Mountain Mama heads for the hills

This week's show heads for the mountains with sweet thoughts of Yosemite still on my mind.

1) Wild Mountain Honey, Steve Miller Band 4:51
2) Fire on the Mountain, The Grateful Dead 6:26
3) Where they Never Say Your Name, by Eelen Jewell 2:32
4) Must Be the Whiskey , by Carrie Rodriquez and Chip Taylor 3:59
5) She’ll Be Comin Round the Mountain, by John Lennon, 1:03
6) Wildflowers, by Tom Petty 3:11
7) Cowboy Take Me Away, by The Dixie Chicks 4:47
8) I Am the Light of the World, Kelly Joe Phelps, 6:31
9) Jonny Law, The Good Luck Thrift Store Outfit 3:44
10) Old Mountain Line, Po Girl 2:10
11) Call it Sleep, Slaid Cleave 3:26

The words of Gary Snyder are calling me. Here’s Piute Creek

Piute Creek

One granite ridge
A tree, would be enough
Or even a rock, a small creek,
A bark shred in a pool.
Hill beyond hill, folded and twisted
Tough trees crammed
In thin stone fractures
A huge moon on it all, is too much.
The mind wanders. A million
Summers, night air still and the rocks
Warm. Sky over endless mountains.
All the junk that goes with being human
Drops away, hard rock wavers
Even the heavy present seems to fail
This bubble of a heart.
Words and books
Like a small creek off a high ledge
Gone in the dry air.
A clear, attentive mind
Has no meaning but that
Which sees is truly seen.
No one loves rock, yet we are here.
Night chills. A flick
In the moonlight
Slips into Juniper shadow:
Back there unseen
Cold proud eyes
Of Cougar or Coyote
Watch me rise and go.

Gary Snyder

12) Blue Car, Greg Brown 4:12
13) Get Out the Map, Indigo Girls 3:23
14) Ford Econoline, Nancy Griffith 2:14

In the mountains a release, a letting go of tension and worry over useless things … my lungs breathe deeper, eyes notice the way the evening light falls on mighty pines, and I can hear the voices of Indian paintbrush and manzanita

Peace