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LUNAR NEW YEAR AND MORE IN PORTLAND

My small group of five went to the Lunar New Year Parade in downtown Portland. Yes, that Portland. If you’ve heard about it and wonder, it’s not a smoldering city rocked by insurrection. But it was rocking. After living in bigger cities where most people visit and leave, including Portland, I was thrilled to see […]

WE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION, (FOR ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL)

From twitterX: I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning. Doesn’t that […]

STORY SHAPE: MORE SAG IN THE MIDDLE?

Story shape and physical fitness have that in common, the middle. From the beginning of ‘good fortune,’ the main character has a few moments until things dip downward. Think of the fanatical diet and exercise demon losing their edge in a Las Vegas buffet and taking off from the high dive into the Mexican, Italian, […]

YOU TIME + ME TIME = OUR TIME

‘Our time’ is full of hope and promise for a better world. That’s what I learned in kindergarten and it set me on my path. Maybe it’s a baby boomer notion, or maybe it’s everyone over a certain age who feels that hope. Either way a better world has been a long time coming and […]

DINGO FAMILY NEWS

I’ve got a dingo family living in my house, but it’s okay since I’m Baby Dingo. Why am I Baby Dingo? Because Daddy Dingo said so. Daddy Dingo is a five year old. I didn’t ask how they worked it out. Momma Dingo is my dog. We’re all happy. Happy daddy, happy momma, happy baby.

HISTORY BUSINESS MINDS THE STORE

History business is a museum, a class, an artifact. It’s all of that and more: it’s you, me, and the guy down the road. If you ask someone about it, you might hear something like, “I learned history in school.” There are other responses to the question, “What does history mean to you?”

ONE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE AFTER ANOTHER, 659 words

Consider, if you will, the attraction industry’s ‘immersive experience.’ Go here, do this; Go there, do that. Repeat as needed, as desired, as often as you feel like escaping the life around you? If that’s the goal, sign me up. So far I’ve immersed in what no attraction industry would offer. Maybe I’m not in […]

BE INSPIRED BY SEEKING INSPIRATION

To be inspired you have to seek it? What about seeing something accidentally, or unexpected, that hits just right? For some it’s a sunset, a beautiful sunset, the most incredible sunset since the night before. Call it inspirational, and you like it because it makes you feel inspired. Then what? Drinks? Take me for example:

Acting? Play acting? Playing? What’s the difference when an actor is playing a part? I’ve seen the difference from my third row center season tickets at The Armory. For years my wife and mother in-law were theater buddies, two outgoing ladies of a certain age parking underground, riding up in elevators, and walking the cement sidewalks […]

LUNAR NEW YEAR AND MORE IN PORTLAND

WE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION, (FOR ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL)

OLD SONG RINGS TRUE TODAY

STORY SHAPE: MORE SAG IN THE MIDDLE?

YOU TIME + ME TIME = OUR TIME

DINGO FAMILY NEWS

HISTORY BUSINESS MINDS THE STORE

ONE IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE AFTER ANOTHER, 659 words

BE INSPIRED BY SEEKING INSPIRATION

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