January 26, 2016
At this time of day I sometimes practice reading lips by watching The Price is Right. Just watched a woman miss out on a $51,000 Audi. I am not a fan of new cars, but this one was really beautiful.
I am still spinning from the terrific ninetieth birthday party for Johnny Gunn I had the pleasure of attending on Saturday and then a very interesting evening at the movies at the DGA on Sunday, seeing Remember with Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau.
Today will be a day in the bus
doing errands and having a nice lunch somewhere in Montrose. All my pithy ideas are laying low right now. It might be because I'm reading Alan Watts' Tao: The Watercourse Way. Watts died before the book was finished.
His friend and collaborator Al Chung-Liang Huang discusses how they worked together on it. Al's calligraphy is included, as well as discourse on the flowing of calligraphy and the flow of life. Going with 'the flow' is more an Eastern thought than a Western one. Seems that mostly we need to emulate the salmon and fight our way upstream. Of course, THAT is how the salmon survive... unless.. of course.. there are bears. A song, Opening Farewell by Jackson Brown, sung by my friend, Michael Johnson, has the lyric "... There's a train every day, leavin' either way... there is a world to know..."
We do have choices, don't we?
And, THAT reminds me of the night that Jackson's brother, Severin, was performing a late night show at The Company Theatre on La Cienega. I was running lights. Suddenly, there was someone climbing up the ladder into the booth! Off Limits!! It was Jackson. He didn't want to steal the limelight from Severin. One story leads to another... and... life goes on.
January 26, 2016
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