RAW VAGABONDING - sharing, living, being RAW
On January 14th, I posted over at the donation site, ChipIn, a rough outline of a visionary road trip I kept seeing in my inner eye. The original intent (which has morphed considerably in an ecstatically simpler direction) is published here:Â The Road Hospitality Tour.Â
One day in January, I went to see The Art of Participation exhibit over at SFMoMA. It was one of those days where one doesn't feel as if they are walking on water -- you ARE walking on water. So many flashes of insight, and complete peace. After the museum, I met with a Twitter friend I'd never met as yet in this lifetime, @elasticfate. And everything clicked into place in an effortless way.Â
"When something is sacred, it cannot be bought or sold." - Starhawk
"I'm talking about carving out a place in the larger culture where a condition of abnormality can be sustained -- where imagining the unknown and the unknowable -- impossible to buy or sell -- is the primary enterprise." - "The Boom is Over. Long Live the Art!" New York Times, February 12, 2009
In these times, it is too easy to fall prey to the voices in the dungeon that shreik, "Save, hoard, don't give, you'll never have enough for yourself, there's not enough to go around, the sky is falling.
""The Irish Sidhe (Shee) faeries passionately love beauty and luxury and have a total contempt for thrift and economy. Lady Wilde in her Ancient Legends of Ireland remarks how they detest "the close, niggard hand that gathers the last grain, drains the last drop in the milk pail, and plucks the tree bare of fruit, leaving nothing for the spirits who wander by in the moonlight." -Faeries, by Brian Froud and Alan Lee
"Nature is nothing if not extravagant...No one looks at a cherry tree [oh, almost typed cheery tree!] and says, "How inefficient and wasteful." - William McDonough, "The Extravagant Gesture"
"The space in which 'live' words are spoken is called satsang -- literally, 'being together in Truth.'" - Adyashanti, The Impact of Awakening
One day while driving from Numi Tea Garden to a raw food meetup with Steve Pavlina at Cafe Gratitude, the thought entered:Â
"Raw is the reverse of war. Live is the reverse of evil."Â
Not that I'm about reversing anything anymore (embrace, accept, allow is more like it...transmutation, transfiguration may follow) but it then led to the kernel of this entire pilgrimage:
Open to complete cooperation with the flux of the multiverse in a raw, pure, unimpeded, unadorned, visceral, live, vital way and share that with others. This tour teams up with ElasticFate on her Raw Vagabonding community-building tour, across the USA incorporating:
live, raw food
live, raw words
live, raw silence
The journey commenced for me on February 24th when ElasticFate picked me up in Las Vegas. In that time, we have thoroughly rawly loved Springdale, UT, Escalante, UT, Moab, UT, Page, AZ, Flagstaff, AZ and Sedona, AZ.Ã?Â
Please join us if you live in the desert Southwest, on Monday, March 16th we will arrive in Santa Fe, NM...continuing to Taos; then Marfa, TX, Austin, TX, Katy, TX, Houston, TX, Baton Rouge, LA, New Orleans, LA...and the rest of itinerary is still unfolding.
We are hosting "speakeasy" Salon/dinner in Austin most likely on March 29th (a home or gallery or other intimate gathering location is still being located) as well as another Speakeasy Salon in New Orleans in mid-April. If you can help host by providing space, please let us know at crossroadsdispatches -at- gmail -dot- com or via Twitter at http://twitter.com/eve11
Namaste...
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