Tired right now.
Long day.
People.
Feel good.
Just been talking live on iMac to iMac with live voice and live screen view to my Tomac the mac man who has this camera and I can see him and talk to him ...... "whatever next" say the old people.................
Had a good day if I scan back...............
Fantastic talk over three cups of tea ...... thanx K' if you read this. You make life worthwhile and give me living hope when I work alongside people who have none. You are a wonder.
My return to work from holiday was welcomed by others and that pleases me. I still need that affirmation/confirmation.
Had a fantastic group session with a mix race, mixed ability, mixed disability (we all got them both) ...... wonder ...............
I need to be fresh for all this you know. It is, I now know, a big pull on the emotions so I need to be on top and not raw and down .......
yes .................. my thoughts ...... a glimpse ..... (the spelling looks wrong but too tired to care)...... I am off and want to say ...................B beautiful..........bhp
Gearing up for Greenbelt by ordering a Bike Bag from the Howies catalogue, which I've been avidly reading this week. It's all online as well, but it's so much better to handle, thumb, sniff (My sister tells me my habit of sniffing new books is odd... oh, is it?) Howies are Cardigan Bay's third largest clothing company. Not only do they do great t-shirt designs, they lend out books to customers from their library, generally promote eco-awareness and celebrate being 'family'. Interest-a-plenty in the 'think' section of their site.
Howies are a real treat, sharing a refreshing sort of business ethics with others such as Obble from whom the bike bag idea came. Howies explain:
Those crazies at Obble came to us with an idea. We loved it and asked them what they wanted for it. And they said nothing. We said we didn't understand. So they sent us this note in a fax. This is what it said:
Give all your ideas away. Not exactly a great business plan. But what happens if your plan isn't to make money. What happens if your business plan is to make friends. After all, money doesn't make you happy. Friends do. Obble was set up by four friends who had a love of ideas. One of their ideas was to start Obble. A different kind of brand. A brand that gives rather than takes. A brand that isn't designed to make money. We met David and Clare and liked what they were trying to do at howies. So we gave them an idea. The Bike Bag. It didn't cost us anything to come up with the idea and we gave it away. Howies made the bag and Obble made some new friends. Our website is built by another friend called John. We use it as a space to put our ideas and have fun. And as we make new friends, we ask them if they want to put some ideas on our site. And if anyone sees an idea they like, that they want to buy, we say ok. But don't pay us. Pay our friends. And they say, but that doesn't make good business sense. And we smile and say we know.
I saw on TV what he said about George Bush and I think he has a unique contribution to this art we love and the justice we crave ...... so I nicked his words from his daily blog an push them in front of your eyes ............bhp
Glastonbury
7/2/2003 - Tarvisio, Italy
hi. we're in italy now, but i wanted to write something about my experience at glastonbury.
for many, many years i assumed that i would never get to perform at glastonbury. and then in 1997 or '98 i was invited to perform in the dance tent.
it was a muddy and cold festival that year, but i was still quite thrilled to finally be on the bill at glastonbury.
and then in 2000 we were invited to perform again, but this time on the 2nd stage before nine inch nails performed.
and again i was thrilled to have been invited to be at glastonbury, which really is the mother of all festivals.
and then this year we were invited (and when i say 'we' it's not the royal 'we', but rather my band and i...) to headline the closing day at glastonbury.
my feelings went beyond being thrilled, because it seemed a bit too much to be headlining the same stage where radiohead and r.e.m were also headlining.
but no, much to my surprise it wasn't a clerical error, they actually wanted me to headline the closing night at glastonbury.
and i'm ecstatic that it went as well as it did. i had envisioned people leaving for the parking lot while we were performing, but from what i could see from the stage it looked as if everyone actually stayed.
so, thank you.
thank you to the festival organizers who invited us to perform on the pyramid stage.
and thank you to everyone in the audience who chose to watch our performance as opposed to trekking to the parking lots.
i had a wonderful time at glastonbury, so thanks again everybody.
performing to 125,000 people at glastonbury has definitely been one of the highlights of my life and my career.
so again, thank you.
moby
I have spent some large time with one person with a cv like this:-
18 years of smoking crack and heroin and now taking 12mm a day of methadone which is a substitute.
Some time ago he was taking 55mm a day of methadone a day.
Erratic. Talks all the time. Then alone and isolates self.
I feel .......... he ................
Needs to spend one hour a week with a counsellor and experience one hour of consistency a week rather than just bouncing around from one person to another. I am not the person to help. I can be a friend, a support, an item of unconditional love.
It is so easy to hide behind the dress, the cover, the mask.. That is superficial. A mask. A shell ........but the inner person is the most important and that needs some sort of special help and consistent love.
b beautiful .................
bhp
...all me sites is down, so don't bother emailing the address i posted two posts ago...sorry 'bout that...music page is still up...but looks like i'll be down until i find some contig...
also speaking of contigencies...is there anyone going to have a spare guitar at greenbelt...just in case something tragic happens to mine?
yes .... I am back to work and, with full intensity, in deep with people with behavioral cries seeping from deep within them.
Spent one hour listening and talking with one man who just gulped cans of 'red stripe' lager as we spoke. He is dependent on the liquid. Articulate. Friendly and accepting of me and ......... I cringe with disgust at his racism.
He is not unattractive. He is talkative and I find it easy to relax with him but...
my innards cringe at his state of mind and at the same time I feel for him with compassion.
Then later I run a group session. He is there and about 12 others. For a time. Only about half stay and see the session process through. They come and go. I accept that because it is not school.
The biggest struggle is to stay positive because every 15 seconds the discussion turns to the negative. Usually personal statements. 'Self revelation' it is called. It needs to come out but it is not good when it gushes from hurting souls without a balance.
So it is draining for me. The 1 to 1's and the groups. Holidays are over.
But I want to do this. It is needed and I CAN offer something.
So I reflect on me and my experience and skills and sensitivity. Mission of life.? How I can do it better.? Be more human and in touch with them ...... and God and not care about management and job security but ........ being the 'flesh' there which is as appropriate as can be.
Can you understand all this? I share my feelings of walking alongside some beautiful and damaged humans. You may not see the pictures before me as I see it. Feel the individual hurts and beauty ....... but hope you can sense mine?
Well ....... wishing you love and wonder ..... ................................bhp
"dance like no-one is watching
sing like no-one is listening
and love like you have never been hurt"
www.pipwilson.com
pip@pipwilson.com
Figured this was as good a time as any to say that I'll be playing at the Performance Cafe venue at GB this year. It is just one one-half hour set, and I do not think they publish the schedule for that venue until the festival itself, and even then you have to go by the venue and pick one up. So I will be surprised to see any of you there, but just in case I can con you into it...I have worked up a tenative set list:
Comon'*
Numb Us
Closed for the Year*~
Latter Days (Over the Rhine)
The Future that Was (Josh Joplin)
God is in the House (Nick Cave)
American Dream Town
*sans any occasional curse words (for those concerned listeners at home)
~the floater tune: may or may not get played
That doesn't leave much time for talking, but hey, gotta cram as much quality entertainment into that thirty minutes as possible. You may also find me on the open mic stage at some point or singing around one of those nonexistant campfires...anyway, all the tunes by me can be found at my music page.
I'm also trying to get an EP ready by GB time...we'll see if that happens...
Any comments on the set list (like, should I really cover God is in the House?) to spam at danielsjourney.com...
d
Monday, June 30, 2003
Just sent out 3600 and something e newsletters to my mailing list with a major feeling of failure because it has been three months since my last MONTHLY letter to people who are willing to scroll with me.
Sorry folks!!
I am now back from a two week drive to Italy with a few days in a hotel there inbetween !.......... also the days of travel through, and back, tasting the delights of France ..................they were wonderous.
Not done many blogs during the holiday because ..........I suppose I switch off and do little personal reflection. Lots of level 5 with Joan of course ............ and sometimes the deepest subject is the wine and the duck!!
I read three books. The only time I can bother with fiction. I enjoy and it does me good to get inside the mind of a cop or killer ....... and they do make me think. Would love to write a novel myself. Everysoul has a book withinthem ......... tis said.
First day back to work today ...... fixed up about 8 meetings already today. There is lots to prepare for. Not the least the Prague festival www.2003.eay.org I go on the 31st July and before then ....... major prep of the soul and the action needed to deliver the shows and experiences when, I trust, God will place his fingerprint on so many wonder-ful lives.
Then two weeks later my soul home and the start of the new year .......festvals are Christmas, Easter and Greenbelt
Will try to do the daily blog now till then ........... the festival of passion and art and ..........you fill in this bit............
live wonderously...........................................................bhp