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Hindu mythology, tells of gods freeing a swan with a lotus in its beak and let it glide on Earth. Brahma would perform a grand yagna in the spot of his Landing which was Pushkar. Hindi for “born from a flower.”






PUSHKAR jon ber 
I fell in love with Pushkar, on my first trip to India. It was the locals shanty nature, the colors, processions, the freely roaming monkeys, camels, cows, donkeys, evil looking goats, the daily morning salute to the sun and evening sunset rituals by the Holy lake - with Bangalassy at the Teahouse and a chance to enjoy also the company of other travelers for months at a time, while mesmerized by ever changing street circus. 



A few years ago, while at the desert oasis Hindi holy town in the state of Rajastan, that Yo the Citar player, notified me that "actually everybody knows" that I was dead. "Been like that for years." People eagerly spread sad news. It makes them feel wonderful. In my case, it was a bit premature evaluation of the inevitable. 

 Jane had the same information in Los Angeles, CA, when I affectedly ended the twelve years of deadness, by showing up at her place in Hollywood. The house number was unforgettable: 414 and a quarter Spauld Avenue. She gave me a summery of the time I lost in one sentence that lasted well over an hour, during which, without missing a beat she also summoned Karen by phone. 



Later that evening Ron decided, after listening to my reasoning for not contacting anyone and consulting a dictionary, that Vagabond is most suitable way to describe who I am. He was Karen's boyfriend and a movie director at that. I was flattered, expecting being called a bum. A week later the year number became 2000. I went back to Pushkar. On the roof top at the Mona Lisa hotel, I wrote VAGABOND. Playing guitar, singing whispery in my room, I joined the echo of drums and singing from passing processions on the street bellow.



VAGABOND 3:47

Winds came suddenly, 
the sky let it go it snowed.
As white swept the soil, 
for a moment we thought: 
maybe you and I?

You were shy, wanted to know.
I no longer lie, so I told you 
that In the morning I'll be gone.

I no loner lie. 
Loveless I'm free to be walking off.
Doesn't daunt me, that my restless soul, 
will forever be wondering on.
Code of the nomads, 
a Troubadour, I'm a vagabond.

Winds came suddenly, 
the sky let it go it snowed.
As white swept the soil, 
contemplation evoked, 
maybe you and I? 


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Love Is Free 2:12 


Women In Back

 

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PERIDOT 


TIGER'S EYE 


TURQUOISE 



About me
Open window in the last years of the second millennium provided opportunity to cross borders between continents and countries like never before. Proprietors of privileged passport, of the sort I have just been granted with, were welcome everywhere.

 
”A gem of a singer/songwriter has come to us in the form of Jon Ber.  His work puts us in mind of such greats as Leonard Cohen or Nick Drake. Simple tools, words and strings. Nothing at all simple in using them to their utmost."  starlightstudios.net



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