Helix - Posted - 06/08/2023:  06:53:47

Try this, it's harmless.



Start by removing the fear and hate in your own brain, heart, expressions and banjo playing.



Progress is immediate. It will affect everyone and everything around you. Be on the lookout for nothing, but be aware of everything.



Every living thing will participate in a new frequency change real soon. Anything holding you back will drop you and your loved ones like a sinking stone. I ain't preachin' nothin'. I learned this to the hilt while Visiting Guthrie, Oklahoma. I was simply playing banjo on a public bench with permission. This community is rife with a one-sided view of what people are supposed to think, wear, speak and do. And yet under the surface without prejudice comes the new "Nisei." I got to meet the Sheriff of Durango, Colorado because of banjo. Young people will be making more oxygen and growing new and better food just because of banana peels and charcoal. Crusades get in the way, even personal crusades won't help you. I don't care what you think of written words. I care about the hearts producing the banjo notes. Get busy.



I have recently witnessed "Street Killing" on the public way of Glendale Avenue in Phoenix. This means that 300 people on quads, bikes, sand rails, doodle bugs with radios, little black NAZI helmets, mirrored sunglasses and fine riding suits all coming West from Lincoln Avenue

(Scottsdale's name for The same street) are idling from the turning lane to the curb going as slow as possible on a Saturday afternoon.

They block traffic with their many full chin beards. "Anarchy Nation." Sons of Anarchy? Perhaps, but not traditional outlaw motorcycle gang(s).



Then recently in May when I was visiting Kansas, City, Missouri, my birthplace:



I had visited the Turkey Creek Music Festival that afternoon and took my banjo along. I was under informed. The Merriam, Kansas sponsored event is free and highly attended by many young families with toddlers and infants in strollers. There was no jamming, nor any intended.

the anti-diverse crowd was all white with alcohol and very deeply loud country rock with featured bands with names such as but not really "Alice of Forethought", and "Cal Amity." "Vigil Auntie." was playing when I arrived. The parking lot was full. I turned around and left right away.

There was no opportunity for mixing with new people unless I wanted earplugs and alcohol.



Then at 5pm when leaving Merriam, Kansas for a banquet. I saw 1000 street killers holding up traffic on I-435 from lane to lane at 5 o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday causing a major traffic jam while everyone on machines and in cars and semis is idling at the most pollution producing rpm's. SLOW as possible!



Please comment if you have seen this in other parts of the country recently. This ain't no street ride, no gull wings that I could tell.



"Twas in Oklahoma City upon a Christmas Day (1935).

Came a carload (boxcar) of groceries and with a note did say.

You say that I'm an outlaw, you say that I'm a thief.

Well, here's a Christmas dinner for the families on relief.



Many a starvin' farmer the same old story told

How the outlaw bought their mortgage and saved their little home

And others tell of a stranger who came to beg a meal

And underneath his napkin left a $1000 bill



As in this world you travel and in the world you roam

You won't ever seen an outlaw drive his family from their home.



As in this world you travel you see lots of funny men

Some will rob you with a six gun and some with a fountain pen."



Our civility at times with each other outreaches the goodness expressed with the hand-made music represented here on this global forum.

Fear and hate have no place with the new Nisei, and obviously no place in the breath you exhale.



I ain't preachin' nothin'. I recently had my right Ulnar nerve pinch repaired and was cleared to play right away after the stitches were removed.

I assure you all that is what I shall now do for as long as I am able. Go quietly and do the same if you will. Banjo is a verb and takes conjugation, congregation, and explanation very well. It ain't all one kind of banjo playin', ask the Nisei.



If you don't hear this, get some new ears.

Edited by - Helix on 06/08/2023 06:54:12

Homeland Security

Mockingbird training Homeland Security

Even the ant casts a shadow

bullet in the osage

BanjoLink - Posted - 06/08/2023:  07:15:29

Quote: "Be on the lookout for nothing, but be aware of everything."

I like that Larry ..... wish that I and more people were like that!

Helix - Posted - 06/08/2023:  08:16:25

Farina is with us , too

mike gregory - Posted - 06/08/2023:  08:38:31

For the sake of clarity:

Which Farina?

Child actor ?

Cop show actor DENNIS Farina?

Poet, musician, author RICHARD Farina?

South Jersey Mike - Posted - 06/08/2023:  08:44:31

I believe in legalized psilocybin as well.

Helix - Posted - 06/08/2023:  17:15:51

Giuseppe Farina

Owen - Posted - 06/08/2023:  17:34:12

Oh!   Thanks; I was thinkin' it was either the Colombian rap singer

...or 

mike gregory - Posted - 06/08/2023:  17:39:55

Sorry not to have known about him.

But, I don't follow auto racing.

Because I'm "woke", and believe that ANY form of racism is Very Naughty.

Helix - Posted - 06/09/2023:  05:44:44

So 1000 idling on the I-435 is Anne Archy.

Helix - Posted - 06/10/2023:  05:55:00

the reference to Farina was a private one between BanjoLink and I

The rest of the thread kill is spontaneous combustion.

Please don't dumb down all the time.


Please comment if you have seen this in other parts of the country recently. This ain't no street ride, no gull wings that I could tell.

Owen - Posted - 06/10/2023:  06:10:14

Well, Larry, had you put the clarification [eg. "Aside for Banjolink..."] about it being private between you and Banjolink about half a dozen posts before you did, I might not have posted my dumb comment.  Heck, I'm so dumb I'm having trouble seeing how a post to a thread that has been read 259 times can be considered private.   I offer up a Canadian "Sorry"  for not meeting your standards [..... and for not being a mind reader].  

Helix - Posted - 06/10/2023:  09:35:32

OK sarcasm won't help me either.

Did you have any comment on the content of the post rather than the form?

Texasbanjo - Posted - 06/10/2023:  11:29:55

Okay, Larry and Owen, if you want to argue with each other, take it OFF the Hangout.

Helix - Posted - 06/10/2023:  14:15:13

I originated the post to stimulate discussion of a serious issue.

Paul R - Posted - 06/10/2023:  19:05:46

quote:

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Originally posted by Helix

"Twas in Oklahoma City upon a Christmas Day (1935).

Came a carload (boxcar) of groceries and with a note did say.

You say that I'm an outlaw, you say that I'm a thief.

Well, here's a Christmas dinner for the families on relief.



Many a starvin' farmer the same old story told

How the outlaw bought their mortgage and saved their little home

And others tell of a stranger who came to beg a meal

And underneath his napkin left a $1000 bill



As in this world you travel and in the world you roam

You won't ever seen an outlaw drive his family from their home.



As in this world you travel you see lots of funny men

Some will rob you with a six gun and some with a fountain pen."

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Referring to P.B. Floyd: "The outlaw makes his money in public and gives it away in private, while the rich man makes his money in private and gives it away in public." Utah Phillips