6pak - because I adore your cheekiness, your hugs and your bountiful joy, here's that glorious photo of you and Bliss...




And here's an awesome video of the Festival that gives a little indication of the exquisite vibe....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVgER57v-I0

Rock on Mr Huckabay!

You know how much I love you Bliss, but absolutely not!  I am just not one for posting my photo on the web.  I don't think I ever will be.

Besides the forum isn't big enough for my gargantuan forehead! 

Perfect!  A super large conch should do the trick.   

I just emailed you one of my faves ever...

There's always next year.  12-14 September 2008.  I wouldn't miss it for all the goji berries in China.

oh sweet blissfullness of sister hood beaming...and streaming your golden light of youth and health and wellbeing...

ahh love the pic of 2 of my fave people in the raw world....love love to you sweet sisterling!

Hi Rosal,

Yes it was phenomenal in more ways than I can describe.  I will definitely be going again next year.

And I loved the photos from the Green Fest of you, Narz, Jamie and Ari.  Narz posted a number of them - the black & white one of you, Jamie and Narz is glorious.

You should try and make it to Raw Spirit next year - Seb can take you for another twirl. 

miss g

Not too impressive.  When I set my mind to something, and with a heart in total directed focus, I become a manifesting demon!   

Yes, you guys are almost spoiled for choice on raw activities and events.  And the health food stores!!!!  OMG.

I seriously contemplated just quietly unrolling my swag and "moving in" to a quiet corner of New Frontiers in Sedona.  I loved that place.

The funniest thing was, after 3 days at the festival, I needed to get batteries for my camera, and I went into Safeway and came back out within 2 minutes because it was just too overwhelming.  Zack was sweet enough to run in and do the deed.  As a native, he was in and out in the same amount of time, but with the goodies. 

I don't think he quite understood why I was such a scaredy cat in a grocery store. 

Oh, I see what you mean now Rosal.   

It is indeed a long way to travel for a 3 day event, even when you stretch it out to 6!

It's funny because the reasons that I adored the festival can also be what turns other people off.  A girl that I met very briefly at my hotel, and who I had promised to send information to, commented to me in an email that:

"as much as I'm convinced that a chlorophyll/sunlight/plant-based alkaline diet can not only prevent but cure so, so many of our health issues, I have to say the Raw Spirit Festival was a little much for me.  I simply could not get into the whole hippy happy atmosphere."

But, for me, it was the hippy happy atmosphere that I loved most of all.  For me, it was like a 'coming home'.

Sedona is extremely beautiful, but I absolutely hear you on the 'desert thing'.  I feel it at an energetic level when I am THAT far away from the ocean, and in fact one day I had to spend hours in a pool to bring myself into 'balance'.  I just can't live away from the coast - I get jittery being away from water. 

The "Safeway Experience" was probably a couple of things - it was just after the 3 day 'love fest'     and was something of a step into another reality, and also it was big and daunting.  I find a lot of things in the US 'big and daunting'.  I am rarely in supermarkets here, but when I am it is the same one, and I know the aisles that contain the few things that I buy.  So I just got a bit overwhelmed, I suppose.

It didn't bode well that it took me a few attempts at various pronunciations to even have Zack understand what I was saying when I said "batteries". The Australian accent in some cases is difficult for others to understand, especially with regard to vowels.

I excitedly told a few people how I had managed to score 'seconds' on a phenomenal curried coconut soup, and each thought I said I was "sickened".  I might need to have elocution lessons before my next trip.

Indeed!.....perhaps we shall see each other next year.