Thursday, February 10, 2005

Entry #147

Groovin along on this ship called life.. I played in the subway yesterday and the day before to all the passersby and I remembered that one of my first inspirations for being a singer/ songwriter was a street musician named Rick from my Portland, Oregon days; This was in 1990 or so.. Rick played his guitar and sang in front of what used to be The Metro which was a cafeteria of sorts right downtown; it was the hip spot to be. I used to listen to Rick play and thought it was so cool. I think that was about the time that I got myself a guitar and started making up my own songs. Well, as I was playing in the Jay Street subway in Brooklyn last night, I saw a young kid looking at me and really checking out what I was doing and I thought to myself that maybe I am his Rick! Maybe he will be inspired to play music and find himself crooning to the passersby in some city somewhere& Rick was in Portland, Oregon and now I am in N.Y.C., maybe that kid will go to Europe or Chicago! It is starting to warm up here weather wise only to get cold again. The weather is all freaky these days& Let us not forget the tsunami that killed so many people the day after Christmas. I got a message on my email that had been forwarded about how the Guatemalan Elders are asking people to pray for awakening and planetary healing and peace or many more events like the tsunami will happen as Mother Earth tries to awaken her children out of the devastation we are wreaking on the planet~ her skin. Jessica