Well, yesterday was quite a day.

And, yeah.

I am going to head to the park today and try to get another day of music in. We'll call it a rainout.

But, yesterday....I mean, a really weird kinda day. I'll tell you all about it in a minute. But first... if you're new here, check out the Podcast (I Love the Company) for this weekend. And, if you're reallly new here and got here through that underground site, maybe you oughta also click on this link to hear last week's Wednesday Wake-Up Call.

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Man! I love playing music with you guys in Central Park.

Photo by Lisa Regal

Now about that day.

It started out great.... typically wonderful. Playin' music, hangin' with the nicest people on the face of the earth, enjoying a few hours together in the greatest city on the planet.

But, suddenly... the energy got rocked.

Rocked by a woman who calls herself a minister.... really incongruous state of affairs if you ask me. (Ah, maybe she was just havin' an off-day. We all have 'em.) But, if you were there, you know what I'm talkin' about. In the 15 years I've been playing music in that spot, I have never once given anybody a hard time who's asked me to accommodate them for something like a little wedding ceremony that might take place nearby. (Especially in the "Ladies Pavillion" behind me.) I always either stop playing for a little while, or play very quiet little love songs and "story" songs until the ceremony is over.

But, this woman apprroached me, literally shaking with anger. Instead of telling me what she was doing and asking politely if I would keep it down during her thing, she kinda barked at me and asked abruptly if I had a permit. (Yes. Yes, I do.) Then telling me she was gonna call the Parks Department to complain and all this confrontational nonsense.

Just very mean-spirited and totally unecessary.

The really Good news is that in my Life, there is always a balancing act going on. I treated her a nicely as I could and, as is always the way when I come from a place of Love instead of fear like this woman, there were actually 2 weddings goin' on. And the other minister, a tall man with a great white beard and kindness in his eyes, balanced the whole thing out.

And, to make this womnan's anger and assault even more ridiculous... her wedding party was nearly an hour late getting started, and the whole thing took about 12 minutes.

Jeeesh!

Anyway, then... it started to rain so I stopped and began packing up the equipment. But THEN... people started to gather around a really nice guy who apparently was having either a heart attack or an episode of severe low blood pressure or something.... passed out... then Damn! He stopped breathing.

Seriously.

The people all gathered. Raised the guys legs up in the air and this other guy... the guy in the picture (His name is Kevin.) ... performed mouth-to-mouth on the guy and started him breathing again. Then, everybody just calmly hung out until the ambulence arrived and made sure the guy was alright.

Photo by Sean Friedman

(Y'know, that's one rule I kind of insist upon most days. There will be no dying on "The Hill".)

But, man... interesting day. I lead a very interesting life, y'know?

By the way, I hope you enjoyed this weekend's "I Love the Company". Here are the musical guests. Matthew Ebel, Kirsten Thein, The Gorsky's, and the Kids of Selsted School.

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(Man! I'm slow sometimes.)

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Okay... gotta get runnin' again. Hope I see you in Central Park today.

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