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.
July 28, 2006 - 10:52 a.m.
I’m getting into a new routine with my mother in the hospital. My new plan is to get there at 12:30 when parking opens up because of alternate side of the street parking; that will save me at least 20 minutes of searching for a space. My mother slept pretty much the entire time I was there yesterday. It is certainly better than her being miserable the entire time but I’d rather she was up and alert. The PT did rouse her to get her up for a walk. The PT told me she walks further when I’m there. I push her. I walked ahead to what I thought was a good distance for her and had her walk to me. I then rewarded her with a kiss.
I made her fresh lemonade and she enjoyed that. I also brought her a lemon. She doesn’t like drinking plain water. If the lemonade isn’t handy she has someone squeeze some lemon juice into it.
I did not have the best night sleep the night before last so I ended up sleeping at the hospital too. Today was better, maybe I’ll get some reading done.
Last night I went out to play bridge with Roy. We went to the Garden City Bridge Club instead of our usual club the FrankLin Bridge Center. It isn’t as strong a game as a consequence we came in first in our section. It isn’t a really weak game either, probably stronger than the average club. There was a national champion there, Mel Colchamiro. I love that they post the results online. The results are then emailed to the ACBL. When we first started playing we used to write the results of each hand on a big blackboard then score them by hand. I was usually one of the people that waited around and did the computation. When we were done we’d get a little slip of paper with our masterpoints that we would have to mail to the ACBL.
Today I’m having lunch with Roy at my favorite restaurant, Uncle Jack’s. Yes I’m indulging myself. It is so nice having a friend that I can call up and have lunch with.
I’m still on my FRFF high. That is the best 5 days of the year.
Steve always comments how talk to musicians and that’s why I book the acts. The funny thing is that the reason I can do that is because I feel uncomfortable talking to anybody so talking to musicians is no big deal. I have to gather my courage to talk to anybody so I’m use to it. This might seem strange because I do tend to talk a lot but it is true. I feel anxiety every time I pick up a phone or approach somebody. I crave the contact so I do it. Like everyone else I’m a walking contradiction.
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