Equinox Do You Know This Man?

My new friend Chris Melillo has told me in no uncertain terms that although he likes my scribes he said I should consider lowering the price of my $3.00 excuse me now $5.00 words. I swear that I am but an amateur wordsmith and when I write the words fall nascent and the only thing I think about is not using the same words more than once if possible. Chris on the verge of becoming a proud papa for the third time is always entertaining in the locker room and what I dig about him is his absolute honesty albeit unfiltered. He is roborant on many levels.  

And he has the best Nike Shoes on the Planet. 

The Seventh Sin

Not since The Wolf’s Cry have I been motivated to write anything about the subject of love and corporeal delights. This time the subject is infidelity. Infidelity is one of the few remaining sins that have a seemingly universal condemnation factor in the court of public opinion. The unwritten law expressed implicitly in every conjugal relationship is exclusivity. Judging by how often this decretum is broken whether there is a legal contract in place or not makes me think that monogamy is futile. For some fidelity is never a question in their relationship but for most of the population some of whom can’t stay on a diet, stick to a exercise regimen or remember to take their prescription medicine daily fidelity is as hopeless as never breaking the 10 commandments. 

The energy of sex has many dimensions. Simply put intercourse and its many variations do not necessarily carry the same weight as the emotion of love does. There are many that will insist however that it does. Some actually believe that the God given act of love does not mean that love is essential to a physical union of and for the sake of this piece a man and a woman. Conventional wisdom says that penetration carries just as much gravity as the theory of continuance in that once consummated outside of “the relationship” the disdain becomes The Seventh Sin. 

A fervent Act of Contrition or even the Sacrament of Penance does not remove the Seventh Sin. The clergy may grant absolution for the perpetrators but the hostility and betrayal are not only held in perpetuity but forgiveness is the one act of charity that is withheld. The wounded are excused from any part as the proximating cause of The Seventh Sin but that’s because the floodlights of attention are on those that are found in flagrante delicto. The Seventh Sin or the acts of infidelity for those victims of love are bloodstained forever and The Scarlet Letter lives on with The Seventh Sin.  

My Best Friend

We met in 5th grade and I knew then that this young man would be pivotal in my life even at the tender age of 10.  There was something about him that gave me the knowing that there he’d be on the worst day of my life some 8 years later when my beloved sister passed from this earthly domain. I recall him meeting me at the end of the driveway ready to console me and he did so by his mere presence. He had the courage to appear when most of my acquaintances became shrinking violets.   Many meant well but when people don’t know what to say they stay away when in truth there were no words anyone could say. He became my best friend that day even though I knew it long before. 

He was instrumental in elevating my courage when I donned skis for the first time and his fearlessness was my example to venture when my heart was timid. He loved the Beach Boys and 50 years later those songs still resonate with me as but one of his gifts he bestowed on me.  We experienced many of the rights of passage of youth and it was he who was responsible to guide me into the college that would alter my course irrevocably. 

Magically he arrives again after a long hiatus and I know that because I am playing a different instrument he hears the music. I wasn’t ready for him for so many years but now I think I just might be.  My best friend Bobby is again standing at the end of my driveway.  There are no coincidences none.