It's August.
Let me catch you up on the last few months
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...

And then I met Amy Millan, best known for her work with Canadian bands Stars and Broken Social Scene.











She did a solo tour around Ireland that brought her to the Empire in Belfast.











not only was she fabulous....











But I bought her a whiskey after the show and had a nice chat about growing up in Toronto and why I should move to Montreal.

This is my final and probably most beautiful outreach team. I led one last YWAM outreach before leaving the base in Closkelt. A team of 7-8 lucious ladies who turned the North of Ireland upside down and rocked it with their genius, creativity, huge hearts and good looks.




Deb and Ali, co-leaders. We only LOOK sweet.








Eman, all the way from Israel, in all her softness and glory.














Sujee, our temp member, making us a gorgeous 8.












Anna with her Californian smoulder-stare.















Elise, our Dutch dutchie.














Korina, American-
ette of many talents.







Shannon, British Columbian biker babe.

...
We fixed the problem with the van.
This trip, when people stared,
we knew it was 'cause we were inside it.

It's what's inside that counts.

Pooh's secret identity:
EXPOSED!!!!

Paparazzi photos by Deb Whalen.

Last March, Ana Lucia came up from Portugal, so we met up in Glasgow... .











..and then came back to Northern Ireland
to hang out in my end of Europe.














You can't see it, but we're eating sushi.

Do you know who Duke Special is?

You should. You might not know it, but you definitely WANT to know who he is.

You're not going to find much else like him in the musical world. I saw him in March and I've never seen anything quite like it. Killer covers of Elvis Costello, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Elliot Smith season a line-up of truly original originals.

Leading a band of riff-raff (who make the best musicians -ever heard gypsy jazz?) from his piano at ALMOST centre-stage, the Duke winds his voice through songs like a pied piper, taking all of us kids along with him out of town and into the forest.


I, for one, am happy to live among the vagabonds in the woods with these lullabies and anthems to dance to.
Join the parade.