Dad……..you and Mark are weird….that is all.
David j

I like the R. Crumb! Ha!

I just wanted to say that dream is hilarious, and textbook Steve, in my opinion… Hope it wasn’t influenced by playing that organ duet with me!!

Hi Elizabeth. I had trouble coming up with pics. Mr. Natural is a fall back I usually identify with.

Rhonda, I don’t think the dream had anything to do with our duet. I enjoyed learning and performing that with you. The young man in my dream was more like the young musicians I have met in coffee shops whose apparent musical narrowness includes an outright rejection of much music I admire. I tend to like a lot of music they like, but they don’t reciprocate with much curiosity much less appreciation of much music of the music I like. As usual dreams about the dreamer.

Whoah, $200 is insane. I’m glad you canceled it. Not worth it. Strange to think your phone number is retired.

Anyway, fun to hear you and Mom are doing well. I love you!

Yes. $200 is insane. Comcast (and other companies no doubt) seem to have a clear strategy of giving a discounted contract which gradually increases. I remember contacting them a year or so ago and complaining. At that time, they said there was no discounted contract available to me, so I cut back in services (dropped premium channels). This long range strategy of milking customers seems a bit like “killing the goose which lays the golden eggs” (if you remember that folk tale). I think $75 a month for internet is still pricey, but at least we are only paying for what we are using.

Im with Elizabeth on the phone being disconnected. In this age, i dont store numbers in my head but on the little computer in my pocket. However, it is one of the few phone numbers that has been in my head since I lived there….
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David

I need to get out an email to fam about this change. Not everyones reads the blog. I do think this is a change for better for Eileen and me.

You know, even I feel old when I walk into Lemonjellos! I think there’s something about the vibe of the place. And the devices that everyone is plugged into – I can’t help but think, when I look around there, “man, when I was in college, people went to coffee shops to talk to other people. ” Kids today…

I don’t really feel old when I walk into LemonJellos. I have to tell you that I love the passion and energy of the young. It’s just the absence of same that I experience combined with a provinciality that is palpable to me. I disagree with you about being plugged in. It doesn’t both me. I’m plugged in. People are talking but what are they talking about? thinking about? You and I see tech very differently. I have an “instrumental” view of it which sees it as basically benign and reflecting its users. In my case, it opens up worlds for me the same way books and good conversations do. I think the “kids today” that I see on Hope’s campus are very narrow and that is not connected to their use of tech. Just my opinion of course. Plus they look at me weird. Heh.

I can’t help but ask, is inculcate a new vocab word for you? I came across it for the first time the other day, reading some article someone linked in to Facebook, I can’t remember which one it was…

Oh, and if you’re looking for online recipes, you should google ‘Abel and cole recipes’ – they deliver organic food boxes, and have lts of tasty recipes organised by produce.

I love you!

Nope, “Inculcate,” isa word I know. But I do sometimes tend to overuse a word. Habits of thought, no doubt.

I did google ‘Abel and cole recipes.’ Do you use this service? Delivery of boxes looks to be U.K. only, eh?

Ah, I’d never come across it before.

I did a delivery from Abel and cole once, at a discount, but can’t afford to do them regularly, it’s the sort of thing I’d like to do in the future.

I love you!

What? When was your dad removed from the church directory in Ohio?

July 16, 1992 according to his memoirs (p. 135). He writes “I was requested to meet with the Ohio Church of God Credentials committee with what proved [to be] about the Letters to the Editor related to homosexuality I had written published June 24 [1992] in the Coshocton Tribune.

“I met the committee at the Church of God Camp Grounds in Warsaw where I attempted to explain my convictions as best I could. The three committeemen seemed to be fundamentalist in conviction and their report led to my loss of standing in the Church of God.

“While I had the right to do so, I refused to exercise my right of appeal to the State Ministerial Assembly where I felt I would not have been any better understood. So it was that my name was omitted from the Church God Yearbook for the next ten years.”

Three days later Dad and Mom were with us at the Hatch cabin. I can’t find his reinstatement to the Yearbook in his memoirs. Not sure if he was reinstated. He was however previously accepted in the Presbyterian church as a minister before the 1992 brouhaha and I think he was happy about that.

Well, I certainly didn’t know that either!!
Fascinating…

I might suspect that Herb was referring to the fact that in a live concert, the musicians feed off of the vibe of the listeners, and the dynamic of that setting, with it’s give and take, and energy coming from the listeners, whereas in a studio, they don’t have any of that affecting how they play, and (in a good show), pumping them up. I find playing in the controlled, sterile setting of recording much more difficult for that reason, and I have to assume for acts like jazz and rock bands, where audience reaction and interplay plays an even greater part, this would be a huge factor. But just my thoughts…

Playing in a bar is a different experience than a live concert. At least that’s has been my experience. Having pointed that out, I maintain that recordists have influenced thinking about perception of what music actually is (“It comes out of my earbuds or my speakers”). Glenn Gould’s philosophical world of giving the listener creative control of music has come to pass in this area. That in itself doesn’t bother me. But I think it contributes to the objectifying of the musician. In the eyes and ears of many listeners musicians are like magicians and are confused with the idea of a speaker box. Either way the person who made the sound is easily ignored and the sound pouring out of our earbuds and speakers often becomes background. I am excepting live performances which I think are pretty rare in most listener’s lives.

I often brag about my brilliant Uncle Steve! Never underestimated in this household.

Cindy, you are too kind to your old uncle. But I appreciate hearing that! Love from Michigan