tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37286255688110198902024-03-13T03:06:27.714-07:00Bunker MentalityMorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.comBlogger226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-53038705049101812592024-03-03T09:37:00.000-08:002024-03-12T11:05:06.928-07:00Completely Random - or not.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjW9TNcI0szrly3Cnzi7c4ybT7Un4heWvm6OahmbXXTRg2mzXYDj60064p_Z3MIQcZjeAuf6Dy8CPWC41m_UIO2gqxdwSblZafR_L_MPrGwtZQNZH1AYjdkhAc8esHN4h1hnI1dHPN1SUjZsMyJO_1R3S7CuLiVh1_w3XjJjSI6l4Kq9O1ZuPO4mgPUQg/s4032/Art%20Classroom%2023-24%20ON.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjW9TNcI0szrly3Cnzi7c4ybT7Un4heWvm6OahmbXXTRg2mzXYDj60064p_Z3MIQcZjeAuf6Dy8CPWC41m_UIO2gqxdwSblZafR_L_MPrGwtZQNZH1AYjdkhAc8esHN4h1hnI1dHPN1SUjZsMyJO_1R3S7CuLiVh1_w3XjJjSI6l4Kq9O1ZuPO4mgPUQg/s320/Art%20Classroom%2023-24%20ON.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5tCl6QIXi5BQrHJjFlEjgRdSeLb-t_l_fQtki6GnxP6FTxybJy0nHvLPPwMAh3XCF3tltUYCh4hoGvRBsGkOrzRM-P14VxPFN5LUePERXUy6603gR3Q3a9oJNQtHdOpabEBunggpTMpz7wa9cOKxAc2aNl9A_jwGgI9avhyA0ZzC8KgSelrFljIq26Mo/w400-h300/morgan%20bb%20westview.JPG" width="400" /></i></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Above: My Old North art classroom 2023, my special ed classroom at Westview Middle in 2021.</i></p><p>Change is constant. Episodic as my life continues to be, I keep stumbling into joyfulness. So I just have to think the ups and downs are the way things have to be. Knowing what I have endured, I tend to embrace change. Even if it makes me a bit uncomfortable (especially if it makes me uncomfortable). </p><p>My nephew JV asked me to cooperate with his almost 15 year old daughter for her assignment to inverview an adult (over 50). He encouraged her to pick me as her subject. She did. She was nervous about conducting the interview as she knew more<i> of</i> me than <i>about</i> me. Anticipating the session, I became a bit reflective. "How did I get to this place in time?" I wondered. Does the sum of the parts really equal the whole person? Is it more complicated than that?</p><p>I was having lunch with my golfing pal on Saturday after a round of early Sping Golf, when I bumpled into an old friend who happens to be a talented artist. I met him when he moved to Saint Louis from England more than twenty years ago. John had, among other things, designed an album covers for the rock n roll band Boston. That encounter triggered my own personal connection with the band as a recurring soundtrack. I frequented a roller rink in Miami during my undergraduate years. <i>"More than a Feeling"</i> was a perfect tune for me as I cruise the roller rink pondering the future.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnARrAy1YBE0x2HbO528u8I2ALgtNySAeaSn9eyr6I08TWvLXLtahyphenhyphenr6krRAWtd9y0HKXnGW-61pF8loxyAoa1MlgOCQF9gad5a0aAJSJL-F-9CslBFzPsIWT6fb8_IDNwbt3owqpaYwfEkFhLPCouPIkJkLA14faROVFaFEMuFE6WIspIgyFaU56Zjtw/s4032/IMG_3954.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnARrAy1YBE0x2HbO528u8I2ALgtNySAeaSn9eyr6I08TWvLXLtahyphenhyphenr6krRAWtd9y0HKXnGW-61pF8loxyAoa1MlgOCQF9gad5a0aAJSJL-F-9CslBFzPsIWT6fb8_IDNwbt3owqpaYwfEkFhLPCouPIkJkLA14faROVFaFEMuFE6WIspIgyFaU56Zjtw/s320/IMG_3954.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>My brother Greg was captured in a Miami department store (Burdine's I think) for a skin care demonstration and newspaper story about the same era as when I was a regular at the Roller Rink (listening to among others, the rock n roll of Boston). Funny, he always had a cigarette in those days.</i></p><p>I have an offer to resume as Art Teacher at Old North Academy even as I have mixed feelings about this year before Spring break. Flattering but a little thankless too. Anyway, they're giving me a generous 15 days to think about the offer. (I might give them more than 15 days to think about thier offer.) </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Ur7L_wAujGUlDNdRh-Jn1kYNOoCmI_pJRgYcOv5FV-ayYsBC9ux3r8uxtlCuwNT-C-hN7_RBXrWcdEL31-c1dPA-ygaGTKno-JZJ0wmEfx0KossU3ohvm-HyNUgb7yTCxPZKH2CqXnSCPwbJtuX8Rk629eXtlfntbYg_hbyx2ApkFU8fjIaraIuFZiE/s2736/always%20flowers%20for%20those%20who%20want%20to%20see%20them.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1781" data-original-width="2736" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8Ur7L_wAujGUlDNdRh-Jn1kYNOoCmI_pJRgYcOv5FV-ayYsBC9ux3r8uxtlCuwNT-C-hN7_RBXrWcdEL31-c1dPA-ygaGTKno-JZJ0wmEfx0KossU3ohvm-HyNUgb7yTCxPZKH2CqXnSCPwbJtuX8Rk629eXtlfntbYg_hbyx2ApkFU8fjIaraIuFZiE/w640-h416/always%20flowers%20for%20those%20who%20want%20to%20see%20them.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><i>"There are always flowers for those who want to see them" - Henri Matisse. </i></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu3GGogHqjnHpyHOakxCXj8g4NevISblRko0-Pr4MFakUz76CRJymwjVXMw5O66RIAoG-vF6Y9UCvdvVqDJC2M9lmnB5MsAwrP1Km77wi-a5CRYjNvg6pxlVATjDy1KvXsSczUbJSWHpj-PH6BTTH3Ph6f8opst9xTDnZWKdT2NBvQhvhXy-7NtWXz9eI/s320/Lawton%20Poem.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">My Poem</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The World </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">by Lawton</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">As the flowers grow.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Leaves fall.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Roots in the ground.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">Wind blows.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">World is beautiful.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">The end. </span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYlAfOczsWmCUfUYQ8Z9k8V7-Z2JO1MJ-qcP-fu1BZLZv1zLl_3fVMFG2ju0InO5g3SHt0oc60zqWJzUuhEZ0HPZPFYqQjEsbf8Qb4l58Xzye5RFKNZj2Vx-Lhuk5KHmsx0kBZ6v2H08QQ5LLlZC2EvJQZoeDnikVsRwQJr1r-79EheqU978zDwUHv_kI/s4032/lawrong%20camper%202023.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYlAfOczsWmCUfUYQ8Z9k8V7-Z2JO1MJ-qcP-fu1BZLZv1zLl_3fVMFG2ju0InO5g3SHt0oc60zqWJzUuhEZ0HPZPFYqQjEsbf8Qb4l58Xzye5RFKNZj2Vx-Lhuk5KHmsx0kBZ6v2H08QQ5LLlZC2EvJQZoeDnikVsRwQJr1r-79EheqU978zDwUHv_kI/s320/lawrong%20camper%202023.JPG" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Lawton at Camp Sea Gull in Arapahoe, NC this summer (2023) turned 7 and sent home a poem. </span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Go Kid Go.</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-66859456670506797262023-07-02T15:53:00.011-07:002023-12-23T04:28:12.601-08:00AMA of Saint Louis Golf Classic 2023<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi52VWX1nbqkACn-HGpeWQRFuIROxAxtBaZBzMVecVcmnLC9ECyVBukodQRJmg-v4zfyRuMOXsiTq-kZ-iC-9oVAKd5zLR9W-fmpBgjttoVwWw368fYhTnTNuOtmKTrVqKQGa9NHQ9NkI4XHRfSa2O8JdmUFT1U9GvCBqIBHl3xKg4bCUEj5ESAjBmez7A/s4032/foursome%20jones%20mogly.jpg" style="clear: left; 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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;">The annual golf outing on or around July 4<sup>th</sup>
is a AMA Saint Louis Chapter tradition. This is one of those years when the
weather will challenge the heartiest of golfers. It’s 100 degrees, sunny and
clear. We have a shotgun start at noon designed to allow for a quick nine
holes. Golfers are treated to lunch when they check in and golfers are briefed
on the format – stroke play with prizes for low net, closest to the pin (#2 and
#9) and long drive (#8), but mostly the object is to have fun.</span><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBfekIwXik2wEHx1_1F-Xxd9LQspnNMaXOYewHUGQfaZJP7iUqYVkQRKuFOPKYEcoCi65RNPY4VuxavwMxsX3_NYEsT37D-Y9XkyRMC6Qj1QTlxBMEbf269mOhS3lA3L0mmyMElQPR3Fo7S65O4lpcuF0PzwXP3W1wOYJMiRXBfJ6cwSOcgo7t3E6gtPY/s960/wam%20ama%202023.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBfekIwXik2wEHx1_1F-Xxd9LQspnNMaXOYewHUGQfaZJP7iUqYVkQRKuFOPKYEcoCi65RNPY4VuxavwMxsX3_NYEsT37D-Y9XkyRMC6Qj1QTlxBMEbf269mOhS3lA3L0mmyMElQPR3Fo7S65O4lpcuF0PzwXP3W1wOYJMiRXBfJ6cwSOcgo7t3E6gtPY/s320/wam%20ama%202023.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;">Dave Cox served as leaderboard supervisor, entering scores to the
final tally at the end. Dave also did an excellent job of acting as Master of
Ceremonies in Air Conditioned comfort of the break room after the players
completed the round. Michael Elliot of UMSL went low and might have won it all
with a round of 41 but Randy Niederer’s card shows a score of 40. Dave Cox once
again captured the long drive prize while Randy got closest to the pin on #9. </span><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRSz9VAcQNi2moBJqu1mS4IA1rU6vIC6k_kgKTyJlKi0x0kgdIv5ms8XyqBnE0RCgJdUC8AvEMJXTC0TOT8z-rYINwVS-EfYLuc6FZY2nZkZdv9Jo6wLZH-KAgbWFVO2c1Efx7JDHCeb9GgPrq9zD5oUGtAl_Gv6EjogzcyVs2lJqQaW7B8N6r6HXKqI/s3980/Randy%20w%20AMA%2023%20trophy.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3980" data-original-width="1932" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDRSz9VAcQNi2moBJqu1mS4IA1rU6vIC6k_kgKTyJlKi0x0kgdIv5ms8XyqBnE0RCgJdUC8AvEMJXTC0TOT8z-rYINwVS-EfYLuc6FZY2nZkZdv9Jo6wLZH-KAgbWFVO2c1Efx7JDHCeb9GgPrq9zD5oUGtAl_Gv6EjogzcyVs2lJqQaW7B8N6r6HXKqI/s320/Randy%20w%20AMA%2023%20trophy.JPG" width="155" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: distribute-all-lines;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: distribute-all-lines;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: distribute-all-lines;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: distribute-all-lines;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: distribute-all-lines;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: distribute-all-lines;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: distribute-all-lines;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: distribute-all-lines;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: justify; text-justify: distribute-all-lines;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;">The eclectic foursome of Tom
Shaughnessy, Marco Tocco, Rowdy Jones and Palie Bob Mogley should have gotten
the award for best-dressed. (Those guys always look like they are tour
professionals.) The University of Missouri - Saint Louis marketing club president and a group of student colleagues
came out. We also saw institutional/faculty leaders Perry Drake and Michael Elliott from
UMSL. Eric Rhiney represented Webster University. Chapter Leaders Dave Shogren, Nick Niehaus, Hannah
Frisch, Mark Denk, Joe Maddock, Wes Morgan and others participated and/or
helped with details of sponsor signage, goody bags, cart pairings and more.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;">AMA
was especially grateful for hole sponsors <i>Beanstalk Web Solutions, Sneller
Creative, KolbeCo, Companion Kombucha, 5K Printing Solutions and U S International
Foods. </i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg066xjt0YXdKDfsDjRbznDcCDGwNST-rgVUOwUax5yrQ4rGhItiWgO35vvI94TfT-je27tnzIUz3N1waJee4pJQJId6TRx1lzH5Wdw8TM4j9lkZFf9EzPQpYAbbUAluhF54yGXhj3XmB2a24dGUI_3JrTXULYGS6eRSXO1G6VyjCcbpdgEoYSeKmy16yk/s3750/leaderboard.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3750" data-original-width="2019" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg066xjt0YXdKDfsDjRbznDcCDGwNST-rgVUOwUax5yrQ4rGhItiWgO35vvI94TfT-je27tnzIUz3N1waJee4pJQJId6TRx1lzH5Wdw8TM4j9lkZFf9EzPQpYAbbUAluhF54yGXhj3XmB2a24dGUI_3JrTXULYGS6eRSXO1G6VyjCcbpdgEoYSeKmy16yk/w215-h400/leaderboard.jpg" width="215" /></a></span></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSkJFHS4ze6aZE3QgreXthzxwq7rK2GHCFA-zmup_3OniBbtV7GvRYVoJaNNAIXDFjPz4pcXfRTOTCecXGkBl1XqdKGyLXZ0SEHkDU2zAiVBHkGbArq9qaes60ZUC77b4QLkRBabKfWjiyZNVifnpb2hfiZr5kqEGWHygkmrjq9r0qXdvws5Mz6-bhL_A/s4032/Larry%20S.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSkJFHS4ze6aZE3QgreXthzxwq7rK2GHCFA-zmup_3OniBbtV7GvRYVoJaNNAIXDFjPz4pcXfRTOTCecXGkBl1XqdKGyLXZ0SEHkDU2zAiVBHkGbArq9qaes60ZUC77b4QLkRBabKfWjiyZNVifnpb2hfiZr5kqEGWHygkmrjq9r0qXdvws5Mz6-bhL_A/w300-h400/Larry%20S.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiywwkTq2PdAhxKZbNtkHu1Ciw7Ckqdg6G3wcZGRA2iVyRKH33mdra_V4l0wKFkcyrNiBLNuvBEcVv76P-jDASa-dJPaLBTgcoi0xzkzpiB2kSBD1l0ao_lIhQuaEYSfpf903Gt16XmSJCkG-bt52OHbOdylQgmabbdy96ZKMVPKMlTXjItsEoeI4sprdw/s4032/Save%20Shogren%206-30-23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiywwkTq2PdAhxKZbNtkHu1Ciw7Ckqdg6G3wcZGRA2iVyRKH33mdra_V4l0wKFkcyrNiBLNuvBEcVv76P-jDASa-dJPaLBTgcoi0xzkzpiB2kSBD1l0ao_lIhQuaEYSfpf903Gt16XmSJCkG-bt52OHbOdylQgmabbdy96ZKMVPKMlTXjItsEoeI4sprdw/s320/Save%20Shogren%206-30-23.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></span><span style="color: #111111;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"> </span><span style="color: #111111; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-86073854956406141942023-06-20T17:36:00.010-07:002023-06-24T06:54:50.585-07:00Wanamassa vs. Matawan Fathers' Day<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhczEulz5Pzhnkf2Vilb07aZYktg5JanstV76D8vEvjigcKTJesCIiPg24iyNjjPr_EOadp3sjhYn-wZ95bdvYz9ff_RKR9kW-DOXtg15_QhCt6l8NtX_tCnlZzNJC7KB8fdtjnOeOxT6bTUAXLlsW7FhyxfP2CfvAzPg41ZOwGRBBo74Mei69J2hySUlY/s1543/NUMBER%201.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1543" data-original-width="1505" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhczEulz5Pzhnkf2Vilb07aZYktg5JanstV76D8vEvjigcKTJesCIiPg24iyNjjPr_EOadp3sjhYn-wZ95bdvYz9ff_RKR9kW-DOXtg15_QhCt6l8NtX_tCnlZzNJC7KB8fdtjnOeOxT6bTUAXLlsW7FhyxfP2CfvAzPg41ZOwGRBBo74Mei69J2hySUlY/s320/NUMBER%201.JPG" width="312" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Samson's team, the Wanamassa Surge is pumped for the championship game versus the Matawan Huskies. Samson is James' cousin and he's one year ahead of James in school. He is in first grade. The big game is on Father's day. The game will be a home field advantage for Wanamassa at Colt's Field. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">The Huskies bring <i>walk up</i> music and intimidating black uniforms to psych out thier foes. Both teams show that they have skill and are well coached to work as a team. Both teams are learning to throw and catch and think about plays. All players are swinging for the fences in hopes of bringing in runs. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Samson's fan section is significant and includes mom (Autumn), dad (Perry), maternal grandmother (Virginia) and her husband (Greg). Greg is a convenient substitute for our broadcast booth since he is familiar with the rules in this league of first graders and is paying close attention the the score that can ramp up quickly due to fielding errors of these developing stars. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAAfdOrCCOT7J14ysbTHei-Q1BYO1bdZ7M3RmP_CeBdnE2dTpSD6XoKttY4eHoGhmj1XOu2JhPeWfd0qajNcjJeJib2cnfMC9QdWF3UcnMLs3mEI2AeK2I2z2mAIycb7reghCguVajMczmp80lAS7Pj_WO2FWUQEewqS9xP3N_LfXEPq3H83Q58vfpClg/s3050/SAMSON%20SURGE%20FANS%20crop.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2301" data-original-width="3050" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAAfdOrCCOT7J14ysbTHei-Q1BYO1bdZ7M3RmP_CeBdnE2dTpSD6XoKttY4eHoGhmj1XOu2JhPeWfd0qajNcjJeJib2cnfMC9QdWF3UcnMLs3mEI2AeK2I2z2mAIycb7reghCguVajMczmp80lAS7Pj_WO2FWUQEewqS9xP3N_LfXEPq3H83Q58vfpClg/s320/SAMSON%20SURGE%20FANS%20crop.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">This Father's Day began with a round of golf with Samson's dad (Perry) and my son (Ben) and me (Wes) at the William F. Larkin Golf Course at Colonial Terrace. Perry was an accomplished ball player in college and a D-3 College World Series Campion. The Samson fan base included his mom (Autumn) and Dad (Perry) along with Perry's parents, paternal grandparents Deborah and David Schatzow and our matriarch (great grandmother Toby Stevens). Samson's cousin James Morgan was there too - with his mom (Allison) and dad (Ben). </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3dXbI1ESUWD5t4LLh59WtWLKFrRe9KIsJG987uILDsAvDbfe04XlOe8YtNbeiG-mRaWNaNgGhNNt3XfjEzxeye9ZeU1jYCUCijQ8y0DCcOq581mF1AjY_mK3UG4Iy1qs70FBLeXmN1Tq4pQ4zkrZHvjtpT52v9XE60mswvRxoCAzw0Qob9XJaagXcy4/s4032/fathers%20day%20gold.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3dXbI1ESUWD5t4LLh59WtWLKFrRe9KIsJG987uILDsAvDbfe04XlOe8YtNbeiG-mRaWNaNgGhNNt3XfjEzxeye9ZeU1jYCUCijQ8y0DCcOq581mF1AjY_mK3UG4Iy1qs70FBLeXmN1Tq4pQ4zkrZHvjtpT52v9XE60mswvRxoCAzw0Qob9XJaagXcy4/s320/fathers%20day%20gold.JPG" width="240" /></span></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">James was part of the fan section but distracted by thoughts of so many activities this week, the last week of Kindergarten. Maternal Grandmother (Jean) and paternal Grandfather Papa Wes, that's me - James' dad's dad). Among the things James has on his mind this week: School Field Day/Picnic, Lemonade Day, Ice Cream Day, and more. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span>The Surge was poised and played excellent defence in spite of the score reaching a tie at 9-9. The Surge got the lead of 14-9. The rules resulted in the Huskies having the last at bat but the Surge showed how well they were coached - staying focused and</span><span> poised and defending thier win. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Father-Son photos and excited players and fans erupted but only after both teams showed judgement and class of shaking hands. Congrats to Samson and the Surge and the opposing team the Matawan Huskies. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjem6ZSnKDdF7T6DbAePbK2yw4SYJkeuOUqn6_h8c0gAXpvP9rs3JhxVBIEk8EcafM0q1_YIWK3M4vYWmTtiVqftVKyQS4jcrXIDJBbAo4JxnxSY7uMNS7K-bLHfZVyDd11km2aUXnOSySWHhQvqkVcMLV7Im10Ole0FCK-Zgq9lsHzGYIbLbEspJmz_wA/s3887/pERRY%20SAMSON%20crop.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3887" data-original-width="1418" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjem6ZSnKDdF7T6DbAePbK2yw4SYJkeuOUqn6_h8c0gAXpvP9rs3JhxVBIEk8EcafM0q1_YIWK3M4vYWmTtiVqftVKyQS4jcrXIDJBbAo4JxnxSY7uMNS7K-bLHfZVyDd11km2aUXnOSySWHhQvqkVcMLV7Im10Ole0FCK-Zgq9lsHzGYIbLbEspJmz_wA/s320/pERRY%20SAMSON%20crop.JPG" width="117" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></p><p> </p><p>\</p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-33921450190058176182023-05-06T09:32:00.007-07:002024-02-19T10:48:22.380-08:00Magnolia Marine – Golf, Crawfish and Benbow City Shuffle<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJIh1Hxm2jMMJKGBg-ZXyyQQGUOXMDBIqEt9IvHQpAZZcrPJGc0nhuKq9pBi3JLVZet7ymwMtFRw2ko5eAJ6IXHeSSHwPF5wDyIQQy47tPc7KAAxyKTntC6ulbf19RvI3RrDJuUfrVuZ5U7sy409w8ezjqoVXd8MDdhXpwAHoweSVYkRce9jf7sQnj/s4032/cloverleaf%20gc%20logo.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJIh1Hxm2jMMJKGBg-ZXyyQQGUOXMDBIqEt9IvHQpAZZcrPJGc0nhuKq9pBi3JLVZet7ymwMtFRw2ko5eAJ6IXHeSSHwPF5wDyIQQy47tPc7KAAxyKTntC6ulbf19RvI3RrDJuUfrVuZ5U7sy409w8ezjqoVXd8MDdhXpwAHoweSVYkRce9jf7sQnj/w480-h640/cloverleaf%20gc%20logo.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFhvgdj_n-BSSKVwNNJ56z82wtLdeFIhqDm7uT6X_ezDw6uKQc4DYyGMkq9I16-jWz_o64PNjObjbC9gpJuVBoUKT2Pj4Bn-ddoLPn7Mqymqo3tuHrJQOSHUbBsupDni1KpDJ_DQpzo14V0ay9i-bQcJenn5DHIUuGz9YnuVz0arpjHZX8V43xImFM/s4032/cloverleaf%20golf%20course%205-5-23.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFhvgdj_n-BSSKVwNNJ56z82wtLdeFIhqDm7uT6X_ezDw6uKQc4DYyGMkq9I16-jWz_o64PNjObjbC9gpJuVBoUKT2Pj4Bn-ddoLPn7Mqymqo3tuHrJQOSHUbBsupDni1KpDJ_DQpzo14V0ay9i-bQcJenn5DHIUuGz9YnuVz0arpjHZX8V43xImFM/s320/cloverleaf%20golf%20course%205-5-23.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Golfer Band: Tom Shaughnessy, Dave Cox, Rowdy Jones, Wes Morgan and Marco Tocco</i></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Dave Shogren’s band, </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Benbow City Shuffle</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> has a gig on May 5, 2023 at </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Cloverleaf Golf Course</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> in Alton, Illinois. It seems like an ideal time to
get the “band” back together. </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">Magnolia
Marine Transport</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> is incredible corporate
sponsor of the event. It is a Friday that feels like a holiday and it includes Dave (the
Benbow City Shuffle base player with lovely roadie-wife Linda) and another Dave (Rowdy Golfer). I have been
fortunate with a number of friends named Dave in my episodic life. Dave
the base player and incoming American Marketing Association Saint Louis chapter
president and Dave the founder of Sandbox Creative are part of this day’s
amazing confluence of events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">The “band” of golfers is Rowdy Jones, Tom Shaughnessy, Dave Cox and Wes Morgan. This metaphorical band of brothers share a bond that dates back decades to Rowdy Golf Weekends at the
Lake of the Ozarks (beginning circa 2001). Our foursome recalls old memories while we manufacture a batch of new ones. This time, we’ve invited “studio
musician” a la Billy Preston - Marco Tocco. A couple of
marketing professors from the University of Missouri-Saint Louis were slated to
join us too. </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">(The UMSL team couldn’t
make it due to some academic politics, however, called for their leadership and
attention. Perry Drake PhD and Michael Elliott – you were missed.)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Michael Elliott, UMSL
Marketing professor warned me that this course had small greens and tight lies.
He was right. But the two-man scramble format with Marco Tocco as 50/50 bonus
player assured that both of our teams amounted to above par play and exceptional camaraderie. I wish Dr. Drake could have been there to compare stories of
broken bones and surgery endurance and recovery with with Marco.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhatFRxecoCR07RkhWvBbl1NzAXqSVkFMJTfpfDiyN8dsKgvCeGUsK_XEZcSDaTnFxNwBZZqqEJeYEGoZz6eN1ZxA6O5MoZSK6ZJ8ICpzY5_4O-xXm-Wsr1IOrSeyNKB5Mwq4p7zG35oyfVJmTRiVdXBFtrkeI1BjU3zPK3rJBNC9BmsCIWGe0rAy0k/s420/CloverleafGC%20%20May-5-2023.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="420" data-original-width="326" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhatFRxecoCR07RkhWvBbl1NzAXqSVkFMJTfpfDiyN8dsKgvCeGUsK_XEZcSDaTnFxNwBZZqqEJeYEGoZz6eN1ZxA6O5MoZSK6ZJ8ICpzY5_4O-xXm-Wsr1IOrSeyNKB5Mwq4p7zG35oyfVJmTRiVdXBFtrkeI1BjU3zPK3rJBNC9BmsCIWGe0rAy0k/w310-h400/CloverleafGC%20%20May-5-2023.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
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of rain. I am somehow blessed this year, however, as rain was not a factor in
Alton, Illinois this day. The sun even came out as our shotgun start on #14 meant that
we finished with a smiles and multiple shot attempts to make the par 3 to a short
120 yard island green. </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%;">It
wasn’t Sawgrass but it felt like we were all gunning for spots on the PGA or maybe
the LIV tour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Generous portions of sides
and crawfish alternatives were served as families, girlfriends and kids joined
in the picnic atmosphere in the sunshine. At about 4:00 <i>Benbow City Shuffle</i>
entertained on the patio with breaks for two raffles – one for kids (toys and
games) and the second for adults (electronics, 55” TV sets, and more). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqTqrlhBLHX6t6q1lVXXPQPi8A_dCaO9Dw7dQThVY7ckwWe_BgLTVMsrqXSPG8gOyGAPa1dEiEzxxMu6ZZGyr5VLgu-sb8-bx38X_-0F5K_iPNUML43MHrJte1Syk6HXiD85kz3S-sZp9A-qngDdDIgS7GQz_RVXs5Rj68z50DiAavZ8vVTGvZG_i/s4032/Benbow%20City%20Shuffle%205-5-23.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifqTqrlhBLHX6t6q1lVXXPQPi8A_dCaO9Dw7dQThVY7ckwWe_BgLTVMsrqXSPG8gOyGAPa1dEiEzxxMu6ZZGyr5VLgu-sb8-bx38X_-0F5K_iPNUML43MHrJte1Syk6HXiD85kz3S-sZp9A-qngDdDIgS7GQz_RVXs5Rj68z50DiAavZ8vVTGvZG_i/w480-h640/Benbow%20City%20Shuffle%205-5-23.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 21.3333px;"><i>Benbow City Shuffle with guest harmonica player from Magnolia Marine play on patio at Cloverleaf Golf Course in Alton, Illinois. That's Dave Shogren on base, Rich Stewart on keyboards, golden throated Al Funk on harmonice and, for this performance, Paul Jarvis on the drums.</i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">I continue to live a
life of good fortune, amazing friends and some sort of divine intervention.
God, I am grateful! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 16pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><br /></span></p><br /><p></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-78876762890778975182023-04-17T07:29:00.006-07:002023-06-02T07:39:22.241-07:00Forget-me-not Grammy Lawton<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigdHJK0eAaOkWEknDZau0V7G4VtVxevNcYZUUzOMbABxMtY7I5OKOfrJihxNa4jjyHu1CK_p4JXx3T6UrklfTw8OmygOG8RVuNIK5Hn3jynsdHumuUYeHm_N0PJlY3y0EalmWznPiNo208HaUk8bIgmOjOI7_7bFofiW6TJra9zs0gLn4MHTJyBGIQ/s752/kodiak-bear.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="564" data-original-width="752" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigdHJK0eAaOkWEknDZau0V7G4VtVxevNcYZUUzOMbABxMtY7I5OKOfrJihxNa4jjyHu1CK_p4JXx3T6UrklfTw8OmygOG8RVuNIK5Hn3jynsdHumuUYeHm_N0PJlY3y0EalmWznPiNo208HaUk8bIgmOjOI7_7bFofiW6TJra9zs0gLn4MHTJyBGIQ/s320/kodiak-bear.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Please send me some information about your
state as I am studying it in school.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This was essentially the content of the letter I wrote
to dozens of state capitals when I was in 5<sup>th</sup> grade (around 1966-67).
It was not technically true that the St Luke School curriculum included any
particular focus on one state or another. I just somehow discovered that such a
letter would generate a variety of cool stuff via the U. S. Mail. I was just
thrilled at the activity generated. I would get books on tourism, copies of
state constitutions, stickers, state flags, maps, premium items and lots of
other fun stuff in response. It doesn’t take much to impress a pre-teen in the
mail, I guess.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In any event, I was well prepared for a school
assignment that was to be about a state of our choice. The assignment coincided
with the week of my maternal grandmother’s wake. Mom was determined to honor
her mom with an Irish style celebration of life at our house on Edgewater
Drive. So. Guests arrived in our living room as I positioned my collection of
facts and images for a graphically outstanding presentation of our 49<sup>th</sup>
state with a nice map showing the locations of the state capital (Juneau) and
Alaska’s biggest city (Anchorage). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXRiWeU2R6g9Tc-d31UgfhW6nCNHFY3WE3J7HGzx1rVx3kSP9LisQSoB31FF_hKUUke_1Yng4NKGgLx0tVIQ5O1aIdIX2El3U51X1ZitnXRm8KAOZy9VP1EnzgWzOBY-a5WzjiE8tQjMzEz7Z2INJJSPA6VI_6rBMgsOhpLYqQ-0rxJRjgvGPADKM/s561/map%20alaska.gif" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="386" data-original-width="561" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTXRiWeU2R6g9Tc-d31UgfhW6nCNHFY3WE3J7HGzx1rVx3kSP9LisQSoB31FF_hKUUke_1Yng4NKGgLx0tVIQ5O1aIdIX2El3U51X1ZitnXRm8KAOZy9VP1EnzgWzOBY-a5WzjiE8tQjMzEz7Z2INJJSPA6VI_6rBMgsOhpLYqQ-0rxJRjgvGPADKM/s320/map%20alaska.gif" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The readers of my report would be treated to bonus
information on the state flower (Forget-me-not) and amazing facts about the
Kodiak bear (the unique subspecies of a brown or Grizzly bear). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Grammy Lawton lived with us at the end of her life
and suffered from dementia but she has a light that still shown in my mother’s
eyes as she greeted people from the community ranging from Lakewood Little Theater
(now the Beck Center) and Morgan Studio (dad’s business founded in 1951) and lifelong
friends (some of whom may have attended the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan at
St, James in Lakewood on <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>December 19, 1942).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3QEAKPbtDxkp_AP1WtHkwZsl2GkReSulgYMqpp0GR7Ma3OZjojEyXL4twqykfkE93otVYOp7Y2cZyXfn6os5tDV-8WodGUT-d0kuJVfjuWSZOTAUwJ-BelX_qT-UulQdxWyq-axaKFiHbZgt6aAIrcUQYtM1QObmyIMXcmOzWzFH4aaCdxEqSFdAv/s1400/Flowers-ForgetMeKnot-Alaska_1400x.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3QEAKPbtDxkp_AP1WtHkwZsl2GkReSulgYMqpp0GR7Ma3OZjojEyXL4twqykfkE93otVYOp7Y2cZyXfn6os5tDV-8WodGUT-d0kuJVfjuWSZOTAUwJ-BelX_qT-UulQdxWyq-axaKFiHbZgt6aAIrcUQYtM1QObmyIMXcmOzWzFH4aaCdxEqSFdAv/w200-h200/Flowers-ForgetMeKnot-Alaska_1400x.webp" width="200" /></a></div><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span><p></p><p></p><div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl7peChRlGQ3qYbl-I0EsLGlhkJAf9Ml-A1XO6r1uV-8BAiEpI8xbNyAqPcbmPduLYp6A84ZnRoURxSa4juktw9n-JmQraLliGshf5QqHd8JazGCBnbgwlbzmUNgHZp0S8uBzT0yvwOyk589Ymtenii88UMtWfX5h7BJ6S_sgtkqdupPgvwKe-BsKv/s4032/Indian%20Rocks%20Beach%2022.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;">My daughter is amazing. My Son is amazing. They have both found partners in marriage and live amazing lives. They both have boys born in 2016 (a vintage year if you ask me). </span></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-63308546937256030882023-03-30T08:45:00.008-07:002023-07-30T08:07:07.648-07:00Good Grief!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfswScCTRHBsADx-QWC1gjITof5JFldspxa8FmItG0Y9Fj1iKu0CXrGEi-9UWZaBFXKybN9lO3vZBJ7v8G6zExwmwP2-UuBD8--4CoOpXYytgczpSumbCniJJmgeW1mJSmoMg5UYiEUsme6DcQtBfT0KET9BQYZCLM4fniqHd7oLX4f69N5yY8Ny-F/s234/good-grief-charlie-brown.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="216" data-original-width="234" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfswScCTRHBsADx-QWC1gjITof5JFldspxa8FmItG0Y9Fj1iKu0CXrGEi-9UWZaBFXKybN9lO3vZBJ7v8G6zExwmwP2-UuBD8--4CoOpXYytgczpSumbCniJJmgeW1mJSmoMg5UYiEUsme6DcQtBfT0KET9BQYZCLM4fniqHd7oLX4f69N5yY8Ny-F/s1600/good-grief-charlie-brown.png" width="234" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I never fully understood why Charlie Brown says it aside from the high probability that things will not go well for
Charlie. Perhaps it is his way of expressing and accepting failure in what seems an endless cycle of disappointments. Still, he is sincere and
earnest in every new effort to save face and come out on top. That is a truly loveable trait. The optimism and
self-assurance it takes to dust one self off and begin again is a
worthy approach to everyday challenges. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I find myself at a time in my life living with a measure of grief
that that seems ever present. Still I know the loss of my life mate
of 41+ years comes with a full bundle of sweet, priceless
memories, full of joy and happiness. It is this bundle that surely
must be the stuff of “good grief.” Those memories are poignant
and palpable and most treasured. The poetry in my good grief is
in so many little things that make me smile. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">I am fond of saying
“Little things are big things”. To me, it so accurately captures the meaning of
love. Acts of kindness, silly circumstances, happy
moments and shared dreams make up the very stuff of which
a full life is made. </span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">As I count my blessings and recall so many “little things” I must
admit that I have, at times, been guilty of taking those things
(and moments) for granted. I have the painful reminder that life
is short and we just must try to recognize with gratitude the little
things that, in spite of so often coming with setbacks, add up to
the good in this lifetime of ours.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;">Charlie Brown remains an
inspiration to me as he faces each new challenge with the
optimism that is essential for success in spite of adversity. I will always root for the
lovable loser because he never is truly defeated. Instead he is
confident that he can and will prevail in the end. You’re a good man Charlie Brown.</span></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-82688770860723338162023-03-20T14:11:00.009-07:002024-03-02T17:37:41.613-08:00Here and After<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKKDxNouV96QeSAGjTuTJnQsVUKSoDkziSUdj7qvoR07XIphiHHS4STm0Kil8LRNTE7qXi0mK958gGxB9J7KCpigoMLjBpcYo9h1LdLD8f0XH3ldoLg02_Vq_Jx9uH1IE5zM8uU04CA83BObZAVQj0We6CnwWf8x_R5NT-K5xVfwIdz7zavo2jLYXc/s1982/bing.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1396" data-original-width="1982" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKKDxNouV96QeSAGjTuTJnQsVUKSoDkziSUdj7qvoR07XIphiHHS4STm0Kil8LRNTE7qXi0mK958gGxB9J7KCpigoMLjBpcYo9h1LdLD8f0XH3ldoLg02_Vq_Jx9uH1IE5zM8uU04CA83BObZAVQj0We6CnwWf8x_R5NT-K5xVfwIdz7zavo2jLYXc/s320/bing.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Transparency, awareness and self-reflection;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">As if to say - I can achieve perfection;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">In the midst of loss, pain, and dread;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">No regrets. I know much was left unsaid.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Squall lines inevitable and straight ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Navigating with a will to steer;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Mitigation of fear from those near and dear;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Every life has its share of woes;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Pray for guidance and steady as it goes;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Until it’s you - no-one knows.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Living in the here and now;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">We got here some way, somehow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Change is a constant state of things; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Life and the circumstance it brings;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">You are gone but I know you’re on angel wings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Memories abound;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Of when you were around. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">You were always kind;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Among us, you still remind; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">To make this life the best we can find.</span> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIuIn5SDSItsC-KTE9HhkEURpzmktdza1tjGUXJctY9gI84rnlRXQ8zu4WW5DMsJSO-sCnc9QKtPDDfbsQ4utK9MxDO0knCBvdVkBIWZvJVjMtE5ymIrexjOjOn4gIDwhB3iMaLRhNa_sQSzmJWG-2bv-gk6zazhovR4hSxAm-0MdBenM2vThxGmvn/s553/dance%20with%20lynn.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="483" data-original-width="553" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIuIn5SDSItsC-KTE9HhkEURpzmktdza1tjGUXJctY9gI84rnlRXQ8zu4WW5DMsJSO-sCnc9QKtPDDfbsQ4utK9MxDO0knCBvdVkBIWZvJVjMtE5ymIrexjOjOn4gIDwhB3iMaLRhNa_sQSzmJWG-2bv-gk6zazhovR4hSxAm-0MdBenM2vThxGmvn/w200-h174/dance%20with%20lynn.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">We returned from the
after party of the wedding at Beltane Ranch in Glen Ellen, California in Sonoma
Valley. Kevin is the youngest of three in Rob’s family married the stunning
Madelyn. The party extended into a small bar in Town Square. Rob and his wife
returned to their home in Novato. Dan was smart enough to retire at a
reasonable hour because he wanted to be awake at Saint Leo Catholic Church in
the morning. (Our brother Sundance and sister Lynn decided not to travel from
their respective homes in New Orleans and Columbus, Ohio to this destination.) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The rental home arranged
for by Rob was roomy with space for all of us. My brother and I along with his
two boys (Wes and Matt), and their respective girlfriends (Alexis and Bianca)
and his step-daughter (Lauren) joined Greg and I as we moved into a comfy
living room space to reflect on the afternoon/evening. Greg decided to take charge by introducing me
as a guest speaker. (We are all improvisational actors in our family so I began
my address to the audience assembled. I borrowed from a recent presentation I
made.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Uncle Wes (that’s me): <i>Bruce
Lee is an inspiration. He was determined to make it as a box office star in
Hollywood but his ambition was thwarted by producers and directors who were
afraid, that in spite of his success as Kato in the Green Hornet TV series he would
not have enough commercial appeal on the big screen… Bruce Lee was determined
to overcome this Hollywood bias against a Chinese actor with astounding
marshall arts skills.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This is the set up to my
sharing a quote about mindfulness and living life in the moment. “Be Water”
said Bruce Lee…<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Alexa (Wes’ girlfriend
has been traveling in close quarters in an RV. She may have been
over-served, very tired or both. So her interaction with the group made her
appear a bit tipsy): <i>What about John Claude Van Damme?</i> She blurted out
the suggestion to change the arc of my little talk. (I get it, but I know next to
nothing about the Belgian Van Damme beyond the fact that he is a movie star.) My talk
is NOT about movies anyway. It is about mindfulness and begins with a Bruce Lee quote
about water.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Uncle Wes: <i>So Bruce
Lee offers some advice in his Marshall Arts and movie acting instruction. Be
Water. Empty your mind. Be formless. Be shapeless. When you put water in a cup,
it becomes the cup…<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Alexa (in her best
imitation of a heckler in a small comedy club):<i> This is boring. What about
John Claud Van Damme?</i> She slurs a few arguments as if our small group could
be brought to a vote and change the programming/channel. <i>Who wants to talk
about John Claud Van Damme? Raise your hand! <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Wes (He is curled up into
a ball in an overstuffed chair and close to being asleep.) He stretches a bit
and calmly puts it out there that Alexis has completely de-railed Uncle Wes. He
tries to mitigate the problem with a group game called WHAT DO YOU MEME? Since Wes and Alexis have
played this game before, he assumes that this activity might be easier to
control. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Uncle Wes: <i>Great, we can
move on to this game. An image is offered on an easel in the middle. Players
chose a caption from their hand (five cards). Captions deemed best win the image. The point is
awarded to the agreed upon winning caption. At the end the winner is the player
with the most image cards wins. Simple enough. </i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Matt and Bianca (on the
couch) were politely attentive to Uncle Wes but flexible enough to let the
evening festivities move on to this game. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Lauren bailed out and
went to bed. She likely prefers more orderly proceeding and can see that step
Dad Greg and Uncle Wes only have the sketchiest idea how this gathering will be
engaged. That still leaves the six of us to salvage the order of events.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Wes (stretching): <i>Alexis, shut the f@*k up.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Alexa: <i>This is all
about racism. No, this is because of Misogyny. You are being a misogynist!</i> (It
isn’t clear if she is referring to the game or the attempt to bring some order
to the emerging chaos.) <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Uncle Wes: <i>Well said
Alexa. (Or sometimes he addresses her as Siri as he easily forgets the name Alexis in the context of the game). We girls need to stick together. Now Greg, we are gonna need you to take
a time out. You are being disruptive to the game. <o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Wes: <i>It’s my turn and
my image card is of Russian leader Vladimir Putin. I think this will one day be
promoted as the Putin collector edition of this game of WHAT DO YOU MEME?<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Alexis: <i>Wait a minute!
You are all misogynists and you are skipping me.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Bianca: <i>No. It’s Wes’
turn. It is alright.</i> (Matt is laughing and both Matt and Bianca know that
law and order will not be restored in the living room. Only a kind of orderly
chaos is possible now.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The dynamics and stage
direction cannot do justice to the comic timing and natural twists and turns of
this gathering that rolled on with many laughs. Uncle Wes did his best to
explain the performance as a blend of one act dramatic performance art, method
acting and improvisational theater. Uncle Wes insisted This performance art is
much like Voltaire’s theme<i> proclaimed again and again in Candide. <b>Everything
happens exactly as it is supposed to happen in this, the best of all possible
worlds. <o:p></o:p></b></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><i></i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHqNNNIsPMG12-pvi23EUSLFANfRZD2k3IJaVtBAC-qUoBZlgcOrWnGSeV844h9lCJtZ8k1FjuEWdswFCocgolLjOVNW_0iK3Eo2RJS0AKcJLLRg0eG_PzmfdkevzslEhFrKZcnbX4C0QSWabj-oylsDHg7wHwD5t-mna1cXbkvWl6Io710qK0EBYq/s4032/IMG_5975.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHqNNNIsPMG12-pvi23EUSLFANfRZD2k3IJaVtBAC-qUoBZlgcOrWnGSeV844h9lCJtZ8k1FjuEWdswFCocgolLjOVNW_0iK3Eo2RJS0AKcJLLRg0eG_PzmfdkevzslEhFrKZcnbX4C0QSWabj-oylsDHg7wHwD5t-mna1cXbkvWl6Io710qK0EBYq/s320/IMG_5975.JPG" width="240" /></a></i></div><i><br /><b><br /></b></i><p></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOWE7Ne8j41nt_CzcM4-BcKf70QInuS76KXrf6nEVMqAElAg13uxoFp9sKlcuWruSn1pFeLKmi9UPw3W73aJQXQRzzz48NF4N67S-Kmp1vXlN8zgqhXWPFHc9d0-qHZf48oPyNavd26q5fHA1Y8_zwMkfvOTblF5C3Thgxk49TzMbFuySSgvYccMvv/s4032/IMG_7040.JPEG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOWE7Ne8j41nt_CzcM4-BcKf70QInuS76KXrf6nEVMqAElAg13uxoFp9sKlcuWruSn1pFeLKmi9UPw3W73aJQXQRzzz48NF4N67S-Kmp1vXlN8zgqhXWPFHc9d0-qHZf48oPyNavd26q5fHA1Y8_zwMkfvOTblF5C3Thgxk49TzMbFuySSgvYccMvv/w300-h400/IMG_7040.JPEG" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Above: Greg flanked by Alexis and Bianca.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Bottom pic: Dan at table. Standing: Wes, Alexis, Lauren, Greg, Rob, Lauren, Matt, Uncle Wes.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Note: The after party MEME game was a blast and got even funnier as we talked about it over the next couple of days. Like most art performance pieces - ya had to be there. I am glad I was. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-64185429408799230142022-04-05T15:50:00.004-07:002023-03-25T15:06:03.962-07:00William King <p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwUsIgk7DGY2EGmJNEPgrubwtBL1XQzP39YWnIKGPpgnWtc5XyDbeIBL5dyNR9lePwZ-pdj9GkdevD0vJl-HBbzuLBY3ideDWZI8a8giW6pY5OWXtrqmDaQt13J-0uVnI03BqupK7e2UAt5sa3nvZ3Ysv52etft1-oUsssIamDfG6t9UJe3GZPO-O4/s2774/Bill%20King%20at%20Faust.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2774" data-original-width="2068" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwUsIgk7DGY2EGmJNEPgrubwtBL1XQzP39YWnIKGPpgnWtc5XyDbeIBL5dyNR9lePwZ-pdj9GkdevD0vJl-HBbzuLBY3ideDWZI8a8giW6pY5OWXtrqmDaQt13J-0uVnI03BqupK7e2UAt5sa3nvZ3Ysv52etft1-oUsssIamDfG6t9UJe3GZPO-O4/s320/Bill%20King%20at%20Faust.jpg" width="239" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Photo by Wes Morgan (at Foust Park) of Solstice by William King. The following is obit from the NYTimes.</i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 15pt; mso-outline-level: 1; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="color: #121212; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">William King, Sculptor, Dies at 90; His Pointed Wit
Was a Tool</span></i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">By <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/by/bruce-weber"><span style="color: #333333;">Bruce
Weber</span></a></span></b><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b><span style="color: #121212; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">March 26, 2015</span><b><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">William
King, a sculptor in a variety of materials whose human figures traced social
attitudes through the last half of the 20th century, often poking sly and
poignant fun at human follies and foibles, died on March 4 at his home in East
Hampton, N.Y. He was 90.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His
death was confirmed by Scott Chaskey, who is married to Mr. King’s stepdaughter,
Megan Chaskey.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mr.
King <a href="http://www.williamkingsculptor.com/William_King/Images.html" target="_blank" title="Images from his website."><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #326891; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">worked
in</span></a> clay, wood, bronze, vinyl, burlap and aluminum. He worked
both big and small, from busts and toylike figures to large public art pieces
depicting familiar human poses — a seated, cross-legged man reading; a Western
couple (he in a cowboy hat, she in a long dress) holding hands; a tall man
reaching down to tug along a recalcitrant little boy; a crowd of robotic-looking
men walking in lock step.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But
for all its variation, what unified his work was a wry observer’s arched
eyebrow, the pointed humor and witty rue of a fatalist. His figurative
sculptures, often with long, spidery legs and an outlandishly skewed ratio of
torso to appendages, use gestures and posture to suggest attitude and
illustrate his own amusement with the unwieldiness of human physical equipment.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His subjects included tennis players
and gymnasts, dancers and musicians, and he managed to show appreciation of
their physical gifts and comic delight at their contortions and costumery. His
suit-wearing businessmen often appeared haughty or pompous; his other men could
seem timid or perplexed or awkward. Oddly, or perhaps tellingly, he tended to depict
women more reverentially, though in his portrayals of couples the fragility and
tender comedy inherent in couplehood settled equally on both partners.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Mr. King’s work is in the collections of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the
Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, among other places, and he had
dozens of solo gallery shows in New York and elsewhere. But the comic element
of his work probably caused his reputation to suffer.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">Reviews of his exhibitions frequently began
with the caveat that even though the work was funny, it was also serious,
displaying superior technical skills, imaginative vision and the bolstering
weight of a range of influences, from the ancient Etruscans to American folk
art to 20th-century artists including Giacometti, Calder and Elie Nadelman.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt;">The critic Hilton Kramer, one of Mr. King’s
most ardent advocates, wrote in a 1970 essay accompanying a New York gallery
exhibit that he was, “among other things, an amusing artist, and nowadays this
can, at times, be almost as much a liability as an asset.”.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A “preoccupation with
gesture is the focus of King’s sculptural imagination,” Mr. Kramer wrote.
“Everything that one admires in his work — the virtuoso carving, the deft
handling of a wide variety of materials, the shrewd observation and resourceful
invention — all this is secondary to the concentration on gesture. The physical
stance of the human animal as it negotiates the social arena, the unconscious
gait that the body assumes in making its way in the social medium, the emotion
traced by the course of a limb, a torso, a head, the features of a face, a
coiffure or a costume — from a keen observation of these materials King has
garnered a large stock of sculptural images notable for their wit, empathy,
simplicity and psychological precision.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">William Dickey King was born in Jacksonville,
Fla., on Feb. 25, 1925. His father, Walter, was a surveyor and an engineer who
moved his family around Florida to accommodate his work. As a boy, William made
model airplanes and helped his father and older brother build furniture and
boats. Expected to follow in his father’s footsteps, he began to study
engineering at the University of Florida, but it was his mother, the former
Florence Dickey, a teacher, who recognized his independent streak and
encouraged his departure.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I was 19, 20, my mother gave me a hundred
bucks, says, ‘Get out of this state and don’t come back until you’re 65; there
is nothing here for you,’ ” Mr. King recalled in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX0cLiPOCoE" target="_blank" title="Mr. King interviewed"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #326891; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">a video</span></a> interview
for the Smithsonian museum.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He came to New York, where he attended the
Cooper Union and began selling his early sculptures even before he graduated.
He later studied with the sculptor <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/arts/design/milton-hebald-sculptor-in-plain-view-dies-at-97.html" title="Obituary of Milton Hebald"><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #326891; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Milton Hebald</span></a> (who
died this year) and traveled to Italy on a Fulbright grant.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mr. King’s work often reflected the times,
taking on fashions and occasional politics. In the 1960s and 1970s, his work
featuring African-American figures (including the activist Angela Davis, with
hands cuffed behind her back) evoked his interest in civil rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="css-g5piaz" style="vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mr. King’s first three marriages ended in divorce. He is survived by
his fourth wife, Connie Fox, whom he married in a Buddhist ceremony in 2003
presided over by the novelist and Zen roshi Peter Matthiessen; a son, Eli King;
a daughter, Amy King; a stepdaughter, Megan Chaskey; a stepson, Brian Boyd; and
seven grandchildren. The New York Times critic Holland Cotter once described
Mr. King’s sculpture as “comical-tragical-maniacal,” and “like Giacomettis
conceived by John Cheever.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="css-g5piaz" style="font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0.9375rem; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Misery loves comedy” was one way Mr. King
himself described his attitude. He continued to work until just a few months
before his death.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="css-g5piaz" style="font-size: 1.25rem; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.875rem; margin: 0in; max-width: 100%; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Mr. Chaskey, his stepdaughter’s husband,
recalled, “He said, ‘If I can’t go out in the studio, what’s the point?’ ”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><aside aria-label="companion column" class="css-ew4tgv" style="-webkit-box-align: center; align-items: center; border: 0px; display: flex; font: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline; width: 210px;"></aside><p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></section><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-14561704310129741322022-03-27T08:21:00.009-07:002023-03-21T15:09:08.285-07:00Salutary Sculpture<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBdQkgJxXr6IDF5OYQ8xw84hnrRuzc9ztQXVMrMxLoii8l50hBNmrGVNbQJMDKGCsfvkG-fscRqWt_3FPZUVFXaj0_Q1hVWa8ouz7XmPmQ8OLB7YcnFqTiafJMeT1n6C15QoExTeQMtpbqbsCR65kCK_wDX6y4ccVY4T3-YqZwiJD59zw8SFCMnUmj/s4032/IMG_5067%20(1).JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBdQkgJxXr6IDF5OYQ8xw84hnrRuzc9ztQXVMrMxLoii8l50hBNmrGVNbQJMDKGCsfvkG-fscRqWt_3FPZUVFXaj0_Q1hVWa8ouz7XmPmQ8OLB7YcnFqTiafJMeT1n6C15QoExTeQMtpbqbsCR65kCK_wDX6y4ccVY4T3-YqZwiJD59zw8SFCMnUmj/w300-h400/IMG_5067%20(1).JPG" width="300" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">The exhibition at Laumeier from February 12 through May 15,
2022 seems well placed in the timeline of our lives recently. It features a
group of artists with unique trauma informed practices. The show is a cause for
some deep reflection. I hope it leads fans of our sculpture park to a place where
there is again a joyous return of the annual tradition of Mother’s Day and the
celebratiaon that surrounds the art, nature and craft of the annual Laumier Sculpture Park Art
Fair in May.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size: large;">Curator Dana Turkavic and director Lauren Ross are listed
as authors of the brochure that outlines the current exhibition. The small
print list recognizing of generosity of groups and individuals is reminder
enough that it takes the vision and support to shine a light on the work of art
as it lives in the context of adversity and renaissance at the same time. Saint
Louis County Parks, Regional Arts Commission, Missouri Arts Council, Arts &
Education Council, Covid-19 Relief Fund (National Endowment for the Arts),
Wingate Foundation, U.S. Small Business Administration, Saint Louis Small
Business Administration, Saint Louis County Small Business Relief Program.
Whitaker Foundation, Ken and Nancy Kranzberg, Joan and Mitchell Markow, Two
Sisters Foundation, Mary Ann and Andy Srenco.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 16.5pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><b><i><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; color: #303336; font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.15pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">SALUTARY (adjective) 1. Producting
a beneficial effect: REMEDIAL salutary influences 2. Promoting health: CURATIVE</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Salutary Sculpture features eight artists who use their
practice to sooth, heal, and work through trauma. It is at the same time sad
and joyous. Mostly, I think, it is inspirational and encouraging for all of us
who embrace the redemptive nature of art. ARTISTS: James Sterling ceramic and
wood sculptures were created after the artist suffered a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>head injury; Lauren Youden performance/installation
work is driven by diagnosing and treating chronic illness; Thomas J Condon lost
his eyesight and refocused from painting to photography as he underwent years
regaining his sight; Guadalupe Maravilla fled El Salvador to the U.S. at the
age of eight and as a young man in his 30s overcame colon cancer; Basil Kincaid
in is an African American who addresses “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome” with
fabrics and quilts that for this exhibition includes another layer around our
Manuel Neri figure; Marcus Lutyens pushes boundaries of traditional healing and
art forms in work at a clinic in Germany for stroke victim rehab; Dario Roberto
replicates the earliest (circa 1876-1896) wave form recordings of blood flow
and presents his film<i> The Aorta of an Anarchist (2021)</i>; Hope Ginsburg blends
deep sea diving gear and techniques in meditation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzje4zmrJxIGkm8jN6BbiAbeueO4JwsUmcplIwi1B-eSgxX4mlszOn-JMJRb_YinCB9Q6bNX66d42WzCy1bXGto0fI0ORhvitVpEEPtT1XIRv-t2PMTTb8DUsAW8mwKPzrvnn9TUC-IIYp8Gthwoe943X3669T7PE-2UrzEOTr2N5mOpXaoqLwhZkr/s2016/Paper%20LSP%20Healing.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2016" data-original-width="1512" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzje4zmrJxIGkm8jN6BbiAbeueO4JwsUmcplIwi1B-eSgxX4mlszOn-JMJRb_YinCB9Q6bNX66d42WzCy1bXGto0fI0ORhvitVpEEPtT1XIRv-t2PMTTb8DUsAW8mwKPzrvnn9TUC-IIYp8Gthwoe943X3669T7PE-2UrzEOTr2N5mOpXaoqLwhZkr/s320/Paper%20LSP%20Healing.jpg" width="240" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"><i>Note to readers of our Daily Newspaper - The Saint Louis Post / Dispatch has a nice article about this show in Sunday's Newspaper 3/27/2022.</i></span></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-35406300166570817232022-03-05T14:57:00.009-08:002022-03-12T08:14:01.015-08:00Need4Speed - AMA Conference 2022<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5xyR0SwpIgtQtz6p7hW24so37PBT2KzISx_n0PapevUbK7lmeV5bb4ZkIp0cHdMzJ-9a-DwTSQtBZE2M7p_wEdG_FxBZcTbfxWdWuJYlSuvR8RnNkTu4NKQgbOUwhaFYxQV6I2w2Uyi29JtCJHenAvbG6rpDcwfXhi5uidpUGX2eCX3f1Au_gJWPv=s713" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="550" data-original-width="713" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg5xyR0SwpIgtQtz6p7hW24so37PBT2KzISx_n0PapevUbK7lmeV5bb4ZkIp0cHdMzJ-9a-DwTSQtBZE2M7p_wEdG_FxBZcTbfxWdWuJYlSuvR8RnNkTu4NKQgbOUwhaFYxQV6I2w2Uyi29JtCJHenAvbG6rpDcwfXhi5uidpUGX2eCX3f1Au_gJWPv=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><i>Photo: Curtis Francois is interviewed by Bill Ellis as AMA chapter president Nick Niehaus (foreground) works with other AMA volunteers to produce a concurrent live/virtual marketing conference</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><b>Need4Speed </b>- The American Marketing
Association, Saint Louis Chapter once again delivered an incredible conference.
This was our 61st annual conference dedicated to the study and practice of the
marketing profession. We once again featured a range of relevant, compelling
and inspirational speakers with a range of marketing stories from which we all
can learn. The world is slowly recovering from the new normal environment created
by the pandemic but our AMA chapter delivered meaningful content and a great show on Friday March 4, 2022. <i>Need4Speed.</i> our 61<sup>st</sup> annual
conference, was pretty remarkable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk97389197"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><b>Mark
Engel – Founder Fifth Taste Foods</b>. </span></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk97389197;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%;">Mark Engel is on a mission to make plant-based eating craveable
for everyone. With over 25 years of experience leading product development
and innovation teams for a diverse group of Fortune 100 companies, Mark left
the corporate world in 2019 as founder Fifth Taste Foods. In just 9 months
from R&D to commercialization, Mark launched his first line of products,
oo’mämē Chile Crisps.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk97389197;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk97389197;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Elise L.
Connors, <span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">Director of Marketing</span>, </b><span style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><b>Brown & Crouppen Law Firm</b>. She embraced the<i>
Need4Speed</i> in today’s marketing environment with an exception of careful
slow and thoughtful planning. Her firm has seen great success with innovative
programing such as B&CTV. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk97389197;"><b><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">Tessa
Garcia-Collart, PhD</span></b></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk97389197;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"> Assistant Professor of Marketing,
College of Business, University of Missouri-St Louis </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14pt;">was an enthusiastic presenter on the subject of
marketing with the an understanding and appreciation of how the world of Emoji
communication fits into the marketing scheme of things.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk97389197;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Curtis
Francois is the owner of World Wide Technology Raceway (WWTR)</b>, located east of
downtown St. Louis in Madison, Illinois. Curtis was conversational about the
place marketing has in the mix of marketing, consumer experience and community
involvement.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><b>Michael Garlock Marketing Department Graduate
Student at University of Missouri – Saint Louis</b> graciously accepted this year’s
Collegiate Excellence in the study and practice of marketing. Congratulations UMSL Marketing Club and UMSL College of Business.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The
AMA, Saint Louis Chapter did a great job putting on a conference with expert
guidance of speakers and events by our moderator and master of ceremonies <b>Bill
Ellis.</b> Congratulations chapter president <b>Nick Niehaus</b> and the board of the Saint Louis Chapter of the American Marketing Association. Special Thanks to the <b>University of Missouri - Saint Louis College of Business</b> for hosting this year's production.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 120%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-45973223584788589602022-01-09T09:07:00.008-08:002022-01-13T04:31:11.595-08:00Special Education and Me<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh0kXHBqrbkaeZkdqhYvqSw3_VbCg47PEgSPW4oGG8WkY3eprQQeRkk3ro60kZKmPqDw_a1HNyjBFAXJtEUTWK87po8v2R8xWppuxV--VYyYqRbLHyVfPad6gB6JhLEBfEgqJyxoGlAWmmxADNNfdtUJOZaGLjHOTy_GOdmfSB9QVy5KohvOrNZejn=s3817" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1724" data-original-width="3817" height="145" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgh0kXHBqrbkaeZkdqhYvqSw3_VbCg47PEgSPW4oGG8WkY3eprQQeRkk3ro60kZKmPqDw_a1HNyjBFAXJtEUTWK87po8v2R8xWppuxV--VYyYqRbLHyVfPad6gB6JhLEBfEgqJyxoGlAWmmxADNNfdtUJOZaGLjHOTy_GOdmfSB9QVy5KohvOrNZejn=s320" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m not the first teacher to admit that I learn more
from my students than I could ever hope to teach. I started on my journey
around 2013 when I decided to work as a paraprofessional with the Special
School District of Saint Louis. This would become the third career path I have
followed in my working life. (Out of college, I was determined to work in big time advertising once
I completed my University of Miami MBA in 1982. Years later I decided, in 1998, to pursue the avenue of
marketing/communication in corporate environments. Fontbonne University was instrumental in
preparing me for teacher certification in Missouri with the completion of a
Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in 2018.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">I fancy myself a “lifelong learner” with a couple of key
pillars in my personal philosophy: <i>1. 80% of life is showing up. 2. Little things
are BIG things.</i> Showing up, for me, is very much about a kind of mindfulness
that allows me to be present. Little things, I have noticed, are so often not
small or unimportant at all. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">Allow me to share some examples that may help you
understand what I mean. Names and identities are not shared here and the cases
are further obscured by my accounts of observed behaviors.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A young man was agitated when I tried to calm him down
with statements like, “Don’t worry. Calm down. It will be okay.” To which he
responded in no uncertain terms “No it will NOT be okay.” His teacher helped me
understand empathic listening. By noting </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;">the individual showing signs of being upset you may be able to assist in helping him self-regulate.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">A girl in middle school who has hearing aids tries to out-insult her peers (mostly boys) who insist on bullying her. She yells and tries to win by sinking to the inappropriate levels of her tormentors. Maybe, she will gain life skills in combatting such assaults with a calmness that discourages the bully behavior. The challenge is to coach her to try alternatives in dealing with this adversity.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">A boy with Down Syndrome is delighted by participation in a group activity with a colorful parachute. He stubbornly refuses to return to class when the recess is over. This requires finesse to help this boy understand the nature of a scheduled program. and gain trust by empowering the student to a kind of guided independence in routines. His dad would pick him up at the end of the school day – a perfect time to get him used to trusting cues like “It’s time to go.”</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">The Individual Education Program (IEP) indicates that a young man frequently complains about classmates not following the rules. Part of the solution, it turned out was giving this student a journal. The book of concerns and complaints became a sort of therapy that helped this youngster channel concerns worth noting.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Safely securing a student on the school bus often resulted in aggressive horseplay that was a recurring problem for driver and aids. The student with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) became more cooperative with a routine review at the end of each day with a visual “social story” that helped him understand what expectations of his behavior.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Task boxes and instruction that allows a scholar with ASD and Intellectual Disabilities to focus with fading prompts allow a student to gain confidence. Sorting items by shape and/or color practicing dexterity and the use of hands and the body helps build skills.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">A girl with a history of abuse would inexplicitly make noise and fret in class. Her teacher identified a place in the room that was a safe spot with the rhyme “sugar and spice and everything nice”. It became a sort of code to help her feel safe. It can be critical to consider trauma informed care. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">A student of mine claimed an affinity for science but suffered from Attention Deficit Disorder. He learned about Leonardo Da Vinci and what it meant to be a Renaissance Man. His mother appreciated this awareness as a way to promote interests in multiple content areas and growth/maturity as he sought to improve in his academics.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Another student with a diagnosis of Oppositional Defiant Disorder publicly resisted instruction until she learned that actions (within her control) could result in outcomes such as freedom to participate in Cheerleading (good choices).</span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Sometimes students show segmented skill sets. A student I knew seemed fluent in reading until the reality showed that he lacked comprehension of what he was reading. (Another student was able to write neatly from work in front of him but also lacked comprehension skills). These two students were dramatic illustrations of the need for differentiation of instruction.</span></span></li></ul><p></p><p>
</p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 15.6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;">The
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) amendment of 1997 includes
language which describes methods used to identify and support desired behaviors
in the school setting. The educational research community has been developing
and studying Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports (PBIS) ever since. It seeks to reduce or eliminate poor behavior schoolwide through the
encouragement of positive behaviors. </span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 15.6pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin: 0in 0in 15.6pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 14pt;"><i>In my classroom I like to suggest just a
handful of rules: Be Safe. Be Kind. Be Cooperative. Be Peaceful. </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><br /></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-67949461269969684002021-10-31T09:31:00.010-07:002023-03-21T14:56:02.154-07:00Animals Always<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOATe7fQQ4gPg_lYRvqopLHhw4AA33eItVsd4YciFm-q4k8pLHMKhZV7moJwsKb2sImHofzGTDumRVf8Bu63tyGueFJeZ-2c5FbfFt-3FLZ7Tk8Uz1-u_Af9VEfPJ7AVXw538mRAQ-tAc/s2048/ANIMALS+ALWAY.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2048" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOATe7fQQ4gPg_lYRvqopLHhw4AA33eItVsd4YciFm-q4k8pLHMKhZV7moJwsKb2sImHofzGTDumRVf8Bu63tyGueFJeZ-2c5FbfFt-3FLZ7Tk8Uz1-u_Af9VEfPJ7AVXw538mRAQ-tAc/s320/ANIMALS+ALWAY.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Enter Forest Park from
Hampton Avenue. You can't miss it. It's 130 feet long, 36 feet high and 100
tons of Cor-Ten steel. <i>Animals Always </i>is the largest sculpture
at any public zoo in the United States. The sculpture features over 60 animals
peeking out from behind sculpted trees, ferns and other plant life. The
sculptor, Albert Paley, conceived the idea of this steel menagerie more than two
years when he met St. Louisan Thelma Zalk, who wanted to bring the idea to
fruition at the Saint Louis Zoo. Paley worked closely with Zoo staff to
represent animals that are featured at the Saint Louis Zoo. Many of the
animals, fish and plant life depicted are also endangered to inspire future
generations to protect our natural world. (The artwork/installation was completed in 2006.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is the first
representational and most complex work for Albert Paley who has completed more
than 50 works for both public and private institutions over his 30 year career.
Other Paley pieces can be found in the permanent collections of major museums
like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9QVifkDNQPm0PRVzT9aQJB3UoCW4SPzdqyWzB7BjdIwocNo-ZECSy2-G4ITjDGrEyPJC0RdDoOxEkkxHY3hcP5AmZ3wBtWipUwoms0vnc5R0gl8hN4EmIRe8JTpyNwhilHhuYKBgzNXg/s2048/elephanst.JPG" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9QVifkDNQPm0PRVzT9aQJB3UoCW4SPzdqyWzB7BjdIwocNo-ZECSy2-G4ITjDGrEyPJC0RdDoOxEkkxHY3hcP5AmZ3wBtWipUwoms0vnc5R0gl8hN4EmIRe8JTpyNwhilHhuYKBgzNXg/w150-h200/elephanst.JPG" width="150" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn0dJf4SkU0jah0P5dWgc_KNStWa4Lb9r-fD6bHwtkyFcnGTTu4DX9PoQF6-HUgpOgbhL4HrkP7Tpkh5Qbzd9uO2X7JbICriejfRR36x-Z6PtWk-4qyQgbb9_PEXkPnfZ-mKGrtZoXBa8/s2048/animals+always+zebra.JPG" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhn0dJf4SkU0jah0P5dWgc_KNStWa4Lb9r-fD6bHwtkyFcnGTTu4DX9PoQF6-HUgpOgbhL4HrkP7Tpkh5Qbzd9uO2X7JbICriejfRR36x-Z6PtWk-4qyQgbb9_PEXkPnfZ-mKGrtZoXBa8/w150-h200/animals+always+zebra.JPG" width="150" /></a></p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><div><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i><br /></i></span></span></div>Animals Always</i> is a significant cultural addition to the Zoo, Forest Park and the St. Louis region is made possible by two generous gifts from St. Louisans Thelma Zalk and the Steven F. Schankman family. Zalk donated $1 million for the sculpture and the Schankman family donated $1 million for the plaza around</span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 7.5pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixTOPPbCRpYmTZnRmzp52W-szukDVHK9nVw8uERpNhTlan55EvhDywNRs12mJQQHm7SOeyQO6CC0cXq_cBOqNnTj_p6J3MlYp9r3DDpnyNuAcPu1aI7rJQ1OvazNsu8S_EzJuogTIaSSc/s2048/gorilla.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixTOPPbCRpYmTZnRmzp52W-szukDVHK9nVw8uERpNhTlan55EvhDywNRs12mJQQHm7SOeyQO6CC0cXq_cBOqNnTj_p6J3MlYp9r3DDpnyNuAcPu1aI7rJQ1OvazNsu8S_EzJuogTIaSSc/w150-h200/gorilla.JPG" width="150" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAZ5sC8spepPAPP98f_EQQVLOWcw8rHvZH1TRsVKzqO6DzUSJuAfL_9SctKkLx3cj7GtqEIhaEQHxmL0FgmoRIuz51mZNz7aDN9xa4cntE5tcNZuG9FVoVsAPGxkUd9a1ek1OalnUmv6g/s242/A+Paley+in+Rochester+Studio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="242" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAZ5sC8spepPAPP98f_EQQVLOWcw8rHvZH1TRsVKzqO6DzUSJuAfL_9SctKkLx3cj7GtqEIhaEQHxmL0FgmoRIuz51mZNz7aDN9xa4cntE5tcNZuG9FVoVsAPGxkUd9a1ek1OalnUmv6g/w200-h200/A+Paley+in+Rochester+Studio.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><p></p><br /><p><br /></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-85916686284799869712021-10-23T17:35:00.007-07:002022-01-13T08:14:45.278-08:00Everybody Knows...<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNA0enr0SuRN8YtrqT0Cv9D2QjmzP6o1iMgKgx4nEhRT0GuRJSh3CD_CuA93trlkQ5FIjeIOw0AUj8cvNP59Ze7BGiOP1Crpyu2b-mnnXe75Sl-svd66Sahfiwga_1QfLjaEAOI0aZRf4/s2048/everybody+knows.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2047" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNA0enr0SuRN8YtrqT0Cv9D2QjmzP6o1iMgKgx4nEhRT0GuRJSh3CD_CuA93trlkQ5FIjeIOw0AUj8cvNP59Ze7BGiOP1Crpyu2b-mnnXe75Sl-svd66Sahfiwga_1QfLjaEAOI0aZRf4/w213-h213/everybody+knows.JPG" width="213" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">It isn’t
fair. It wasn’t me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Everybody
knows, somebody.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Look around.
You might see.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Somebody
else behaving so badly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Everybody
knows you can’t just blame me. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Be <b>safe</b>.
That sounds fair. That sounds alright.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Everybody
knows you gotta get it right.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Everybody
knows I didn’t start the fight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m staying
out of trouble. I’m out of sight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Everybody
knows: <i>might does not make you right.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">I try always
to be thoughtful and <b>kind</b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">You might
think I’m out of my mind. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Take a
closer look. You just might find. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">It wasn’t
me. Let me remind<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">You can’t
blame me – not this time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">I am not a
bully this time. Or any time. <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Be <b>cooperative.
</b>Stay focused. Stay on task. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">This
cooperation might not last.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Everybody
knows blaming me is easy and fast.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Everybody
knows there is a bigger cast. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">I didn’t do
it. Do you really have to ask? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Everybody
knows, the future looks bright. I can’t wait until<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Everybody
knows I am quiet and chill.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m not a
bully. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m <b>peaceful </b>and still <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Back off,
I’ve got hopes and dreams to fulfill.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 107%;">Everybody
knows I can do it …and I will.</span> <o:p></o:p></p><br /><p></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-15719182435623079662021-07-03T17:45:00.005-07:002022-05-17T03:26:12.656-07:00Lawton in the Lou <p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicAxylTwAyq9jmK5mi98DaDZwOzRGDa6k2ukzsykvk7haC9XDPzaCWGw5hYkNFi7MW-GotVvFc6vrpZySsigVq4rwGN5By_seFk3zd6eTGThFGpeUHwvhHaB6Sum1lAmDNNcYPg5AISZM/s2048/wheel.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1504" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicAxylTwAyq9jmK5mi98DaDZwOzRGDa6k2ukzsykvk7haC9XDPzaCWGw5hYkNFi7MW-GotVvFc6vrpZySsigVq4rwGN5By_seFk3zd6eTGThFGpeUHwvhHaB6Sum1lAmDNNcYPg5AISZM/s320/wheel.JPG" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Lawton in the Lou<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">We were thrilled to
know that our daughter was planning to visit us with her toddler in tow. Six
days in Saint Louis 6/28/2021-7/3/2021.I love the fact that Lindsey makes the
effort to stay connected and it is wonderful to witness her maternal finesse. Her
boy, Lawton, is a bright young man with a high-motor. So, mom wants to deliver a
wall-to-wall kid-friendly healthy and educational programming. The result is
something of a Staycation for Papa and Grandma Morgan. (Lawton turns 5 on July
5 so the timing of this hiatus calls for extra special celebration.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">June 28 – Monday
Airport pick up 7:30 a.m.<b> International House of Pancakes</b> just off <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brentwood. Check-in at <b>Le Meridien</b> in Clayton
on Bonhomme. Heading downtown for a trip to the top of the <b>Gateway Arch</b>. My
strategy was to park adjacent to City Garden, but in the pouring rain and with
various construction projects in progress we didn’t check out any sculpture. We managed
to arrive for our scheduled ride to the top. “This is amazing!” was Lawton’s
thrilled response at the top of the Gateway Arch. He also loved every bit of the museum exhibits at
the Arch. We got a good laugh at my parking ticket since I had no idea that I
was parked in a bicycle lane. (25 Bucks!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">June 29 – Tuesday
morning pick up at the hotel. Coffee at <b>Kaldi’s</b> on Skinker. Parking at Union
Station downtown (Again, my strategy was flawed because I thought I could feed
quarters to the meter to exceed the 2-hour time limit. I ended up moving the
car and making several walks to the car parked on the street.) Our pre-paid combo tickets for
the <b>Saint Louis Aquarium and the Wheel</b> said 9:00 a.m. but the wheel didn't open until after 10 a.m. Lawton loves sea creatures: Stingrays, Sharks, Sea
Otters with a few frogs, reptiles and snakes thrown in so the Aquarium is a win. The Wheel gives us a
leisurely view of the skyline and Market Street. The carousel is too fun to
pass up. Lunch includes a crazy indulgent milkshake, burger and fries. We still needed to
check out the kids obstacle course and the house of mirrors and mini golf.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 107%;">June 30 – Wednesday <b>Cardinals' Baseball
Game</b>. Pick up at the hotel in Grandma’s car. (This time we have a more sensible
parking strategy to use the garage on 7<sup>th</sup> Street). Saint Louis
Cardinals vs. Arizona Diamondbacks at 12:15. Our starting pitcher K. Kim stayed
in the game long enough to help himself win with a hit and 2 runs batted in.
Seven to four final score. (We used five ptchers to do so.) We are winners. </span><i><span style="background: white; color: #111111; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 107%;">ST. LOUIS
(AP) — Kwang Hyun Kim won for the first time in 11 starts, pitching five solid
innings and helping himself with a two-run double as the St. Louis Cardinals
beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 7-4 Wednesday for a three-game sweep.</span></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivq2GoYsDVIIhVqOWedfdTh4qR9ztnDwMMKafw7k5w4Tn1lw0dQj1TA7Z8I6x-OQF4yu5EEB5xL3JQe8iiqyRcwtdvGn9MT-CfIWbvKMMIM0vUWG_pTP5d1hPOJ1WNSUZTJfuvmXPuIpw/s2048/Lawton+eagle.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivq2GoYsDVIIhVqOWedfdTh4qR9ztnDwMMKafw7k5w4Tn1lw0dQj1TA7Z8I6x-OQF4yu5EEB5xL3JQe8iiqyRcwtdvGn9MT-CfIWbvKMMIM0vUWG_pTP5d1hPOJ1WNSUZTJfuvmXPuIpw/s320/Lawton+eagle.JPG" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">July 1 - Thursday. Pick
up at hotel early to get to the <b>Pancake House</b> in Clayton and head downtown for the
a-MAZE-ing <b>City Museum</b>. Responsible adults are trying hard to reduce the risks
and keeping track of tunnels, slides and creative structures not especially
friendly for fat kids and grandpas. Lawton is fearless and Mom and Papa
(Grandpa) just hope Lawton doesn’t get stuck in a rebar tunnel on his way to
the cockpit of one of the two airplanes hanging in mid-air. It’s officially
Summer so it seems reasonable to hit <b>Ted Drewes </b>on Chippewa for a frozen concrete afterward.
Lawton thinks it’s pretty cool that the parking lot has license plates from
Missouri, Illinois, Minnesota, Texas, Iowa and Florida.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">July 2 – Friday. Pick up
at Hotel (now at the <b>Courtyard by Marriot</b> in Creve Coeur) and head to the <b>Saint
Louis Zoo</b>. 90 acres of attractions, distractions, <i>Animals Always</i>, not to
mention another carousel, a train, and a dinosaur exhibit (DinoROARus). Lawton turns five in just three days so before they leave town we celebrate with dinner at the<b> Hacienda Restaraunt </b>in Rock Hill topped off with a cookie cake from <b>Colleen's </b>courtesy Grandma.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">July 3 – Lindsey and
Lawton have a flight on Southwest at 5:45 which leaves plenty of time for play
at the <b>Millennium Park</b> – swing-set, teeter totter, slides, splash pad, and a
visit from the ice cream man (truck). Lawton is thrilled with a red-white-blue
pop in honor of America’s birthday (not to mention his own). <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvb9diDRyYAxixWLD1_VxRq4NwCWUeR-uM71B3zLg3sPo51lbo4qtwDV_zI00AZTQFqhj2KFPC6hHfAdqblyOKFHG-6pzjt2gCCaPSia03Ll-lpg2rBng-m7QIAc8CJV9ZKCfPFtsrvYY/s4032/Lindsey+Lawton+Burger.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvb9diDRyYAxixWLD1_VxRq4NwCWUeR-uM71B3zLg3sPo51lbo4qtwDV_zI00AZTQFqhj2KFPC6hHfAdqblyOKFHG-6pzjt2gCCaPSia03Ll-lpg2rBng-m7QIAc8CJV9ZKCfPFtsrvYY/s320/Lindsey+Lawton+Burger.JPG" /></span></a></div><br /><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #202124; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><br /><p></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-48904638196744107372021-06-21T17:59:00.004-07:002022-06-05T04:24:14.275-07:00Happy Birthday Greg<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw65VQoHKncFksw0v76xr9s8yg2sx63_raNL9g-TDxQTj10Hzzzdk34fYXQBj_MxCVpNL8fq0h4ifcNQOOt4HzXSjVT5ATu4nt3LD1rgAg4wHh2UW7-0MLesPx2shj1_Vhfm2Grhu6y6M/s1826/IMG_7312+%25281%2529.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1826" data-original-width="1630" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw65VQoHKncFksw0v76xr9s8yg2sx63_raNL9g-TDxQTj10Hzzzdk34fYXQBj_MxCVpNL8fq0h4ifcNQOOt4HzXSjVT5ATu4nt3LD1rgAg4wHh2UW7-0MLesPx2shj1_Vhfm2Grhu6y6M/s320/IMG_7312+%25281%2529.jpeg" /></a></div><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaPmjgOxnDFAzLWhkLdT8jUrJVcM8OPlaxae2BYmOhkSM2JqkHWwn2Dmc4vWlGp6Sko-WGxR7dbVlyW-TR66lOGN3TuZpGRmy7WlTNxYnzwmtzMS12YE9gH0l6SKayehAP1Pl-XVnDfgI/s2048/IMG_E4145.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Not because he is a captain of industry;</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Or because he lives in a time of infamy;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Maybe you should consider another measure;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">It is in the subtle things you have to treasure.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">He is the first to question conventional wisdom;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">His home is a castle and family a kingdom.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">He is unsure of the path he’ll take;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">He is careful to avoid a mistake.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Seeing value in human capital;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">He sees good in one and all.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">He finds a way to put things in check;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">More than once walked away from a wreck.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Alive and grateful he says a prayer;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Some of us remember --- because we were there.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Commercial success is only part of the plan;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Today he is profound and a more emotional man. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">He makes others see the possibilities in life; <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">In his way, he steers people away from strife.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">It is a spiritual nature and it shows.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Heaven, hell, hereafter --- who knows? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Sit down for coffee with my brother the cosmic wheel;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">He will turn you around and you will quickly feel;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">The world is a wonderful place;<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-size: large;">And there is enough love in it for the whole human
race.</span><o:p style="font-size: 12pt;"></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQ9855dJ92K3oRmyJaLEizYSaKG7baaotH9lYsmt_7sVnS-Y_1W6xQu8KcslC0hDbCCRM186fMrim5nesICSFCOwWVyJZ0FJdEoClE4gY3bSaCMQswQyz2DVBLIk267BGd3AgTYgba2I/s2048/IMG_E4145.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1673" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcQ9855dJ92K3oRmyJaLEizYSaKG7baaotH9lYsmt_7sVnS-Y_1W6xQu8KcslC0hDbCCRM186fMrim5nesICSFCOwWVyJZ0FJdEoClE4gY3bSaCMQswQyz2DVBLIk267BGd3AgTYgba2I/s320/IMG_E4145.JPG" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-28946994568444373012021-06-14T19:37:00.008-07:002023-03-22T09:50:20.784-07:00The Story of An Ordinary Man (by Himself)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiilTWH4QpvcH5fiB-trd1vxKsmcYelg-O8r6xS0559uvm5EUjjtaSjKIOUojKIfbkt1lx_xCIlp14b6XneCrlPq8tJjY3C0i8Xg2kDx7O5wCIfl1s-tZg0WKTBQQB9hVEEAxCuxm1DxGU/s3622/Kinmundy+water+tower.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3622" data-original-width="3023" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiilTWH4QpvcH5fiB-trd1vxKsmcYelg-O8r6xS0559uvm5EUjjtaSjKIOUojKIfbkt1lx_xCIlp14b6XneCrlPq8tJjY3C0i8Xg2kDx7O5wCIfl1s-tZg0WKTBQQB9hVEEAxCuxm1DxGU/w334-h400/Kinmundy+water+tower.JPG" width="334" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Illinois Central Railroad Water Tower - built in 1885 (Kinmundy, IL)</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">This manuscript has been in my family a long time. I
remember my dad reading it carefully when I was youngster. It lived on a
bookshelf in the living room near the television set. It
consists of fewer than 150 pages of single-spaced typewritten pages with
columns 3 inches wide. The book is assembled into seven chapters labeled with
Roman numerals (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and VII). Only the final chapter has a
title “OFF TO COLLEGE” whereas the other chapters begin with carefully selected
quotes from literature (Longfellow, Whittier, Lowell etc.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">A copy of the book has been in my possession for
years. My father was keen on the insights it offered into the family history
which traced back to roots in Kinmundy, Illiinois on his father’s side of the
Morgan family. The ordinary man is John Morgan who (if my dad’s notes are accurate) is the fourth in birth order among nine children. My father’s father (the
author’s younger brother) is fifth in birth order. (That would be my father’s
grandfather Wesley Harmon Morgan). So indeed this is an account that gives some
insight into life in Kinmundy, Ilinois from the author’s first year 1858
through his graduation from college around 1885 from Valpraiso University in
Indiana.(1) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reflection in later chapters
refer to looking back on life in Kinmuncy as late as 1928 (which might suggest
that at least part of the book was written when he was in his sixties. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">We visited Kinmundy on a family trip with dad and mom
on a road trip from the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood, Ohio. I’m sure it seemed
like a good idea to go motoring in the early 1960s but when you’re a kid behaving
in a car for 500 miles can be a challenge. Dad was nostalgic about the place so
we drove by the center of town and by local newspaper office of the Kinmundy
Express (2). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dad pointed to where the
old bandstand used to be. Mom read a brochure with a tone of mockery, “Take
Kinmundy our city fair. No fog. No smog, Just clean fresh air.” (Mom clearly
did not share the warm nostalgia that Dad did).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">The seven chapter book by John Morgan, the brother of
my Great Grandfather Wesley Harmon Morgan is well written and reads more like a
casual series of memories of growing up in this small community about halfway
between Vandalia and Salem, Illinois. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
I read John Morgan, my Great Gand-Unlce’s chapters with interest. The book is
well crafted and a romantic appreciation of nature (trees, animals, weather
etc.). It also provides insight into the activities of such a community (in a
schoolroom, in the woods, hunting, fishing, socialization, sketches of citizens
of the place etc.) The colorful life and times of Kinmundy in this book
illustrate what it must have been like to be a boy here between 1858-1885;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It reads a bit like Mark Twain without the
stories of central characters like Tom Sawyer and Huckeberry Finn. Note that Twain’s characters are set in
1840s Missouri along the Mississippi River. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in;"><span style="color: #202122; font-size: 14pt;">Kinmundy
population is under 800 today but was closer to 1100 in the 1880s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kinmundy has a total area of 1.32 square
miles (3.42 km<sup>2</sup>), of which 1.05 square miles (2.72 km<sup>2</sup>)
(or 79.55%) is land and 0.27 square miles (0.70 km<sup>2</sup>) (or
20.45%) is water. The origins of the Town of Kinmundy are rooted in the
expansion of the railroads in Southern Illinois, with the first significant
economic influence being construction work on the Chicago branch of
the Illinois Central Railroad In April 1857, the town was initially laid
out east of the railroad, in 15 blocks of varying sizes, and later, incorporated
as a city in 1867</span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; text-indent: -0.25in;"><i>note 1: Valpraiso
originally opened in the 1850s and was one of the first co-educations colleges in the country. The Civil War caused enough hardship for the school to close
for a period but with help from Lutheran charity was able to resume after 1873.
The author says he took a stage to a train to travel to college about 250 miles
away from Kinmundy. </i></span></p><p style="background: white; margin-bottom: 6.0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 6.0pt; margin: 6pt 0in;"><i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;">note 2: The
Kinmundy Express office is now the location of the Kinmundy Historical Society.
Their website includes “gleanings” from the newspaper going bsck to the 1880s. </span><a href="http://www.kinmundyhistoricalsociety.org/" style="background-color: transparent; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">www.kinmundyhistoricalsociety.org</span></a></i><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%; text-indent: -0.25in;"><i>).
</i> </span></p><br /><p></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-32173688492350603882021-05-22T12:33:00.006-07:002021-05-23T04:11:11.542-07:00Big Easy Graduation<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiplpMryjCgZlqa0tqIOYdTeywy7BfkptIyafODfHCjaS8E8CVZmxk0Fg-APqgTSps8_q30MxFYyp3tcyum1HbOKQbXE_B7HI5d8x8PyKqNuQpZsVtS1RU1M-LeqqOeDtrrgFpmYcJ9T48/s2048/Big+Easy+Music.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2047" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiplpMryjCgZlqa0tqIOYdTeywy7BfkptIyafODfHCjaS8E8CVZmxk0Fg-APqgTSps8_q30MxFYyp3tcyum1HbOKQbXE_B7HI5d8x8PyKqNuQpZsVtS1RU1M-LeqqOeDtrrgFpmYcJ9T48/s320/Big+Easy+Music.JPG" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><i>Graduation Celebration – The Big Easy</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Sundance, my brother (formerly known as James
O’Connell Morgan Jr.), started his college career at Georgetown University in
1962. He has always exemplified the word “potential”. He was, at the same time, a victim of high
expectations (peers, parental, and anyone who knew him). I recall my older
brother being coddled after he broke his collar bone as the Junior Varsity
Quarterback at Saint Ignatius. I kid him to this day about that time when he was sipping a beverage from a bendy stray on a makeshift recovery bed set up in
front of his very own TV set in the living room as the boy QB prince of
Edgewater Drive. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">His journey included two suspensions from Jesuit
Georgetown, a study abroad (that yielded no academic credit), and a stint as a
football teammate at the University of San Francisco (another Jesuit school). He also served in the Navy. (Upon discharge he postponed his academic pursuits in favor of
stints in flooring sales, restaurant wait staff, and hotel hospitality work. He landed in
Miami and eventually New Orleans.) Fast forward five decades and Sundance
becomes a fixture at City Park as a tennis instructor. One of his students (Dawn) convinced him to explore dramatic arts at Delgado CC for which he would earn an associate’s
degree. Now eligible for some government assistance our hero matriculated to
the University of New Orleans and applied his newly refreshed academic
discipline to earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Inter-disciplinary Studies in
2021.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0CuYPZKHZl4iB6PXoxYjwVq7v87C3i3HSG72mBEt-E-MMPpedcvAV5IaR-sIfX2jqCnpotq35bnUY5i1cfEyePeSOer_ndsz0m7kDroVegr1KHNn1OBGfsJiOmwiUqMhkW1SXzcTDJko/s4032/Banner.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0CuYPZKHZl4iB6PXoxYjwVq7v87C3i3HSG72mBEt-E-MMPpedcvAV5IaR-sIfX2jqCnpotq35bnUY5i1cfEyePeSOer_ndsz0m7kDroVegr1KHNn1OBGfsJiOmwiUqMhkW1SXzcTDJko/s320/Banner.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This is cause for celebration. Morgan siblings descend
on the Big Easy from Tampa (Greg), Cleveland (Dan), Novato, California
(Rob), Columbus, Ohio (Lynn), and Saint Louis (Wes). Sundance donned a
graduation cap as we gathered at the Five Guys Restaurant near his house in Mid
City NOLA. This family gathering swelled to nine with the addition of Lynn’s
granddaughter Colleen and Greg’s boys Wes (the Lesser) and Matt. Greg is in
charge of logistics as Uber shuttle between two hotels and the restaurant. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">At the restaurant, the Morgan party draws straws for
original sketches by our father dating back to 1940s WWII era (framed by Rob);
open envelopes of random photos selected for each of the siblings (assembled by
Wes); nosh on burgers and fries served up by Greg. (He catered to our table and
picked up the check as well.) Sundance presented each of his siblings with a
custom money clip as a token of appreciation. Yesterday, a sibling gift pack
(from Dan) and a round of "Happy Birthday to you" could be heard from the hotel
suite occupied by Dan, Lynn and the 12-year old Colleen. Wes (The Lesser) and
Matt took turns focusing smart phone cameras for the obligatory over
documentation of the event.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Part II of the celebration is hosted by Bernie in her
fabulous mid-century home where the evening includes wine, beer and a buffet
style spread in the kitchen. It is here we begin to get a sense of the impact
of Sundance on the community he has built over 20+ years in New Orleans. A
prominent banner (Congratulations Sundance) is pool-side along white tablecloth
rounds of four. Toasts are offered over champagne leading to a hearty rendition
of “for he’s a jolly good fellow, nobody can deny”. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXu0IBa0EXb2cr1i4jfs_yipcN8mpX3p_bCPAR_oz3PtPJlNAR5Fyu-OBvBP_2OqpiD8HjU7_ruHuqYDDXQu4JIqLrSSVDJBPrI0qEJdJ4StLZ5cL6SI2nfQpwj7Hebui8qJDe5ZEtxvE/s2048/Grad+and+Sibs+Morgan.JPEG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXu0IBa0EXb2cr1i4jfs_yipcN8mpX3p_bCPAR_oz3PtPJlNAR5Fyu-OBvBP_2OqpiD8HjU7_ruHuqYDDXQu4JIqLrSSVDJBPrI0qEJdJ4StLZ5cL6SI2nfQpwj7Hebui8qJDe5ZEtxvE/s320/Grad+and+Sibs+Morgan.JPEG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The world revolves around Sundance on this day.
However, sports fans from Tampa (Greg and his boys) along with Wes and Rob camp
out in front of big screens for 3 ½ hours of Stanley Cub playoff hockey between
the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Florida Panthers (At Manning’s Sports Bar and
Grill on Fulton Street). The series is not conclusive on Thursday Night (at two
games to one) after the Panthers prevail avoiding elimination. Meanwhile Lynn
and Dan with Colleen in tow show up just as we are departing Archie Manning’s
restaurant. Rob has sponsored rounds of servings of nachos, poppers, catfish
sticks, fried shrimp bits, topped off with a round of beignets (which he claims totaled under an expected price tag in the range of a night out with his wife
Joy on a California date night). Dan, Lynn and Colleen still need to be fed. Greg saves
the day again with a local pizza delivered to the Aster Crown Plaza Hotel on
Canal Street in the French Quarter. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Friday Night Rob insists on viewing Golden State
Warriors vs. Memphis Grizzlies “play-in” game. This contest ends in
disappointment for Rob into the evening hours. The 117-112 Memphis overtime
victory doesn’t count for stats because of the Covid-19 truncated season. Rob,
Greg and his boys are just loud enough in the adjoining room for Wes to know
that the Golden State team is finished for the season. He goes back to sleep
because Uber Greg is the shuttle ride to MSY (Louis Armstrong Airport) early on
Saturday morning so Wes and Rob can exit the Big Easy for California and
Missouri.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRunwakMf4AhYZJC1JCcKJnP4XvPw8ubyhRsJQn6Sk83-uMT3Mdk97NNy3dn1A6S145XgxdDPIBOLA1Qj1qrEWubCx7NzrcrOMGASfxALqAkO66LUvUEr_nc862kB_-SLogeqKjLMa4wg/s2048/five+guys+and+a+girl.jpeg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRunwakMf4AhYZJC1JCcKJnP4XvPw8ubyhRsJQn6Sk83-uMT3Mdk97NNy3dn1A6S145XgxdDPIBOLA1Qj1qrEWubCx7NzrcrOMGASfxALqAkO66LUvUEr_nc862kB_-SLogeqKjLMa4wg/w400-h300/five+guys+and+a+girl.jpeg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p></p>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-52811700222634684262021-05-08T17:25:00.004-07:002024-03-02T17:39:00.390-08:00Meg and Parker visit Saint Louis Art Museum<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiML00Y_nsBvtXnUDllQNXDWF3KbIxjdP19HIHFhjtpbSefLcUphrbejlJmh5tbubKJCbVUQw1nfJgDaEY6VZDn3hKcaHLeK61vrhb54w30vxpqrLP5X54soBmYzyTFdAmXjMEJBDGkuJg/s2048/Max+Beckmann+1950+sefl+portrait.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiML00Y_nsBvtXnUDllQNXDWF3KbIxjdP19HIHFhjtpbSefLcUphrbejlJmh5tbubKJCbVUQw1nfJgDaEY6VZDn3hKcaHLeK61vrhb54w30vxpqrLP5X54soBmYzyTFdAmXjMEJBDGkuJg/s320/Max+Beckmann+1950+sefl+portrait.JPG" /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /> </span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3inZt0w0LN2jkg0W3p_5cBAHtHjj5iQOot_0RGJB8XTUs6CU7khoCZfdAOjnuC9UNgNQjB3WrlHScNvJrxOPVKjO5KEUktiORVGprjSymtMMvPoqHKbBc4Bg6BBHQZBMIBSuzUBIrcmI/s2048/Monet+Water+Lilies.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3inZt0w0LN2jkg0W3p_5cBAHtHjj5iQOot_0RGJB8XTUs6CU7khoCZfdAOjnuC9UNgNQjB3WrlHScNvJrxOPVKjO5KEUktiORVGprjSymtMMvPoqHKbBc4Bg6BBHQZBMIBSuzUBIrcmI/s320/Monet+Water+Lilies.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;"><i>My wonderful niece and her husband are on a bit of a
road trip and will be traveling through Saint Louis from Kansas City. They know
I am a huge fan of the art museum and agree to make a stop to visit before
returning to their suburban home outside Nashville, TN. The plan is to spend
some time at the museum. In preparation, I cannot help but go into docent mode.
I settled on a dozen artists I hoped to highlight. </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), In particular his mother
and child painting done when he was just 20. (Tomorrow is Mothers Day after
all).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Henri Matisse (1869-1954), The Fauvist was 11 years
older than Picasso but they became lifelong friends. I love this painting
inside but with a peak outside in Nice, France.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) He left us too soon at 37
years of age. The museum has an awesome painting by the Post Impressionist.
This painting was done in the frantic productivity of that last year of his
life in 1890.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Aristide Maillol (1861-1944) The French Sculpture’s
The Mountain features his Muse Dina Vierny (1919-2009) in the sculpture garden.
His Muse honored the artist by establishing a museum collection of Aristide
Maillol works in Paris. (The Mountain is made of lead. I discovered another at
the Columbus Museum of Art.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Claud Monet (1840-1926) The water lilies painting at
our museum is one of three panels that were in the artist’s studio at Giverny
when he died. The three water lilies paintings (a triptych) were acquired by
Nelson Atkins Museum in KC, Saint Louis Art Museum and the Cleveland Museum of
Art. Monet is the reason for the term Impressionism. (He was among the first to
show in 1874 with the group of artists rejected by the Salon).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Edgar Degas (1834-1917) He was also among the original
French Impressionists. His wax model of a little dancer of 14 years was in the
sixth showing of the Impressionists in 1881. It was cast in bronze and our
museum has one on display. (Another bronze cast is at the Metropolitan in NYC.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Max Beckmann (1884-1950) Labeled by the Germans a
“degenerate artist” The Expressionist was forced to flee (first to Holland and
later to Saint Louis to teach in 1947 to Washington University-Saint Louis). We
visited the Max Beckman self portrait. He was on his way to see this self-portrait
on view at the Met in New York when he has a heart attack In 1950. He never
made it. RIP Max Beckmann. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Robert Henri (1865-1929) American leader of the Ashcan
School. The dramatic dancer painting from 1916 shows his brush technique. Well
this painting was replaced on this day by a nice landscape scene by George Wesley
Bellows. The Ashcan School is an entirely separate art
lecture and maybe best done in Philadelphia. Meg and Parker are a great
audience and I would truly love an excuse to lead them on another museum tour. (Cleveland, Philly, Fort Lauderdale....TBD)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) - Midwest Regionalism
and muralist. Jackson Pollock studies with this American Artist before Abstract
Expressionism and New York City became the center of the art world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) - Pollock in the 1940s was
leader of Abstract Expressionism. Another life cut short tragically. He was
only 43 when a car accident killed him somewhere on Long Island.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Ellsworth Kelly (1923-2015) – Studied at Pratt
Institute in Brooklyn, NY Color Field Painter. Spectrum II is proudly on
display in the Saint Louis Art Museum East Building addition. He might have
crossed paths with my father James O’Connell Morgan who attended Pratt and like
Kelly was an expert in camouflage techniques. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: large; line-height: 107%;">Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) Sculpture/Pop Art. The
electrical plug in front of museum is another everyday object from popular
culture. KC museum has Oldenburg badminton shuttlecocks and downtown Cleveland
has a FREE stamp by this artist. This artist, I mentioned to Meg & Parker
(by the way) is the only artist on this list who is still alive. <sub><o:p></o:p></sub></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSaGLiuLFgJWTgk8GTrI9iOy-dd1c5MsPhBZFLWut9zFshrlp0S9JVTLVkOWMouLT4DxFvNJlPRN-8BB91jkhUPOYlqXVW3T63N3OzN9ydEMQAtdE2_gVAeQ8D7r2CJVk4gP37BXWzh5c/s2048/picasso+at+20.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSaGLiuLFgJWTgk8GTrI9iOy-dd1c5MsPhBZFLWut9zFshrlp0S9JVTLVkOWMouLT4DxFvNJlPRN-8BB91jkhUPOYlqXVW3T63N3OzN9ydEMQAtdE2_gVAeQ8D7r2CJVk4gP37BXWzh5c/w150-h200/picasso+at+20.JPG" width="150" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhonBZQRH9K6Ow22f1fX_OJV9-y_IkltVU-zQUE6PcYv1XTvkIYP0Wz5aQ6ApCNlJddANhi5sN8G4V-zfTbuVhNg27OuVbtPK5lCmgfivHBEwmF9wfQOmeCDCjwZHlG846BuR_AY66J1x4/s425/51hg2AlC6NL._AC_SX425_.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="342" data-original-width="425" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhonBZQRH9K6Ow22f1fX_OJV9-y_IkltVU-zQUE6PcYv1XTvkIYP0Wz5aQ6ApCNlJddANhi5sN8G4V-zfTbuVhNg27OuVbtPK5lCmgfivHBEwmF9wfQOmeCDCjwZHlG846BuR_AY66J1x4/s320/51hg2AlC6NL._AC_SX425_.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><i>McSorley's, 1912 by John Sloan</i> </span></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">About 1900, a group of realists artists set themselves
apart from and challenged the American Impressionists and academics. The
most extensively trained member of this group was Robert Henri (1865–1929), who
had studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1886 to 1888 under
Thomas Anshutz (1851–1912). Anshutz had himself studied at the Pennsylvania
Academy from 1876 to 1882 with Thomas Eakins, who had defied Victorian
decorum in his teaching principles and in his boldly realistic paintings.
Eakins would become the lodestar to Henri and his associates. After spending
the years from 1888 to 1891 working at the Académie Julian in Paris, Henri
taught at the School of Design for Women in Philadelphia and gave private art
classes in and around that city and, during return visits to France, in and
around Paris. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Beginning in 1892, Henri also became the mentor to
four Philadelphia Illustrators — William James Glackens (1870–1938),
George Luks (1866–1933), Everett Shinn (1876–1953), and John Sloan
(1871–1951)—who worked together at several local newspapers and gathered to
study, share studios, and travel. Between late 1896 and 1904, they all moved to
New York, where Henri himself settled in 1900.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Henri and his former-Philadelphia associates comprised the
first generation of what came to be known as the Ashcan School. A second
generation consisted of Henri’s New York students, of whom George Bellows
(1882–1925) was the most devoted. The term Ashcan School was suggested by a
drawing by Bellows captioned Disappointments of the Ash Can, which
appeared in the Philadelphia Record in April 1915; was invoked by
cartoonist Art Young in a disparaging critique that appeared in the New
York Sun in April 1916; and was given curatorial currency by Holger Cahill
and Alfred H. Barr Jr. in a 1934 exhibition at New York’s Museum of Modern Art.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Ny4RNq92GzjfRf67pdLk5dURI15JE33BFTNNOCL81FR9Trlp9nZ0eO4_n3BPHRR50g3jSkagexQxPzT_bZ9PUFvD-TCTIefYM6ZnCvE1oE8LPxk9WdSzjrScbTO7yYYEXDLX2l3mqVM/s1024/disappointment+of+the+ash+can.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="824" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3Ny4RNq92GzjfRf67pdLk5dURI15JE33BFTNNOCL81FR9Trlp9nZ0eO4_n3BPHRR50g3jSkagexQxPzT_bZ9PUFvD-TCTIefYM6ZnCvE1oE8LPxk9WdSzjrScbTO7yYYEXDLX2l3mqVM/s320/disappointment+of+the+ash+can.jpg" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Although the Ashcan artists were not an organized “school”
and espoused somewhat varied styles and subjects, they were all urban Realists
who supported Henri’s credo—“art for life’s sake,” rather than “art for art’s
sake.” They also presented their works in several important early
twentieth-century New York exhibitions, including a group show at the National
Arts Club in 1904; the landmark show of The Eight at Macbeth Galleries in
February 1908, which included the five senior Ashcan School painters along with
Ernest Lawson (1873–1939), Maurice Prendergast (1858–1924), and Arthur B.
Davies (1862–1928); the Exhibition of Independent Artists in 1910; and the
Armory Show—an immense display dominated by modern European art—in 1913.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">In their paintings as in their illustrations, etchings
and lithographs, Henri and his fellow Ashcan artists concentrated on portraying
New York’s vitality and recording its seamy side, keeping a keen eye on current
events and their era’s social and political rhetoric. Stylistically, they
depended upon the dark palette and gestural brushwork of Diego Valazquez,
Frans Hals, Francisco de Goya,, Honoré Daumier, and recent Realists such as
Wilhelm Leibl, Edouard Manet and Edgar Degas. They preferred broad,
calligraphic forms, which they could render “on the run” or from memory,
thereby enlisting skills that most of them had cultivated as newspaper
illustrators. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Although the Ashcan artists advocated immersion in modern
actualities, they were neither social critics nor reformers and they did not
paint radical propaganda. While they identified with the vitality of the lower
classes and resolved to register the dismal aspects of urban existence,
they themselves led pleasant middle-class lives, enjoying New York’s
restaurants and bars, its theater and vaudeville, and its popular nearby
resorts such as Coney Island. Because they avoided civil unrest, class tensions, and the grit of the streets, their works are never as direct or
disturbing as those of their European counterparts or of the reformist images
of American photographers such as Jacob Riis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">The Ashcan artists selectively documented an unsettling,
transitional time in American culture that was marked by confidence and doubt,
excitement and trepidation. Ignoring or registering only gently harsh new
realities such as the problems of immigration and urban poverty, they shone a
positive light on their era. Along with the American Impressionists, the Ashcan
artists defined the avant-garde in the United States until the 1913 Armory
Show introduced to the American public the works of true modernists Henri
Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, and others. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;">Henri and most of his Ashcan colleagues continued to
paint—even into the 1940s, in the case of Sloan and Shinn. Although their
creativity waned and their pioneering character faded, they infused some of
their late canvases with their earlier vigor</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>H. Barbara Weinberg The American
Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art April 2010.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwgjBImaKejgpBZNVH7ZzH3FaytVX3LavDbvFsUDxEti_FfY5NJcBKwiR56MEeZsZIXKJBhRNhOf90_xsFN0neZvVwMScIbqSHCN-T3t9X6QkDkGCgiFYZ0V90J7_1rj4us18za07ksWw/s1778/George+Wesley+Bellows.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1327" data-original-width="1778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwgjBImaKejgpBZNVH7ZzH3FaytVX3LavDbvFsUDxEti_FfY5NJcBKwiR56MEeZsZIXKJBhRNhOf90_xsFN0neZvVwMScIbqSHCN-T3t9X6QkDkGCgiFYZ0V90J7_1rj4us18za07ksWw/s320/George+Wesley+Bellows.JPG" width="320" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><i><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span style="font-size: large;">Stag at Sharkey's 1909 by George Wesley Bellows - on view at Cleveland Museum of Art</span></i></div>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-36428796207321293342021-04-24T08:28:00.004-07:002022-04-01T09:01:15.678-07:00Covid-19 Mosaic Art Project Part II<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Morgan - <i>The Covid-19 Mosaic Art Project started in March 2020 with heightened awareness of the global pandemic. A variety of content/subjects composed with recycled consumer packaging, reclaimed cardboard, scissors, Elmer's glue. I am grateful to a small group of patrons who have given mosaics a place to be seen in 12 states. </i><div><i><br /></i></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F0F2F5;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Arial",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Lindsey Morgfan Dewey:<br />
</span><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";">That's my dad...all
purchasing inquiries can be directed my way. You can also check more out on
Instagram:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #F0F2F5;"><span style="color: #050505; font-family: "inherit",serif; font-size: 11.5pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Segoe UI Historic";"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/wamosaic/?fbclid=IwAR2DZZus-XvPwStr1_XhZtBwQdg7NmDicq6if7rRd3zVuKUm_segWIMkc6k" role="link" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; border-color: initial; border-style: initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: var(--blue-link); cursor: pointer; outline: none; text-align: inherit; touch-action: manipulation;" target="_blank"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">https://www.instagram.com/wamosaic/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><i></i></div>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-15093738615056721182021-04-01T16:01:00.004-07:002021-04-03T17:13:11.801-07:00Turrell's Orca (Blue + Red)<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglwBomitiih1jhPqAhibHNbAxtLwZEpRfE5AEi-HOWe2_LN2doBoUmEhBTSYGmOSS1n_ZIaFhv9YJKrlYkwmHjQ9KtaJUYYFRx-CDfxOLIjIH-l7QGwbYNwN8AdJn_GoM8NzksiWcZNjo/s2048/James+Turrell+2021+STL.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglwBomitiih1jhPqAhibHNbAxtLwZEpRfE5AEi-HOWe2_LN2doBoUmEhBTSYGmOSS1n_ZIaFhv9YJKrlYkwmHjQ9KtaJUYYFRx-CDfxOLIjIH-l7QGwbYNwN8AdJn_GoM8NzksiWcZNjo/s320/James+Turrell+2021+STL.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><span>Barrett
Barrera Projects announced the installation of James Turrell’s<em><b> Orca
(Blue and Red)</b></em><strong> </strong>at projects+exhibitions at 4568
Manchester Avenue in St. Louis, MO opened to the public on March 13, 2021. Turell
(b. 1943 in LA) is quoted on his website: </span><span>“My work is more about your seeing than it is about my seeing,
although it is a product of my seeing. I’m also interested in the sense of
presence of space; that is space where you feel a presence, almost an entity —
that physical feeling and power that space can give.” The promotional material
for this exhibition includes the following observation and quote: Turrell’s
medium is pure light. He says, “My work has no object, no image and no focus.
With no object, no image and no focus, what are you looking at? You are
looking at you looking. What is important to me is to create an experience of
wordless thought.”</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Wordless thought - I
love that. It seems the artist is not about to tell the audience how to think
or feel about his work any more that is he willing to articulate an answer to
pedantic questions like “What is it?” One could wager that the artist was a thoughtful
student at Pasadena High School (Graduated 1961) and became a more profound
thinker studying Psychology at Pomona College (BA 1965). Furthermore, he
refined his sense of self as a student of Art Graduate Studies at University of
California, Irvine (1965-1966) and Claremont Graduate School (MA Art, 1973).</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 21pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Beginning his art career in the 1960s, Turrell’s work is primarily an
exploration of light and space. By making light the subject of the revelation,
his work challenges the very nature of how and what is perceived and, in
particular, how what is perceived affects and forms the reality lived. One part
meditative and another confounding, Turrell’s works heighten the viewer’s very
sense of seeing and places the viewer in a realm of experience.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 21pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">I first experienced Turrell via his skyspace structure at Crystal Bridges
in 2012. I encountered him again in an installation in a museum space that
astounded me as a I walked into a gallery space that at first appeared to have
a large flat composition on a wall. (As it turned out it wasn’t a 2-D
composition or a flat wall at all.) The skyspace at Crystal Bridges was a
happening for me with a group of fellow docents from the Saint Louis’ Laumeier
Sculpture Park. It was pure mindfulness to sit gazing at the sky as the dawn’s
light evolved at morning. Turrell is the perfect antidote for those who want to
be present and live in the moment.</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 21pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Meanwhile, a monumental project at Roden Crater,
an extinct volcano in Northern Arizona</span><span style="background: white; font-family: times; font-size: large;"> is an
unprecedented large-scale artwork created by Turrell that seems a worthy addition
to my art bucket list.</span></p></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDsaslnGfaZO200W7Ip5AavUOV62Hbz2uj-Gw-ZhTIjQhgQhiSx5t5QOIbhwQodxf-Lb9JWMzI-JoNglad1jjHxmEVeO6zSxKg4nZFTxwu6VatSyiODUeG5JfoqD_CaHdmy4Xv2n3fYTs/s2048/IMG_3822.JPG" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDsaslnGfaZO200W7Ip5AavUOV62Hbz2uj-Gw-ZhTIjQhgQhiSx5t5QOIbhwQodxf-Lb9JWMzI-JoNglad1jjHxmEVeO6zSxKg4nZFTxwu6VatSyiODUeG5JfoqD_CaHdmy4Xv2n3fYTs/s320/IMG_3822.JPG" /></span></a></div><br /><p></p><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOXT-twOLdn3_6dKWLJU_VpDqR009gbJWqR7fEFq2hNPg1GsgW7U49ZuS9yncy5UY3KgGrM31ivQDdeg7uP6Ez2c-5YfulprzBK7t6HljFUZ7b58w1fcyEZZZA7Z5YWjuzC0InskXgN_I/s2048/IMG_3809.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOXT-twOLdn3_6dKWLJU_VpDqR009gbJWqR7fEFq2hNPg1GsgW7U49ZuS9yncy5UY3KgGrM31ivQDdeg7uP6Ez2c-5YfulprzBK7t6HljFUZ7b58w1fcyEZZZA7Z5YWjuzC0InskXgN_I/w150-h200/IMG_3809.jpg" width="150" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomQnp8_87u4AJqlaEsDvehbf7ROXsEUljjAWocFwnQfgzp47jj_Lbb_2yfp48gYYe19z2FFeuTyO17sDGX5wuYiZqg_y_uHnxyRnLO4NqvAPG4gobc5Ltn9DTpEVW-0eorY78ImiNVgE/s2048/IMG_3813.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjomQnp8_87u4AJqlaEsDvehbf7ROXsEUljjAWocFwnQfgzp47jj_Lbb_2yfp48gYYe19z2FFeuTyO17sDGX5wuYiZqg_y_uHnxyRnLO4NqvAPG4gobc5Ltn9DTpEVW-0eorY78ImiNVgE/w150-h200/IMG_3813.jpg" width="150" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3728625568811019890.post-79467129627887581562021-03-16T11:26:00.007-07:002021-03-18T07:36:43.994-07:00Movies in March 2021<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFtuy8Z4_4yDfyzLETvThBGEOUB9rbDa1RAjFrwVuSm0ir5XQss1dnQqLB0-lC2okVBgwkVldcFZpjQrclshHQ2ftLwVADXL2TOfbwlZCZoASI07ZkzxTCbqK_RJOEOQmwKflsgEXXw30/s600/440px-The_Jazz_Singer_1927_Poster.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFtuy8Z4_4yDfyzLETvThBGEOUB9rbDa1RAjFrwVuSm0ir5XQss1dnQqLB0-lC2okVBgwkVldcFZpjQrclshHQ2ftLwVADXL2TOfbwlZCZoASI07ZkzxTCbqK_RJOEOQmwKflsgEXXw30/s320/440px-The_Jazz_Singer_1927_Poster.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">The
Jazz Singer 1927</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in
order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer. Director: Alan Crossland Writers: Samson
Raphaelson (play), Alfred A Cohn (adaptation), Al Jolson, May McAvoy. </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Cantor Rabinowitz is concerned and upset because his son Jakie
shows so little interest in carrying on the traditions (five generations in the
family have been cantors in the synagogue). </span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Jackie finds that in order to balance his career, his
relationship with Mary, and his memories of his family, he will be forced to
make some difficult choices.Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye!) - (1922) Written by
Gus Kahn, Dan Russo, Ernie Erdman, Ted Fio Rito and Robert A King </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> and sung by Al Jolson.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></p><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1hNBIC8ujhGgE28vNFGfjA9BHONfzETbbJLEE0Dxpq3WQRfSiUTsxMqnIiJT3aocqxEB5dW8dL9ehZMk4_XRSyq33tvVSxCwlbNtIFM19onnbT-bRiql6VKrU3Ixj4KBaQdJjdOdC2Ko/s506/Gone+with+the+Wind.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="350" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1hNBIC8ujhGgE28vNFGfjA9BHONfzETbbJLEE0Dxpq3WQRfSiUTsxMqnIiJT3aocqxEB5dW8dL9ehZMk4_XRSyq33tvVSxCwlbNtIFM19onnbT-bRiql6VKrU3Ixj4KBaQdJjdOdC2Ko/s320/Gone+with+the+Wind.jpg" /></a></b></div><b><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></div>Gone
with the Wind 1939</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">
A manipulative woman (Vivien Leigh) and a roguish man (Clark Gable) conduct a
turbulent romance during the American Civil War and Reconstruction periods. Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cokor (uncredited), Margaret Mitchell (story of teh Old South "Gone with the Wind") Sidney Howard (screen play). </span><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqurJRtyLcj9wqMK3YEdgBi8ysUwTOuHlogGZg1eNEZOHTD4P-Sb27ZQVifK0Rfk7jBDgnX7EiObjcSHpXpqcaSQCz24yiNpCkwjAagMJx79P4qkawUxlcwUKdxcY3KG5ao8p8tdYsc8E/s213/see+you+in+my+dreams.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="213" data-original-width="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqurJRtyLcj9wqMK3YEdgBi8ysUwTOuHlogGZg1eNEZOHTD4P-Sb27ZQVifK0Rfk7jBDgnX7EiObjcSHpXpqcaSQCz24yiNpCkwjAagMJx79P4qkawUxlcwUKdxcY3KG5ao8p8tdYsc8E/s0/see+you+in+my+dreams.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /><div><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I’ll See You in My Dreams 1951</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
Danny Thomas and Doris Day.The success and decline of songwriter Gus
Kahn is portrayed, with his wife, Grace Kahn, sticking by him
the whole time.<span style="color: #333333;"> This musical bio of Gus Kahn, the
"Corn Belt Bard," Doris Day sings one great song after another, while
Kahn, the author of countless tunes from the title number to "Ain't We Got
Fun" and "Makin' Whoopee," is portrayed by Danny Thomas. American
popular music from the days of Tin Pan Alley, vaudeville, Broadway and early
sound movies, the story is swept along by the expert direction of Michael
Curtiz. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiluHqbpWvc7SQqGryzzX1KsOVHPJ7axkW0t92s1Ch0qY5nUkLVqjngQVHzuzHDhsTNWoGXe9MYMTvczZdgucssN99uYjSb9HWXS16TbC33R7ER7BtAofKJIgDlekB2yoVqAkhxg52HnPo/s440/Inherit_the_wind.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="440" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiluHqbpWvc7SQqGryzzX1KsOVHPJ7axkW0t92s1Ch0qY5nUkLVqjngQVHzuzHDhsTNWoGXe9MYMTvczZdgucssN99uYjSb9HWXS16TbC33R7ER7BtAofKJIgDlekB2yoVqAkhxg52HnPo/s320/Inherit_the_wind.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><br /><span style="color: #333333;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Inherit
the Wind 1960</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">
(Directed by Stanley Kramer) – Spencer Tracy and Frederic March. Based on a
real-life case in 1925, two great lawyers argue the case for and against a
science teacher accused of the crime of teaching evolution. <span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); color: #333333;">Inherit the Wind is a fictionalized
account based on the famous Scopes "Monkey Trial" which took place in
Tennessee in 1925. (The teacher arrested for teaching evolution was John Scopes
(1900-1970), the prosecuting attorney was William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925),
and the defense attorney was Clarence Darrow (1857-1938). The names were all
changed for the play and the film, but the basic incidents were true.).</span></span><i><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi3v8ceVi_vkJTiD_vn4Qz6jahh2sY_fg09n1UjrDCJufAlhLQJcav8wLBXOFujHpGn_RrOIKznf4krkcePCpfaFut0nfbSLWQKwGcdyWnD_5EN5xFJ874BdR2u4cLsO8xzCvUGG5O5qE/s640/Judas+and+the+Black+Messiah.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi3v8ceVi_vkJTiD_vn4Qz6jahh2sY_fg09n1UjrDCJufAlhLQJcav8wLBXOFujHpGn_RrOIKznf4krkcePCpfaFut0nfbSLWQKwGcdyWnD_5EN5xFJ874BdR2u4cLsO8xzCvUGG5O5qE/s320/Judas+and+the+Black+Messiah.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></i></div><i><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); color: #333333; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /><o:p><br /></o:p></span></i><p></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;">Judas
and the Black Messiah 2021</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="background: white; color: #202122;">The film
is directed and produced by Shaka King, who wrote the screenplay with Will
Berson, based on a story by the pair and Kenny and Keith Lucas. </span> Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panther
Party per FBI Agent <span style="background: white; color: #202122;">(played
by Lakeith Stanfield), an FBI informant. </span>As Party Chairman
Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle
wages for O'Neal's soul.<span style="background: white; color: #202122;"> American
biographical drama film about the betrayal of Fred Hampton (played by
Daniel Kaluuya), chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther
Party in late-1960s Chicago.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background: rgb(251, 251, 251); color: #333333;">Thanks
to Turner Classic Movies and more recently AMC Theaters (allowing me to
actually sit in a movie house – Creve Coeur Cinema). Needless to say, in light
of heightened dialogue around equity, justice and politics, and during a global
pandemic each of these films contribute as meaningful thought starters. I love that movies have that power.</span></i></p><p>
</p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span style="background: white; color: #202122; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><br /></p></div></div>MorganWeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00455227189332676274noreply@blogger.com0