Three, I keep hearing Willie Nelson and that song of his which Heather's words echo, and that sign with its list of towns and good qualities all invite us toward.
Three, I keep hearing Willie Nelson and that song of his which Heather's words echo, and that sign with its list of towns and good qualities all invite us toward.
There was a PBS documentary about Kris Kristofferson a few years ago. The family disinherited him, wanted nothing to do with him after he dropped out of military school?
Read his Wikipedia page. His story is fascinating. He was a military helicopter pilot, Rhodes Scholar, then helicopter pilot for Petroleum Helicopters Inc in Louisiana. It's a good read. More accurate than most our memories.
I knew most of that. Best tale was when he left the “legit” life and worked as a janitor at the Grand Ole Opry. He hung around the stage when he could, and one night he couldn’t get away. Johnnie Cash asked where he was and he was ‘in’ from then on…
What we now know, D.O., perhaps as never before is that old adage: "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." We simply have to beat them at the polls. There is zero chance of any meeting of the minds.
When schools center humanities, we'll get skilled in applying them to people as individuals. People being people, as Barbra sang long ago.
We won't be trapped anymore by the packaging, stereotyping, group silos, and all the other ways our billionaire classes have fomented hate, division, and what Hunter S. Thompson saw, also back then, as "fear and loathing."
Equipped with humanities, and the patience, openness, and skills to connect to "others" as individuals, in all manner of complex communities (a couple of Faulkner sentences, anyone?), we can get to all those places in the photo Heather sent us today.
I’m in Gray Maine, but I visit my dear cousin Lisa who is an artist living on Martins point in Friendship. We often walk to the nature preserve on the end of the point. I wave to HCR from there across the bay in her kayak, but she can’t see me.
My favorite quote from actor George Sanders “the other is just us on a different day.” Or something like that…has been more true for me than I want to admit.
Something's gone terribly wrong in the U.S., Jeri.
If our schools had kept some healthy humanities, we'd have many much more comfortable with the vagaries, contradictions, complications, and other of which Joseph Brodsky used to call the "loose ends" of life.
Without that built-up, well-nurtured humanity, fearsome monsters have grown abroad the land. Do they rule?
The November election will answer that -- given that the billionaires, white trash, hate-filled terrorists, and venomously intolerant now seem dark-money-organized and set to kill the democracy and all its (now dehumanized?) institutions.
Your fears have been mine for decades. I have watched so much pushing of the boundaries, no pushback, then more aggressive pushing, with slow-walking pushback, then finally precious little pushback. Just join Fox down the rabbit hole. The monsters have become just that and people seem to think it’s a theme park. Woke is a good thing to be…
Another excellent post, Jeri. I love "and people seem to think it's a theme park." I would much rather be woke than down the rabbit hole which leads to a very large black hole.
Excellent post, Phil. I always love it when someone posts positive words about the humanities. Everything today seems to be about money. I do understand that people need to make a living, but we can value the humanities for what they bring to our way of viewing the world and acting in it.
All I know is my life started when I entered college and had my first art class. It was the first time I felt like I belonged. Although I spent thirty years teaching special ed, I also had my own business picture framing for my sanity.
One, there's the names of these towns in Maine.
Two, Heather says she's "on the road again."
Three, I keep hearing Willie Nelson and that song of his which Heather's words echo, and that sign with its list of towns and good qualities all invite us toward.
“Freedom’s just another word for nuthin left to lose, freedom ain’t worth nuthin if it’s free”
One of my favorite songs: Daniel Kahn "Freedom is a verb"!
One of my favorites also. I remember Janis Joplin singing this.
I could not find any records of Janis singing that song, are you thinking of Me and Bobby McGee?
I am and I am just up. I think there is a line in her song, Freedom's just another word for nuthin left to lose.
Yes..
Yes .. was just listening to her yesterday.. i think it was a recording from a concert
Didn’t Kris K write that when his mom disowned him for becoming a hippie (in her view). Read that somewhere. No idea where…
Yes, Kris K wrote it and I do believe you are right about the situation.
Thank you, thinking back, maybe it was on a PBS show with Johnny Cash, Kris, etc. His Mom would never win mother of the year. Doubt dad would either.
There was a PBS documentary about Kris Kristofferson a few years ago. The family disinherited him, wanted nothing to do with him after he dropped out of military school?
Read his Wikipedia page. His story is fascinating. He was a military helicopter pilot, Rhodes Scholar, then helicopter pilot for Petroleum Helicopters Inc in Louisiana. It's a good read. More accurate than most our memories.
I knew most of that. Best tale was when he left the “legit” life and worked as a janitor at the Grand Ole Opry. He hung around the stage when he could, and one night he couldn’t get away. Johnnie Cash asked where he was and he was ‘in’ from then on…
Lotta good road songs out there, D. O.
What we now know, D.O., perhaps as never before is that old adage: "The price of freedom is eternal vigilance." We simply have to beat them at the polls. There is zero chance of any meeting of the minds.
Amen
Now im not sure i quoted that correctly.. listening to her its hard to tell
Ironic that Harmony is furthest away.
We can get it back, Ellen.
When schools center humanities, we'll get skilled in applying them to people as individuals. People being people, as Barbra sang long ago.
We won't be trapped anymore by the packaging, stereotyping, group silos, and all the other ways our billionaire classes have fomented hate, division, and what Hunter S. Thompson saw, also back then, as "fear and loathing."
Equipped with humanities, and the patience, openness, and skills to connect to "others" as individuals, in all manner of complex communities (a couple of Faulkner sentences, anyone?), we can get to all those places in the photo Heather sent us today.
I’m in Gray Maine, but I visit my dear cousin Lisa who is an artist living on Martins point in Friendship. We often walk to the nature preserve on the end of the point. I wave to HCR from there across the bay in her kayak, but she can’t see me.
My favorite quote from actor George Sanders “the other is just us on a different day.” Or something like that…has been more true for me than I want to admit.
Something's gone terribly wrong in the U.S., Jeri.
If our schools had kept some healthy humanities, we'd have many much more comfortable with the vagaries, contradictions, complications, and other of which Joseph Brodsky used to call the "loose ends" of life.
Without that built-up, well-nurtured humanity, fearsome monsters have grown abroad the land. Do they rule?
The November election will answer that -- given that the billionaires, white trash, hate-filled terrorists, and venomously intolerant now seem dark-money-organized and set to kill the democracy and all its (now dehumanized?) institutions.
Your fears have been mine for decades. I have watched so much pushing of the boundaries, no pushback, then more aggressive pushing, with slow-walking pushback, then finally precious little pushback. Just join Fox down the rabbit hole. The monsters have become just that and people seem to think it’s a theme park. Woke is a good thing to be…
Another excellent post, Jeri. I love "and people seem to think it's a theme park." I would much rather be woke than down the rabbit hole which leads to a very large black hole.
One of my favorite George lines is " I don' t want to kill you, but I would so enjoy it "
Excellent post, Phil. I always love it when someone posts positive words about the humanities. Everything today seems to be about money. I do understand that people need to make a living, but we can value the humanities for what they bring to our way of viewing the world and acting in it.
Amen and Amen ☘️ 💙🇺🇲💙🇺🇲
All I know is my life started when I entered college and had my first art class. It was the first time I felt like I belonged. Although I spent thirty years teaching special ed, I also had my own business picture framing for my sanity.
Wow! And look at all the good "places" we go on our way there!