{"id":706,"date":"2007-05-05T18:54:20","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T22:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2007\/05\/05\/various-sundry-part-fifty-one\/"},"modified":"2011-05-03T17:47:16","modified_gmt":"2011-05-03T21:47:16","slug":"various-sundry-part-fifty-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/706","title":{"rendered":"Various & Sundry, part fifty-one"},"content":{"rendered":"

— Month of April workout totals: DON\u2019T EVEN ASK . . . <\/em>\n<\/p>\n

— Well, it\u2019s May\u2014Derby Day at that\u2014and I had my best night\u2019s sleep in weeks. I even dreamed about my old employer in Evanston, with a very pleasant, lucid conversation. I\u2019m glad to be comfortably back in the blogiverse, and it hasn\u2019t had anything to do with News Bruiser\u2019s recent excommunication. It\u2019s had everything to do with a wild convergence of commitments in April that shoved aside all activity but the most essential. I’m pleased to say I was able to fulfill each of my pledges: to lead the annual meeting of our five-county Salvation Army, to participate in the spring conclave of the Kentucky Bicycle and Bikeway Commission, to attend the quadrennial national conference of the Salvation Army in Dallas, and to mount my first solo art exhibition since 2002. Whew… Can you believe I pulled it all off?\n<\/p>\n

— The experience in Dallas was, without a doubt, the most powerful package of consciousness-raising stimuli that I\u2019ve had the privilege to absorb in many, many moons. An amazing line-up: Jerry Jones, Laura Bush, Rick Warren, Jim Collins, and Israel Gaither. Plus the many workshop sessions that astonished me with their solid informational excellence, including an opportunity to hear Stan Richards, a legend in the advertising world who would\u2019ve been a prize key-noter at any professional gathering. He\u2019s the creative mind behind the Army\u2019s recent \u201cDoing the Most Good\u201d branding effort. On top of it all, we had the wonderful gift of time spent with good friends from Danville (nine of us were there), plus an exhilarating two days at the Anatole Hilton, which is like being inside a museum, because it has a world-class collection of Asian art distributed throughout the spacious complex (Reagan held the Republican National Convention there in 1984). And I haven\u2019t even mentioned our evening at Texas Stadium: a picnic supper on the turf, lots of entertainment, and a chance to nose around an NFL locker room. Far too cool for a guy who can probably name less than a dozen pro football players. Eat your heart out, Marty… Oh, I forgot. You hate the Cowboys.\n<\/p>\n

— Also wedged into last month was a particularly refreshing \u201cCouncil Day\u201d at the Valley. Both Terie and Bruce were there, and I don\u2019t think that\u2019s ever happened before. Makes me a bit prouder to be the namesake of the House of John.<\/em> See you all at the next Clan gathering. Same time, same channel…\n<\/p>\n

— After months of preparation, my exhibition at Danville\u2019s Community Arts Center was hung and opened without any serious mishap. True, I had to abandon several items on my wish list, including a desire to display my first \u201cJoe Box,\u201d but, as usual, things worked out the way they\u2019re supposed to, and the room was arranged with enough creations to satisfy my fondest anticipations. It was a delight to welcome lots of Clan and dear friends (plus many local poobahs were in attendance). Thanks to Bruce for his home-stretch assistance, and, of course, to my \u201dpartner in all things,\u201d who supported my preparatory effort for much of the year, and laid out a delicious spread of goodies outside the gallery on Thursday evening. Wow. This is not the end, but only the beginning of many more successful shows. Just take a look in my eyes. I can see the vision.<\/p>\n

V & S<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— Month of April workout totals: DON\u2019T EVEN ASK . . . — Well, it\u2019s May\u2014Derby Day at that\u2014and I had my best night\u2019s sleep in weeks. I even dreamed about my old employer in Evanston, with a very pleasant, lucid conversation. I\u2019m glad to be comfortably back in the blogiverse, and it hasn\u2019t had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33,17,12,21,18,8,28,16,6,43,10,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706"}],"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=706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}