The other night I worked at cafe Ezuz and a Bob Marley tribute band, Sergio Braams, was playing live.  The night was so cold and the cafe so far away from any real city that I was surprised by the amount of people that came out to hear the band.  The music was good, the vibe was good, even the 'aroma' in the air was good.  Some people were jumping up and down, others shaking their dreads, and some just swaying back and forth to the rhythm of the music.  It's nights like these that I often wonder how I got here and what am I doing here?  My life has taken so many twist and turns in the last 10 or so years that I am often left with feelings of amazement, wonder, and curiosity.  

What is the meaning of life?  It is the question that I and many others ask again and again.  Laying next to Shalom the other night he just smiled and said what many people say, what I've said in the past but without fully understanding it.  Life is about being happy.  And then it hit me, this doesn't mean that finding that job, or buying that car, or hooking up with that man or women, or taking a motorcycle trip around the world will bring happiness.  It means to just be happy.  Now a days it is so hard to just be anything because the world is telling you to be so many different things, but if one can just be than maybe they can just be happy.  And although I am itching to get on the road again, the dessert has been a great place to just be (happy)!