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What the Philadelphia Folk Festival Taught Me About Waiting

August 13, 2020 by Heather Garges 1 Comment

What the Philadelphia Folk Festival Taught Me About Waiting

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Every year, I go to the Philadelphia Folk Festival with my dad. It’s a beautiful gathering of creative, free, & unapologetically inviting people.

Before this, however, it’s simply an empty field at Old Pool Farm.

Because we volunteer during Pre-Fest, we roll up in my dad’s moving trailer Monday night (3 days before the festival begins on Thursday).

Seeing as interactions on Monday are limited, you just can’t help but look at the ground as you walk, indulging memories of years past.

When I was 6, I woke up to a note, waiting by my pillow, from my dad:

Heather,

I’m at the mud slide.

Love, Dad

“The mud slide?” I thought.

Every campsite buzzes with excitement, volume, and childlike fun. How is the idea of a mud slide at 7 AM even a little descriptive in such a lively environment?

I smile while remembering these moments, looking down at my feet, covered in wet Earth while walking to retrieve my Volunteer badge.

This is one of the last days your dirty feet lay claim to your priorities. Because right now, it’s quiet. Volunteers make the most of their “Alone Time,” strumming good tunes, positive and mellow, but when it comes to the Folk Fest, it’s the number of creative beings that come together that really magnifies the whole experience.

You leave Old Pool Farm the last day of the previous year with new friends, a sense of unspoken community, and larger-than-life goodbyes as you feel you have met some of your once-in-a-lifetime friends. Then you return, as a volunteer, 3 days prior to the festivities, to an empty field and a slew of porta pots.

Kenopsia (n.):

the eerie, forlorn atmosphere of a place that’s usually bustling with people but is now abandoned and quiet.

the empty field at old pool farm

This is where we are in society right now. A kid is outside his home dribbling a basketball alone. Saturday morning garage sales, where people get 50 cent movies and a new neighborhood friend, are hibernating. Friday bonfire barbecues with extended family are on hiatus.

There is no way around it. People are what make events worthwhile. But people are worth waiting for.

Those first few days at Fest are slow. My dad and I set up camp, sage our site, and work our shifts Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, but guess what?

Thursday always comes. The Fest always prevails.

We spend the former 3 days staring at an empty lot wrapped in caution tape, excitedly waiting for the “Running of the Bulls.”

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Running of the Bulls?

All the campers wait outside of the entrance for the gates to be unlocked. They wait… and they wait… and they wait (because they know the Fest and the people within it are worth waiting for). When the gatekeeper’s watch strikes 10 AM, the gates are flung open and campers flood in to lay siege of their usual spot on the empty lot. People in costumes, people pulling wagons, people, people, people…

the Thursday campers running in after the gates opened

The volunteers wake up early on Thursdays to line the path that leads to their destination. Whether from the top of the bus or from the dirt path “the bulls” themselves will be running on, we celebrate those who run towards us. High fiving, appreciating, hoping the most enthusiastic runners bunk nearby. The energy rises with each new Folk Song Society member that rushes in.

people waiting on top of "the bus" for the running of the bulls

Their is an indescribable buzz of both “We’re Here!” and “Did we ever really leave?”

Suddenly, our relaxed but lonely existence, turns into a collaboration of mind, body, and spirit as we all meet again or for the first time, with no distinguishable difference in if it’s the former or the latter.

No matter the pre-existing relationship with one another, we accept invitations into their temporary residence, offering fresh cooked meals, an instrument to fiddle, & a song to sing.

a man very excited by the rise in energy after waiting for the running of the bulls

I hope when we are released from our invisible constraints that we never take for granted the beauty of physical touch, warm welcomes, and proximity.

When you go without something, you revel in its re-appearence. When they cut that caution tape, I can’t wait to give you a high five & a “seeya around.”

Ah, you just wait!

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Only people who knew my personality would know I wasn't a threat to their marriage & it was just a song that REALLY got me jazzed 💥

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I watched it with goosebumps & fist pumps the entire time (I think I watch it 3 times that first week).

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I listened to it so much so, my mom decided bringing me to see Hamilton at the Kimmel Center in Philly would be a perfect Christmas present... and it was.

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😴 Sleeping
🍕 Pizza
✌ Aunt Hippie

I think that last one is what I love most about their shared interests 😉

These two have my heart & they know it ❤
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You don't need all the (right) answers; failing is You don't need all the (right) answers; failing is just as kin to success as success itself. 

Knowing what doesn't work (by trying it out) brings you one step closer to what does.

I want your resume to look a little choppy.

I want your friends to think "She's trying something else? She really needs to just follow one path already!" (Because it will help weed out who you don't need "in your corner" anymore 😉)

I want you to do what you got to do to make YOU happy (& throw in some good books while you're at it) 📚

Don't look back on your 20s & think "I played it safe," look back & think "look how much growing I did because I wasn't afraid to keep going in a direction I wasn't sure about but felt right" 🌱
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Had I let the "fear of change" paralyze me, I woul Had I let the "fear of change" paralyze me, I wouldn't have...

... Finish the sentence!

The captains to text posts (like the one above) often ask you to look at your current life & pick apart all the stagnant, uninspiring facets of your every day life in an effort to inspire you to want to make a change 🍂

Although I find this beneficial, I like to focus on what has gone right through working through fear and try to draw in more experiences like it 🧱

So let me ask again, 

Had I let the "fear of change" paralyze me, I wouldn't have... (Fill in something you have done that has made all the difference in bettering your everyday life).

The goal is to build up confidence in what you have already done so you can build off of that momentum to do more 💥

You wouldn't have:

🌿 Started going to the gym & feeling that serotonin-inducing confidence after each workout (no matter what your body looks like)
🌿 Quit your job after finding a position that pays better w/ better hours, even though it's more of a challenge
🌿 Made a large financial investment that helped you change your mindset, hobbies to a side hustle, etc.
🌿 Trained your dog to walk with a loose leash by your side so you could enjoy more sunset walks (even though you had to try a new tool / way of training)
🌿 Left a relationship that you were staying in out of obligation, fear, or trauma bonding 
🌿 Re-did you room to make it more conducive to a perfect balance of productivity & comfort (I just did this!)

Let's live less scared of change & more scared of staying the same!

You are just beginning, whether you're 25, 48, 65, or 98 👁👅👁

No time to give up on future you now!
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Have you ever FINISHED a game of jumbo Jenga befor Have you ever FINISHED a game of jumbo Jenga before? 

Me neither... until this night.

With every block we pulled, 2-3 more people would congregate around us until it was the last piece.

At this point, all in attendance to the Alzeimer's Awareness event were surrounding us.

It may have taken me 2 minutes & a lot of wiggly tower anxiety, but I did it.

Sorry for postponing the raffle basket drawing, Carolyn, but I had to give the people what they wanted 🙈
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Build-A-Bear? More like Build-A-Biter 😁 It's o Build-A-Bear? More like Build-A-Biter 😁

It's official; she is definitley my Goddaughter ❤ 

Why you ask? Well:

1️⃣ She picked a dog Build-A-Bear 2️⃣ She's a biter
3️⃣ Dancing brings her joy

All of which are things I do too. Loving her more & more every day (as long as the bites could be directed at someone else) 😉
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What Makes Me Happy ⬇️ ☺ Cleaning / organiz What Makes Me Happy ⬇️

☺ Cleaning / organizing my space
☺ Reading personal development / mindset books
☺ Haunted hayrides & cornwalk season @wbf1805
☺ Running my business @handfulofleashes
☺ Watching Eagles games
☺ Writing to-do lists & checking things off
☺ Sitting on the top step of my porch looking at the front corn field
☺ Dancing in the mirror, kitchen, or car
☺ Quadding / hiking
☺ Watching "New Girl" or "The Office" while bundled up in bed
☺ Putting together cute outfits to go out to dinner in
☺ Suduko puzzles
☺ Walks w/ my dog @stitch_thebluefox 

I know what makes me happy 🌻

I do those things.

I include people who I can dream with, laugh with, cry with, & grow with.

I want you to have that same luxury. Here's how:

1️⃣ Write a list of your favorite things to do
2️⃣ Then, write a list of everyone in your family / friend group / life / circle. 
3️⃣ If any of the people who are in that list of people wouldn't be a fun addition to anything on your list of things that make you happy, why are you so worried about how they see you?

Spend your time doing what you love & you will attract the people who are right for YOU ❤

Worrying about how people see you (especially those not on your "happy things to do with these people" list) is taking away from headspace you could be saving for curating your dream life & attracting the best people to be apart of it 🌿
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Yet another BFF has entered my life! We were pati Yet another BFF has entered my life!

We were patiently awaiting your arrival & then, all at once, you were here: a safe, happy, beautiful baby girl!

💕 Carlin Marie Sturges 💕⁣
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𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗲: Friday, September 3rd, 2021
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 3:15 AM
𝗪𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: 5 pounds 15 ounces⁣
𝗟𝗲𝗻𝗴𝘁𝗵: 18 inches

It's been approximately 19 days since she entered the chat, 17 days since I met her in person, & 14 days since I've held her for the first time. This is what I've learned of this tiny, miracle baby I that time:

1️⃣ She is much more "Garges" than Phoebe is - what with the full head of hair right off the hop (just like Aunt Hippie)
2️⃣ She has Brianna's "turtle lip" as I like to call it 🐢
3️⃣ She is the queen of kicking off socks (mostly because her pre-me body doesn't know how to keep them on)
4️⃣ I think she may have EVEN LONGER toes & fingers than her big sister, so she may be just as much (if not more of a water baby 🐠)
5️⃣ The size of her diapers make me squeal
6️⃣ Her middle name was made "Marie" after her Aunt Hippie (fight me, @lysannegarges @ginabarrett004 @daniellefalcone94 )
7️⃣ I survived Hurricane Ida so I could love you unconditionally forever & ever

P.S. Swipe all the way to the end to see my god daughter promoted to big sister 💕
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If you aren't a part of a duo where one is abnoxio If you aren't a part of a duo where one is abnoxiously tall while the other is teeny & short, you're missing out 🤪

Mostly because you get a lot of attention when you go out... or maybe we're just hot 🥳🔥

I don't know 🤷‍♀️ // Either way, you're getting hotter with age!!

Happy birthday, Maddie! Love & miss you 🖤
Is it just me or has this been one of the most try Is it just me or has this been one of the most trying months of this year?

This month has been hard on me in sneaky ways.

Scary things have happened in my family. But everything turned out fine in the end.

Some of my friends are going through  the ringer with back-to-back life-changing scenarios, but they have persisted.

I am feeling very lonely & yet, here I stand.

Life goes through seasons the same way that the Earth does 🌎

When it feels heavy (even if you can't directly pin point where or why), practice grace towards yourself.

You can cry. You can sleep. You can procrastinate. 

Sometimes you need to rest in order to recharge in order to face today's / tomorrow's / this months difficulties with perspective.

Good, bad, or difficult: how is your September going so far? 🍂
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Phoebe's 1st Beach Trip ☀️ // She didn't cry o Phoebe's 1st Beach Trip ☀️ // She didn't cry once, only laughs & astonishment (from both her & me) ❤
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Although I love my usual au-natural face (as seen Although I love my usual au-natural face (as seen in picture one), there was something so empowering & feminine about getting dolled up & headed out on the beach town each night 🔥🌸

Swipe to see my fav momma make-up artist 👀
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Step 1: Start the party by being the first ones on Step 1: Start the party by being the first ones on the "floor" to dance at the beach bar concert (so much so that the band thanks you publicly & gives multiple shout outs) ✅

Step 2: Bring that energy to the night club when their set is done ✅
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... and I'm working towards expressing it daily! ... and I'm working towards expressing it daily! 

Because even when energy is within us, we arent always in the right environment / headspace to use it (or enjoy it) ✨

My brain is always humming (because sometimes that's all the power it can conjure up throughout my long work days), but sometimes it chirps, shakes, ERUPTS with ideas.

You want to know when?

When I'm:
🧠 Not working
🧠 Not under pressure
🧠 Not waiting on an alarm to sound

I just for back from a 5 day vacation, a place where I could "shut off business." But doing exactly that, helped "Wake up" all the ideas laying dormant while focusing on "this lesson," or "that visit," or "that call back."

Your creativity is yours & is always able to be explored... under the right conditions (well rested ones) 🙈

Rest opens up your creative airways, so make sure you are getting enough 🌅 It may be the best thing you do for yourself, your business, your children, and/or your dog! 

Creativity is resilience, growth-minded thinking, & fun-loving! 

We could always allow for more of that to surge through us ❤
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