival weather - looking better ...........

Joy is back from two weeks in Barbados this Wednesday but I won't see her until after Greenbelt.
Saw little Sheila this week as she came and stayed one night to see her Nana. Lovely.
zzzzzzzzz2bed

I am tired and feel drained.
I feel pressure and have lots to do.
I feel frustrated coz my wireless is playing up.
I have 96 in my inbox
all humans.
I need energy to answer - do stuff.
I have two articles to write.
Don't I sound a miserable git?

All the above it true.
I think I will need to go to bed.
Zig has had an early night.

Why does my cable pick up wireless?
And my iPhone!
But not my Mac laptop?
It has been strange for months,
maybe a bit like me,
maybe it has been pushing the envelope?

Did you ever stop and wonder......

Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, 'I think I'll squeeze
these pink dangly things here, and drink whatever comes out ?

Why do toasters always have a setting so high that could burn the toast to a horrible crisp, which no decent human being would eat ?

Why is there a light in the fridge and not in the freezer ?

Why do people point to their wrist when asking for the time, but don't
point to their bum when they ask where the bathroom is ?

Why does Goofy stand erect while Pluto remains on all fours ?
They're both dogs !!!

If quizzes are quizzical, what are tests ?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

Why do the Alphabet song and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star have the same tune ?

Stop singing and read on . .

Do illiterate people get the full effect of Alphabet Soup ?

Did you ever notice that when you blow in a dog's face, he gets mad at you, but when you take him on a car ride, he sticks his head out the window ?

Does pressing the lift button more than once make it arrive faster ?

Do you ever wonder why you clicked my blog in the first place ?

I have gone to bed ..........