Burning sage, sharing global postal arrivals, variety of historic & alt passports, dropping needle on Ginsberg’s Howl, digressions on reconciliation, exhaustion & <3 for pals & family.
Feeling weary, burning sage and obviously *not at his best* Dave meanders through topics including (not necessarily in this order):
Passports galore! From CCCP, Yugoslavia, USA, Albania, Romania and *alt* passports from The Matinee Band https://thematineemusic.com and Cascadia Bioregion https://cascasdiabioregion.org / with my *important photo choosing process* {and yes this dear old grain storehouse is the Setouchi Consulate of Cascadia}. Come get your passport stamped (just not right now).
Membership for the Beat Museum (join/participate/visit http://kerouac.com) Leading to riffs about Jack Kerouac Alley, City Lights bookstore (http://citylights.com) and my photo tour of the North Beach, San Francisco environs.
First spins of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl on red vinyl (thanks ScurvyDawg) along with ephemera and riffs about the “6 Poets at 6 Gallery” (legendary reading) and how you can do something like that, i.e.: 1) make a poster and postcard, 2) invite folks, 3) pass a hat for wine.
And *Loads* of postcards and packets from:
* Sri Lanka (see Rasika’s YouTube channel @CeylonRelation)
* Powell River, BC; Olympia (Greece, not Washington); Kentucky
* Estonia with items from Aqaba, Jordan (maybe you’ve heard from Lawrence of Arabia)
Musing about phone calls with Uncle Mark, buddies Scales in Montreal and Kemp in Vancouver, and pal Cam’s 50th birthday (I made a video with ukulele)
And even:
* Being good papa and hubby (so lucky! hot dinner and bath)
* Visitor Ted (mountain guide) and a new book case so filled with wonder!
* Gord Downie’s Secret Path and final days
* First Nations reconciliation & shame of residential school (poem)
* DownieWenjack foundation (donate)
* Indian Residential School Survivor’s Society (donate)
* Brother on Diego Garcia and flashback to Ghandruk, Annapurna district, Nepal
* Miracle of Death” and being weak and making art through the transition
* Larry’s Dark Star Ranch and not knowing whether a particular beast is an Elk or a Deer (indeed! we collectively know so little)
Other rambling meanderings about feeling a bit exhausted from this year of house renovation, firewood (first fire and making firestarters) and getting adorable son Ichiro into school, plus so many medical appointments and endless paperwork to get properly settled. Whew.
How to find my address: tip = anywhere/everywhere.
Yes I do send a lot of postcards. You can join the club if that’s of interest ($5 gets you a piece of handmade art each month) https://daveostory.com/shop
Plus thanks for Banghi and Maddog for holding books and records (support book stores and humans)
So much, so little, such nothing and everything and anything. Settle in.
Fondy, daveo, Tsuchida Cottage
PS tips of how to improve lighting and sound welcome (memo: there is no natural light in the barn, i want to make well-lit 2 camera videos with quality sound with as minimal processing (moving stuff and files around) as possible. hit me up with ideas