Rasta culture is rich in cosmic wordplay. Somehow, it stretches beyond our earthly health to suggest both how and why one is alive, how deftly one plays life’s game. Yet livity also has a more cosmic connotation. Maybe Bob was concerned by my London pallor, but he was encouraging me to uplift my livity-my wholeness and wellbeing, spiritual, mental and physical. Years later, onstage, he still relished stretching out its vowels like molasses over a pulsing Wailers jam. He enjoyed harmonizing irie on the first cut of "Kaya," the Wailer's 1971 ballad to weed, together with the other original members, Peter and Bunny. Jamaican patois for a blissed-out mellow mood, it was a local word he loved. "Trees live for thousands of years, you know? But man-man is supposed to live longer than anything else, so man must reach the time when he knows how to take care of this!" Then he laughed, slapping his thigh in his frayed jeans.Īt that moment, whatever was to come, Bob was feeling irie. "The most important thing is to keep the physical together," he said earnestly. The talk was of matters musical, social and political when Bob Marley suddenly leaned forward, to emphasize a point.
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