bottletrees and holygrounds, getting beat at my own game: rickydoc gotta roll

SUNDAY

gotta roll, trouble in the delta
rickydoc gotta go

this a jpg of my 1st bottletree, that was a pretty tree, caught the sun just
right, announce itself to all evil spirit - do not stop here

finished draft - but because i reconcepted endgame
got holes in the structure need to be mended

and last 3rd kinda raw rick, need to hit it again rick, you know you do
the thing w/projects like this is the fear of dying in mid stride

everytime you finish a draft you sigh relief cause you that
much closer to a good read no matter what

a good red pen and this novel will be real
still need polish mind you but good to go

been working structural changes all day and its feeling good to me, i will squeeze me another
day before i get on the road,  a good day of sructural work do my literary heart good

fix the structurals i can print out the manuscript
take it to the delta, redpen it, see what i got

what i got is a family emergency

work might get done
might not

pray for me would you
my love to you all

rdoc

FRIDAY NOON

hello world, last 20 pages, got a lot of holes got to
be filled in but im closing in on it yall - pray for me

lotta folk got problems w/mambo racine
she do seem to be kinda mercenary, initiate anybody

who pay her, got an little operation down in jacmel haiti thats almost

cultic, folk go down there, pay their money and be doing a lot of pretending
if you get my drift, do they little 2 weeks and swear they voodoos

swear they got power

then they go out and initiate other folk, start their own houses

two weeks of training mind you, i studied with babajohn killlens
for 13 years and still didnt get it all

racine got some pretty rabid opposition in the voodoo community
ive seen them destroy a list or two, it can be pretty amazing

so anyway i had heard that two of her american initiates tried
to bring skulls back to the united states and got arrested at the haitian airport

that when the haitian authorities wanted to question racine
about where they got these freshly dug skulls she decamped

to the dominican republic and caught a plane home
so now two of her initiates in jail  in haiti (can you imagine)

for trying to bring skulls home (racine say they 'sacred skulls', freshly dug)
so mambo racine sends out a request for donations to get them out

wasnt for that hapless two stuck in a haitian prison this would be amusing
dirt encrusted skulls - one wonders what kind of 'training' going on down there

pretending is what i call it, dangerous pretending
like a little corrupt strand running thru our tradition

make us a joke
and raise a lot of issues about initiation, responsibilty and good common sense

destiny too: i judge that strand need to be denied
and stripped of power - its a joke, a bad joke

she is trying to get them out, i give her that much
but then again, this probably aint good for business

this the link: judge for yourself

rdoc

FRIDAY

hello world, wouldnt exactly call it clocking pages
but i am back in the game

more than i can say for AT&T and south africa
apparently in south africa, doctor death is back

deputy minister madlala-routledge, credited w/effectively addressing aids crises in south africa after years of denial by mbeki and health minister tshabalala-msimang, has been fired by mbeki

mbeki press release states that he will no longer allow this cheeky deputy to upstage his girl tshabalala-msimang,

makes his girl look bad and he cant have that

mbeki say forget fact we got highest aids population in the world - let em eat beets he say

meanwhile back at the ranch
AT&T censors pearl jam anti bush lyrics

its like we in a little downhome policestate these days

both mbeki and bush policies be killing folk indirectly
(one wonders how many folk died in iraq today - how many in new orleans)

but at least in south africa you can protest official foolishness without being censored or wiretapped by bushs enablers in congress, media and corporate america

one of these texts by this guy jimoh im studying for my literary blues class say the difference
between spiritual, blues and jazz based literary works is that the

approach to life shaped by spirituals (lets say gospel) depends on god and external forces
to deal with lifes problems, the blues based life depends on attitude and the resources

of the individual while jazz is innovative and multimodal, guy says the first two
are more community based, at least spirituals/gospel id say

it was an interesting and provocative theory
though it didnt all hold up i dont think

of course in the tradition its not that cut and dry
got to have a mix of coping modes appropriate to the moment

like the hoodoo way
anymethod anytime

strictly what works
im outta here

rdoc

postscript 08:24: this post got cut, i had a whole post
thats gone and dont remember what was there beyond the link to bottletrees pages, will do something later today to fill in the hole

postscript too 08:26: finally remember what that missing post entailed

quick recap to fill in that hole as follows:
was wandering about the net when i looked at bottletrees

last time i googled bottletrees some years ago i got a couple of hits, this time

there were hundreds, including this site w/pics of bottletrees folk had sent in

i been using bottletrees as the root metaphor in rest for the weary - sanctifying holyground, sanctuary

but its already dispersing into the world without my definitions laid on it

look like reality got away form me again, beating me at my own game

hoodooing the
hoodooman

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okay thats the gist of it
probably had more but who got time

didnt want to leave that hole after
sungoddess mentioned it in commentary

(oh i enjoyed this one, a little metablogging
im likely to play with that some more)

im out of here
rdoc

Comments

[Lesley-Ann Brown]

love tapping into your world we are so lucky and fortunate to have you and your thoughts. all the best and i hope our faces see the others again soon. did you get a roti when you were in nyc?

[sungoddess]

Hey Baba! I looooove the bottle trees! Beautiful....