Wednesday, June 11, 2008

Eagalic Music - 2

It's Wednesday and I am just finished up my chores before heading out for my seawall walk.

It has been a busy couple of days for me as I have been editing chapters of my book for posting on the new website and scanning images and photos taken over the years that relate to the subject.

Danny and I seem to be in synch as while I was posting yesterday, he also updated the site with a great new look and feel.

However, he is still writing code to make it function and the homepage somehow disappeared yesterday.

Slowly but surely though, we will make it happen.

I have decided it would be a great idea to post complete mp3 files of my songs, one per month which will be freely downloadable to those who visit the site.

It is interesting how inspiring this labour is to me, after so many years plugging away at bits and pieces of the puzzle.

When I first emailed Danny some of my ideas, I said that the mission statement for the website would be subtitled "Breaking out of the Box".

This has very literal meaning, as most of my writings are stored in journals and notebooks that have not seen the light of day in years, but are packed away in cardboard boxes that fill up my closet and floor space.

I have misplaced some crucial boxes over the years and in the mid-70's having decided to chuck it all and go fruit picking in the Okanagan I burned a few of them. In retrospect I wish I hadn't done so as there were some quite miraculous things recorded in those journals which are now lost for ever.

The Mexican Federales also took some of my travel notebooks from me when they threw me in jail in La Paz (mid 70's), which were detailed accounts of my attempted sojourn to the Andes which took me as far as Central America.

Anyway, to all my friends who visit my whirld-dervish blog, I am still here and there will be lots more to come, God willing.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Baba
I did not know you had been in a Mexican jail--how many lifetimes have
you lived in this one? You are really putting it out there for all to
see and share. Breaking out of the box indeed! What fascinating
reading it makes for me, and for others I am sure. Those lost journals
are big losses indeed. On the other hand--I have kept so many journals
and I often wonder why as I cannot imagine ever wanting anyone to read
my insane ramblings. The past is hard to let go of.