Sierra Nevada World Music Festival @ Boonville

[Drunk Monk]

I rose at dawn on Sunday. Father's Day. Tara was up by breakfast (the JM cooking crew does the most amazing veg biscuits and gravy, one of my fav dishes but hard to come by in a veg form - I often tell them that the only reason I work JM is to get that, and there is some truth to that). She gave me a SNWMF hat, which I had said I wanted, as a gift. Truly the gift was spending SNWMF with her. I'm so pleased that she enjoys being my accomplice on these adventures. I added a Wu-Tang pin to that hat that I bought from a pin vendor I like. He does these laser etched wood pins, with abalone inlay. Much like my Cali Roots souvenir hat with the SLA Dead pin from 2019, this new lid will serve to remind me of a fantastic run.

I dug out my SNWMF hat. It got a tad moldy, as things that I neglect due here near the ocean. I stripped the pins (added a Garcia Cats Under Stars pin that was gifted to me at Dead & Co at Oracle by a longtime supporter of RM) and am tossing it in the wash (I hand washed out the mold). 

Got this email from Gretchen, the wife of Warren (the late founder of SNWMF):
 

Dear SNWMF Family,

I’m thinking of and sending love and appreciation to all of you this summer solstice weekend.  
Thank you for the heart and soul you put into and the sacrifices you made for SNWMF.
Please know that the love and positive energy you shared, even when the festival was not realized last year, 
is still reverberating in countless peoples’ favorite memories and lives.  
I hope you will think of SNWMF with pride for the amazing and beautiful life affirming celebrations we created together & feel the  always.
I miss you. 
With Love and Respect,
   
Gret, and on behalf of Warren too
P.S.      Please share this message with your SNWMF crew.

Dug out a few SNWMF T-shirts to wear. Man, I got dozens of these.  Been avoiding them since the collapse but now they're a small solace of what we left behind...