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Posted by: Admin on Wednesday, March 06, 2002 - 12:37 AM
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I had a wonderful experience in Seattle a week ago. Lisabeth and I traveled there for a convention, and took the opportunity before I went on-stage to tour around a bit. We ended up in Pike?s Marketplace. (Forgive me if I don?t get the name exactly right. I was calling it ?Pike?s Peak? for a while until several people kindly corrected me. I?m still not sure I?ve got it right.) |
 I had a wonderful experience in Seattle a week ago. Lisabeth and I traveled there for a convention, and took the opportunity before I went on-stage to tour around a bit. We ended up in Pike?s Marketplace. (Forgive me if I don?t get the name exactly right. I was calling it ?Pike?s Peak? for a while until several people kindly corrected me. I?m still not sure I?ve got it right.)
The marketplace was alive with color and activity, and we took full advantage of it. We had a wonderfully delicious halibut sandwich at one of the outdoor stands that specialize in the local fresh fish. We bought Washington apples from an apple vendor, and beautiful scarves from a couple of lovely ladies. We even bought a rock that said ?Live Long and Prosper? on it as a gift for Leonard, who was joining us at the convention. The rock vendors had a good laugh and told us the purchase would become a ?market story? after we left. All in all it was a grand time, and we left with our bags full of goodies.
We got to the convention and I had the bright idea to take the purchases up on the stage with me. Leonard couldn?t figure out what I was doing with all those bags, but I began taking out items one by one and sharing them with him. We ate apples on stage and then, saving the moment for last, I handed him his gift. The audience laughed as hard as he did. We went on to do one of the most enjoyable, funniest hours together on-stage that I can remember.
The incident reminded me of the role humor plays in my life. Although my earlier career involved many serious roles, I?ve always been aware of how important humor is to me. I kind of see it like this: the basis of humor in life is the joke that God is playing on us. What I mean is, we are all born with an awareness of death and each day brings us closer to it. That?s the joke that all humanity deals with. So we should go along with that irony and perplexing indecipherable humor. Then you become part of that grand laugh we call life.
 One of my clearest examples of this comes from the painful experience of my father?s death. I had gone to the undertaker?s to choose a coffin for his body; while I was looking all of them over, I could distinctly hear my very frugal father?s voice telling me he didn?t need a fancy coffin since he was already dead. Following this train of thought, I chose a very plain, simple wooden coffin I knew he would approve of as an extremely practical choice.
I returned to my parents? house where I met up with my sister, Joy. I told her I had chosen the cheapest coffin. She turned to me and asked, ?Why? Is it used??
Need I say more?
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