{"id":104,"date":"2006-08-28T17:26:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-28T22:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2006\/08\/28\/a-giftbearer-rich-environment\/"},"modified":"2006-08-28T17:26:58","modified_gmt":"2006-08-28T22:26:58","slug":"a-giftbearer-rich-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/104","title":{"rendered":"A giftbearer-rich environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nb\/nb.cgi\/search\/uj?q=Bruce&amp;submit=Search\">Bruce<\/a> spent most of the day resting. He wanted to leave for Indianapolis after tonight&#8217;s concert. Quite some time ago, as a 40th birthday present for her son, Dana got tickets for a rare <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucecockburn.com\/falling.html\">Bruce Cockburn<\/a> performance at the Kentucky Theatre. Lee and David decided to go, too, and the five of us drove to Lexington for dinner at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beetnik.com\/\">Natasha&#8217;s<\/a> before the show. We had a great meal and great seats. Bruce was clearly pleased with his gift. Early this morning on her way to work, Joan dropped off hers&#8212;an excellent copy of &#8220;Walden&#8221; that belonged to Joe Wood. At lunch, Bruce and I had a good talk about writing as a subtractive process, and the necessity of brutal self-editing (not unlike the practice of &#8220;design refinement&#8221; drilled into me as a university student). I&#8217;m finally beginning to fully appreciate Bruce&#8217;s artistic spirit. My anticipation for his creative output is a familiar craving with which I&#8217;ve learned to live. I respond to artists in one of three ways&#8212;indifference, inspiration, or demoralization. Although Bruce Cockburn&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brucecockburn.com\/anything.html\">sensibilities<\/a> tend to fall a  bit farther to the left than mine, he doesn&#8217;t fit the description of a stereotypical liberal musician. Experiencing his creative energy inspires me to my own art, and maybe that&#8217;s one more thing my son and I have come to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce spent most of the day resting. He wanted to leave for Indianapolis after tonight&#8217;s concert. Quite some time ago, as a 40th birthday present for her son, Dana got tickets for a rare Bruce Cockburn performance at the Kentucky Theatre. Lee and David decided to go, too, and the five of us drove to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26,12,18,29,8,36,23,44,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}