Hanging Out with Other Human Beings...

Being sociable. That has been the theme the last few days. Hanging out with other Human Beings. Usually when my partner and I are around folks, we are on stage, performers performing for an audience, playing music with our band. The conversations before & aftewards are usually short & sweet. This holiday season, there has been no performing, just socializing: eating, talking, hanging out. Family & community. It has been a great, instructive reminder that Human Beings are social animals. We need the interaction, & communication to keep our heads in the game. Most of the folks we met and chatted with reside on the creative side of things: painters, poets, musicians, writers, DJs, teachers, gardeners. Our tribe. There is Hope in the tribe; everyone intent on keeping their heads, working on projects, living well-rounded, enriching lives. We all basically tuned out the looming dystopia. Sure, the horrow-show government, the fascists & bullies, hung over us like black, toxic-clouds, but we turned away, talked about music, & music-making, art, literature. It was all quite inspiring. The folk are doing their best to get through to next possibilities. Hopefully, maybe a better way, a better day ahead. We all wondered a little about what that could be, but the focus was on the next song, the next book, the next meal, the next good story.