July 2, 2012
New Friends

Gentle Reader,

This symposium has been jam-packed with learning, even using our bus rides as a "classroom on wheels."  As a result, there is very little down time.  We begin most mornings at 7:30 or 8:00 am, often finishing at 9 or 10 pm.  We did have a little free time two evenings when we finished sessions at 7pm.  We've met some phenomenal folks on this journey, especially Brad and Erin, who met one another a few years ago on a Close Up Program for their students in Washington D. C.  Naturally, we had some relationship similarities to talk about and reminisce about, having each met our partners at workshops far away from home.  

We met at a local joint called Airport Grocery for some tasty BBQ nachos, which were served on chips instead of tortilla chips.  

Thanks, Brad, for helping me with the technology aspects of this workshop! (As Tony Gendreau once said when I asked him a tech question:  "Are you Amish?" )  Thanks, Erin, for keeping Scott company on your trips to the BB King Museum and Vicksburg!  It was good getting to know y'all!!!!

"People keep asking me where the blues started and all I can say is that when I was a boy we always was singing in the fields. Not real singing, you know, just hollerin', but we made up our songs about things that was happening to us at the time, and I think that's where the blues started."

                                                                                         - Delta bluesman Son House, 1965

May you continue to record your journey, the story of what your life is all about, in song or poetry or painting or photography...or whatever tells your unique story in the most intimate and personal way...

Namaste,

Marianne