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.
May 26, 2009 - 12:43 p.m.
I didn't update yesterday. Did you miss me?
On Sunday I went to Aubrey's father's memorial service. The plan was for me to drive to Alan's house and drive to it with him and his wife Melissa. The problem is they have two houses and I was meeting them at the one I have only been to once and the address does not exist according to my gps. I got lost and ended up meeting them at the synagogue.
Aubrey and his sister said eulogies and Aubrey's eldest son wrote a poem that he wrote. That was very fitting as Aubrey's father was a poet.
I was actually one of the most dressed up ones there. I was wearing my funeral suit. Can anyone explain why I have a mouse finger puppet in my pocket?
I made a little tribute to my father, I used a Windsor knot on my tie. I never remember how to make that and I used to ask my father to show me. Yesterday I used the internet. Aubrey asked me to show him how.
Yesterday I had an odyssey. My first stop was Larry and Diana's house to take care of their cats and plants. I have never been there before but my GPS took me right to their door. Their instructions got me through the alarm system. The house is really nice.
From there I went up to the Warwick Valley Winery for their annual Dylan festival. Getting there is always something of an adventure. My advise to people going there the first time is "When you are sure you can't possibly be going right you are almost there."
This time was more difficult than most. On RT 17N approaching the town of Tuxedo Park there was a police road block. It must have gone up just minutes before I got there. There were 15-20 cars ahead of me. Everyone was just standing there. I assumed that we would be let through soon. When we weren't I got out and asked the cop what was up. He told me there was a parade and that the had no idea how long it would be but that we could turn around if we wanted to. As I know the block just went up I turned around. I asked the cop how to get around it. It involved going back 5 miles on the road. They put the road block up way after the last intersection. You are supposed to put it up there and say "local traffic only ahead." I can't believe They let them do this to a major state road and the only way through in the area. There was no reasonable alternate route. My GPS said the detour would cost 20 minutes. It gets worse.
When I took the route the cop told me too I found that road was closed because the bridge was under construction. This time I had no one to ask so I used my GPS. It involved driving even further out of my way. The whole thing cost me 50 minutes. Good thing I planned on getting there early.
I started off merching for The Kennedys. I ended up merching for everyone. I was the CD tent. That meant that I couldn't see the stage but I could hear it. It is like manning the WFUV booth at FRFF. I love sitting there and having the world come to me. I didn't have that many friends there. Other than the Kennedys there were Richard and Viki, and Barbara. I talked quite a bit with Leesee, the women I shared the booth with. She was selling jewelry.
I also met some new performers, good ones. I love Bill Kirchen. He and Rod MacDonald gave me CDS. I actually met Rod back in his days living in the Village.
Sales weren't great as the booth was not on the path to the parking lot. Next year it will be moved and I will not only sell more CDs but I'll be able to see the stage.
I of course couldn't make the quick exit I was planning. I ended up talking everyone. Then when I tried to leave I realized I didn't have my sunglasses. I thought I had dropped them but I put them down on the table in the CD booth. That was how I started to my day. I had to go back to my apartment repeatedly for things I forgot then once I hit the road I realized I didn't have my glasses so I had to park again and run up to get them. It really is a miracle I wasn't late.
Today I'm having the "attack of the annoying health problems that aren't actually being sick." Why are my allergies all of a sudden acting up? As soon as I finish this I'll take my daily Clariton and see if that helps.
I was going to write about something a bit more serious but I think I'll save that for tomorrow. I'm not going to have anything exciting to write about then.
I keep telling you about David Hein's My Mother's Lesbian, Jewish, Wiccan Wedding. I finally posted the video I took of it at SMAF. Go watch it. Then go up to Toronto and see the musical he expanded it into it at the Fringe Festival in July.
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Needle in a Haystack - May 28, 2009
The Three Amigos - May 27, 2009
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