Most folks cannot handle the Truth.............they dance around it......paint it another color.....white lie themselves out of direct answers and run like hell when backed up against it...........
WTF????? " The Truth shall set you free"..........that is not to hard to comprehend.........

Yes...No..........simple direct answers............you do or you don't..........Lord have mercy!!!!

The real problem is that most folks have swerved so far from the Truth.... .they do not believe it when they hear or see or encounter it........Brainwash comes to mind..........Plastic ........shallow.........corrupt.........misguided..........phony.......bs...........there are a zillion phrases that one can attribute to those who " speak or hear with a forked tongue"......

The media spoon feeds folks with what they should believe..or think or buy or feel or wear.......or be.......

What is "real"?

Real is a dirt road heading into the woods...........real is a song written from the heart.....real is a homemade pecan pie........field being plowed by a farmer sittin on a John Deere tractor from sunrise to sundown tryin to put food on the table and save the family farm........real is Hank Williams, fresh picked Georgia peaches, the Marine in Afganistan under fire while we sleep soundly in our comfortable beds....real is ..........what is real?


 

real is Mrs Wilkes boarding house..............


real is


a river............


a Joshua Tree sky



Joshua Tree Inn..........


grits and sweet tea........greens and biscuts............real is..........


real is


the United States of America........


yep.............ultimately it is your decision..............be real..........fight for Truth.........or ...........................

Trip out.......last week I went with my friend Whitefeather to purchase some leather..then attend the Gem show.......First stop The Hide House....It was awesome.......turquoise leather......buffalo robes........buffalo buttons for the levi jackets I do........every colour and type of leather one could want........sensory overload!!!!!!!! We decided to grab a bit of lunch before hitting the Gem show......Cha Cha Chicken........We ordered and the little shell they gave us when we ordered had a number upon it........29


29.........at least a thousand times a day my thoughts take me to Joshua Tree...and Twentynine Palms.......so when we were handed that number we both looked at one another with big eyes.......Whitefeather knows my heart is in the desert....and I know that the Universe is conspiring in my favor as well as sending me little postcards telling me to head on down Route 62 and get on with it........(trip out! as I write Elvis Costello and Bono and Edge are on the tele singing " You got to get yourself together......you got stuck in a moment and you can't get out....." " don't say that later will be better.......") Holy Cow! I know it is way colder in the dez now......but it calls to me like the best lover I will ever have........the sky......the smell .......the joshua trees and the cactus........the rocks....coyotes........clouds.....the zillion stars that twinkle up there in the midnight sky.....they call to me...I hear them in between my heartbeats.......
Big Sigh............


so we ate our lunch..........then hit the Gem show........


intoxicated by turquoise..........

I reach for my coffee cup......need a refill.......I need coffee this morning..........lot's of coffee......Doing life inventory.......just like the strings on a guitar.........every once in a while we need to get in tune .....sweeten the mix...........edit a few lyrics...........adda chorus.....maybe even start completely from scratch.....that's where I am now.........

Winter dreams.......wood smoke .......candlelight .............
fine tune the intuition...........

long days in the sun have gone.........things are changing.....everything is changing.....and yet some things just do not ever change at all.........and those are the things that create the friction which ignites the spark that makes us get off of our backsides and DO SOMETHING ! Be it a new song..or a change of scene....or maybe even creates the right temperature within us which allows that tiny little realization to sprout and grow and with it our eyes begin to see and our hearts can finally know......and we then have the courage to follow our true Path.........the Universe is patient...........Funny how all of a sudden after many wasted moons we get to the place where we sit and say " I knew it back then ! Why did I waste all of that time? ".........None of that matters .........what matters is now.......What matters is that you got it!

my biggest problem was trying to pack.... which boots to take along......not wanting to weigh myself down with cumbersome bags....and such.........I always end up with a new pair of boots wherever I go........which has resulted in having more than one pair of favorite boots........

The person who is picking me up at the airport wanted to know what type of food I would want to eat upon arrival....I said " southern food of course..real food........can't get it here" .....I was asked what I consider southern food to be....." collard greens, turnip greens, grits, sweet tea, pecan pie, black eyed peas, cornbread, catfish and hush puppies, fried chicken, ham hocks and beans, fried okra, gumbo...".......(and of course my list goes on) well they promptly blurted " that isn't southern food...thats soul food ".......well.......As far as I am concerned....soul food is southern food and the South is the soul of this country.......you come from the south or you have roots in the south well you are part of the soul of this country.........I could go on and on about this........who ever you are that reads this....if you have been there, or came from there,or your folks were from there, or  you live there now...you know exactly what I mean........The SOUL of this country!

Blues, country, bluegrass, jazz, southern rock, rockabilly, rock and roll americana...........the soul of this country!

So off I go in the mornin'.......

it was raining when I awoke.........I drew back the drapes and stared out the window ....looking at the sky...watching the clouds....I decided to get up and make a pot of coffee....by the time it was brewed the rain had stopped. All over the country the weather is changing......rain in Macon, rain in New Orleans, rain all across the route I will be headed next week.........Once again here in the land of " instant everything" the nip, tucked, inflated and plastic weather people are wringing every last drop of panic doom and devastation out of the cloud formations......I reckon there is a mountain of sandbags at Home Depot.....Mind you I know the burn areas will have a run for their money if it rains real hard....and my prayers and good thoughts go to those folks there.......but the mindless babble with high pitched whine that emanates from the silicone sirens chaps my hide and really does not contribute to elevating the human condition one little bit........( one of the reasons I detest television ) so here I sit typing........drinking coffee.........listening to talk radio......waiting for the rain.........wishing I were in the desert..........

one can never have enough kicks.......black ones.....brown ones........green ones.....turquoise and bluebirds.......lace up........knee high......ankle low.......some for trompin....stompin...dancin..ridin.......dress up.....dress down...........slip on or tie up........once they are broken in.........there is nothin like em..........I still have my first pair......tiny little boots..........why on earth folks would bronze boots is beyond me..........They are fun and sensible at the same time...........I had a few pairs that I really hated..liked em at first then they just didn't do it for me...........I have had a few men like that too........look good and feel good at firat then they just mutate.......bitin the ankles.....or just dang uncomfortable......can't go anywhere with em.....after a few minutes they just become as aggravating as an itchy sweater.....nothin can be done about it either......pass em on.........

looked like rain when I woke up this morning.....three cups of coffee later and it just looks like I will need a sweater....surrounded by ocean on all three sides the air is clear......sky blue...but brisk and downright damp in the morning.........I am sorely missing the dry desert air......and the silence.......Last night the electricity went out........big old full moon in the east shining down was spectacular........due to the lack of streetlights and porchlight glare.......it cast its rays across the yard and up on my porch.........I sat there for quite a spell........pondering.......yesterday was a good day.........ride in Ed's 61 Cadillac around the coast......then to a burger joint with classic cars chrome sparkling in the sun........when we took off he put Ray Charles on...." Georgia...Georgia....just an old sweet song ........" thats what is on my mind this brisk morning.....Desert or my beloved South....where shall I go?

still dry here on the West coast..........but it appears that Mother Nature......the Universe....whoever is in control of directing the planetary rays is wielding some heavy blows in some parts of the world.........Blessings need be counted each and every day.......( there goes a squirrel on a telephone wire ).....remembering to Walk in Beauty........acknowledging the wonders all around......Love........." Love is the only weapon that can silence the guns of human hate " ............Do what you love.....elevate.....give no place to negativity.........tell those you cherish NOW that you love them........you have today.........Be here ..........rope those dreams and ride em........pick up the phone mend those fences.......change it all up...........soak in the sunrise..the sunset....the moon...and stars.........if you need to eliminate that which brings you down and does not contribute to goodness and beauty.......eliminate it........change up your circle......thoughts become things..........As above so Below........Elevate and look for the Postcards from the Divine.......

from the Tree this morning.........beautiful desert landscape in my rear view mirror....now here I am listening to the radio.......and they just said we are on Tsunami watch here in Pedro..........expected to hit at 9 ............I am surrounded by ocean on three sides......but I am confident that we will be just fine.........every little molehill here in LA becomes a Mountain in the eyes of the media..if it rains they blast " storm watch" every fifteen minutes on TV .....EVEN if it is barely misting....yes..this could be " The media crying "woof" situation........hope not......anyway..........