Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Fantastic Planet of Love (Marshall Crenshaw)

I'm baaaaaaaack! - here follows my post-FRFF post to the Dar-list:

Hello, All - I'm still a bit discombobulated (in a good way, Martha!) and felt my story best told in stream-of-consciousness snippets - thanks to all who once again lifted my spirit and carried my heart... up the hills, through the rain and under the blazing sun... <3

Tuesday, 7/24 - Ft. Lauderdale to Boston... Logan Airport... Stephen/Mosh!... my tent and sleeping bag (which I'd purposely left behind) in the trunk... excitement he had already packed them turned to hilarity they were *still* there from last year... Logan the cat... seafood bisque... air mattress on the floor...

Wednesday, 7/25 - Target run for last-minute essentials... Panera foccacia... our first JT ritual (Jethro Tell's Aqualung)... Mass Pike... Revere Lynn... Tanglewood... Stockbridge... the Great Barrington K-Mart and Amy!... Hillsdale... Dodds Farm... Peace Branch Horse and Bible Camp... Chris Chin!... Reinhard!... it takes a village to set up a tent... Jim G!... Jen T.!... dinner at the diner... what, no tomatoes?!?... Candy and Joanne!... Happy Ice... Sharon G. and Jessie!... Camp Dar song circle... The Carpenters... Santa Dave (Sam and Dave?)... Cami!... Carrot Juice is Murder... Tangled Up in Blue... butt-sucking the moisture from our chairs... Girlock Gone Wild...

Thursday, 7/26 - iced hazelnut... finding Laurie and Dana's RV... chai freeze... monster veggie skinny pancake... if it's Thursday it must be Colorado wrap... Kahlua chunk ice cream... the Lovell Sisters (and middle child syndrome)... Marshall Crenshaw's hipster vibe... the Budgiedome with David Massengill, Jack Hardy, Iain Campbell Smith and our very own Nick and Elizabeth...

Friday, 7/27 - iced hazelnut... Annie Wenz!... Emerging Artist Showcase (wow!)... sharong!, with pink donuts and Buzz Cola and Krusty-O's (oh my!) for Mosh... if it's Friday it must be tempeh reuben... Gene and Isabel!... Twisting and Shouting at the Beatles Forever workshop... Tina!... Jitterz ice cream... Stephen Kellogg and the Sixers (a.k.a. mainstage gymnastics event) who discover that, at FRFF, the accordion is not a novelty instrument... songswap delayed by heavy rain and intermittent lightning... when Mary Gauthier, graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, looks worried, we should be too!... three new Richard songs, including a ten-years-after follow-up to She's Leaving Home, performed at the Beatles tribute... early bedtime due to canopy collapse...

Saturday, 7/28 - tarp meander... back in the tent just in time to fall asleep to more rain... iced hazelnut... early downpour at the Musica Internationale workshop (hooray for sharong's WFUV ponchos)... Candy's birthday Pop-Tart ritual... Tracy Grammer and Jim Henry's great set, with a second annual DTS (Dare to Suck) selection, this year George Michael's Faith... Like a Rolling Stone... neon green polka band covering Over the Rainbow... watching Dar watch (and enjoy) Ellis during the songwriting process (Alleluia meets How Would It Be)... Gimme Some Truth (and three chords?)... exchanging birthday cards, presents and tears with Megan!... Gandalf Murphy's Circus calls Dar (their four-doors-down neighbor) to assist with song by Muslim songwriter (a.k.a. Peace Train)... Dar asking our help in making magic for her three-year-old Stephen (the lights of Iowa)... EFO's carp in the bathtub... ice cream tent closed so apple and cheese crepe instead... Love is Strange(ling)... the road less traveled (euphemism for early bedtime) but lived vicariously through others' adventures...

Sunday, 7/29 - parodies of Naked Folk (Fans) Calendar... "Our Shoots are Rowing" workshop with the Dust Poets... Gospel Wake-Up Call... tent village breakdown at noon... Meg and Kate (with Devin) modeling their galoshes... many group photos around the banner... We Are the Others... Abbie's "I smell like a hippie" quip... Good Year for the Roses (harmonies abounding)... falafel for lunch... Richard and Lucy swapping songs on mainstage... ice cream choices dropping like flies as we stand in line (my Moose Trails is poop-deprived)... Arlo doing Woody's small peace song... Never Turning Back... table for 20 at Four Brothers Pizza... my usual gyro with fries... flush toilet!... running water!... mirror (yikes!)... the traditional, yet never taken for granted, birthday pie... blessings to you all as I turn 53 (but feel 19 in spirit)... the other JT ritual (James Taylor, "the turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston")... playing new CDs during the two-hour drive back to Framingham... Logan greets us with as much enthusiasm as a cat allows... one more night on an air mattress...

Monday, 7/30 - leftover Starbucks bottled mocha... birthday card, present and tears with Stephen... shower!!!... lunch with Herb and Gert... sweet potato chips, dark-chocolate-covered edamame and Falcon Ridge wine at Trader Joe's (supposedly opening a store in Florida in two or three years!)... back to Logan (the airport, not the cat)... more tears (equal amounts of residual joy and goodbye sadness)... writing notes on the plane... back to my own house (and husband and children and dog and jacuzzi and bed!)... typing and posting the next day...

Love to all - see you next year for my tenth... and the festival's twentieth (zippity... :-)


A journey continues until it stops
A journey that stops is no longer a journey
A journey loses things on its way
A journey passes through things, things pass through it
When a journey is over, it loses itself to a place
When a journey remembers, it begins a journal
Which is a new journey about an old journey
A journey over time is different from a journey into time
An actual journey is into the future
A reflective journey is into the past

A journey always begins in a place called Here
Pack your bags and imagine your journey
Unpack your bags and imagine your journey is done
If you're afraid of a journey, don't buy shoes

QUOTE: "How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people…. Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable." ~ Robert McAfee Brown

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