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Dreams and Memories of Middle Earth


Michael Doc Watson

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Dreams and Memories of Middle Earth

I'm feeling much better now, thank you. The touch of abilify seems to have helped me return to life and maybe shack off this deep illness that has gripped my mind the last many months. The other day I loaded the CD player in my new/used Prius with several different things, a few well known and a couple from the bottom shelf. I discovered that the exact distance from my driveway to parking at work is the first verse of "Dark Star" in the definitive version from "Live Dead"....and this evening while it was playing again I could once again see the beauty in the Southern fields filled with Goldenrod and tall dark green Sagefern and occasional Queen Ann's Lace that surrounded my path home.

This evening Rob is singing...." Drink all even'n and rock all night....". I miss seeing the band and all our Friends....wish they were on the east coast now. Think I would hit the road and take in a few shows. Maybe sometime soon.... Darn, even John is play'n in the west now.

One of the CDs that found its way into the player is the Allman Brothers from the big Byron festival, south of Atlanta in summer '70. I remember one of those sets with the thunderstorm. It was a hot Georgia afternoon with only one small cloud in the sky west of our hundred thousand hippies. As the Brothers played the storm brewed up from the energy of those guitars, drums and B3. The wind blew the screen for the light show above like the sails of a clipper ship in the south pacific seas. ...and for years after that if you played their music loud on a Sunday afternoon another thunderstorm would come around to sing.

In those days the Allman Brothers were number one around these parts... We didn't get to see the Grateful Dead as often as the Brothers. But I remember one day as listening to Uncle John's Band I said to my friends, "Sorry, but I have to say I'm a stronger fan of this west coast band." .... a thought that sticks to this day.

Peace and Love,

Doc

Look for a while at the China Cat Sunflower

proud-walking jingle in the midnight sun

Copper-dome bodhi drip a silver kimono

like a crazy-quilt star gown

through a dream night wind

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