Shakesthegrounds Rumblings

[Shakesthecoffecan]

  Chuck!

I have been thinking about doing this for so long I wonder if I have already done it.

Here is a plug for my cousin who has a CD out, Alt-Country, he ain't half bad.

http://www.willadamsmusic.com/

[injest]

Chuck!

I have been thinking about doing this for so long I wonder if I have already done it.

Here is a plug for my cousin who has a CD out, Alt-Country, he ain't half bad.

http://www.willadamsmusic.com/

he's kinda cute there...

[CellarDweller]

looks good, sounds good! 

[southendmd]

Happiness is...having a good friend. 

[Shakesthecoffecan]

And by night, a silvery moon.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Jeff, thankyou for sharing and offering your well reasoned views. I don't drink Scotch but when I hear it I think of you.

Awww. ...

Jesus H., what put you in such a pensive mood? You all right? 

[Shakesthecoffecan]

Awww. ...

Jesus H., what put you in such a pensive mood? You all right? 

Well if you must know, Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat. 

[Lynne]

Lynne, thank you for everything. You are like WD-40 whereever you go. I think that riding with you on Highway 1 in Alberta last summer was one of the most cathartic experences I have ever had.
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This community is the world I cannot have in my real life. I have something like it, but it never felt as real and as connected as this. Lets us all keep trying, no matter where our paths take us. Lets us all be. Let be.

It doesn't get better than being compared to lubricant by a gay man (or a woman approaching menopause)... 

My seanachie; our seanachie.

But seriously, thank you.  I appreciate you more than words can say.  I may have to try another haiku.  .  It's strange to think that two years ago I didn't know you were on this planet, yet today I cannot imagine my world without you in it.

You give so much of yourself, selflessly.  You've taught me much about how to see the world around me, to look for the little quirks that make everyday life interesting and funny, about how to listen between the lines.

They don't come better than you, brother, friend, lover (in that pure asexual sense  ).

I treasure you.

[Jeff Wrangler]

Well if you must know, Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat. 

Hunh? 

My seanachie; our seanachie.

Sean who? 

[Lynne]

This is only one of your many gifts, friend.  Thank you for sharing yourself with us.

From Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seanachie

"A seanachie (pronounced "shan-a-key" or "shawn-a-key") is a traditional Irish story teller. Alternatate spellings include seanachaí, senachaí, senachie and shanachie.  The word is an anglicized form of the Irish language seanachaidh or seanchuidh. It comes from the Irish words "seanachas" or "seanchus" meaning "history" or "lore".

The traditional art

Seanachie utilized a variety of storytelling conventions, styles of speech and gestures that were peculiar to the Irish folk tradition and characterized them as practitioners of this particular folk art. Although tales from literary sources found their way into seanachie's repertoires, a traditional characteristic of the seanachie was the way in which a large corpus of tales was passed from one practitioner to another without having been written down.

Because of their role as custodians of an indigenous non-literary tradition, the seanachie are widely acknowledged to have inherited the role of the fili of pre-Christian Ireland. However, unlike that of their ancient predecessors, the seanachie’s role was informal.

Some seanachie were itinerant travelers who went from one community to another offering their skills in exchange for food and temporary shelter. Others were members of a settled community and might be called "village storytellers."

The distinctive role and craft of the seanachie is particularly associated with the Gaeltacht, but storytellers recognizable as seanachie were found in rural areas throughout English-speaking Ireland as well. In their storytelling, some displayed archaic Hiberno-English idiom and vocabulary that would be out of place in ordinary conversation."