Magic Bliss

I found out today I am not going to be able to go to the “Gem and Jam”. An awesome music event that coincides with the Tuscon Gem Show. It’s the country’s largest(maybe the world, even!) gem and mineral show. The Gem and Jam part is a small “festival” that happens on the 6th, 7th, and 8th of Feb. at a few different, small venues in Tucson. Great music, DJ’s and people who area all conscious and have wonderful energy will be there. I went last year and had a blast. I met some sweet people and saw the most jaw-dropping rocks, crystals, gems and stones that I had ever seen before. Not to mention the Bassnectar show was one of THE BEST I have seen. It was  the energy in the room, the feel of the place and the soul-jarring rhythms that were being pumped out of the DJ, himself. I loved that night, all the dancing and talking and loving my fellow BEings!

So now that I can’t go I am upset of course, but I am feeling the money crunch. I need to stand by, make some money and let myself be an adult about this. I get to go everywhere all the time and see shows and festivals, missing one will not kill me… I hope anyway!! I am going to ask a friend to take some pictures for me so I can put them up on my blog page and for a personal endeavor I am going to embark on. I want these pictures for a sort of “soul collage”, I think they will work fantastic for this.  A friend of mine completed one of these and it showed her many things she had not yet really discovered about herself. I KNOW deep down I need that to happen as well.

I have a fond memory of being in Tucson… I was just walking down a major road near one of the many hotels that holds a gem show when I met a man playing music and handing out flyer’s trying to promote himself and his music. He was an older gentleman that had the spirit and the heart of a young child. I talked to him for over an hour just standing on the side of a street with thousands of cars passing by and not even caring what was going on around me. So this is what I miss about any event of this stature, the commUNITY is the force that calls me to these things(and the music of course). I can’t find this feeling anywhere that I have lived or stayed for awhile. I love my friends and the family I have created for myself but a commUNITY,  as a bunch of strangers all bobbing to the same beat, feeling the same thing and hearing the same amazing sounds I am and interpreting them just as I am, but DIFFERENT!?!? This happened in Tucson last year and I knew it would(and will) again. I just will be there in spirit, faithfully so!

The gem fair is fabulous, especially if you are into crystals and the like. I learned so much and I would go back again any time to this event. I just have other things that came up that prevent me from going. I found a job finally! This is important and amazing in this crazy economy. I feel so lucky to be able to go to work everyday. I have a sense of pride and I am looking at this job differently than I would have in the past. Normally jobs like this one would be just another job, well I have grown in such a way that is allowing me to look at this a deeper learning experience, and I need to stay present in this fact everyday! I am proud of myself for saying this. I have a tremendous work ethic and from what I am seeing in the Northwest right now I am truly lucky to have a place to go to, and use my knowledge and gain even more.

Everyone that has work and has a job to go to should realize how lucky they are to have income. I am not preaching but I am just putting this out information out there, hoping everyone realizes how nice it is to be able to have a job. Things like this can slip through our fingers so quickly, let’s remember to not take things for granted!

Sorry for the ‘preaching’… I was writing about The Gem Fair and look what transpired from this.  So any how, have a tremendous  time if you go the Gem and Jam or just the gem fair in general. Or if your like me have a tremendous time at WORK! Learn something new, feel grateful, smile at strangers and at co-workers for a change. Use the time there to better yourself, you are awonderFULL human being and you are loved!

peace…bliss…sacred, spiraling love!!

Melissa Magic