SOLD: Beautiful Happyzine

I had the busiest day today and Happyzine didn’t feature at all in the activities.   It was an amazing day.  And a full, hot mid-summer day.  It peaked with a performance at midday on the Village Green in Takaka right smack in the middle of a HANDS market, and it crashed mid-afternoon due to heat and me being just plain tired.  Luckily I was able to sit down in the shade for a while and dish out advice about the Waikoropupu Springs from the ground.

I spent the morning working for our Kiwi Department of Conservation supporting the protection of the world’s clearest water (apart from beneath the Ross Shelf, in Antarctica) from bad algae by chatting to visitors about ways to take care of it; then nipped off for a few hours to play sweet music in Takaka; then nipped back to the Springs for more educational conversations with tourists.

The amazing thing about today’s on-stage (not online for once!  Ha!) performance was the fact that my three year old son was right behind me on the stage as I performed.  At times he was also curling around my legs, or hanging out somewhere nearby.  Fi – who was playing Djembe – had her two year old daughter on stage behind her too.

It was really sweet seeing our kids playing casually on stage as we performed.  I loved that they’re growing up seeing us do this, seeing us live our passion for music.  So as our children cruised nearby we worked really hard to deliver our one hour set.  The sweat poured off me and I began to loose my grip on the guitar pick towards the end.  But I managed to maintain my sweaty hold on both the guitar and the pick for the allocated hour!

With the gig completed it was back to the Springs.  I quickly got changed feeling like Wonder Woman (she’s on my mind right now) after she’d changed back into her ‘normal’ clothes.  As I walked back down the track towards the water in my green DoC outfit you’d never even know I’d been away for a couple of hours pushing my vocal chords to their limits.  The people in my world returned to giving me the cautious look we reserve for people in uniform, and I stopped singing out loud.

I did crash though.  We’d had a few people trying to swim (swimming is banned at the Springs as we’re protecting this area from a snot-like algae) and I was too tired not to take it personally.  I soon figured out I needed some outside human contact and words of support, so I radioed the base office and after a few reassuring words decided to let it all go and relax.

Lately the only time I’ve had for Happyzine has been in the evenings, around my work and music and parenting.  Once again, here I find myself typing away and posting articles late at night!  But it’s good to be here.  Back in the wondrous world of Happyzine.

Today’s rating:  10/10

365 Days of Fun and Chillaxation (as I raise my gorgeous son and grow my good news website to a subscription base of 100,000 people).  The Low Down on this Blog.

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