It’s 5 am and my huge pot of water is boiling way — my winter hobby. The squirrels are still sleeping (I think they live in my attic). At the moment, I’m listening to The Dream of the Blue Turtles (I’ve developed a thing for the song “The Black Seam” — the link takes you to a really cool video that goes from Sting’s rehearsal studio to the live stage); speaking of blue, while working with Anatoly on the Book of Blue website. I got back in from Philadelphia late last night (the Loving More winter conference, called Poly Living 2010), and tonight I am heading to the NCGR astrology conference in Cambridge.
NCGR is every two or three years, so it’s a fairly rare event. I’ll be there with bells on my wingtips, joined by Amanda Painter, who is trekking down from Maine, and others in the Planet Waves network who turn up. If you’re coming to the conference and want to help out or just say hello, look for the Planet Waves table someplace visible; we’ve got a big red and white banner to decorate the thing.
Wednesday I will be at Richard Tarnas’ full-day workshop on astrology and comedy, a subject I started emailing him about spontaneously a couple of months ago before I knew he researched and taught that subject. I remember why — Steve Colbert did a 30 second impression of those nuclear test videos, with the test dummies and the trees swaying and all of that, only he did it with his body and face. I opened an email and for some reason started writing to Rick: did you see that!!???