“I’m not taller than you are

You’re smaller than I am”

“It’s one of those defining questions. You have to decide. You are either a Beatles fan or an Elvis fan. Beatles fans can like Elvis and Elvis fans can like the Beatles but no one can like the two the same.”

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What a perfect unofficial summer weekend. Sunny, windy, rainy and hot as hell. I got a bunch of shit done. Pretty happy about that. Picked up the yard some and got the old house trailer ready to go. Got together with my old friend, brother-in-law, business partner, room mate Dave and cleaned Kristen’s car for her. Went to my nephew Connor’s third birthday party along with attending one for his mom the night before. Cleaned and installed the air conditioners. Took Jack and the boys for a hike, along a brook, down to a river and had a little wade. Oversaw the leaving of the house trailer. And, to finish it off, a drink, a swim, and a barbecue at our friend Sarah’s house.

Really nice. Jack got a bunch of bug bites and maybe some sort of hives ( a little freaky ) on our hike today – but – a really great time over all.

As I prepare to head back to another work week, I find myself feeling thankful… Thankful for my life and family, Thankful for my time on this truly wondrous planet… and eager to see that which awaits me. Truly amazing times we are living in. Change is afoot.

For a long time now I’ve wanted to rebel against this idea of a dichotomy. I hope that is the correct word. The idea that there are two sides to every story, light and dark, right and wrong. I’ve always felt that it could not be that simple. In science class I learned that, theoretically, there is no such thing as cold – only the absence of heat. Plus, I thought, it’s not like the two sides of a coin, religious and not religious, but more like the many facets of a prism or gem, or the way light reflects across a water droplet.

I’m not sure that I’ve abandoned this ‘oneness’ of thought but, maybe, adopted more of an “if you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em” attitude. I’ve decided, I think, for the time being, that if this Idea of a two sided universe is accurate, then everything that exists must be made up of both of these things in varying recipes. That is, I’m good but I have a bad side, there is truth in both versions of the tale, Sour Patch Kids are sweet and sour.

I guess what I am getting at is that, if a being of purely one side or the other exist, it sure as shit isn’t me. I like things all mixed up. I’m crazy like that.

I am declaring that Summer is officially unofficially here and I am inviting you, and you (you crazy kids!), to stop thinking about all this silly sort of shit and go outside and have some fun.

Keep smiling. Love ya.