{"id":30733,"date":"2013-07-09T04:16:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T08:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/?p=30733"},"modified":"2013-07-09T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:00:05","slug":"pete-van-leeuwens-elk-grass-video-ice-cream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2013\/07\/09\/pete-van-leeuwens-elk-grass-video-ice-cream\/","title":{"rendered":"pete van leeuwen&#8217;s &#8216;elk grass&#8217; video + ice cream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/68589283\" height=\"295\" width=\"525\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/68589283\" target=\"_blank\">Video link here<\/a>.) Reader Carol McDonell sent us this email:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Elk Grass* is a collaboration by Peter Van Leeuwen, a life long creative musician and co-owner of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanleeuwenicecream.com\" target=\"_blank\">Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream<\/a>, and<a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/awesomeandmodest\" target=\"_blank\"> Awesome and Modest<\/a>. <strong>His haunting piece exemplifies The Improvised Life vision to me . . .\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>It does indeed, in a curiously comforting way.<\/p>\n<p>To accompany this cool little 2 1\/2 minute movie, we WISH we could give a virtual taste of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanleeuwenicecream.com\" target=\"_blank\">Van Leeuwen&#8217;s ice cream <\/a>which Carol says are &#8216;<em>locally-sourced, organic,\u00a0rich, true and original&#8217;<\/em> (sold via East Coast Whole Foods and vintage butter-colored trucks dotted over Downtown and Brooklyn selling). We&#8217;d go for the Earl Grey Tea, Currents and Cream,\u00a0Salted Caramel with Buffalo Trace Bourbon&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>We&#8217;re inspired to by the mash-up of Van leeuwen&#8217;s creative work: music and ice cream!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Long gone, long gone are my old cowboy dreams.<\/div>\n<div>Through the cobwebs, dead and broken, they gently swing<\/div>\n<div>But there&#8217;s that sweet grass, it&#8217;s dancin in the high bluffs in the sea breeze<\/div>\n<div>It&#8217;s where the elk sleep, dreamin simple dreams of luscious green grass and peace.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>So <strong>go find your<\/strong> elk <strong>trail and follow it up, up up<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>To your elk nest to lay your head down, down, down<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Where you dream your <\/strong>elk<strong> dreams<\/strong>, to be a bull with a thick black mane<\/div>\n<div>A dangerous rack and a bugle, t<strong>hat finds it&#8217;s way<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><strong>To her perfect, listening ears<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>To her perfect listening ears\u2026.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Listening ears<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Video link here.) Reader Carol McDonell sent us this email: &#8216;Elk Grass* is a collaboration by Peter Van Leeuwen, a life long creative musician and co-owner of Van Leeuwen Artisan Ice Cream, and Awesome and Modest. His haunting piece exemplifies The Improvised Life vision to me . . .\u00a0 It does indeed, in a curiously&hellip;<\/p>\n<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\" https:\/\/improvisedlife.com\/2013\/07\/09\/pete-van-leeuwens-elk-grass-video-ice-cream\/ \">Read More<\/a>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":70572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[81,31,6549,169,8363,800],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>pete van leeuwen&#039;s &#039;elk grass&#039; video + ice cream - Improvised Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"(Video link here.) 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