Law Humor

People we meet at church, part one

By Pseudoanonymous

This morning’s early service at church was titled Music and Religion, Part II (I missed Part I, darn it), and among the folks who were there were a visiting couple. Someone suggested that I’d enjoy talking with them, and that turned out to be true. Phil Kennelty is a musician from the New York City area with opinions different from but as strong as mine (and possibly better-informed) about The Band.

He and I had one of those wonderful, “Oh, yeah, I’ve heard that! And what about” talks about various musicians and music that I have less and less these days. Lately, I’m more the “Let me tell you about” guy, which is fun, but not so much as talking with someone with whom you mutually (but respectfully!) interrupt, back and forth, giving your own thoughts and memories about the same topics.

I didn’t spend so much time talking with his wife, Sharon, but she and my wife bonded, I believe, over watching their obsessed husbands do their music thing. She seemed very nice, and laughed gracefully when the conversation ended and I shook Phil’s hand and said, “It was nice talking to you,” then turned to her and said, “And it would have been nice talking to you, if I’d stopped talking to your husband long enough.”

It’s nice being social and meeting interesting people. With any luck, we’ll meet these folks again.

Full post as published by Arkansawyer on August 31, 2008 (boomark / email).