Good morning. I get to see Phish tonight. That’s radical.
^That is. They will thrill for sure. Have a great show Dougster.
Morning 'Pa from a Hyatt in White Plains NY. Round one of my 50th year elementary school reunion was remarkable. The memories that were recalled are priceless and getting to see my boyhood friends as adults was also very profound.
Going to our old school today for a couple of hours. The school has been closed for about ten years, but we’ve gotten permission for a ‘self-guided’ tour from the parish, so we’re all going to wander through the building where eight years of our early lives were spent.
Spoke at length with my seventh grade teacher last night who thanked me personally for a gift I don’t even remember organizing for her. The seventh grade was in charge of candy sales during the lunch recess period, and I was in charge of the group of kids that ordered and sold the candy. In celebration of her ‘feast day’ (as a nun), I bought her some stationery and we presented it to her. She told us last night that was one of the most memorable gifts of her career as a teacher, and she wanted to make sure she let myself and the other candy sellers know what it meant to her. I was unbelievably touched by her comments.
So happy that I decided to do this because last night was full of moments like that. Makes me feel privileged to know that last weekend I was making the same kinds of memories with some of you.
Have a great Saturday good ole OKP.
Morning! Sounds like an epic time Bill. I’m headed to Cape Cod for an afternoon set, and won’t be back til tomorrow. It might be … awesome? Don’t know. Feels like a long journey for one set. Last night’s Phish show looks great. Just read about it at phish.net … LOL@ ‘this song starts with the drums’
Bill, what a touching story about your teacher. It, along with other things you have been saying, makes me think about how certain events and memories stand out so clearly to us throughout our lives. How nice it must be to hear that you were a direct cause of such a lovely one for someone.
It’s after morning now and a beautiful day out there. I am enjoying my first day of a two week vacation, that I awoke way too early for, by lounging with coffee and the Pa. It is great, but I need to get out of doors before we lose this weather perfection.
I will likely be doing nothing tonight and I really really hope there is a good stream on.
Devin, what ever happened to your Dad? Is he OK?
^ Yeah, he’s fine. Thanks for asking. He just apparently “forgot” and thought it was the next night he was supposed to pick her up, and he just left his phone in the car.
^Glad to hear.
Morning Pa.
That’s about all I’ve got right now.
Happy Sunday.
HIya Folk,s
Slowly getting things together in PA after a fabulous show and night yesterday! Brought my first newbie to Phish in years and of course, had said newbie proclaim “These guys are fantastic” at some point in the first set between Mule and 46 Days.
Tonight is part 2 of the weekend run for me. Can’t wait to get down some more at Blossom … gonna be sa-weet!!
Good morning! Last day of my mini vacation, summer classes start bright and early tomorrow 
Bill that is so cool that so many of your elementary school friends came together. I still keep in touch with one girl from that time period and it’s funny to talk about back then. Neither one of us remembers the same things, interesting how the mind organizes memories. It’s fun to put the pieces back together.
It is perfectly gorgeous out, gonna go suck some of it up. Have a fantastic Sunday!!
Mornin!
Loves to you all!
Work>work>work>travel->Phish…
Yup
Be well!
Well, what a craptasitic morning. Actually, this past weekend was the worst of my life. Not going to get into detail, but it went something like this:
argument with wife>fight with son>kicked out of house> 3 days in hotel>counceling session>damage repair.
Long long road ahead, and lots to do. But I’ve never been more confident that this is going to be a life-changing occurance. Dark dark times for the ol’ Gris.
Looks like Phish is taking a backseat to life, no Phish for Clark this year, and I’m totally alright with that. Not much else to say.
Dark times, may be light at the end of the tunnel, but this tunnel is looooonnnnnnngggg.
Just be kind to others, and love your family. 'Cause if that gets fractured, there ain’t much else.
^Godspeed on your road to recovery/change/happiness. It’s never easy, but it looks like you know it needs to happen, and that’s a great foundation.
Hate to say it but that just isn’t true. Not the be kind to others and love your family part… that’s totally true but the “there ain’t much else” part. We just get so over-involved in the lives of our spouse or kids that we can no longer see beyond that. Got to open our hearts to the larger world somehow. Probably the best “meditation” for you right now Clark is to raise your gaze and contemplate all the suffering others go through in their relationships… you don’t need to look too far outside your own troubled family life to see others are fighting their own spouses and in many cases much worse. Start small, think of one couple or person who is suffering, then expand that to others and eventually everyone… and while you contemplate the hardship of others, wish they were free of that pain and strife… This way we loosen our fixation on our stuff and generate some compassion for not only our situation but the painful situations others are going through. If you can see that, focus on that, it may help ease your mind a little, then you can work for your family’s benefit more effectively…
It helps to recognize that most of us suffer and struggle in marriage and relationships. There may be the one or two “perfect couples” out there but you know underneath the glossy sheen there’s still dirt. So ironic and laughable even that single people pine and pine over finding a mate. 
Only to find themselves smack in the middle of relationship hell. 
It helps to realize that in general relationships are full of pain as well as bj’s and relief of loneliness… relief of horniness… we get ourselves all tangled up just to scratch that itch. 
anyhow good luck broseph.
Best of luck to you Chris. This aspect of life is never easy.
Of the thirty classmates from elementary school that I met this weekend, almost all have been married at least once and have children. More than 65% of them had gotten a divorce, and about 75% of these had remarried. And these were Catholic school educated people so some of them probably fought long and hard to make the marriage work as a matter of faith, misguided or not.
All relationships take work. Some succeed, some don’t. Some are really worth fighting for, and some are lost causes or simply beyond our capabilities to make work, especially the way we think we want them to be. A good friend from college was a real ladies man. Allan loved the ladies and found it easy to be charming, but lacked certain abilities in the honesty department, so he was in and out of relationships all the time.
But although he always came out of them a little banged up, I guess he understood enough about himself that he didn’t know what to do to make them work. He would thus end each aftermath discussion about his relationships as ‘a learning experience’, and not berate his relationships for what they didn’t give him, but appreciate them for what they did.
Beautiful chilly morning here in central NJ. Have a really long lawn that needs attention and we’re having Liz and her fam over for dinner tonight, so the course is clear for today.
Last night Marie and I went to a free NJ Symphonyt Orchestra concert at the PNC Artscenter. I made some sammitches and took some beers and snacks and we tailgated in the lots on a beautiful Summer evening. The music was mostly pops and light classical, played kind of hit and miss, like one of Phish’s less popular shows, but it was nice to there nonetheless.
Hope everyone has a great Tuesday.
Chris, so sorry to read about your weekend. I know it must have been extremely difficult to be away from your family those days. I hope that was the worst, it’s behind you, and the road, long as it may be only goes up from here. Good luck. Move towards the light!
Good morning oh kee pa. Today, I wish for you all to hear or smell something that invokes a nice memory.
Good morning. Starting to get my body clock back to normal after this last weekend. Should be right on track just in time to leave for Deer Creek 
Why do the mornings come so fast? Need coffee immediately.
Off to Physics and Stats, woo hoo!!
Have a great Day!
My dirty mind read this the first time through:
I must also need coffee.
My guess would be the magic underwear… Go get some coffee silly!
^^ Whoa…
^LOL
Mornin!
Loves to you all!!!
Hard day yesterday. Work, family and decisions make life hard… Keep on keeping on…
Be well all!