Notes from the Boneyard: An old tree

Slumber attacked me when I began to write this and I have just awoken from what feels like a deep hibernation.

Coffee has assisted in my rise from the dead and I now sit among the birds and bees.

Life as a hill dweller is treating me kindly.

I feel an odd feeling, similar to what Kevin Costner must have felt in ‘Field of Dreams’.

I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but it’s the only way I can describe this comforting blanket of magic.

Then again, I have just awoken from a heavy sleep, so maybe I am still half dreaming…

Meanwhile, back in reality…

There are certain things I must do today that are currently plaguing my mind.

The Spanish tour with the Geckøs is fast-approaching.

Many songs will need to be learned and re-learned.

I have been noodling through the songbook while at home, but you can only do so much playing by yourself.

The true spark won’t spark until we are all in the same space and time, which will be the first show, in Barcelona.

Sparks will fly.

Flames will ignite.

A fire will grow.

The unplanned will lay out a road in front of us to guide the way. Intuition will be our beacon of light.

Who’s in charge here?

At times nobody is.

At times everyone is.

It rotates.

We pass the buck.

We each depend on the other two to catch us when we fall.

Trust in one another is key in any group.

And we all trust and respect each other enough to know when the other one is running with the ball, and we follow.

It’ll be one of our turns next.

But whose? Let the song decide.

Just be ready to catch the ball and run.

Listen to what’s going on.

Use the third ear.

Three hearts beating to the same rhythm will determine the tempo of the night.

After a while, the room begins to sway in the same rhythm, like a boat, lost at sea with three drunken sailors at the helm.

Something is happening here but you don’t know what it is.

An ancient magic enters the room, something older than all of us, and we transcend to become branches of the same tree.

A very old tree, that’s been around since the dawn of man.