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THE OWL CLUB PART 5 — PARLIAMENT


“Beware the Court of Owls, that watches all the time,
Ruling from a shadow perch, behind granite and lime.” 

—Scott Snyder 

 

When Mr. Higgins told me how the Owl Club boasts many prominent artists and musicians among its…

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THE OWL CLUB PART 3 — THE GIFT

“Open your minds, my friends.
We all fear what we do not understand.”

—Robert Langdon 

 

Charlie Higgins leads me by the arm into a space entirely unlike the rest of this mysterious fortress. 

The dining room is…

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RESOLUTIONS 2022 | The Year of CASCADIA

 


Health 

Recommit to OMAD, black coffee, and portion control. 
Plant new salad vegetables in the garden. 
Walk every day before the evening meal. 
Curtail alcohol consumption. 
Prioritize memory work. 

Music 
Perform mostly songs from the new album. 
Expand…

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MEETING LELA | PART 6 — GIFTS

“All of us labor in webs spun
long before we were born.” 

—William Faulkner 
 

The next morning I asked Lela the question that had kept me awake most of the night. “Same repertoire? What did you mean by that?” 

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MEETING LELA | PART 5 — UNDER THE STARS

“The only thing new in the world
is the history you do not know.”
 
—Harry S. Truman
 

Since Lela’s last Irish goodbye, I’d grown up, moved out, finished high school in Michigan, graduated from college in Massachusetts, lived…

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MEETING LELA | PART 3 — ADVENTURELAND

“Truth is not only 
stranger than fiction, 
it is more interesting.” 

—William Randolph Hearst 
 

After the Tennessee trip I called my father.

“Did you know that Lela was serious about music when she was in high school? She…

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MEETING LELA | PART 2 — CHATTANOOGA

“It’s good to know where you come from. 
It makes you what you are today. 
It’s DNA. It’s in your blood.” 

—Alexander McQueen 
 

In 1984 I was at boarding school in Michigan when my father called from Arizona to…

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MEETING LELA | PART 1 — THE FROSTY FROG

“Sometimes I feel like a motherless child, 
a long, long way from home.” 

—Traditional 


When I was a kid in Tennessee and Georgia I knew very little about my mother. 

I knew her name. “Lela Matheny” was written…

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PEANUTS

Daddy Bill would sit on the porch, reading, looking at his chinaberry tree, and eating boiled green peanuts out of a can.

After awhile he’d take off his shirt and rub brine from the peanuts can all over…

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SNAPSHOTS | PART 2 — FIRST CONTACT

“What makes the desert so beautiful 
is that somewhere it hides a well.” 

—Antoine de Saint-Exupery 


Four days later we arrive, hot and tired, in the Old Pueblo. 

Daddy Bill pilots our dusty U-Haul into an open parking…

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UP IN THE AIR | PART 3 — CITIZEN OF THE WORLD

“Remember, you’re not alone. 
You’re part of an international 
brotherhood of artists and musicians. 
We’re all in this together.” 

—Art Farmer 


I aspire to be a Citizen of the World. 

A world citizen is a xenophile whose identity…

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UP IN THE AIR | PART 2 — SEASONED TRAVELER

“You've taken your first step into a larger world.” 
—Obi-Wan Kenobi 

 

When I was first starting out, my mentor Art Farmer told me what it really takes to persevere in this business. “Do you like to travel?” he…

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UP IN THE AIR | PART 1 — JOURNEY PROUD


“There’s no sensation to compare with this 
suspended animation, a state of bliss. 
Can
’t keep my mind from the circling sky. 
Tongue tied and twisted, just

an earthbound misfit, I.”
—Pink Floyd

 

I’m not sure when…

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HOW TO MAKE THE ARISIA SMOOTHIE

HOW TO MAKE THE ITTY SMOOTHIE

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GEORGE WASHINGTON

Today we celebrated the birthday of our town’s founder, GEORGE WASHINGTON (August 15, 1817 – August 26, 1905). We enjoyed cake and refreshments at his mural downtown, visited his burial place in Washington Lawn Cemetery and shared a little music…

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MANIFESTO


NEW ALE UNVEILED



Cheers to Dogfish Head Brewery for creating a new beer -- MILES DAVIS BITCHES BREW -- to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the seminal Miles Davis album of the same name!

Dogfish describes its new brew as "a bold,…

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