"In the total picture of natural events..."

                 BROADTAIL HUMMINGBIRDS NOT BEING FRIENDS

recently there has been some discomfort which has been brought about                                                      due to what I can only call ignorance and superstition on the part of                                                           some people who have hoped to portray me as some sort of dangerous                                                       person...a person who is, has or will do something extra-ordinary perhaps                                                 like turn someone into a newt..or a poot maybe....well I have had people                                                   threaten my life and so I will give some history and science to the problem

in 1692 there was a woman named Tituba who was a south american indian                                              who was working for a family in Salem, Mass....this woman said that she thought                                     one of the people in town was a witch...and before it was over with 19 people in town                             had been hanged for being "a witch"...serious bummer...now I don't read too much                                   fiction and as for harry potter and the hobbit I think the real world is a lot more                                        extraordinary than the "magic" being portrayed in some of the current fiction...a lot more                         excitement in physics and natural history than in fiction.....if you put nothing of real                                substantial factual information into your mind you will have a brain made of gummy bears                      and your life will be boring and dull...not exciting and interesting...now there is plenty                             of mystery and wonder in the world and people should take the time to find it and                                    not wallow in pathetic superstition...and accuse someone of witchcraft or deviltry 

"In a total picture of natural events, it is just as important to consider the exceptions                                  to the rule as the averages. This is the fallacy of the of the statistical picture; it is one-                             sided, in as much as it represents only the average aspect of reality and excludes the                                total picture. The statistical view of the world is a mere abstraction and therefor incomplete                    and even fallacious, particularly when it deals with human psychology. Inasmuch as                                 a chance maximum and minima occur, they are facts whose nature I set out to explore."                                                                                            Carl G. Jung "Synchronicity"

 

 

"The law can make you quit..."

                 HUMMINGBIRD GRILL NEW ORLEANS...

august 19, 1987 was the last time I consumed alcohol                                                                                   i never was a hang out at the bar type of drinker                                                                                           i looked for live music or a pool table                                                                                                           i have never been kicked out of a bar but I was refused                                                                               entrance to the "Little Bear" in Colorado once because the                                                                         security at the front door....well he never said why...but I                                                                            visited again and was allowed to enter....                                                                                                      I quit drinking in Colorado...and did a lot of drinking there prior to                                                            "getting sober"....I used to wonder why some people become drunks                                                           and others don't....I read that the ADH4 gene (alcoholdehydrogenase 4 enzyme)                                       allows people with this gene to metabolize alcohol quickly....which apparently makes                                them less likely to have alcoholic behavior....but usually a person with one addiction                              is likely have them all...so be aware that the alcoholic or addict in your life                                                has an illness, a disease, a genetic flaw...but that makes it no easier to live with. 

in november of 1987 the musician eric clapton quit drinking and after reading his                                      biography I realized that nobody is more powerful than an addiction...I have                                           a video of eric clapton with "derick and the dominos" on my johnny cash video                              and on the "concert for Bangladesh"  video. clapton makes some comments about                                    how wasted he was in the filming of this video...and george harrison says he played                                 flawlessly...now clapton has an addiction recovery facility called the "Crossroads Centre"                      in Antigua.  He has a benefit concert on a regular basis and on his 2004 concert he gives                          an extraordinary performance on DVD 2 in "Have you ever loved a woman(blues in C)"                          he is alive, animated and obviously one of the best guitarists alive or dead...and he has                            certainly earned the right to sing the blues...(check out his autobiography)

"The law can make you quit drinking but it can't make you quit being the kind that needs a                        a law to make you quit drinking." Don Marquis