Still clicking for Greenbelt and YMCA Prague 2003 whilst sucking on my spaghetti on holiday ...... love it love it
The Greenbelt event will be majestic this year and will scratch a few itches. We never know what the current issues will be 'come August' but they will be stirring in the pot and I do not doubt the Greenbelt community will wrestle with them and touch the soul of each and colour with the Kingdom. www.greenbelt.org.uk
Prague event ...... much like Greenbelt ,as far as the imagination will take me, will be special in terms of the languages and cultures to colour the art and performances of all kinds. It will be a ymca event, a Christian event, a cultural event and pouring with wonder. Same time last year the whole city was flooded to disaster levels. This year we want a special sort of flood....... of wonder. My efforts, prayers and every heartbeat will be put to ensuring there is an 'experience' for each person which will take them on in their lives to richer and deeper things. That we all my be "greater kickers of darkness until it bleeds daylight" ...... I love the line and the singer who composed it (Bruce Cockburn) and the band you quoted it )U2)
for your experience ....... www.2003.eay.org
I feel like weeping. Spent the morning in Intensive Care at the bedside of a little boy, seven, with cancer, gravely ill. Two months ago he was a noise in my ear, playing about in a church aisle with his brother while we and a merry congregation celebrated his parents' 25th wedding anniversary. What a contrast today, seeing him lying there, arms full of tubes, groaning in pain each time his little head moved. Should professionals cry? If not, you can stick your profession. I feel like weeping. If I do, perhaps I will weep in the spirit of my inspiration Michael Leunig:
Sob and weep
By candlelight
Weep upwards
Into the night
Weep onto a sleeping mouse
Weep naked underneath the house
Weep among the dying trees
Weep down on your hands and knees
Weep with angels when you sleep
Softly gently
Weep weep weep
['The 1989 Melbourne Weeping Festival Programme' from A Bunch of Poesy]
Hey did I miss the announcement that comments were no longer on this blog or is that not on purpose?
Hey all I will be in London this weekend, from tomorrow thru next tuesday. If anyone would care to share some conversation over food or beverage, or knows of something going on this weekend I shouldn't miss, find me via Steve Collins/the usual suspects (sorry didn't get my own mobile sorted beforehand) or via dealingwith@yahoo.com (or daniel at danielsjourney.com is better until tomorrow morning).
I'm also a bit short for a place to stay tomorrow night, if any of you own an inn or a stable... :)
Thunderstorm in Italy following days of hot hot hot.
Missed the 30th GB party and moreso when I read the reort about it on the Greenbelt site www.greenbelt.org.uk
great .........crisp site methinks.
Will not be missing the real thing. I will be a fantastic festival and not the least because of the music line up.
There will be also some great speakers and a few retro shows, looking back at the history from the first festival with a load of hippies ...... some still around and still got the same hips ....... most of them. I have been a Greenbelter for about 26 years and Vice Chairman for 16 or 17 years. This is the last year and after the festival the Chairman and the Vice will change. Fantastic humans ..... all of them ....... and the Angels ...... and all the ticket buyers .......25% up this year!!
stay hot hot hot
bhp