Dad Gone Wild – Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it.
THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS Dad Gone Wild Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it
THIS WEEK'S WILDNESS
Dad Gone Wild
Nobody reads it, everybody quotes it
BANNING BOOKS IN 2022
by TC Weber / 16h
“Words. I had always loved them. I collected them like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over my tongue like a lump of molten honeycomb, savoring the sweetness, the crackle, the crunch.” ― Kate Forsyth Before we go too far down this week’s road, let me put this out there. I am a reader. I have consumed books for over 5 decades, reading everything from histories to ro
BUILDING A RESUME
by TC Weber / 4d
“And so the house came to be haunted by the unspoken phrase: There must be more money! There must be more money! The children could hear it all the time though nobody said it aloud.” — D.H. Lawrence, “The Rocking-Horse Winner. You know there probably ought to be a law that prevents lawmakers from taking a government job until they’ve been out of office for two years. Over the last several years w
MORE THAN JUST IDLE CHATTER
by TC Weber / 11d
“History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.” ― Gore Vidal, Julian I meant to start today’s piece off with a quote from Martin Luther King, but unfortunately, I failed to submit my request to the Usage and Remberence of MLK Commission in a timely fashion. Thus I started with the Gore Vidal quote, which I find quite appropriate for these times. Over
AS THE HAMSTER WHEEL TURNS
by TC Weber / 14d
“ Children accept the world as they find it; I took it for granted that all civilized men hid behind walls, and that the open country belonged to barbarians, but I also took it for granted that barbarians could never get inside the walls.” ― Alfred Duggan, Conscience of the King This was one filled with action on the proposed new school funding formula – we’ll get to all of that in a bit – and as
LET THE REINDEER GAMES BEGIN
by TC Weber / 18d
“ You have to know where the funny is, and if you know where the funny is, you know everything.” ― Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be? This week marks the official return of both MNPS students and Tennessee lawmakers. Both enter their respective houses faced with a great deal of uncertainty, partially due to the latest strain of COVID and partially due to the strain of politics. While ask polici
RECOGNIZING ACHIEVEMENT
by TC Weber / 21d
“Observe yourself as you start to drift toward the internet, searching for confirmation that you suck, and then use that impetus as a signal to instead turn off your phone or internet connection and be messy in your art for an hour without the intention of making anything in particular.” ― Beth Pickens, Your Art Will Save Your Life On January 7th, 2000 I took a trip up River Road. These were the
MEET THE NEW YEAR, SAME AS THE OLD YEAR?
by TC Weber / 24d
“Now from where I sit this whole thing smells like its downwind from a cow barn on a hot June day!” ― Waylon Jennings 2021 is officially in the rearview mirror and we are now staring straight at the year 2022. Unfortunately, the
