Publisher's Synopsis
Notes made on Napkins from American Bar tops are converted to a very smooth flow of a diverse set of short stories, comments and lyrics. The intriguing groupings of people is a dynamic as the flow changes and the variety of groups is exciting as different needs become apparent. Activities change with time and the mood surrenders to the new additions. The theme of all of this is 'events in life' with a bar room background. The changing activities are very numerous and compounded by the many taverns experienced from the many towns and cities in the South, the North-East, Las Vegas and Genoa in Nevada and San Francisco, Mill Valley and Bolinas in California plus Honolulu in Hawaii.
The variety of challenges, fun and competitive actions provoke all the interactions and the action is on stage for the audience. Discussions obviously follow and alternate reactions take place. This book is a recording of just some of these interesting topics.
Observations of the Bar activities tend to be compounded by the various locations and this leads to interesting personalities and their interactions and the stories are profoundly different. The mixture then is very interesting and many times provocative. Personalities due to the atmosphere are truthful and if not reasonable they are what they are!
Most of the activities belong to the truth category because they were witnessed and really took place. The place and time is accurate and can you see everything--no! Many conversations were of the truth category and believed to be true and that is a judgment that is made everyday of your life; and we become very good at it.
Events in life are plentiful and when you travel and visit different places the horizon is almost never reached. This book has encompassed a large number of places from Hawaii to Tennessee, up to towns near Seattle and that is a large triangle. It is a wide distribution in the number different types of people. Even the top to bottom of California represents a large cross section of people. This makes for interesting action and reaction stories. If you have had extensive travel in your life with a good proportion of time available, you are instinctive to the ever-changing surroundings and your judgment moves up a notch.
There are all ages in the written words of the book and many different relationships are touched upon. Emotions exist throughout the book. Not a single story lacks an emotion of some kind.
The selection of a bar is essential. A tavern atmosphere --- often provides time to reflect-preferably old-very authentic-plus the profound personalities and sounds of people involved in these interactions of "Free Time And Love"
