to be harvestable, must one be generally full of joy??

[Dekalb_Blues]

what about the deep depressions and the despairs that so often beset positive people, especially wanderers.

I am a pilgrim, a wanderer. I shall remain a wanderer until
mankind has learned the way of peace, walking until I am given
shelter and fasting until I am given food.
— Peace Pilgrim


At the time of her death Peace Pilgrim was crossing the country
for the seventh time. She had walked through all fifty states, and had
also visited the ten provinces in Canada and parts of Mexico. In 1976
a man flew her to Alaska and Hawaii to meet his children, walk,
speak in churches, and talk with the media. In 1979 and 1980 she
returned to those states, taking with her small groups of people who
wished to learn more about her lifestyle. She had plans for return
trips to Alaska and Hawaii in 1984 and was giving thought to inviting
others to join her on ‘inspirational tours’ through several states in the
years that were to come.
She made what she liked to call “the glorious transition to a freer
life” on July 7, 1981 near Knox, Indiana. She died quickly in a head-on
collision as she was being driven to a speaking engagement. Her
many friends throughout the country were stunned. Somehow, we
never imagined Peace would be called to leave this earth life so soon.
Yet, one friend wrote, “I feel sure the immediacy of the transition,
with no cessation of her activity until it occurred, was as she would
have wished it.”
In her last newspaper interview she spoke of being in radiant
health. She was planning her itinerary beyond the current pilgrimage
route and had speaking engagements through 1984. Ted Hayes of
WKVI radio in Knox in an interview with her taped on July 6
remarked, “You seem to be a most happy woman.” She replied,
“I certainly am a happy person. How could one know God and not
be joyous?”

-- from Peace Pilgrim: Her Life & Work In Her Own Words (a free e-book from http://www.peacepilgrim.org/)




"The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on Earth. It conquers all things." -- P. P.

 (Her last televised appearance; within a month she was to die in an auto accident)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Pilgrim



 (Newport Folk Festival, 1969)

 (From Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, circa 1977)

I am a poor wayfaring stranger
Traveling through all these highs and lows
I heard there was no sickness
And no toil or danger
Just mercy and plenty
Where peaceful waters flow
Where peaceful waters flow

Come all you fair and tender school girls
Be careful now when you court young men
They are like the stars
On a summer morning
They sparkle up the night
And they're gone again
Daybreak gone again

If I'd only seen through the silky veils of ardor
What a killing crime this love can be
I would have locked up my heart
In a golden sheath of armor
And kept its crazy beating
Under strictest secrecy
High security

I wish I had the wings
Of Noah's pretty little white dove
So I could fly this raging river
To reach the one I love
But I have no wings
And the water is so wide
We'll have to row a little harder
It's just in dreams we fly
In my dreams we fly!



 (From Self Portrait in Blues, circa 1994)


 (La Java, Paris, circa 2007)

You know leaves were falling
They're just like embers
In colors red and gold
They set us on fire
Burning just like moonbeams
In our eyes

Someone said they saw me
They said I was swinging the world by the tail
And bouncing over the white clouds
But I was killing the blues
Been killing the blues

You know I am guilty
Of something
That I hope you never do
Nothing is sadder
Than losing yourself in love

Someone said they saw me
They said I was swinging the world by the tail
And bouncing over the white clouds
Just killing the blues
Yeah killing the blues

You know when you asked me
Yeah just to leave you
And set out on my own
To find what I needed
You asked me to find
What I already had

Someone said they saw me
They said I was swinging the world by the tail
And bouncing over white clouds
I was killing the blues
I was killing the blues

Someone said they saw me
They said I was swinging the world by the tail
Bouncing over white clouds
Just killing the blues
I been killing the blues
Just killing the blues



See also:
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid189897 ("Is the Harvest finally over?" #29)
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid166670 ("Old Soul vs Young Soul" #11)
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid209311 ("Saudade, the Reed's Lament, & the Wanderer's innermost longing" #32)
http://www.bring4th.org/forums/showthrea...#pid210027 ("A Strange Path" #7)

 (Armana, Egypt, circa 1340 B.C.E.)