war is over if you want it
Student: What does your t-shirt mean?Teacher: The quote?Student: Which war is over?Teacher: It is a slogan from a campaign John Lennon and Yoko Ono started fifty-five years ago.Student: Which war?Teacher: […]
War
from one to the next
In yesterday’s class there was an album presentation of Desire by Bob Dylan. It led to a talk about Hurricane the song. That led to a talk about Rubin Carter […]
an aspect of being human
is that if you know something, like if you know how to play the piano, you have to often mix with people who don’t know but want to start and […]
Joooooohn, Yyyyyyyokooooooo
Watching the propaganda around Trump and Kamala Harris sort of fascinating. I don’t have friends who share my view on the circus but that’s ok. Nobody I knew as a […]
ceelo green’s other hit
There is a tough and defiant young woman in my class. You don’t want to mess with her. I make further trouble pronouncing her name wrong – more than once. […]
war
When Harper won, Mendelson Joe lost his mind. He was so freaked out. He said nothing will ever be the same. He gave me shit one time for waiting for […]
moose
Richard Sherman died two weeks ago. He and his brother Robert were composers for a bunch of Disney hits particularly Mary Poppins. I was in Los Angeles when that doc […]
nothing but Earth
Realistically, everything is from the Earth, like rocket ships. Everything man appears to make comes from using parts found or transformed but always originating from the Earth. It made you […]
and i am saying it
People sometimes imagine life is a dream. But I am real – aren’t I? Sort of like discussions of God. I used to balk. How could one doubt something invented […]
mihaly
Listening to an interview with Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the man Chris Cavanagh recommended to me about creativity. He says one of the surprises when they began mapping data on more than […]