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Taking Off: December 2014
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014. Join Us on January 28 or Jan 29. It will be a wild ride. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I am a college administrator and teacher. I have worked at Austin Community College since 1978. I have published poems in a variety of journals and anthologies. I have authored/edited two college textbooks, two books concerned with Texas literature and writers, and four volumes of poems. In addition, I was a founder, editor, and publisher of MAN! View my complete profile.
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Taking Off: May 2014
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Friday, May 23, 2014. The Brew Tour, Part 2. September 14-September 29, 2013. Bar Harbor, Maine. From the beginning of planning for the Caravan of Wonder, we knew that an abiding concern for Waller Grant, or at least for Major Dude, would be local craft beer. I have reported on the allure of the grain for the first 6 weeks of the trip in the post “The Beer Tour.”. Most likely it was Ommegang. Sadly, the Dude has found few beers that equal Ommegang’s, yet. A Shipyard Pumpkinhead Ale. I had almost rather w...
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Taking Off: Fourth Quarterly Report Self-Interview August 25, 2014
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Thursday, August 28, 2014. Fourth Quarterly Report Self-Interview August 25, 2014. What ho, Dude! I have been trying to catch up with you. You are a hard man to find. Don’t know what you mean. I’ve just been living my life. Day to day, moving forward. Well, let me grab you for a few minutes and get some updates. You remember every three months you and I have talked about the previous months and how thing have been going on the trip. What is it you want to know? That’s rather difficult to determine. So we...
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Taking Off: March 2015
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Monday, March 9, 2015. Everything You Could Hope For (And So Much More) On Stage. By my friend Vive Griffith. In addition, I will be editing the video that we took of the two performances and including them in the Recent Video section of this blog's landing page. Also you can find the video at YouTube. But for now, just let me include some photos and text from the playbill. Knightsmama wrote the text below,which list most of the people with whom we had fairly substantive interactions. Kindnesses above me...
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Taking Off: The Residual of Grace
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Friday, August 22, 2014. The Residual of Grace. We always knew that July, the last month of our year on the road, was going to be difficult. This difficulty was created by two factors. First, everything evolved from Corvalis, Oregon, on June 14. Exactly, that date and those around it. After a great deal of dedication, which included taking classes in the early months of this trip, Knightsmama was being graduated from Oregon State University. The Grave of Sitting Bull. But here it is in a quick list:.
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Taking Off: Poetry, Song, and Stone
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Sunday, August 31, 2014. Poetry, Song, and Stone. The Grave of Irving Berlin. We are on an American adventure, and sometimes I turn to American songs for advice. I am a codger, so I sometimes choose Rick Nelson. One of the recurring themes of the Caravan of Wonder is “You can’t please everyone.”. On November 13, our last day parked in Jersey City, we followed the corollary to that rule:. 8220;You’ve got to please yourself.”. So Knightsmama and I separated:. But if I had gone to the city that day, I would...
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Taking Off: July 2014
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Friday, July 25, 2014. I have two rituals when I am writing the kind of academic essays that require a greater level of concentration than I am usually willing to give to the duties of my life. You can read into the latter part of that sentence all that you want regarding my attitude toward family and work. Let’s focus on the first half of the sentence. I really like writing academic essays of some length, say, 20 pages or more, based upon primary and secondary sources and all that. Which Way Did We Go?
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Taking Off: American Soundtrack
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This Land Is My Land. This Land is My Land. Simon and Garfunkel. America. Neil Diamond. America. Canned Heat. Going Up to the Country. Johnny Cash. I've Been Everywhere. The Grateful Dead,. ZZ Top. Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers. James Brown. Living in America. Merle Travis. I Am a Pilgrim. Billy Joel: We Didn't Start the Fire. The Rolling Stones,. Mother's Little Helper.". That's the Way God Planned It.". It's a Wonderful World.". Old Man River.". The Fool on the Hill.". In Heaven There Is No Beer.".
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Taking Off: American Museum
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As the Caravan of Wonder makes its way across the United States, the family occasionally gets to visit art museums and public art displays. Between August, 2013, and March 2014, we have visited the following places:. The de Young Museum. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The J Paul Getty Museum. New Mexico Museum of Art. The Dallas Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Modern Museum of Art. The Boston Museum of Art. The Peabody Essex Museum. The Portland Museum of Art. St Louis City Park.
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Taking Off: Join Us on January 28 or Jan 29
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Tuesday, December 30, 2014. Join Us on January 28 or Jan 29. It will be a wild ride. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I am a college administrator and teacher. I have worked at Austin Community College since 1978. I have published poems in a variety of journals and anthologies. I have authored/edited two college textbooks, two books concerned with Texas literature and writers, and four volumes of poems. In addition, I was a founder, editor, and publisher of MAN! View my complete profile. Everything Yo...
