With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
The only way to find the limits of the possible is by going past them into the impossible.
November 21, 2009 - 5:38 p.m.
I have almost no time to write but I'm going to attempt to squeeze in a short entry.
Last night I went to see Amy Speace at The Living Room. It was a tough choice as there were several other shows I wanted to see. I felt bad missing Anthony da Costa and John Elliott because a lot of my friends were going to that show and I didn't want to miss the socializing. So guess what? I got socializing in at Amy's show. The band before her went on long so I waited in the back for tem to finish. In the shadows next to me I thought I saw someone I knew but was surprised was there? I said, Ellis? It was. She lives in Minnesota which is why I was surprised. She's in New York recording her next album. I felt good, it gave me somebody to sit with.
This was Amy's first band gig in New York after moving to Nashville. I've seen her twice since the move but I still miss her. In one of her songs she mentions Jersey City. I usually boo as a joke. This time I cheered. I boo in contrast to New York, but cheer in contrast to Nashville.
Amy did quite a few new songs. That was great. Now that she's out of the New York Metropolitan area, she's writing about it. I love the creative process. We talked about it after the show. You don't notice something when it's all around you. When you leave you notice its absence. Nabakov wrote his "American" novels, including Lolita while living in Switzerland.
After the show I got more socializing. I hung out with Amy of course but also with Jeff and Sean, the usual Amy crowd, and, and, and, damn, I'm blanking on her name again. I hate when I do that. She's a singer/songwriter that is now moving to Nashville. I hate when my mind does that.
The big topic of discussion was that Amy can't get good pizza, bagels, or lo mein in Nashville. Now you know what to bring her if you visit.
Amy started late and I hung out for quite some time so I didn't get back home to almost 2 AM. I knew it would be a late night.
Today I played bridge with Roy. It was STAC week. That means we can earn silver points at the club. I know that's meaningless to those of you that aren't familiar with the American Contract Bridge League. Those of you who are familiar know that's it really is meaningless. Still Roy needs silver points to be a life master. I already am one. We played awful. Even worse that our opponents. Yet somehow we managed to come in first in strat C and won 0.7 silver points. We are playing again on Monday.
OK now I'm off to eat then see Anthony and John at the Common Ground Coffeehouse in Hastings. If you're free and in the area you should to. The show isn't sold out.
I Gave Speace a Chance - November 21, 2009
Oliver Twisted - November 20, 2009
Don't Mind My Body - I Don't - November 19, 2009
Thoughts from the Shower - November 18, 2009
If You're Reading This You're Elite - November 17, 2009
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