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What a conundrum.

I am reposting something I listen to regularly. I prefer this live version to the other one Dinesh did online, I think he's less conscious of his playing in this take, also there's the vibe of the room.

I've been asking him to come along and join in the 5D project, might still get a crack at it if I'm lucky.

I think this is a classy piece of work, concise,  and pretty much as well said as I can work out how to say anything.

I don't know whether to cover it, admire it (sure), be inspired by it (did that, thanks Dinesh, thats what got me to bring 'Brave with your heart' out for another attempt) or repost it.

I'm starting with reposting. Missed the first sentence but this is straight out genius grade work. Simple, beautiful, truthful. Yeah I dig it. Don't think it sad, think it marvellous.

Yet more work here in the stormcellar to provide you a little time out from the chaos out there :-)

Somehow, amidst the chaos, I have a morning off.

For reasons unknown, the phone hasn't rung. Haven't got any emails.

Holy carp the universe is giving me a time out :-)

Boy, what a time.

I'm trying to avoid reading current affairs. I keep my thoughts off the page (but in the lyrics).

It's winter in Sydney, but one of those confused almost spring/summer moments. Stormcellar weather indeed.

Whilst everything surges around us, I'm taking a moment out.

Just sitting here, watching the world go by :-)

The amount of work to be done to get us on the road is potentially overwhelming.

We have to break it up into small steps and then do them one after the other.

Last night it was all hands on deck, into the wee small hours.

For the next while, until we get back, it will be more of the same. Expect some patchy blogging for the next week or so.

This year I am determined to improve our on-the-fly blogging.  FB is pretty good for on-the-go-blogging so I might embed a window in the site to allow it to display content from FB. or maybe I'll work out how to mobile blog here and then link it to FB.

Or maybe neither because I still have to organise posters/logistics what have you.

We choose this thing that we do, it's what makes up our lives, and it's a good life.

There's a heck of a community within and around us and when one of us is feeling sad or overwhelmed, there is a lot of support.

To repeat a phrase I know I've written somewhere here, it's hard to fall when you are held by so many hands.

Work continues. For my part, I'm feeling pretty chipper :-).

Back to work.

Catherine Hill Bay, on a sunny day. This has consistently been one of the nicest places to spend an afternoon, outside, in the sunlight, with Rebecca doing sound and the wind not too brisk or cold.

Jo was with us and we were joined by plenty of friends.

It's been a while since we visited. We had to cancel the last show there, as that was the day Rosies Dad passed away.

Since we were there last, the development has continued, the roads are better and new houses are springing up. Life goes on.

Between the sea air, sunshine, and a few hours of playing and a bit of driving, I'm entirely well relaxed. It's good to appreciate these things we do.

This week there was some sad news about Chester from Linkin Park, and if we acknowledge what we read and hear, there's enough sadness to go around.

To drink deeply from the well of life is our only recourse, and it diminishes not one jot our sadness to appreciate the good that is around us.

That's a power of hope, and it helps to sustain.

Thanks to Michelle for alerting me, the calendar function I installed a while back is no longer displaying the 'forward show' tab, so you can't see more than 1 month ahead.

Entropy is really all up in this web and the site could do with a solid clean.

This has been a decades worth of blogs and posting, new links, modules, updates, environment changes.

It's a wonder that the bloody thing hasn't gone self aware.

Maybe it has.

Did you ever stop to think that? What if I, your present interlocutor, am in fact, merely a figment in the imagination of the blogging software, gleaned from interactions with hundreds of harmonica players. Maybe I don't even play harmonica, maybe I just think I do! It's Virtual Harp!!!

Ok, so therefore I may or may not exist.

Irrespective of that, before we go to the US is the correct time for me to give the system another solid tweak. If I accidentally delete myself, please reinstall me from the version kept in the Ab Suzuki Pro Harp box, I think that's stable-ish.