Your Gonna Lively Up Yourself

iPad syncing in nature

LivelyCast "Sunday By The River"

LivelyCast "Friday After Work"

There is some livity to be had in the quiet corners of NOVA, during the quiet hours of the day. You just need to be in the right place at the right time...

LEAF 2011

Just got back from the Lake Eden Arts Festival...
..aka..

-LEAF-

http://www.theleaf.com/

It's essentially a music festival that uses it's proceeds to fund art and music programs for children in poverty stricken areas, both locally (North Carolina) and internationally.

^this description does not do this festival justice. Check out the link above for more info...

Peace, Love and Blessings to our brother and sister organizers at LEAF, they are worthy of abundant positive karma.

=UPDATE=


Director's Cut
06/08/11

...Comfortably numb, I shot the Sheriff.

Sooooooo Back on April 8th, the band was invited to attend a live sound stage recording event at NOVA in the Waddell Theater. The recording class sections got their gear together and recorded the live performances of some bands (us included) and the students worked on the mixes as their final projects.

Here's a big thanks to the NOVA Loudoun recording team for their hard work.

Here is the video footage of two of our recordings:

COVER: "I Shot The Sheriff" -Bob Marley



COVER: "Comfortably Numb" -Pink Floyd



Namdar on Guitar/ Vocals
Alejo on Bass
Brian on Drums
Rodger on Keyboards/ Vocals

-ONE LOVE and Belated Beltane Blessings

-RajJAH

peace rocks

Met up with my friend deven over the weekend... and he had a camera!

First we went down to the mystical spot by the river where I maintain a medicine circle and noticed that someone had turned it into a peace sign.

So we decided to gather some different stones to add to the circle.
This is a flood plane, so all of this will wash away eventually.

I may build my circle on higher ground, but I like the way it looks now...

Hope our children can say the same thing.

Peace - Love -Blessings

-R

Longing for Floyd

Ahh spring is in the air, the little red buds are about to explode into flowers as nature's process of re-creation starts up. It'll be about 5 more months until FloydFest 2011 and I'm looking forward to it...

I'm looking forward to it so much, I've decided to change some words around on Joni Mitchel's "Woodstock" and call for Global Human Freedom Concerts to happen around the world to sync up with Floyd.

I made this Yesterday


I'm working with my Jam tribe now to do a larger cover of this...

more soon... for now, I gotta get ready to start my next class.

-Peace

Springing Up to the next milestone

So I've been taking classes again and thus, I have been splitting my "mindforce" between my incredibly evolving jam band and my Early Childhood Education classes.

I've been writing a lot of papers, working on a lot of group projects and learning a lot of really useful things.

On Thursday nights I meet up with my jam group and each day we have met up, we have learned a little more and improved our talents.

So there has been little room for art.

I did manage to make these...

These 2 illustrations were for a quick PowerPoint on the need for more men in Early Childhood Education.

(Though it looked more like a 5 second highlight on the issue of how men fear being judged the wrong way for working with young children...)

I've been going over different studies in anthropology, census data, history, academics and a bunch of other fields. The results are indicating to me that very young humans around the world basically do better if they have an equal balance of honest men and women in their lives.

So hopefully I can do what I can to restore balance (aka: Social Equilibrium)

I made it through my first ECE introduction course pretty successfully. The course was not easy. But I mean that in a good way because it was designed to give you a taste of what you can expect in workloads should you seek a career in Early Childhood Education. In some ways it felt more like a gatekeeper course because only hard workers and team players are going to make it through. Another good thing about the introducation class was it's ability to be done while working a full 9-5 on the side. Yes it was worth it! The teacher is one of the few I have had in my life who is quite honest with the class and knows what she is talking about. She is also very approachable and communicates a lot with her students.

I feel confident that I can continue my education in ECE and eventually work in the field (Though I'm still not quite certain on where my talents could serve best...).

Oh well, I've reached another milestone on the path, I can see the next one on the top of yonder hill... I lift my foot and move forward.

-Peace, Love and Blessings

-R, Mar11

To the people of Libya

I no longer have a message for the "leader" because you have none. The Tyrant Ghadafi has sealed his fate, the sands of the desert await the return of his body.

I call upon all Libyan's to join together as ONE. This is your new dawn. This is your crossroads.

Look to your children. You now have all the power to see that they live in peace and freedom.

Let us all join together with ONE LOVE and heal the world so that our children, and thier children and all the generations beyond the sight of your dreams have a chance to live in peace with one another in gardens such have never been seen since the dawn of creation.

Let us help the Earth to become ONE with the paradise that awaits in the after life.

May the Creator and Sustainer of life aid you in your struggle to live in peace.