Climbing

I've been taking Andi with me on my weekly climbing sessions with Dave and Barry (and sometimes Andy). She's been improving each week. This week, she got to the top four times, on two different routes. Very exciting.

Everything's OK

This is Danny. Danny doesn't take himself too seriously, though he has a very serious message:

Everything Is OK
Except that everything is not OK. He rails against Capitalists, bankers, the police, government drug and terrorist policies. He says we just need to love each other. But then he says that everything around us, all the differences, are illusion. So what's the good of love if we're all the same? Kind of self-serving if you ask me. But that's ok, you see, in fact, everything's ok. Because Danny is just having fun. Or maybe not.
His speech is riddled with paradox, irony, sarcasm, and contradiction. At one point, he gets stopped by the police because he appears to be promoting drug use. At another point he grabs the megaphone away from his friend to announce to the crowd that I'm a Presbyterian. His partner and I chat for a while about why Jesus came, and why Christians teach that faith in Jesus is essential for life. It's easy to talk about these serious things, because nobody's taking themselves very seriously...or are we?