Is it Heredity, Choice or Environment?

I lose things.

Pretty much anything and everything, from reading glasses to sunglasses, keys, wallets, rings, watches, clothes, books, pillows, you name it, I have lost it. I lost my car for a day. I even left my wife at a rest stop on the freeway (more on that later).

This is not something for which to be proud, if there were a 12 step program for "losers" I would humbly attend. Unlike other congenital diseases I can blame no one but myself. I have been smart enough to support myself, wife and four kids so it's not like I'm that intellectually challenged.

Part of it may be that we have much stuff to remember. Just to get out of the house every morning one has keys, wallets, money, phone, folders, books, and PDA's . . . plus doors to lock, alarms to set, heat or a/c adjustments; then there are the things in the wallet one must never forget, insurance and license renewals; not to mention the two renewals on the car itself, registration and inspection, which I never remember. Add that to multiple birthdays, anniversarys, holidays, meetings, practices, recitals, IRS forms, and there is no wonder I forget things. It's just too damned much.

I could take the academics excuse, that the contemplatation of the important things like existence itself and its meaning, are the true things to remember. But, I am not an academic. I just don't remember where I put the keys or parked the car, where I lay my glasses down last, or put the book I was reading.

And leaving my wife at the reststop?

Long before we had children, my wife and I had a full size van, with the two back seats taken out so that on long trips one of us could sleep. We were on such a trip and she was sleeping and I stopped at a freeway reststop to use the men's room. When I was in said mens room, she awoke and went into the ladies room, I returned, and like a bad I Love Lucy episode, took off without her. Before cellphones or pagers. But we did have CB radio. And yes, I was alerted via CB radio that I had forgotten something --- with some very funny comments by the truck drivers who relayed the message my "left-behind" wife had given them.

Food and Faith Sunday

Gospel Reading for November 4, 2007. Luke 19: 1-10

At that time, Jesus came to Jericho and intended to pass through the town.
Now a man there named Zacchaeus,
who was a chief tax collector and also a wealthy man,
was seeking to see who Jesus was;
but he could not see him because of the crowd,
for he was short in stature.
So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore tree in order to see Jesus,
who was about to pass that way.
When he reached the place, Jesus looked up and said,
"Zacchaeus, come down quickly,
for today I must stay at your house."
And he came down quickly and received him with joy.
When they all saw this, they began to grumble, saying,
"He has gone to stay at the house of a sinner."
But Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord,
"Behold, half of my possessions, Lord, I shall give to the poor,
and if I have extorted anything from anyone
I shall repay it four times over."
And Jesus said to him,
"Today salvation has come to this house
because this man too is a descendant of Abraham.
For the Son of Man has come to seek
and to save what was lost."

A Film Festival: Nov. 7, Downtown

The following post is the press release from the Lone Star Film Society. Congratulations and good luck to the organizers. Just another reason, "you gotta love Fort Worth."

This November, downtown Fort Worth will be home to the first Lone Star International Film Festival. On November 7-11, the Lone Star Film Society, will showcase approximately 60 films on 6 screens all located within walking distance of each other in Sundance Square. Bill Paxton, star of the HBO series Big Love and Fort Worth native will be attending the festival as chairman of the Advisory Board. The Grammy Award-winning band Brave Combo will play at The Opening Night Party at McDavid Studio. The festival schedule is packed with movie premieres, panel discussions, questions and answer sessions with filmmakers, and red carpet events. Films will be celebrated on Sunday morning with a closing day Awards Brunch at the Worthington Hotel. A full list of film can be found online at LSIFF.com.

For more information check us out on the web at LSIFF.com.

Scheduled Celebrity Appearances

Bill Paxton

Robert Rodriguez

Keith Carradine

Xander Berkeley

Kadeem Hardison

T Bone Burnett

Fred Durst

Steve-O

Jeff Tremaine

Jason 'Wee Man' Acuña

Harry Dean Stanton

Venues:

AMC Sundance

AMC Palace

Four Day Weekend Theater

UTA Fort Worth Campus

Fort Worth Public Library

McDavid Studio/Bass Hall Annex

8.0 Restaurant and Bar

Club Embargo