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.
I enjoy paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.
May 28, 2006 - 1:32 a.m.
I am not going to start this entry with an excuse why it will suck.
Ok now that I got that out of the way I can start writing
It would be nice if I had something to write about.
My mother wasn't feeling well all day today. I think I'm going to have to take her to the doctor this week. The problem is that she doesn't always say what she really means. She'll say she is nauseous but then eat fine. I think she means she has phlegm. I took her for a walk today and she could only make it to the house next door. She was doing so much better just a few weeks ago. I think this might be because we took her off one of her medications. Alison was blaming all her problems on it. I think it was helping. She started being able to walk decent distances only after she started taking it.
I made an adventure out of putting on the registration on my mother's car. I hit the first snag when I went to look for he scraper to take the old one off. It wasn't in my tool box and it wasn't in the draw I used to keep it in, and it wasn't in my car. I had to run to the hardware store and buy a new one.
I got home and scraped off the old sticker. It was so easy. I should have changed the blade on my old scraper. It was so much harder last time I did it. Then I went to get the new sticker. When I got it from the DMV I put it in one of the portfolios I used for school. I opened the portfolio and it wasn't there. I panicked. Now the car had no registration and there was really nothing I could do about it till Monday. I looked all around the car figuring it might have dropped out of the portfolio. Then I looked in my car, then I looked in my yard to see if it fell as I walked to the car. Then it hit me. I did look at it in the house. Maybe I took it out of the portfolio. I went in the house and there it was on the table in my living room. I was relieved.
Tonight I had an exciting time doing laundry. Don't be too jealous.
While I was doing laundry I started observing the working of my own brain and that caused some problems. I started by noticing that despite the fact that I was thinking about something that makes me sad I was actually pretty happy. That got me to thinking about how I really do appreciate the good things in my life. There have been times when every day I'd comment to myself how lucky I was. That then brought me down because the unhappy thought I was thinking about was that I'm not so lucky now. So now thinking about exactly the same thing I was thinking about ten minutes before made me unhappy. Are you following this? I started to feel like one of the computers that Captain Kirk would outsmart till they'd crash. That put a smile on my face. So I'm back to being happy.
So since I'm happy I'll list some happy things that are coming up that I'm looking forward to.
- June 3 – The Appel Farm . I bought my tickets for it this morning. I got a nice discount for being a member of WFUV.
- June 5 – My audition for Who Wants to be a Millionaire
- June 17 and 18 – The Clearwater Festival Great Hudson River Revival
- June 21 - WFUV one day drive
- July 20 to 23 - FRFF. I’m actually driving up on my birthday July 19. What better place to celebrate.
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Email me: GordonLew at gmail
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