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2/16/08
I sing a lot about feeding the wolf of light and love... That is truly what
I
get to do in my work and I'm not talking here about feeding other hearts... I'm
talking about restoring my own spirit and sense of possibility... I met so many
nice folks on the west coast last week... some touched my heart in
ways that I won't soon shake off...
Virtually the first conversation I
had in the state of Oregon was with a guy leaving the airport with me on a
crowded rental car shuttle-bus. He overheard me leaving worried cell phone
messages for friends back east... I was looking for someone to check the state's
internet travel advisories... I had been warned that many of the mountain roads
to the coast from Portland were impassable due to recent weather related
landslides and was soon to embark on one of those roads. Anyway, this
eavesdropping good Samaritan used his Apple I-phone (I HAVE to get one of these
someday!!!) to go online and tell me that a hi-way a few hours south, from
Eugene to the sea, was clear.
The next person I met was a very
sweet rock-n-roll DJ at KCST in
Florence who let me sing a couple songs on her show to promote that evening's
performance at the local library.
Celeste's blog about my visit is posted below...
I never told her I was friends with Willie!
One after another, genuinely kind
human beings made me feel as welcome as I've ever been made to feel ... From
providing a heated lakeside camper on a cold rainy night to tossing a couple
extra hundred dollar bills into the contribution basket where the
folksinger played for the hat....to simply trusting and sharing from their
hearts, folks like Mary, Rand, Jessica, Jerry, Janet, Ken, Celeste,
Frank and especially
Jess made a stranger feel welcomed and a jet-lagged spirit feel
strengthened.
From
Celeste's Blog:
John Flynn and Dover
It’s Talk Thursday and I’m suppose to be writing about
“The Fiery Place”. I thought and thought and can’t think of a fiery place.
But stay tuned, it could happen.
In my job I get to meet great, I mean really interesting people. This
afternoon I interviewed, and was given the appropriate serenade ONAIR ah,
the life of a DJ is hard, by an awesome singer songwriter, who before last
week I’d never heard of.
Singer Songwriter John Flynn was dressed appropriately in black and carried
a well-traveled guitar case in his left hand. And when I say well traveled I
mean a beat up, water stained case stuck many times over with fragile
stickers that the airlines apparently failed to read on several occasions.
His smile was lovely, his grip nice, and his butt is a topic for another
log. He opened the case, while wondering aloud if he should have checked it
before leaving the terminal, the airlines are kind of hard on equipment. He
pulled the guitar out of the case, strapped it one, and began tuning it up
over queries and small talk.
Normally interviews are about ten minutes long, sometimes five if the
interviewee is boring, talentless, or stinks. John Flynn was none of the
above, the interview ran a good twenty minutes or so and included two songs.
I love a man that sings to me. He is friends with Kris Kristopherson, Arlo
Gutherie (you know the guy my dog is named after), and Willie Nelson. He’s
written for some of the biggest names in the music industry, and he is
incredibly down to earth. He is one of the few sincere people I’ve ever met
who truly walks the talk.
He sang
this song for me…er and my
listeners. The acoustics were much better on air. Dover is his latest cut
from his Two Wolves CD. This song gives me chills and tears in my eyes.
(c) John Flynn, All rights reserved

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