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.
July 11, 2009 - 12:35 a.m.
I'm listening to the archive of John Platt's show from last Sunday. He's playing John Elliot's American in Love. I put that album in John's hands. I still get a kick out of that.
My arm is improving. I'm being good and not driving unless it is necessary. I wanted to shop at Trader Joe's but I settled for Key Food because I can walk to it. I managed to shop and do laundry with my arm in a sling. Typing this is the most stress I've put my elbow through today. I bought an ice pack and I'll use that when I'm done.
So lets talk about Summerfest. Even with a broken arm it was great. It forced me to miss some people I wanted to see, Richard Shindell and Stephen Fearing but I saw plenty. True a lot of it was the two groups I probably see the most often, Red Molly and The Kennedys. They were more exotic because I saw them in a new state. OK, I didn't. I was thinking Rhode Island, where I was staying but it was Massachusetts and I've seen Red Molly there before and I've seen the Strangelings, which includes the Kennedys there.
I loved running into friends at the Festival. I was talking to Melissa and an Australian walks up to me and says hello. It took me a second to put him in context then I figured out that he's in Mia Dyson's band. I couldn't remember his name, James, but I knew who he was and introduced him to Melissa. She said, "That's what I like about going to these things with Gordon, you meet the most interesting people." That's what I like about it too. I am often lonely, there are niches in my social ecology that aren't filled, but I have a lot of friends of one sort or another. That is still a novelty to me.
My favorite moment came on Sunday. A stranger walked up to me and asked if I was Gordon Nash. When I said yes he introduced himself. Jeff is a Facebook friend of mine who friended me because we have friends in common. He knew it was me because he was just reading my blog about my spraining (I didn't know it was a break) my elbow and wrist and saw me there with bandages on my elbow and wrist and deduced it was me. He showed me his internet phone and there was my blog on it. He saw me as he was reading about me. That's the modern world in a nutshell.
The best part of Summerfest is when bands that don't know each other jam together. The Kennedys do that better than anyone. They know what it's all about and soon teach whoever is playing with them. It isn't about sharing a stage, it's about playing together.
I spent three days with Melissa and we ate ethnic twice. On Friday we had Indian and on Saturday Mexican. The Mexican place had a mariachi band. I'm not usually that culinarily adventurous.
I never left a link to all my Summerfest pictures. Here it is.
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I didn't take a lot of photos in Toronto but here they are.
I saw this while we were walking down Dundas St but discovered I didn't have a memory card in my camera. I bought one later and while LORi was resting I walked back to the spot and took the picture. I just liked the composition, the building that looked like a crossword puzzle and the balance of the CN Tower in the distance and the telephone pole in the foreground.
This is the art museum. I think it looks like an airline terminal. 
Of course I can't go to Toronto and not catch some Früvous references.
See how cool I look in the hotel elevator?
I of course took some pics of my blushing lesbian bride Lori. Somehow I neglected to get a shot of the two of us together.
Where did the bouquet come from? At the end of My Mothers Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding the brides toss their bouquets and I caught one! I gave it to my lesbian bride.
Don't you dare say, "funny you don't look lesbian."
My arm is about to fall off so I better go and ice it to freeze it to my body.
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