Life a prison but a soul free

I am neither a pig nor a wolf. I am no sheep though I am the proudest monkey. Above and below all I am a little god. I am not this mind. I am not this body. These are things simply through which my experience is filtered. Their purpose to enable or limit but not to define. My soul is me. My consciousness is without limit. I am creativity and death. There are no words that can describe the breadth of me. But there are certainly rules. The rules of nature which do define me. I will kill you. And I will love you. I will end and begin you.   I will love. I will love. I do love. Love is the most of me. How I love to love. My family, my tribe. I find my Self increasing the more I can give to them. They are what make me feel grateful. So does this body. It is my vehicle through this experience and god has blessed me with a good one. It has good shape and it is strong. I love it and bless it every day. I thank god for it because it is beautiful. And it sings. It sings in a way that is one and only. In it's way, perfect. Because it is not. I love my song. I love how it flows from somewhere immense and quiet within me. I lay my mind to listen within and there is where I can hear it sing. How good of life to have made me Me. Giovanni. Not wolf nor sheep not pig or beast. I am the little god from who's mind and soul reality is made, a universe of song. I am a little god and my soul is free. Though this life be a prison my soul is free.   

the river i see

it seems strange to me. the way we become reflections of life. we are born who we are. natural beings. but as life goes so we become. like clay washed away by the river. i look back at myself in pictures from 10 years ago and i see how i fought to conform to the shape of what i saw as desirable. and then i look at pictures of my nephew now seven, then 3, and i see that he was always who he is even as a little glob of a new being. i remember. and then i see the 20-somethings in and without my family. i see their dissonance. i feel them struggle to make sense of the nature of this experience and i see clearly how it affects us. we become reflections, albeit warped as we keep some of our original shape. and here i sit all these years later coming back to where i started realizing that i am not one with this river. so i sit perched on top a rock and i observe.

this river is wrong...

but i am right! and so i sing to the river my song, written of the One we seek. from which everything that flows goes.

blessed is the light of the ones who see. blessed is the soul of the human being who refuses to be anything other than what he was born to be.

feels good to be free.

rolling

so i'm starting to start with the preparation for the albums eminent release in march 2010. it's been mixed and mastered and once the final cover design is approved we will be going to print. hopefully no later then the first week of december.

wednesday is a second meeting with the designer luis guillen (www.lguillen.com) to check out the second draft of the cover. hopefully it will be good enough to wrap and send to print. the first draft was pretty damned good already. i'm lucky to have him working on this.

we've found a perfect vehicle for selling our music in (drum-roll please)... bandcamp! (www.bandcamp.mu). a beautifully simple and elegant tool for the independent, and we are one, musician. great minimalist design and all the tools we need to sell digital AND physical audio and merchandise. they are so awesome...

we've re-released the single 'vientos de abril' with the video. it is a pretty thing and deserves an honest deployment into the world of wanna-be-stars... ahhhh, how i would like to be, simply and honestly...me.

onwards and forever forward without moving an inch. this is how we do. see you soon.