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Showing posts with label other voices. Show all posts
Showing posts with label other voices. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Friday, August 10, 2012
On the Process of Creation
The late, great Marvin Hamlisch's insight on creating an original, polished work (video).
Wednesday, June 13, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Why Books are Like Hamburgers
When the 'net was young – and so much smaller – a band of college students and techies hand-assembled pages of links in an attempt to map this new world.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
An Elephant Healed Me
There was a time in America when a disenchanted young boy would threaten to run away from home and join the circus. Moses Lentz actually did that. He is now unraveling a lifetime of memories and memorabilia, and reweaving them into a semi-autobiographical story.
Says Lentz: "It all begins when as a ten year old boy. Michael is on his way to an orphanage. Accompanied by caseworker on the trip he has a fear of what will become of him. Once there, although skeptical, he soon finds out that things are much better than he had imagined them to be. His experiences at the orphanage are interwoven with memories associated with the past before he was sent to the orphanage. Eventually Michael decides to run away and ends up hopping on a freight train where he meets a one legged man with a bulldog named Pete. Little does he know that the chance meeting will change his life forever. With no real plan in place he follows the stranger to a circus where he finds work and a place to start his own life. Throughout the experiences in the Circus there are many more references to his earlier life. He eventually ends up wandering through the hobo camps and finding work with the gypsy 'travelers'. This chapter of his life is wrought with hard experiences that he has had to learn but the lessons serve him well and he finds work in the Carnivals and in places like the French Quarter in New Orleans. It is a variance of many things that seem to weave in and out of Michael's life that carries him from one end of the country to the other with a rich mixture of experiences and interesting people who contribute to his growth."
The book-in-progress is called An Elephant Healed Me.
Says Lentz: "It all begins when as a ten year old boy. Michael is on his way to an orphanage. Accompanied by caseworker on the trip he has a fear of what will become of him. Once there, although skeptical, he soon finds out that things are much better than he had imagined them to be. His experiences at the orphanage are interwoven with memories associated with the past before he was sent to the orphanage. Eventually Michael decides to run away and ends up hopping on a freight train where he meets a one legged man with a bulldog named Pete. Little does he know that the chance meeting will change his life forever. With no real plan in place he follows the stranger to a circus where he finds work and a place to start his own life. Throughout the experiences in the Circus there are many more references to his earlier life. He eventually ends up wandering through the hobo camps and finding work with the gypsy 'travelers'. This chapter of his life is wrought with hard experiences that he has had to learn but the lessons serve him well and he finds work in the Carnivals and in places like the French Quarter in New Orleans. It is a variance of many things that seem to weave in and out of Michael's life that carries him from one end of the country to the other with a rich mixture of experiences and interesting people who contribute to his growth."
The book-in-progress is called An Elephant Healed Me.
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