Today's the 5th annual Dad-memorial gathering and scotch tasting. Getting together with my Dad's friends is great. They're all intensely creative, accomplished, brilliant people. People that can play the hurdy-gurdy? At least 3 among them, though they all seem to be able to play anything that makes noise. Professors? More than a couple. Though all of them possess the humble wisdom of someone who knows there's lots more to learn. They are old-school contra dance scenesters and folk musicians/composers. What do I ever talk with them about? Mostly about what Dad was like, I s'pose.