Everlasting

 

Let the summer gigs begin!

My schedule is suddenly very full.

Not the first show of the year, but it is a good one.

Tuck Everlasting, a show I was vaguely aware of by title, but

hadn't heard much about.

The music is very good. 

The show is based on the book of the same name by

Natalie Babbitt. 

Basically, it's about a family that becomes immortal by drinking water

from an enchanted spring in a wood.

Food for thought though: would you want to live forever?

I have questions first.

Can your body change? Like if you cut your hair, will it grow back?

Or does it stay unchanging like the vampires in the Anne Rice novels?

Do you have to trim your fingernails?

Does digestion work the same? Can you get cancer?

If you are immortal, does the cancer get killed off by the immortality?

So aside from the technical questions, would you want to live forever?

I'd probably have to say no.

Life is special because it is so short and fragile.

Being unbreakable might be fun for a while, but ultimately, I think,

it would get tiresome. 

Sometimes, the risk of something makes it worthwhile.

What happens when the Sun finally dies and the Earth is engulfed

in the swollen Red Giant it will become? Would an immortal finally get released?

Or would they just float off into space?

Are you only immortal within the confines of our Earthly atmosphere?

Would you get to experience the heat death of the Universe?

Would you get to see it collapse and explode again?

Would you starve because the food is all gone from the long-since-dead Earth?

Anyway, I finally got out to explore the new neighborhood. 

And I ordered this snazzy new rug for the dining room.

Really ties the room together.

Some additional research.

Restocked the supply of Doctor Slick cork grease.

I love this stuff. It's the best and only cork grease I'll use on my instrument fleet.

Long-lasting and doesn't deteriorate the corks.

I've been listening to this great podcast while at work.

It's called The Constant and is basically an entertaining historical

run through all the things people have gotten wrong about, well, about everything.

One episode featured Alfred Lawson, a baseball player/aviation expert/Utopian cult

leader who, for a few years, had a "university" in Des Moines.

A crackpot with an Iowa connection!

I was intrigued by his "zig zag and swirl" so managed to find

this biography to get some more information.

While Lawson did make some meaningful contributions to aviation,

his philosophies are a bit more on the wonky side. 

His school seems to have amounted to a Utopian commune for the

students who were apparently only allowed to read books by Lawson himself.

He had a whole theory about how to reinvent society without money, and how to

correct the laws of physics to  conform to his ideas.

Played the first of many jazz gigs at the Aledo Rhubarb Festival.

Look at the size of that pie!

Grabbed a Rhubarb soda pop to go to give it a taste when I got home.

Local-ish brew, as well, so bonus.

Going through some old stuff, found these old drawings.

Demon Butterfly vs. Fancy Unicorn

Who would win!?

Gave some of my time on a Saturday to act as a timer for the swimmers at

the QC Senior Olympics. Everyone did well and seemed to have a good time.

And I didn't drop my stopwatch into the pool.

The Cactus Family is settling in to their new window.

Everyone is perking up and doing their jobs as house cactussss'ss.

Still working on house details.

The bedroom is finally taking shape.

The platform base is sturdy and comfy. So far anyway.

Picked up a better mirror for the closet.

Keep an eye on your fluffy sharks!