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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:

Thursday, February 07, 2008

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.

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