#107 / 2009 Tour 5 Spring: New Orleans

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#107

The earth has shifted under my feet. People write these sojourn type of things like me, and one would expect a denouement according to formula. And I can't say that I have really had one until this very week.

Randy said, "I have lived rich, I have lived poor; I have lived with stress, I have lived without stress; and the life without stress is the way to go." I believe, I believe.

It's not easy to be on the road 24/7 and try to be stress free. But I have reached some kind of new level, a consciousness, never before achieved by myself. My friend Dana says, "Well I'll read your blog in six months and see if you are still feeling the same way."

But I think I will be feeling this way, further on down the road. I have arrived at some level of realization that is going to allow me to relax, get into it. I feel this in my heart. In my bones.

Yes the earth has shifted. In my favor. I am smack dab in New Orleans in the middle of the Jazz Fest. I was already so stuffed with crawdads by the time I got here that I went straight to the oysters.

Randy got me on the road by 1 p.m. on Thursday. I was at the Columns Hotel eating fried oyster salad by 5 p.m. catching up with Dana. It has been miraculous. Somebody pinch me.