Sat Jun 19, from 10am to 9pm, Central Park, Ottawa

This year’s festival aims to promote healthy lifestyles through raw vegan food and active living. Our famous raw vegan pie contest will be back for another rawsome year, with a panel of local celebrity judges; the event will also feature a range of seminars on healthy living topics by a number of celebrated speakers from across North America; bring together local and regional businesses and organizations with healthy living as the core value of their mission; and a range of other exciting activities and events throughout the day.

As always admission is free.

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Namaste, Sussreekall and Highest Bliss to you Awesome BeautifulOnes!!!! Hola, Amigos! Guess what!??
It’s JUNE!!!!! (LOL! Iguess you know that.)
I am astounded by this. It is a GOOD REMINDER not to squander conciousness. You know- not to miss the moment.
Because THIS YEAR IS FLYING BY ALREADY!!! In a word: “holyfuck”.
It makes me take stock of my first-half of 2010, so that I can edit and refine. My efforts are necessary to me….
I am a SEEKER. I SEEK.
What do I seek? Well…better prices on organics+produce for one thing. Haha!
The whole “seek” issue is basically what drives all of us. And, let me assure you: I am seeking.
But how can I FIND what I am “seeking” if I can’t even DEFINE it??? Duh. It makes me look at my deeply-flawed self and my chatterboxmonkeymind and dig. What?? WHAT am I seeking?

Well….besides trivialities and the true path of MY TRUTH (as opposed to someone else’s)…I guess I’m not SEEKING anything. I’ve FOUND what I need.

And the truth is, I FOUND It a long time ago. And, if I may be so brave, I dare say……most of you have, as well.
Its already there, and it was all along.
Your own heartcenter. Your spirit. Your soul. Your innervoice. Your secret thoughts+feelings that belong to YOU and no one else. Your TRUTH.
No matter what is going on around you, beside you, to you, or within you…..you always KNOW YOUR OWN SELF. In ya head- you KNOW you. Or, you are getting there. We all are! Om Hare Yahoobaby!
It is pretty awesome to already HAVE that…because your own TRUTH is something NO ONE can ever take away. Ever.
(Not totally, anyway)
And if you lose sight of your guts/path/Truth you can always SEEK FURTHER until it comes back to you! Perhaps even better and brighter? Fuckin booyeah!
The answers are there. The questions may even keep coming but you KNOW your heart. YOU are your answer.
You are the only capable one of you. Be your best version of yourself. Every day.
You are the guts of The Team.
Your Own Team.
Just BELIEVE it until you BELIEVE it: you have ALL THE ANSWERS!
YOU ARE THAT WHICH YOU SEEK.
Trust me.
You RULE!
Know it!
It is YOUR TRUTH.
Feel it! Speak it! BE it!
It is what you’ve been lookin for!
(And in the photo I took, Nicklas is looking to see if the oil is visible from our StanleyPark walk…..THAT is a whole ‘nuther story…)
Truth.Truth.Truth.
And it is what I was looking for. :)
Conciously livin in this moment, I send each one of you my deepest gratitude for your friendship and attention. Truly you are my treasure. Thank you-merci-for that.
Experience awesomeness this weekend! You FOUND the secret to satisfaction: it is YOU! GO CELEBRATE THAT!!! *beam*
Bliss, Blessings, HareKrishna and Sai Love,
Love,
Biffy
Xoxox

Namaste and Salaam to you delightful, generous BeautifulPeople! May wherever you are be a sanctuary and you are surrounded in happiness! Om Shanti. Peace to you.
As you can see from this photograph(above) my babydogNicklas is VERY AWARE of what my “suitcase” means! LOL!
What a guy! Can you BELIEVE the sadface???? Oy! The suitcase was purchased almost three years ago, after ALL my shit was LOST on flights in between Europe (tour) and CostaRica (filming). I was hooped! I was forced to git a new suitcase, and this indestructable one was found in some hotelgiftshop in Berlin. (*snif* I miss Berlin constantly…I ALMOST moved to the Kreuzberg neighbourhood…but wouldn’t it be lovely to live at a hotel like Adlon Kempinski? LOL!)
I do love to travel, and THIS WEEKEND I am travelling to Alberta and BC for two concerts with Jacen”JD”Ekstrom. Acoustic, of course, my newfound love!

FRIDAY NIGHT (MAY 28) WE PLAY!!
Calgary’s CJAY92 and Edmonton’s 100.3THEBEAR present IAN THORNLEY AND ME!!! At a big MOUNTAIN MAYHEM FESTIVAL located at Stoney Nakoda Resort http://wwwstoneynakodaresort.com
I am very stoked, and am a huge fan of Ian Thornley (www.thornleyband.com).
Though it is FUCKINGSNOWINGhere (I brought my thin jacket and martial arts shoes and flipflops/chupples…not gonna be warm enough!LOL!) I am very much feelin the mountains and am excited to meet all the fans that TheBear and CJAY have gathered. Veryvery cool of them!!

Then..
SATURDAY NIGHT (MAY29) WE PLAY AGAIN! This time in the beautiful Okanagan in KAMLOOPS,BC. At the Kamloops Convention Centre http://www.kamloopsconventioncentre.ca/events/bif_naked/
I am extremely in love with this area and the people of The Okanagan, and have played in Kamloops MANY times before. It has beautiful hills which we have sprinted up many a training session, and have visited all their gravesites (a looong story!LOL!) I LOOK FORWARD TO THE QUESTIONS-WRITTEN-ON-PIECES-OF-PAPER-BEING-THROWN-TO-THE-STAGE, people!!!!!! We have started this new tradition and I am going to encourage you all to participate because, frankly, it is fun and creates opportunities for us to CONNECT in the room, in the moment.
I LIVE for “Connection” and “Mutuality” as you know.
We are all in this world together.
Om Nama Shivaya.
Fucking rights, we are!!! *beam*
I do miss my babydog, already, of course.
I swear, everytime I hear a dog bark my boobs leak milk.
*silence*
*crickets*
GET IT?? LOL!! Like nursing moms, who have the physiological involuntary action of their lactating breasts “leaking” whenever they hear ANY baby crying??
*tumbleweeds rolling*
LOL!!! OH ALLRIGHT. I know I use that joke all the time…but I’m sure you get the idea: I miss my dog! LOL!!
(Naw…that 13yr old “meshugganah” is not interested in airtravel…seeing as I’m not allowed to keep him with me “in cabin”. )
Friends, I hope your weekends are full of playfulness and downtime. Do not be TOO consumed with your “ipad” or whatever may keep you inside…..go outside!!!! Breathe the air,deeply, and feel good about yourselves. Besides, just when you least expect it, you may find a glorious suprise from crazy nature!
Like snow, or somethin’.
Bliss, Blessings, Sai Ram, Hare Krishna, and fuckindevilhorns!!!! Hahaha!
Lovelovelove,
Biffy
Xoxo

Namaste, Merhaba,Salaam, Hola, Sussreekall and HowYOUdoin’ to all of you BeautifulPeople! Alwaysalways sending you purelove from my heart! And jusss’LOOKY: it is a long weekend! (Victoria-yeah,thequeen-Day..in Canada….you ‘mericans get it next weekend, non?)

What will your weekend hold? Barbeques? Gatherings? Soirees? I will bet there will be SOME form of celebration involving food+drink. THAT fact, alone, is a testament to our society’s sheer abundance. We live such luxurious lives that we, not only get opportunities to “relax+socialize”, but we can get our hands on EXTRA food.
Wrap yer noggin around it. Remember to be grateful for the totality of your experiences. Remember that MOST of the people on our suffocating planet are suffering. Just be mindful. And really enjoy your festivities as they are a priveledge.
Food is, not only our luxury, but it is our emotional reward, actually. We REWARD ourselves with all manner of food+drink. We feel entitled and like we deserve a “treat” after “a hard workweek/workout/crisis/etc” this is weEird. But it is rooted within our psyche and our lil’broken(subconciously broken) hearts. It soothes us emotionally. Anything “by mouth” does.

Here’s the dilio: breastfeeding/connection with early “love”. When we are infants, our glorious mommies nurtured+fed us whenever we muttered or whined. Thus, emotionally soothing us through our rooting gobs. (Or gave us a bottle)
The pattern/behaviour is fixed.
As we grow up..whenever we need soothing we associate stuff through our mouths..instinctively. Some of our mom’s rewarded us/consoled/soothed us with “a cookie” or something. Not that that’s “bad”, but it is how we reward+soothe.
Keep going through life…thumbsucking…bubblegum..cigarettes…soothing-through-the-mouth=calming/rewarding. The Oral Fixation.
(See above photo of BelovedNicklas with a toy….case en point)

I was a card-carrying thumbsucker until I was, probably, twelve! LOL! (There is much written in psychology texts about what this, apparently represents in my “emotional lacking” but I doubt that…my mommy was+is a SAINT! Om Nama The Mama.)
I simply find it all intensely interesting, as we navigate our lives, with our flaws and habits, what our behaviours actually represent? Ask yourselves if you are filling some mysterious void? And,if it is a “mystery” how do we know there is a void?
Emotional human beings we are, ever-seeking fulfillment and love and soothing. How can we achieve this without our oral fixations? (Like-tada! GUM!!)
We can slowslowslow down and be mindful when we have our luxurious feasts. Our treats. Our rewards. It is better for us, physically…and, big shocker-emotionally.
This weekend gorge yourselves on “communication” during your activities and festivities. ENJOY the company of your families and friends. TALK and SHARE and LAUGH. SLOOOOWLY. Truly, that is rewarding.
We are so fucking fortunate, really, to be ABLE to have the opportunity. Om Nama Shivaya. How awesome and potentially soothing it is, to have our “long weekends”. Beautiful!
I struggle with my “gum chewing” and it takes a lot of self-discipline for me NOT to toss a wad of bubblegum in my yap on a constant basis. Duh! Don’t get me wrong: I know alllll about oral fixations. I am not conciously aware that I am actually trying to “emotionally soothe myself” or alleviate stress.
But I am.
Same goes for my “apples-at-bedtime”shtick. (Or maybe its the body’s habit of insulin-spike-at-7pm?)
I need emotional soothing (subconciously), too.
I just need to be aware of it.
And I want to share and communicate with you loveydovey people.
What do you do? Ask yourself-you will easily see it. And it may be a “who knew?” Moment. And maybe it will help you, as it helps me, to be more mindfully aware of your feelings?
Being aware of our own feelings helps us grow+evolve and hopefully live more fully…maybe even encouraging those around us to live fully!
Fill’er up and have an awesome weekend! Laugh and love and enjoy and, yes, REWARD yourself. Yes- you are deserving of a safe, loving, and full life. I wish that for you. :)
And if you had one wish for lil’ moi…may it simply be that I keep my thumb outa my mouth, my gum saved only for guests (like little handsoaps), and my breathyPranayama soothing my voids.
Okay….maybe bananas are okay???
Nom,nom,nomming my way through the weekend!
With love, respect, and purelove for you guys,
Om Sai Ram.
Love,
Biffy
Xo

 Namaste and Hola! Sussrekaal et Bonjour to all of you LovelyBeautiful Souls! Blessings to you from my heart and from The Universe and even from ol’ man Nicklas. Life is cool and we are still hangin’ on.

And we keep hangin’ on. I love that!

Alas…..my fair city has suffered some heartbreak with the Vancouver Canucks packing-it-in for the season. *sigh* You know, it was so fun to watch and creech and jumpforjoy and enjoy this past season, non? Da boys were great!

Yep.

Great! Here’s the thing (as I hear ALOTALOT of grumbling regarding the collective disappointment of the fans/bandwagon-jumpers/others): don’t you think they tried their BEST? Of COURSE they did! They tried their best, every practice, every game.

Seriously.

Doesn’t everyone?

Ask yourself: do you try your BEST everyday? Really?

I try. I try to try. And I try harder.

Again and again and again.

When I feel I “failed” or didn’t achieve what I’m attempting…..I simply try again the next day. Or I simply try harder. Or both. Y’know?

Who doesn’t? With everything.

I will “try” to catch-up on my writing.

I will “try” to eat more black kale.

I will “try” to get more sleep.

I will “try” not to let Nicklas in the front seat of my car when driving.

I will “try” not to bemoan my appearance.

I will “try” to complete my paintings-in-progress.

I wil “try” to improve my weightlifting.

I will “try” to devote more time to my yoga practice.

I will “try” to get to Sai Centre and HareKrishna temple more frequently.

I will “try” to ride my bicycle more.

I will “try” the GrouseGrind this month.

I will “try” to eat awful broccolisprouts without wincing everytime.

Ditto-wheatgrass.

Etc.

Etc.

You feel me……all I can do is simply try everyday….and try my BEST! AND GET UP TOMORROW MORNING AND DO IT AGAIN.

LIVING WITH INTENTION!

The BEST you can is enough. Repetition is the Key. :) I am very grateful to have enjoyed this past hockey season and I am truly proud of da boys, for doing their BEST!

Try again next season.

:)

I will be here, trying my besst everyday, and trying to evolve and grow.

Every day. Day by day.

For life.

Om Nama Shivaya.

Keep fighting the Good Fight.

Live like there’s no tomorrow!!

Or, at least, try to.

Blessings and bliss and Light!

Love,

Biffy

Xox