Improv

I kinda miss it. I was talking to my daughter Robin the other day and she said you misses it too. For almost 30 years I have done improv before an audience a couple of times a week. It is almost a faith for me. The flow of the universe comes in the endorphins of improv. But, then, all forms of performance are a link to something within that unites us all. In that moment of creation we are all joined at the soul. We are all in that moment together, a shared experience for performer and audience. My heart rejoices at all the points we touch within our minds during the show. When I say something before the crowd and they know what is beyond those words, we prove the magnificence of the physhic bond we have as brothers and sisters in this world.
Wow, am I pretentious? Yeah, well, maybe I am.

Lemmings

The story is that lemmings migrate at a breakneck speed. They do not run to throw themselves into the ocean. It is not intentional suicide, or racial suicide. It is just the need to follow someone, whether they know what they are doing or not. The leader would be the one to tell them when they got to the place they were going. In the course of the migration they come to lakes and rivers and ponds, and by their fervent paddling they cross them, and continue their furious journey to freedom and safety (two contradictory things, by the way) When they get to the ocean, they are too small to have prospective enough to realize that this is not just another pond or lake, and they assume they can cross this just as in the past. Then they drown. And the race of the Lemmings is wiped out. But, wait, there will be more lemmings. Why? There are always a few, those the others consider mad. Those who will not run with all the others. Those who will not follow the leaders for whatever reason. They just know that this race is going somehow wrong. The race is saved by the insane lemmings.
Welcome to the Society of Insane Lemmings. I will not run into the sea just because those with no more perspective than I are telling everyone to run in this direction. Join with me. Refuse to be caught up in the fever to just run. Run because that's what everyone else is doing. Run in this direction, because that is where everyone else is going.
Every great civilization that has collapsed has done so because they took the lemming way out. Even those that started with the noblest of ideals can fall victim to fear and popular panic.
I will not panic. I will not fear. I will be cautious. I will be safety minded. But I will not hide, I will not give up my rights. Franklin said, and Ike concurred, "Those who give up their freedoms for security deserve neither."
There are terrorists on both sides.
I will not give in to either.
The Insane Lemming has drawn a line in the sand.
Starting here, starting now.
I do not run.