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.
September 07, 2009 - 2:29 p.m.
I realized that my self-image of someone that doesn’t go to parties is wrong. I actually go to quite a few, especially if you count a house concert as a party, which you should if there's a pot luck beforehand. I'm also not the wallflower I think of myself as. I actually mingle and talk to people. I don't know when I transformed but I did.
As you might have deduced from the opening paragraph I went to a party yesterday. Larry and Diana had a "House Cooling Pool Party." I went all summer without swimming outdoors and have now gone twice in ten days. The irony is that they were both cool days. I brought my suit without much optimism I'd use it but when I arrived I discovered the pool was heating.
The crowd was for the most part bridge players. I haven't seen most of them for years. They were also for the most part geeks, my people. There were two other math teachers and a physic teacher and a physicist. I wore my "I have an imaginary friend" t-shirt. Under that there is the square root of –1. One party guest admitted to t-shirt envy. I fit right in. I was asked why I have only one imaginary friend. The answer is the others won't play with me.
I had a lot of fun catching up with old friends and talking to people that I had only known slightly. I had a world's colliding moment. Sam, quoted the Bob's. That made me ask him if he knew Da Vinci's notebook. He had and had seen them. In fact we were at the same show, when DVN, the Bobs, and Vance Gilbert were on the same bill at The Bottom Line. He then asked me if I knew Moxy Früvous! Yes he's a Frühead! I can't believe that never came up before. Well I guess I can. Unless I was wearing a Früvous t-shirt the subject is not that likely to come up at a bridge tournament. He was at the Seaport show and one of the Bottom Line shows Früvous did with Dan Bern. I knew him them. Too bad we didn't see each other at any of them.
When I left I told Larry and Diana that other than me they have good taste in friends. I have socialized with many of them before outside of tournaments. I was at Andrew and Nina's wedding. We've just drifted away. I drove David and Rachel to the subway. They lived out my way but the subway was right on my route. It was nice having the company for much of the ride home.
I would have normally taken the last two days as recuperation days. I didn't think I'd have the strength to stay at the party long. I got there a bit late, 3, but ended up staying to 8:30. I ate plenty but if I were healthy I'd have had room for the red velvet cake.
I think I'm paying for my activity the last two days today. I'm having minor spasms. My ileum is not obstructed but it isn't flowing freely. I'm uncomfortable with a few moments of pain. I'll hold off on shoe shopping till tomorrow. That's sort of a necessity, I don't have a pair that I'd feel comfortable wearing to class. I have to move my car so I can't just stay in my apartment all day. I think I'll make a quick grocery run then come home and relax all day. I hate that I've been sick for most of the best weather of the year.
I'd like to write more about the party but if I don't get moving soon I'll never have the car parked in time. I can't take the chance of taking a turn for the worse and not feeling up to moving the car. It won't be parked legally tomorrow.
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