Mood: bright
Now Playing: Foolish Heart- the Grateful Dead
Topic: No Foolin!!
It's April Fool's Day!!! A day for which there will FOREVER be a special place in my Foolish Heart. Like I said the other day...a number of years ago I was at some Grateful Dead shows in Atlanta. My best friend and I met up there at Stone Mountain park and while I was traveling solo, she had an entire troupe with her and I was soon the newest member of their tribe. FLASHBACK: It's April Fool's Day, 1994. There are about 5 of us "hairwrapping" in the parking lot of the show at the Omni. I finish up in the late afternoon and go take a walk through the lot. I bought a little trinket-a crescent moon necklace and I am holding the crystal on it up to the sun. I am tapped on the shoulder by a guy who is with our camp. We start to walk and look around at what the vendors are selling. I stop to buy friendship bracelets for me and my gal pal-they have the scorpion on them and Gina is a Scorpio. The boy informs me that he too is a Scorpio. He says his birthday is Halloween. I say "WOW! Mine is New Year's Eve." He say's "Halloween is the Wiccan New Year's Eve!" and we laugh that it is April Fool's Day and Good Friday at the same time. Hook, line and SINKER!!! We walked and talked together for hours, ending up at the top of Peachtree Tower, sharing a beer, filling up the space, until we figured out enough about each other to be sure that it was safe to make out! You can ask Gina about how obnoxious that got RIGHT QUICK. We pretty much ended up joined at he hip for the duration of the tour and for almost a week beyond!! And I learned a whole lot, real quick about what happens when your Karma runs over your Dogma. There is so much to say about this hiatus from what was going on back in Normal at the time. I had some truly loose ends that needed to be tied when I got back to what had, up until then, been my reality. I had to learn a whole new language to explain what I had experienced. I had to meet the key players and make sense of the plot and then find the forum for the story. This seems like as good a place as any. I'll be back soon.
Posted by mandalafly
at 1:37 AM PST
Updated: Wednesday, August 2, 2006 7:34 PM PDT