Be careful what you imagine for. You just might get it and sooner than you expect.
I need a rock that tells me to accept change especially when it comes at you fast.
Find that Rock to lean on! ……en theos monos ††† jim
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IMAGES OF SMALL – THINGS FROM THE BIGGEST COUNTY IN TEXAS #648 – Well this ain’t little & not from West TX, but…
How better to start the new year then with a blast from the past. I know I am showing my age, but this is a photo I made of Janis Joplin at the Lewisville Pop Festival on Labor day 1969. The print is old and weathered (much like me) it was made from old Tri-X film pushed developed in hot HC 110 to get an ASA of about 3200. That was pushing the limits of low light photograph. Even with the grain and the age of the print the memory is sharp as a tack. I was the “official photographer” for the event put on by Angus Wynne III. I had complete access everywhere for the three day event. At that time in my life it was three heavenly days. I had the pleasure of trading a hit from my poorly rolled joint for a hit from Janis’s bottle of Southern Comfort as she took stage. It was another time another life, but I still get goose bumps every time I hear “Me and Bobby McGee” written by Kris Kristoffenson. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXV_QjenbDw
from wikipedia:
“The festival was the brainchild of Angus G. Wynne III, son of Angus G. Wynne, the founder of the Six Flags Over Texas Amusement Park. Wynne was a concert promoter who had attended the Atlanta International Pop Festival on the July Fourth weekend. He decided to put a festival on near Dallas, and joined with the Atlanta festival’s main organizer, Alex Cooley,forming the company Interpop Superfest.
Artists performing at the festival were: Led Zeppelin, B.B. King, Canned Heat, Chicago (then called Chicago Transit Authority), Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Freddie King, Grand Funk Railroad, Herbie Mann, Incredible String Band, James Cotton, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Nazz, Rotary Connection, Sam and Dave, Santana, Shiva’s Headband, Sly and the Family Stone, Space Opera, Spirit, Sweetwater, Ten Years After and Tony Joe White.
North of the festival site was the campground on Lewisville Lake, where hippie attendees skinny-dipped and bathed. Also on the campground was the free stage, where some bands played after their main stage gig and several bands not playing on the main stage performed. It was on this stage that Wavy Gravy, head of the Hog Farm commune, acquired his name. (At Woodstock, he was Hugh Romney.)
The Merry Pranksters, Ken Kesey’s group, was in charge of the free stage and camping area. While Kesey was neither at the Texas event nor at Woodstock, his right hand man, Ken Babbs, and his psychedelic bus Further were. The Hog Farm provided security, a trip tent, and free food.
Attendance at the festival remains unknown, but is estimated between 120,000 and 150,000. As with Woodstock, there were no violent crimes reported. There was one death, due to heatstroke, and one birth.
High-quality soundboard bootleg recordings of almost the entire festival are circulated on the internet. Led Zeppelin’s set is one of the most popular Led Zeppelin bootlegs due to the high technical and musical quality of the performance.”
Own your past move on and live for the new times. ††† en theos ††† jim
Photos on the journey #388
I kind of fell down on my first resolution of 2013 to get back to posting my images and thoughts. So, I am a dollar short and a day late. Kind of like this flower, “between a rock & a hard place.”. Falling is not anything out of the ordinary, but it happens often when you travel down narrow roads.
“We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy, and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.”-Dorothy Day from Quotations for Living Life Fully Living Life Fully Publications.
Being a little behind, I am used to that. Quoting Doris Day (okay I know it is not Doris Day, but I like to think she had a profound thought, Que Sera’ Sera’), now that gets me back on a narrower path for sure…………en theos……..jlawrence
Photo of Da day @ Da Pine #276
Photo of Da day @ Da Pine #276.
God allowed a thorn, a messenger of satan, to harass Paul to keep him from becoming conceited. Paul asked three times, but God would not remove the thorn in his side saying, “my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” Paul continues, saying therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weakness, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Imagine if the thorn was in your heart?
I still, for the most part, try and avoid the thorns on my journey†††nada te turbe†††jim
Photo of Da day @ Da Pine #276
God allowed a thorn, a messenger of satan, to harass Paul to keep him from becoming conceited. Paul asked three times, but God would not remove the thorn in his side saying, “my grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” Paul continues, saying therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weakness, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weakness, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Imagine if the thorn was in your heart?
I still, for the most part, try and avoid the thorns on my journey†††nada te turbe†††jim
Shades of Gray - Denison TX 