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Regarding "Classes in the 60's"
Michaud,
As it turns out, you and I were born in the same year. I graduated high school in 1963, having been born in October. I however, spent my high school years in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a notorious counter-culture incubator, read that "Hippy-Haven." I suspect that I recieved an education which you might have missed out on, even though I very nearly missed it, too. When in Jr. High School, I saw my first long-haired hippy, and was aghast! I told my best friend, that if I ever let my hair grow long enough to touch my shirt collar, he had my permission to KILL me. Then The Beatles, and the whole English invasion occurred, saving me from becomming another Pat Boone, for life. I very nearly spent my whole life as a redneck, (a fate worse than death!) As fate would have it, I attended many classes with Bob Seegar, and 1,100 other members of the class of 1963, and then in 1970, I went to Boulder, Colorado in 1970, another center of the counter-culture. My life was forever afterward firmly set on it's course, and I am glad that I became the person that I now am. My ex-wife's father was a professor (art history) and boring beyond belief! The only really remarkable teachers that I ever met were in Ann Arbor, but they were probably much like the professor that you spoke of in your blog. Isn't it strange how the people in one's life are so influential and instrumental in our formation? My best friend Dave, never took me up on my offer to kill me, in fact we made two seperate trips to Colorado together, and have remained best friends, to this day.
I would have liked the professor about whom you wrote, and I suspect that I will enjoy reading what you write. I notice that you have been blogging for some time now and I am surprised that I have never stumbled onto any of your blogs before. I'm happy to have now figuratively made your cyber-aquantance.
Guy
posted by
northsage_45
on July 14, 2009 at 6:59 PM
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Oh my! Be careful how far one allows Pandora's Box to open! I understand your poem more fully now! sam
posted by
sam444
on June 6, 2009 at 9:04 AM
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