the times they are a changin

well y'all,

i realize i've kind of fallin off the face of this great planet to the eyes of some. here's a brief download regarding my last 3 months over here:

dark novel pacific flight burning service to angel orphans en route holy hot spots orbit internal temples trains and taxis pilgrims pray by butter light candles reading often chai guy yelling monks praying sadhus smoking drowning and rising writing in rishikesh flow shows surface rebirth swimming despite parasites flavors enjoyed around rivers and mountains scorpion sting in supermoon shadows  punctuate love is laughing with beatle song sing-alongs stretching to fly asanas take boats to bodies burning, corpses floating and lassis churning while dylan tunes echo spanning living root bridges with bare feet in tantric bliss and grit is god too.

That said,
I'm going to tumblr as it works better with my forthcoming website redesign, though i won't rule out anymore entries of a more lengthy nature here as nothing ever really goes away... I'll be kicking off the new blog by back logging most of my trip thus far with slightly more detail than the emotional synopsis above.

LOVE,
p

new email list y'all

let's stay together :)

So... I'm feelin India

Well, here we are! It's the fourth week of 2012 and after having my car totaled by a run-in with a drunk driver, releasing a record that it'd taken almost 2 years to compose/produce and going to my 2nd Vipassana in the last months of '11, I've come to an interesting place in the road my friends, I'm ready for something beyond my imagination, something to strip away any remaining veneer and expose the raw and realest levels of who this Parker character really is. Typically when one puts out a record there is a barrage of promotion and touring for the months following the release and though I've definitely considered this plan of action as my next move, the P.A. coffers are running low and I've been called to something entirely different...
Witnessing a dear friend go through some gnarly well-being issues at the top of this year, I was inspired to look inward and meditate on things I wish I'd done in my life, what I came up with is this; Ever since I was 21 and first discovered yoga I've wanted to journey to India/the Himalayas and breathe in those environments that saints, sages and yogis have walked for thousands of years.
So, after sending my EP out to all my contacts and pondering the prospect of another tour that may or may not generate income, I've chosen to follow my heart and take the money from my insurance settlement (from aforementioned car wreck) and fund a 3 month journey to India, Nepal and what was once Tibet.
I'm extremely grateful for all that have shown support for me on this musical journey and I trust that this path is now leading me eastward for a spell. Stoked to return with new experiences that will funnel themselves into fresh songs and shed new light upon the old ones, I am choosing this for the enrichment of all I know and love.

AlwaysLOVE,
p

New EP on Itunes

the new ep is up on itunes y'all,
if you dig what you're hearing consider droppin and writing a review!
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/leave-on-the-lights-ep/id488480071

Blessed words...

Today is MLK day, he really was such a beautiful man. This country... this world would not be what it is had he not graced the stage of our human experience with his presence. So many of his words resonated with such love and grace, "Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

Blessins to the Being behind these words, the Lover in us All,
p

Broadcasting Love

While thinkin of a dear friend, I discovered this song tonight and found it too beautiful not to share. Though the pic is a lil newage cheese in aesthetic, I really feel this music as medicine and an owl flyin out of a blast of golden heart wind is effin awesome. From the little amount of '12 I've lived, which has already felt like a month and a day, I've observed a lot of deep pain very up close and personal.  My wish is that all the unexpected and inevitable pain passing through our lives this year isn't taken for granted and that we use the fiercest firestorms of pain to burn through our old familiar thoughts of weakness and insecurity. This year, let's build stronger, more expansive structures of beingness, castles and temples that we may graciously move into as the playful kings and queens we were born to be.

if so inspired, listen to this song and broadcast trillions of lumens worth of love to all you know that could use some of the good stuff we're made of in this moment.

Shine on,
p

Surfin into the unkown...

a baja view courtesy of the ever dexterous tawney bevaqua

Well...

Here we are it's 2012 and things are unfolding faster than a lawn chair for a graduation ceremony. We have certainly passed through many experiences and now, just beyond the outer threshold of this passage comes the unknown. As for me, I spent the holidays in my second 10 day Vipassana course (in case you're wondering it doesn't get any easier the second time around) and promptly left the depths of my own mind for the saturnalia of a Baja new years with chosen family. Though I wouldn't recommend having only a 11 hour car ride to decomp and acclimate between two such drastically different environments, the dynamics broke me open in new ways that I trust are part of a greater strengthening. Despite the overwhelming breadth of emotions at times between high and low tides down there, I had the best day of surfin ever that first foggy morning in the water and as some of you may know by now I LOVE FOG.

So as we all move onward through the collective fog that humanity seems to be paddling through,  I'm committed to opening up and doing the work my loves, you have my word and that's about all I really got. Thanks for checkin in and it's my intention to share more of who I am and what I'm going through this year with y'all.

in the meantime...

May all beings be Happy,
May all beings be Liberated,
May all beings be Free.

Love,
p