Returning home
It is Sunday and PGA golf is on television. I returned home this afternoon after 3 shows in Pennsylvania over the weekend. This present day began at 4am EST (hence, one of the reasons I’m currently watching golf: it’s a pleasing napping medium. Golf on television being a close second to watching Bob Ross paint his “happy trees”). I came to the conclusion this weekend that I’m not a very good business traveler. I am a control hound so I easily get rattled amid tickets, connectors, luggage and scurrying antlike through America’s concrete tarmac. It didn’t help that my day on Tuesday (getting to Philadelphia) was a page taken straight out of Planes, Trains & Automobiles (John Candy, Steve Martin). Minus the “those aren’t pillows” moments.
The first show on Wednesday night was at Westminster Theological Seminary. Speaking of golf….the crowd was a lot like a golf crowd: very polite and eerily quiet. It startled me but they were a gracious group. Great to see The Foolish Sage again.
Friday was a very enjoyable show at The Mad Donkey Coffeehouse w/ AustinEcho (John Austin and Erin Echo). John and Erin were a pair of folks I’d like to spend more time with. Thank you guys for continuing to write, record and tour. I’ll hope to visit you in Hershey one day.
Saturday night was in Quarryville, PA at The Coffee Bean. A gracious crowd showed up and I played until my splitting headache refused more. Bob, the promoter, and his family were kind enough to have me as their guest yet again. Justin, thanks for giving up your bed to a musician-stranger.
All told on this trip, cheesesteaks were eaten, NCAA basketball and Batman Begins viewed, world history absorbed, reformed theology discussed and Dieter & Colleen were devoutly generous hosts throughout. I’m glad I’m back home, albeit for less than 24 hours. I have to leave again this time to rural Jasper, GA for 5 days but at least Danielle will be part of this jaunt. For me, returning home after a string of shows is what rest - the good and ultimate Rest - should be: rewarding in its sheer, peculiar joy.
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