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Category Archives: Experiences
What I brought home from the Harvest
I had the pleasure of attending Harvest Music Festival in Arkansas this month with my wife and a couple of other friends. We camped on the festival grounds and took in three full days of live performances. This was my … Continue reading
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Tagged Angel of Death, Ballad of Donna and Bill, Bottom of the River, Chris Thile, Delta Rae, Fire, Golden Apple Dance, Goldfish, Hank Williams, Harvest Music Festival, honeyhoney, Jellyrollin' All Over Heaven, Joe Purdy, Leaning on the Everlasting Arms, Lost Highway, MacArthur Foundation, Movement and Location, Mulberry Mountain, North Mississippi Allstars, Ozark AR, Porchlight, Rig or Cross, Rye Whiskey, Split Lip Rayfield, The Giving Tree Band, The Punch Brothers, Tornado Rider, William Eliot Whitmore
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Quotes for the Day: Tech N9ne and Bob Dylan on musical theater
In order to bring you all this rawness I have learned from earth I hide behind face paint I can be who I want to be And I know its still me But I’m totally free with my face … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Brownlee, Bob Dylan, concerts, David Dark, Face Paint, Identity Theory, Isis, Matt Okie, Subterranean Homesick Blues, Tech N9ne, The Midland, Who Do I Catch?
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The Deafening Noise and Transient Joys of Las Vegas
Many people take a side trip from Las Vegas to visit the Grand Canyon. So I can’t be the first to comment on the jarring juxtaposition of ephemeral, glitzy, often tacky and ever-changing Vegas with a desertous, majestic, inhumane canyon carved from … Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona, Bob Dylan, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie, Nevada, Wendy, When the Deal Goes Down
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Tau’olunga faka’ofo’ofa
I recorded this clip 5 years ago today:
A Poem for Sunday: Sky-bursters
I wrote this poem while sitting through a church service in Tonga, at the Siasi Uesiliana Tauataina (Free Wesleyan Church) in Fakakai, Ha’apai. “Sky-burster” is the literal translation of a word in Tongan (palangi) meaning foreigner - so named because, according … Continue reading
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Tagged Church of Tonga, Fakakaka, Fakakakai, Free Wesleyan Church, Ha'ano, Ha'apai, Sky-bursters, Tonga, Tongan
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Inez Hauck, Thanksgiving 2011
I joined most of my family in Dixon, Missouri for a Thanksgiving reunion. My grandmother lives in a nearby nursing home and several of us visited her there. She has been slowly losing her mind for several years. She has … Continue reading
Happy Birthday, Sylvie Inez: A selection of photographs taken by little Ms. Sylvie; & Quote for the Day: Montaigne on the aim of parenting
In honor of my daughter’s 3rd birthday (which is today), I publish a selection of photographs she herself has taken over the past year. Sylvie very deliberately sets up frames; and for every dozen or so pictures she takes, she … Continue reading
Competing Quotes for the Day: Sam Harris contra the Avett Brothers on holding our children
Take an experience like carrying your child. You pick your child up hundreds of times a day, it seems. At a certain time, your child is going to get too heavy to pick up. At a certain point you will … Continue reading
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Tagged atheism, Avett Brothers, Bonnaroo, Down with the Shine, Sam Harris, Stoic themes in music, Stoicism, Sylvie
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Montaigne in a Small Town
I accidentally left my much beloved cheap translation of Montaigne’s Essays on top of a Redbox that I was holding Sylvie up to so she could make her own selection (as she insists). The book nowhere had my name in it, … Continue reading
