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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19Right now we are snaking our way along d Navan Road. Traffic a bit faster but still a steady line of cars. Stopped at Esso On The Run for cigs.
2 miles from Tara, no cars fore or aft. A clear road! We're here, cars, loads of cars, all parked and silent in homage to Tara.
Back in car eating vegan soup. Made from real vegans! Diverse group on d hill. Families, pagans, druids u name it we got it! Met d sculptor John McKenna who gave me a piece of quartz. We're refueling then back to d Hill.
People coming and going. Good vibes from this embedded at Tara. Parents with young kids starting to leave. Enjoying d hazy celtic twilight. 2 many cars.
Don't know if d druids lifting of curse worked but d light has changed and a misty rain is chasing d faint hearted back to their cars.
Bit of drumming going on, more cars leaving. Behind d sound of engines, behind d rythmic drums, voices in conversation, laughter. Behind it all a comfortable all pervasive silence. Like d world holding its breath.
The lights of Navan just came on, Dalgan Park is an expanse of clam green tranquility in d fading light and a volkwagon engine struggles on d road.
Are The Bitchen Kitchen at Tara providing food? Heard they're shit hot dedicated people.
Is it poetry? Is it news? What's the story?
"Right now we are snaking our way along d Navan Road. Traffic a bit faster but still a steady line of cars. Stopped at Esso On The Run for cigs."
Cigarettes and oil companies, good work for the environment there.
It's indymedia reporting from the frontlines of a war... http://taraskryne.org
{ Elaine continues... }
Walked around d Hill. Tent villages have sprung up. Little neighborhoods. 2 types of dancing of d mound beside d grove of trees. Limbo and fire. Circle of people dancing and laughing. And the moon rises slowly behind us.
Ritual taking place on one mound. About 70 people in a circle round a fire. More people gathered on another mound, reels and jigs and hands clapping.
Fireworks and the wind is starting to freshen over Tara. Ground here easier going than SHannon and drier too. Drumming still echoing out across Tara. Moon high and full.
Sheltering against d wind in d car, flask of coffee, good chocolate and great smokables. Enigma on CD. Recharging before checking out dawn
http://www.tara-skryne.org/
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Sun Rise!
I seem to remember once reading that an archealogical dig in the greater Tara area had found evidence that our forebears cultivated the plant hemp, that is cannabis sativa. & i'm musing on this, as I look at this year's photos of summer solstice celebrations and rituals, from Ireland above, and from Bolivia where the andean indiginous communities perform rituals with leaves from the coca plant (whence cocaine synthetically derived)
http://bolivia.indymedia.org/es/2005/06/20229.shtml
and because I generally muse on a plethora of themes simultanously, I wonder is the cultivation of cannabis sativa, really to be deemed narco-traffic production? As this week, the Zapatistas / EZLN put themselves in "red alert" over some fields of cultivated marijuana [cannabis sativa] and the Chavez government of Venezuela agree to joint efforts with the DEA (US drug enforcement agency) and FBI but not the CIA. There seem to me to be grades of problem cultivation, and my bottom line remains unaltered.
There are millions of farmers, campesinos and peasants whose children are fed, because milenial cash crops such as coca, and marijuana are grown, and indeed grow well in the land left to them after centuries worth of conquest. They are the forgotten and marginalised "citizens" (mostly only in name certainly not in equal rights) of the states of North Africa, Central America, mountainous South America, Mid Asia and SW Asia.
We do not fight problem drug use, which means heroin, cocaine and synthetic drug production by criminalising and militarising control of such peasants / campesinos/ farmers activities.
We have seen quite clearly that such action fails in Afghanistan and mid Asia, and countless people have suffered too much for cannabis, be it marijuana or hashish. Its time to TALK.
Would our world be better if there were no grass plants? I for one believe not. & I find it unacceptable that narrow social conditioning and criminalisation of first world citizens has the end effect of further marginalising the peasants, campesinos and farmers of the Cannabis production zones of this planet.
BASTA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia_of_Alexandria
http://www.hipatia.info/