I only now am finding time to note, in brief, a wonderful exchange I had last summer with the physician/activist/clown Patch Adams. A friend had given Patch the gift of a tie-dye patterned ukulele and asked me to help him get started due to my work with the Homebrew Ukulele Union.

Patch told me that he had always wished that he could play an instrument. We found our way through participatory music resonant with his approach to health and wellness through nutrition, love, faith, community, and peace. We were soon lost in song and in stories from Patch’s work around the world. He may have been late to start playing an instrument, but his passion reminded me that it is never too late.

Here we are, lost in song:

This being Patch Adams, here we are lost within what the Guinness Book of World Records has proclaimed the largest pair of underpants: