hellooo!!!
greetings from my dining room table...
how goes it my friends..
i am finally having a night to myself...
it feels really nice to slow down in this crazy time in my life...
i have been on quite a whirlwind adventure for the past couple months..
and now reflecting on it all.
i dont even know where to begin, but i want to write and this is the moment that i am taking advantage...
lets see.. so i have just returned from burning man, which was by far one of the most amazing weeks of my life...
i cant really explain it, and from what i gather, no one can quite capture the experience in words, if you want to learn more about the basics of burning man you can go to the web site and read about it here:http://www.burningman.com/whatisburningman/
the best way i have been able to describe it is this:
you buy a ticket, and in exchange someone hands you a pass and says something like this, ‘here's a hall pass, go rock out. be whoever you want. do whatever you want. express yourself in the way you have only imagined in your wildest dreams. dress however. think whatever. say it all. do it all. The more you dig into your soul and represent, the louder the crowd will scream. The community will root you on. Cheers you. High five you. Embrace you. Break you. Love you. Surround you. Fill you up with nothing but love and light....it truly was amazing....
My brother has been going for the past 7 years, he swears by it...i always thought, for some reason i wasn't that kind of person. I dont run around naked. I dont do drugs. I dont like ravers. I dont dance. Im just not one one of those people that can tune out and depart to an alternate dimension of the universe. Well....turns out....I am. I am all of those things and more...
Im beginning to wonder if maybe we all are, do we all have it in us? To just let go? Detach from our safety shoot? Jump? And not be afraid to be ok with not knowing where we might land?
Its amazing, as i was writing this, my french neighbor of 4 years stopped by and talked my ear off about Morocco and how i must go there. Im starting to realize that if you just open all the windows and doors in your house, you will find yourself on the path to the most unbelievable opportunities :)
So alas, Burning Man was quite an experience to the future and back. Things that are amazing, that might happen twice a year here, those things of coincidence, where you are like, ‘No shit!!@ did that just happen?’ Those things happen like 17 times in an hour on the playa...
...its just ridiculous...
Ya know, back in November I took a bit of time off. I got so burnt out. Radio stations, politics, research, programing, markets, this and that, all this old school way of shit that runs the music biz. Though i know being apart of it is only for my benefit, i craved something more. And the problem (or instinct that i am thankful for)with me, is that when that shit hits me, when my inner voice says ‘check please!’ I gotta go. See ya! Adios.
I go, and if i cant explain it to all those around me that dont make sense of any of it, still... i gotta go. I know we all have those feelings, we get em and we follow them. Well we do if we feel safe to do so, but sometimes our boundaries, jobs, social networks, life...keeps us from exploring our inner most deepest urges...but now i know, you just have to go, and dive into the deep end.
I am feeling so blessed right now, so full of love...so inspired..maybe not so much in music and in song, and in creating those 2 things. But I am ecstatic. I know its for a reason, even if dont know what that reason is. I feel like I have been everywhere this summer! Bali, England, Portugal, Vacation, Surfing, Touring...and... Burning Man..and I have a yoga/surf retreat to be had in late October...Holy Crap...I mean what is going on here...I feel so blessed..and it seems like i'm slacking, but these things keep coming to me. I'm seizing the moment, while the moment is up for grabs!
I also have a record on the way..and its gonna be dope! If i can channel all the love and happiness and amazing open mindedness that im feeling into that next record, i cant even hesitate to worry :)
I just want to say, and emphasize on that fact that, this world is so amazing, so beautiful, meant to be explored. So vast, wide and lovely, exploring is the only thing to do. And i have done it, with hardly spending any money, keeping it simple along the way...and I know that you can do it too...So if you are feeling like you just need something bigger, beyond your world, your everyday and yourself, get out there and go.
You will thank yourself for the rest of your life...
Now is the time, now is present, love is the moment, open is the future...
My love to you all....
From the dust I play in, to the home I park my spaceship in. From the shores of Cornwall, to the streets of London. From the faces that are familiar, to the faces that I meet on an open street. From the eyes of the readers, to the passerbyers on their way...
I’ll see you in orbit :)
Hugs and much love,
Tristan