following up, here’s a pretty cool video if you’re the kind of person wishing an entire major league ballpark was shooting off fireworks while you were singing “free bird.”
Just a snippet of the best fireworks show I’ve ever seen, and my personal favorite moment from the Cleveland trip…as you can see from my reaction at the end
On Visiting Cleveland
Verbatim written on Cleveland Indians ticket envelope at Prosperity Social Club in Cleveland, OH, around 1:30 in the AM, after consuming several Kentucky Ales (which by the way is basically a Jack Daniels beer and therefore the best liquid ever invented).
Two things I already appreciated greatly but (if possible) appreciate even more after this trip - MUSIC and FRIENDS. Most real conversation we’ve had in a while. Is that what a “social club” sets out to create? Maybe initially for their own members, but when you open it socially, is that what people experience from just being there? Does this patio with red, warped picnic tables, metal tables and chairs, no music, not much sound really except the hum of crickets and other night dwellers as background, coupled with a few other conversations happening on the patio - not that constant din you hear at a ballgame or other crowded venue, but when you actually hear every word people are saying. It creates a genuine human experience that should be appreciated for a long time…and I thank God that I’m here for it, as mundane as it may appear to others, because it is significant enough to record and maybe not analyze too much later…but right now it’s the only thing that matters. And it’s Cleveland of all places…but being away from the foundation you almost always have to return to…but these moments and these experiences make going back to those foundations a little easier…just do stuff…don’t shy away from everything. I never want these moments to end…which is why I’m constantly pestering people to do something…like come to a place like Cleveland. Kelly asked the question: when are you happiest? And my answer was basically when I’m with my friends…and as usual…when the night shows signs of ending is when I yearn for it to start over.
