Last nite under an African full moon, I was able to participate in something as old as humans- Drumming. Wow! within an hour our group of overachieving intellectual type-A yuppies were drumming together! It was incredible.
We started at dusk, under a fiery red sky. Slowly as the drumming become more synchronized, the light changed from red sunset to full moon. It was so primal. It was like watching (or being?) a herding dog who has never seen a sheep. We know how to drum we just have to find it in us. Natural.
Our group was part of a Butterfield and Robinson tour of South Africa (lots and lots more on that later!) but our drumming facilitators, Drumming South Africa, do all kinds of events. Too bad they are not in California!
- Esperanto cafe.. Always open #
- The Esperanto Cafe is a very cool little place near NYU in Greenwich village. We stopped there during a recent vacation to New York for a latte and a rest before meeting a friend for lunch. It was cool and quiet. A good respite on a humid fall mid morning.
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Utica reservoir.
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This is where we have been coming as a group of family and friends for close to 15 years. The lake was covered with snow on my first trip to Utica. My son wandered off in search of a missing dog. We found him crouched under a log, crying that the dog ( a husky) had ‘gone back to the wolves’.
Since then, we spend summer evenings on the rocks sipping vodka tonics with friends. Evenings in the Airstreams playing cards or debating the political future of the country.
I may have just returned, but its time to go back.
