Magical Energy and Music

What is alive for me right now is the fact I just completed another day of 'work.' From 9-5 I was on kitchen duty. It is amazing my body sustained - I am surprised it did today. I did not sleep much last night and the little I was lying down I was not sleeping solidly. I stayed up late supporting a friend whoreally needed love and attention and ended up sleeping in the willow structure with a thin blue blanket (from trago) and a using a pair of red corduroy pants for a pillow. Because it got chili through out the nigh I slept curled up which meant I awoke feeling like a hunchback. Oddly enough I was happy to smell a recent history of burning tobacco around my tent because that meant the person who needed my bed and tent (more than me last night) slept in it - which meant they slept, which was a very good thing. What I really wanted to express is how appreciative I am of my body and what it can do. A lot of today was on my own which I thoroughly enjoyed. I did a mix of harvesting kale and swiss chard (while Laia filmed for her project), breakfast clean up, holding the responsibility of making pudding (what the brits call dessert) for 60+ people, making 3 salads for lunch/dinner (using tomatoes, cucumbers, and courgettes from the garden), working my way through the mountain of dishes that remained from the mid day meal and which also kept growing as evening meal prep continued, mixing homemade baked beans, and so much more. Yay body. Sure I am pretty tired now, but it wasn't till half 3 or 4 I really started to feel tired. Bodies are incredible and can do so much!
As I was writing the paragraph above I heard Let Her Go by Passenger being played on the piano in Centre Fire. I jumped up and stood in the doorway of Centre Fire (unable to hold in my smile) and listened (while other instruments were being played, badminton was being played, and many conversations were happening). When the pianist came to an end I walked over and asked her to show me how. Now, (as long as I remember it) next time I am in a room with a piano (and there aren't too many people around for pure feeling purpose) I am going to try and combine the left hand part she taught me with the right hand melody I figured out a few weeks ago. I am looking forward to when that happens. Coincidentally earlier today I was thinking about sitting down at the piano and trying to remember how to play the song Breakeven (by Script) Vince taught me at the very beginning of fall semester. Music, whether being made, going through my head, or coming back from my past - was part of today.
During morning tea break today as I sat down to write a note to someone, a song I strongly associate with that person came on. Once that song ended a song which had been stuck in my head all morning having no idea what got it in my head, that came on. Today was a music day. Maybe tonight I will play the violin, guitar, piano, bango, drums, and or do some singing. Who knows!
The sense of me leaving soon is definitely in the air and present in my mind - but even stronger than that (though not over powering which I am very appreciative of) is the fact that in less than a week Jenny, Mick, Teo, Mimi, Patty, Juanjo, May, Clare, leave - and Cara leaves a few days later. Things certainly are a changing - as usual in this transient community.
Going to do some computer things (look up books needed for fall semester, check emails, look up homemade fly spray for the horses, and get distracted for a little bit) before dinner and then possibly take a nap by the lake.

-Life is good-