thoughts on the news of the day: weird

hmmm…..

            The Austin City Limits Music Festival is taking place in Austin, TX.  I know this because I read it on the internet, but also because I am visiting my daughter there.  The festival  lives up to the motto of the city, “Keep Austin Weird” by presenting all sort of indie (independent) rock groups plus a few well known ones like Kanye West and Coldplay. 

            Large group festivals are a place where you won’t find me.   I don’t like the crowds, the prices, and the lack of closeness to the performer.  I suppose the electricity of the live performance is appealing, though.  And I get that.  Live theater fits that category.  I used to be on the board of a Shakespeare Festival in southeastern Oklahoma and there was nothing that could beat the thrill of watching hard working artists perform for a live audience.   Anything could happen and sometimes it was a little weird.

            The saying goes, “Life is not a dress rehearsal” comes to mind.  We live our lives as if we had plenty of “do-overs” but really we do not.  What happens now, happens.  We can’t get any time back, we can’t re-say that awful thing we said to our loved one.  We can’t go back and work harder at that job, or that project or that speech.

            We have to live each day to its fullest.  Even if sometimes, its a little “Weird”.

            hmmm…..