Midweek Cafe and Lounge, Vol. 145

Good evening or morning, wherever your particular time zone may be as I post this.

I want to start with a video I posted when I started this series of diaries (as they were called then) at the original Frog Pond:

It was a post with multiple messages that seemed desperately needed at the time, and are still desperately needed. One is that we as a people (and by a people I mean more species-wide) are only going to survive by embracing diversity and cooperation. The other salient message was a subtle “fuck you” to the nationalists (right-wing and left-wing) who in their various ways created the conditions we are now suffering under, and that will now only likely get worse. I was always an internationalist of one sort or another. That was never going to change, no matter how much some on the old frog pond tried to badger folks like me into toeing a different line. I’m still here, and in one way or another will defend at all costs a set of values that is genuinely humanistic.

There is undoubtedly a spiritual aspect to Bob Marley’s work that is important to understand. I am not religious in the least. I do see us all as in some way interconnected, whether we want to believe it or not, whether want to acknowledge it or not.

I honestly don’t know an appropriate impending war-time drink. Not even sure how appropriate that would be. I will make sure the bar is open. So is the jukebox.

We all need each other. Now more than ever.

Author: Don Durito

Left of center and lover of photography, music, pop culture, and life. Favorite quote - "There are no innocents. There are, however, different degrees of responsibility" (Lisbeth Salander, from Stieg Larsson's original Millennium Trilogy).

13 thoughts on “Midweek Cafe and Lounge, Vol. 145”

    1. By the late 1990s, it seems like a lot of former Deadheads had migrated to Phish or Medeski, Martin & Wood (or MMW). I was at a MMW gig in 1998 and it felt like I was at a Dead gig, given the crowd. MMW at their best are a great jam band.

    1. Generally thought that for a long time. I think living in arid and semi-arid regions for much of my early life led me to understand at the very least that those tended to waste a lot of water, depleting water tables, rivers, etc., and depriving water necessary to sustain life. That the same golf courses would be a threat to wildlife that inhabit an area makes sense as well. I sometimes end up offending people by claiming that golfing is the waste of a perfectly good walk (I forget who originally said that). Personally, I’ll stick to various trails I’ve come to enjoy over the years.

      We’re not good stewards of our planet. In the meantime, if a golf course in your community closes, celebrate. I know I did a couple years ago here. They can be turned into green spaces.

      1. Around here, we’ve converted many of the abandoned rail lines into excellent nature preserves and hiking/biking trails. Perhaps a model?

        1. I like repurposing abandoned rail lines. One of my favorite pedestrian bridges was once a rail line (regrettably a bit of a drive for me to make it there). Makes for a scenic and invigorating walk, run, or bike ride.

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