the hoodoo way: as tribal shaman i bear ultimate responsiblity for my peoples quality of life

SUNDAY  9:27 am super 8 on the road

delta bound, family family family and my 40th highschool reunion
supposed to be doing a presentation, will post it at some point

working those last 20 pages of novel, got me scared to death

all these years i could tell folk 'im working on it' - now its damn near
done and i wont have any excuses anymore, either it works or it dont

its so strange, the narration, masterpiece or farce, i just dont know

my brooklyn workshop, the only ones who have seen it really, pretty much
accept whatever i do at this point, which is probably not a good thing

had a new member come in recently

and she said somewhat perplexed, is this a draft, or just an outline
that kinda rocked me as you can imagine, messed w/my head

i explained, no, this is my style im trying to make work
ohwell - just keep on pushing rick, keep on stepping

im like hillary, dont know when to quit
hopefully not as delusional

hillary has really begun to bore me, her spin is totally delusional
now, something new everyday, im ahead by the popular vote

im ahead by electoral votes, im ahead if we count by republican winner
take all rules, yadda yadda, its clear that hillary dont care nothing bout

no rules, unless they work in her favor, or can be twisted somehow
and now everybody has to tiptoe around her so she and her die hards

arent alienated, all she doing is building resentments/divisions in the
democratic base that we will be generations paying for

theres a whole lot i can say about hillary but ima restrain myself and
just wait for her to get off the stage - just like everybody else

so barack has been adopted in the crow, barack black eagle
i love it, i just love it

what the hell is going on in south africa, god help me now what
this is an assault on my people from both ends, both the folk

getting assaulted and the folk doing the assaulting
one physical abuse, the other spiritual selfabuse

and the conjureman got to just sit here and take it

i once made an effort to organize afrospiritual practitioners so we
have true power to influence social dynamics like this

if only i could get the sangomas to fix this

first i have to convince them its our job to fix it, that any tribal dysfunction
is our responsibility, our failure, then i have to organize them to the ability

the capability of power on the ground
instead of only in the spirit

in closure some blessings for the folk in china and myanmar
when i think about how much it hurt losing that 1000 or so

to katrina, the loss of 50,000, 100,000 boggles the spirit
make you wonder sometime what god has in mind

but the earth doesnt really care about us, when it shifts in
search of its equilibrium, sometime people die

when the cosmos shifts in search of its equilibrium, planets die
thats why we need to get off the planet, spread out, increase the odds

earthquakes, tsunamis, novas and rogue asteroids, all we
can do is be prepared

gods blessings on the folk still struggling
one world

in struggle

rdoc




FRIDAY 6:32  am

okay, quick commentary, what impress me is the way
the energized black vote has put the deep south back into play

apparently black resentment of attempt to use obama as swiftboat
material played a large part in recent miss win, i can only hope

this energized black vote remains high for the duration
that would be a wonderful thing

also im noticing something else, i notice i dont go to
black agenda report anymore, feel like i know what glen

is going to say, samesame krugman, i have to check myself
a voice that become predictably partisan is a boring voice

i got to walk the border better,
or something, maintain

ima call it the magical eye
that hoodoo comprehension

of the whole, speaking of which
the afro-blues tradition

new work by nana kwame, one of my regulators
who apparently is a bluesman working in a shaman mode

im not clear, ima try to get more clarity on his vision
get back to you, i work that blues hoodoo fusion myself

i consider them both afrospiritual traditions
making a way out of no way

im outta here, good day yesterday
got to keep that momentum

all my love

rdoc




THURSDAY  5:54 am

so im working this morning right and i have this scene this movement i been wanting to
work into the text, where a young senator from illinois back in 2005 gets in touch w/the conjureman

for a reading on whether he should make a run for the us senate
highjohn throw the roots and note that its a crossroads moment etc etc

you got the drift of it, right

but everywhere i tried it in the text it didnt work but this morning not only did i just luck up on
the perfect spot for it but it made a previously weak scene strong, man that felt good

i got some commentary for you but will have to give it later today
right now im in the groove

all my love

rdoc



WEDNESDAY MORNING 5:45 am

hello world - gop use of obama to swiftboat democrat in miss fails
hilllary probably as disappointed as the repubs - sorry, couldnt help that 1

lets move to a higher plane:

i was reasonin wid rod jackmon over in comments
and i articulated something i need to follow through on

need to add to my official speculation, we was reasonin together about
mbeki and mugabe and i said

"i cannot fully express how much it upset me, in tribal shaman manifestation, when my people, for whose quality of life i bear ultimate responsibility, forced to live under  authoritarian conditions like some b grade nazi movie, i hate that w/a passion"

when i realize i had just said something i need to play with some
the bit about tribal shaman having ultimate responsiblity for the tribes quality of life

if folk suffering its cause i aint done whatever it is i was suppose to have done
some way or the other my game was slack, some factor i didnt take into consideration

some orchestration that was inadequate
need to work this understanding in both lifegame and rest for the weary

also im feeling a need to put my finger on the pulse in the hoodoo world
i been out of that loop for about 6 months now, even more if you count from

demise of the hoodoo way list
but when i titled this post with my tribal shaman bit

it came to me to precede it with the hoodoo way and i think about that
african american way i want to articulate in my work and how that is

encapsulated in my take on the hoodoo way
plus that i just miss reasonin w/my fellow hoodoos

sometime you got to withdraw from the arena
reassess, regenerate, come back new and improved

i believe this ultimate responsibility thread gon be part of that
improvement - i feel power in greater understanding of that

in strategic articulation

one benefit of rootsblog is im always working out my
evolving cosmology here - my afromology

but for right now, right, you guessed it
i got to clock some pages

i have been totally immersed in palf crises mode
restructured those last 40 pages last week, havent done a

lick of work on them since, got to redpen them now

just sit down w/the redpen and force march my way through it,
this is when it becomes real manuscript, this is the brutal redpen

subsequent redpens just cleanup and poetry, making it better
lets say a week redpen mornings, palf evenings

then i got to head for memphis, homework

all my love
rdoc

Comments

[rawdawgbuffalo]

have fun and be safe at the crib, they the stars of 48 hours

[nanakwame]

check this site
http://www.subrealism.blogspot.com/
the death of the poor world wide

Obama will win, what is on his table is great
Talk to Iya K from Philly last nite, doing well.
Waiting for the book - got a small one out call:
The Afro-Blues Tradition - Glorious Child of the Africans

from your Warrior Shaman
Nana Kwame Osunwole Toprah

[rickydoc]

nana kwame

checked out the work, looks good
any chance of doing a trade

one of mine for yours
do a review of it for you

samesame raw dawg, do a review
of your piece man, if you wanna

do a trade

also i notice nana kwame while googling about
that you are a bluesman shaman i believe

a fellow practitioner
in many ways i see

is your music available

email me if you get a chance
i would like to ask you some

questions about how you work
the fusion

in struggle
rdoc