In addition to this great news, I’ve been asked to Emcee a film screening during the most awesome Peak Summit music festival! Derby City Independent Film Collective will be showing films on June 2o from 7 – 9 pm, and I will be  hosting! It’s bound to be great fun! Good music, indie film, and good people – at Saint’s in St. Matthews.

It keeps rolling, though – I plan on taking Divinity Rising, the web video show to the Mighty Kindness (give a ) Hoot-enanny! If you’ve not made it to this heartwarming and exciting annual meet of music, arts, local organic farmers, healers and other awesome groups in our community, YOU SHOULD join me! It’s FREE, has KID STUFF, GREAT music, and some of the kindest hearts you’ll ever meet I’d like to ask some of you questions on camera – At Willow park  in Louisville, Kentucky – Check out http://www.mightykindness.org

Later in the month, I am especially honored to join Karma Bums at Diamonds Billiards in St. Matthews for a night of mind blowing music and poetry and all around good karma – come partake, my peoples!!!! May 23 – Mark your calendars!!!!

Speaking of Diamonds,  are you ready?…. It’s a new home for Louisville Speak Easy!!!

And Speaking of the Speak Easy – it’s time for a NEW NAME!!!!!

There’s lots of reasons, but it’s an all around great opportunity to really give our gatherings a name that suit their magic, allure and sparkle

MONDAYS at Diamond’s Billiards, We’re kicking off Sub Rosa – The Gypsie Courtyard!!! Our gatherings at Carly Rae’s on Thursdays WILL continue (under the new name!)

We’re mixing it up with lots of new opportunities to celebrate local wandering hearts of art!!! I’ll be doing paid featured spots at BOTH locations, plus some other neat opportunities etc coming up

Come to the grand opening  May 11 ,  our first monthly showcase there! Let’s make it a huge deal and really start sending out some wonderfully awesome ripples in St. Matthews! I’ll have more on this next week!

And in June – Pick up a copy of The Highlander to read the article Danny O Day honored me with!

I hope that all of you are really enjoying your wanders of wonder….and with all this “Speaking of” let’s speak of wanderers. I’d like share my ode to wanderers. So many people get dogged on for being a wanderer – but would you play any game without first checking out your terrain, resources, strengths, and  collecting useful items? So, why is it a bad idea when playing the game of life?

What’s the good word? Give me at least ONE thing that is pretty awesome that has shown up in your life or that you have given yourself lately. How can you spread the contagious Kind Flu?

It is about beat poets and features local legend and internationally known poet/rebel/wild spirit man Ron Whitehead  and a video I made of Ron and one of his daughter, Rani Newman at the Louisville Speak Easy…

Check it out by clicking here.

Check out Ron’s web site here.

I changed it up this last week. At the event, I hold a drawing for the “Blind Pig”. The winner gets five drinks for a dollar each. Last week, the city of Louisville was pretty much shut down from a snow and ice storm, and despite risking getting stuck to park, the room was packed with people looking for power – both electrical and emotional.. I spontaneously changed the rules of entry for the drawing. After seeing the results, I decided to keep the tradition.

To enter now, you have to write your name and something you’re grateful for on a piece of paper and throw it into the “plateful of grateful”, where a candle burns in honor of our joined gratitude. The candle managed to melt all over a lot of the pieces by the end of the night, long after the drawing had taken place. At 2 am, as I put furniture back in its place and cleared dirty plates, I came to the mess the candle had made. I began to dig through the wax, and found myself enjoying what everyone had contributed. It was like a treasure hunt, digging and scraping the wax from each sheet as I excitedly read them. So, I saved them and wanted to share them with you:

List of gratitude from magical people:

Poetry and Friends; Beautiful magical people appearing in my life; my friend Rebecca;sprite; this breath; beautiful women; chuck taylors; each person I’m lucky enough to know; friends and family;that there is a warm place to enjoy live music on this cold wretched night; for Carly Rae’s; Opiates; friends to share the warmth; for Melanie; for the Speak Easy; for beer; my 5 senses, can’t be more epic than that; for patience; F.P. Wazney; for my life; the ancient egyptians for booze, Ben Franklin for electricity, and Al Gore for the internet; Heat; still having heat, electricity, and great neighbors when others do not;for Aminor and Biscuits; for snow days and free booze; for the friends I have met so far;

And one that was a wisdom: “Even throughout disaster, there is beauty in the chaos ( Look outside at the icycles..f**cking gorgeous)”.

I’d like all of us to remember the beauty of please and thank you this year so we may observe just how magical those words are.