Tag: Acrylics
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Tina W. – Part 2 – Memoir Continued
Tina W. – Part 2 So, I made an email account, calling myself El Lobo, and sent her friend, who turned out to be Tina, a couple of poems. Tina liked them and sent me a couple of her’s. Then Sue told me to ask Tina about her cat dying and some other things that…
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Back Into the Void – Part 2 – Memoir Continued
Post Kinetico Transition For the rest of my working career, I was an on and off again ‘full-time’ temp (Contract Technical Writer). I never did find a full-time permanent job with any kind of benefits at all. The rest of this memoir will detail some of my jobs and ‘gigs’. Then, some of my retirement…
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Listen
Listen I hope you will listenTo the songs inside yourselfNot be led by someone elseAbout the good life you can haveYes, I hope you will listenThere truly is a lessonIn the earth, the starsThe moon and the sunPotential is growingMastery is knowingHow to listen to yourself –LE
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Anne – Part 9 – Work Sends Me to Chicago to Learn HP Basic – Memoir Continued
Work Sends Me to Chicago to learn HP Basic Airflex bought a computer controlled coordinate measuring machine that automatically measured points on objects in cartesian space. As I recall, it was made by Ferranti. The programs to run the machine were coded in Hewlett Packard’s Basic programming language. For whatever reason, the head of our…
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Lynn – Part 9 – Lynn and I Split – Memoir Continued
Lynn and I Split The following year, we went to visit Lynn’s dad, brother, and sister in Alexandria, VA. We went down on a long weekend (I was working swingshifts and had longer weekends at roughly 6 week intervals. We drove down, and she wanted to stay for a week or two (she ‘needed’ a…
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Seventy-six Trombones
Seventy-six Trombones seventy-six trombones in the big paradeplaying the seventy-sixth part of the gamewondering how deep is the benchhow many more ready to take my place? guess it’s all moot since strings areall I’ve ever played, four, six, and twelvefretted and fretless, trombones in asense I guess, nonetheless circlings of Sol a trombone eachanticipating the…
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Back to School – Memoir Continued
Back to School, the Coffeehouse, and School-life as Usual Things at school pretty much returned to ‘normal’. Cindy was gone, and I resumed my school, coffeehouse, and performance schedules. During this time, I met and became friends with Fred K., known by many as ‘Bummer Fred’. He came into the Program Board meeting room while…
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Some Older Paintings and Drawings
I didn’t get serious about art, that is painting and drawing until after I retired, January 1, 2010. I had dabbled with it a little over the years with help from Mom when I was very young, then a bit in high school. But I didn’t produce anything exceptional and was pretty much discouraged by…
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Ann Arbor – Part 5 – A Brief Return
A Brief Return to Ann Arbor I got back to Ann Arbor in late August. And yes, Guy was in an Air Force Tech School in Texas by then. Tried to get my old job back, but to no avail. So, I got a job painting apartments with a house painting crew. It paid about…
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