Getting Ready For Love Pirates!

Today the wind has been howling outside and the temperature dropped quite a bit. As a result me and my girls have spend most of our time indoors, as it was just way to windy to be outside. At one point, I actually felt like the wind was strong enough to blow me off the tail of our truck. As I write this, my truck is rocking from side to side, as though we are actually living on a boat.

I took the time to get everything together that I need for the workshop, that I will be running. As well as organizing the food that we will need. I am travelling with some friends and we are each going to take turns cooking dinner for one another, that way we only have to really focus on bringing ingredients for one meal, plus some snacks.

Having three girls, means I need a lot of snacks. But I'm prepared, with lots of fruits, dates and nut butter. Which we keep all of us happy. I will also be performing some spoken word, at the festival. So earlier on, I went through my poetry to see what ones I would like to perform. The name of the festival is The Love Pirates, so it was easy for me to choose the poem I wrote about love,

The Love Pirates, is a community festival, where we will celebrate, music, art nd perhaps most importantly Life! The festival was meant to happen two years ago, but with the plandemic it got put on hold. The way in which the festival works, is that everyone who attends,(including performers and organisers) pays 25 euro for the weekend and that everyone helps out in some way or another. The money you pay, is seen as an investment, to help get the festival off the ground, or to help raise the Pirate Flag.

Lots of the people involved, are from the free party scene and live off grid. So many festivals today, have been ruined by capitalism, so it was important the this festival was created by the people who would also attend it. So charging everyone the same fee and requesting that everyone who attends participants in some way, seemed like the best solution. Because at the end of the day we are all equal and we can all contribute in some way or another. From setting it up, to taking it down and everything else, in between.

Me and my girls are really looking forward to it, even with this change of weather, but here's hoping the wind will have died down by tomorrow, so at least when we get there we can put our tents up and not have to worry about them blowing away. I certainly know what I will asking for tonight from the universe, before I go to sleep.

So yes, I will be performing my Love poem and one other, this last choice is a tough one, cos I have been writing a poem weekly for the last few months. I think I might just have to pick a number and choose like that. Then I will practice performing it. I'm not sure yet if I will remember them off the top of my head, so I might need to have them written down, as I tend to get super nervous anytime I do spoken word. But hey, that's only natural and I actually think it would be pretty weird if I didn't.

So I will be offline for a few days, but once I'm back I'll share how it all went and also let you know more about my workshop.

Here's my poem on Love, that I will be sharing at the weekend, incase anyone is interested.