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 14, 2009 - 3:54 p.m.
Yesterday I went to the Take Me To The River Grassroots Music Festivalin Hastings. Think what would happen if my friends said, "Hey kids let's put on a show!" The headliner was John Gorka aka Old John Gorka (you had to be there) who I never talked to before. Most of the rest of the performers are my friends. That's not too surprising as they were booked by my friend Barbara. We travel in the same circles. On the bill were:
- Matt Turk
- Milton
- Kelly Flint
- Kelly Flint
- Hope Machine
- Spuyten Duyvil
- The Ya Yas.
I also knew people in the audience, Carter, Su, and Maggi come to mind. I took plenty of photos, here are some of the candids. There was much more going on that the music. I made my own s'mores and was praised on my toasting technique. I looked through a solar telescope that a geology professor brought with him. I did tons of schmoozing. There were all sorts of things for the kids to do. I tried to get shots of the kids.
Bubbles!
Peace Bear sat on the stage
Old John Gorka looking fierce.
Non-Violent Boxing
Paint the Hippiemobile
Is this poor kid going to grow up to be me?
Bubbles and Hoops
Mark, Rick, and Friend
Milton on the left
Hula Dancer?
Carter in the middle by the solar telescope
Steve Kirkman is one of the paparazzi.
That's Kelly's old bandmate Dave Cantor.
Matt, Steve, and Kelly
Jeff offering a bite to Milton onstage.
Mosaic guitar the kids tiled.
As evening fell the sky became dramatic.
Kelly dancing to Hope Machine
Jay and Catherine (in blue) from the Ya Yas
Maggi on my blanket
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| Take me to the river fest 2009 |
That took all day. I guess I'm not going to write much. I'll just say that I had a great day.
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