Monday, May 16, 2011

how i found my callings

community

is a precious need for me
met yesterday

belonging

another and related
also

contribution
is the one that really completes

the circle

perhaps prayer then grows
the spiral

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i get peripheral at stop signs

was my thought
as i careened down silver street

past other streets
as we seek to exchange secrets

like how european
and much of latin american culture

has it way over us

good food, quality of life
some connection to the Earth

no matter how small
is precioso

tambien

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i am thinking with such a hard turn
a pensar en Espanol

i am not even practicing
i am just soaking it up

energetically

i'm sinking deeply into
my italian roots

i know it's all illusion
that i'm latin after all, right?

hence el decription de un Chileno
de los Argenitnos

un poco mas italiano
es muy interesante

y los lecciones aparecen
bien

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i hope to find my people there
of course

a little south of Aztlan

maybe they were the farm community
i saw on youtube

where they do contact improv

dancing
to beautiful music all day long

duh

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now my Chilean ex would have corrected me
after gritting her teeth listening to me

i guess i am reclaiming her
as my last actual girlfriend

i miss her insults
now i can thumb my nose

like a raging Maradonna
across mutually admiring borders

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it's not a question of if
i go

it's a question of how
and when

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it's good to find my people here too

i sat in with several bands yesterday
thinking each of them had invited me to join them

meanwhile those guys never made it onstage

played mando groove
to a songwriter viola duet

played violin on all out improv
along with a healing harpist who was

perfectly synchronized with electric bass

how can one just not shine at a benefit gathering
the benevolence was palpable

musically all i could think of

is Dios Mio
somebody play a ranchera!

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community

my next song
albuquerque means there's always a headwind

belonging

i educate people by the way i ride my bicycle claiming the right of way on the new bike crossings for the benefit of all mankind

contribution

prayer

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