You can’t learn to swim without getting in the water
I’ve only gotten better after I was feeling down. I guess a smile’s a frown until you turn that thing around. It started with a “do re mi,” it takes a miss to find the beat, “fa so la ti.”
I guess I only find the answer only after I ask the question.
Thanks for listening! 👂☝️🙏
“You can’t learn to swim without getting in the water”
Parker Brown gave me this prompt and the song came at the end of a really tough tour for me, and you can still hear a bit of the cold I was recovering from. I hope you enjoy! I had an idea for this song, and without knowing how to get there, I was able to dance it down to reality.
Tour is a ceremony. You will think you are ready for it, and you will be challenged. There’s no direction but forward and every obstacle will ask you to grow.
I left the farm with Carolina and Benjo on April 2nd, and here we are on the 19th! Caro and Ben went to Boston to visit Tia Dañia and Tio John, and my dad and I met the boys with the bus on April 5th.
I miss my family. “Visceral” as an adjective for feelings truly hits different these days. My body carry’s more tension when we are apart. I feel it in my organs… I really do need them.
Fatigue hits my brain, the mental gymnastics I do while on tour can only be sustained for so long before I start hitting the diminishing returns. Constantly bouncing back and forth between multiple mind windows and browsers. Logistics, interpersonal relations, family, business, and spiritual mission, constant state a transit and a few hours of poor sleep in a moving coffin. Just because it’s hard, doesn’t mean I don’t love it. I know I’m good at it, and I’m lucky to have been giving an opportunity to get to use so many different skills I’ve developed walking through life’s crucible til now.
There’s a lesson here, and blessing if you pay attention. Often revealed through the subtleties and where resistance meets desire. Tracing the lines of where you want to quit and your sense of wonder to what lies beyond. You won’t taste the fruit for many seasons because these seeds only now have just been scattered. You might regret your way of being or the way you handled things when you were stretched too thin- but that’s the bitter medicine that brings about healing and transformation.
This week, Scott Stone and I are officially opening registration for our retreat! July 7th-12th at my farm in Colombia. 🇨🇴
This offering will have its own blog post coming out later this week- it deserves it! And for those who are interested in the details now, simply comment here or find me on Instagram or Facebook (@GregoryBogard) and let’s talk about it! We’ve got a google form I can pass along to you with all the important information, and I’ll be scheduling a call with all of the prospective guests to answer questions and share more of the magic we are designing with you.
Thanks y’all, for the first time I met someone last night who has been following along with my blogs and songs here and that was actually very special and sweet for me. Even if no one saw this, I’d still be doing it at this point. But knowing there’s some people out there taking the time to follow along this journey with me is very cool, and I feel lucky and grateful.
Thanks for reading and listening and sharing!
xogb 🐝❤️🐝