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Posted March 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 March 2019 I’m an old-fashioned guy, and I believe in words—verbal communication. I had read Herman Melville’s Moby Dick twice by the time I was out of high school. I’m also the only guy I know not some-kind of minister who has read the Bible twice. I read it once out of curiosity while I was still […] March 31st, 2019 | Tags: auditory, Bible, Christianity, comic books, Dickens, emoji, emotional component, evil, good, Herman Melville, high school, images, labor-intensive, language, literature, minister, Moby Dick, novas, obscene gesture, old-fashioned, reading, sailing vessels, Stories, verbal description, visual, visual images, Walt Disney, western language, whaling, whiteness, words | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted September 30, 2016 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 September 2016 Humans like to think of themselves as the “Crown of Creation.” In 1968, Jefferson Airplane captured the irony of the human tendency to presume that we had achieved the pinnacle of the evolutionary process in the song, “Crown of Creation”: You are the crown of creation. You are the crown of creation, And you’ve […] September 30th, 2016 | Tags: 1960s, 1967, 1968, 1970s, and brotherhood, awakening, Berkeley California, change, communes, counter culture, Crown of Creation, Crystal Blue Persuasion, evolution, free love, Free Speech Movement, George Santayana, global politics, good, Grateful Dead, Guess Who, Haight Ashbury, Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away, hippies, human potential, If You're Going to San Francisco, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, New Jerusalem, Oakland Bay Bridge, path, Peace, Pema Chödrön, political unrest, politics, remembering the past, San Francisco, Scott McKenzie, Share the Land, social change, Stevie Wonder, the Shondells, Tommy James, Vietnam | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed |
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