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Becoming
In 2006, a group of students at Xavier High School were given an assignment from their English teacher. They were asked to write to their favorite authors and ask him or her to visit the school. Kurt Vonnegut wrote back and here is what he said:
“Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow…Seriously! I mean starting right now, do art and do it for the rest of your lives.”
Then he suggested an assignment for the class.
“Write a six line poem about anything, but rhymed…Make it as good as you possibly can. But don’t tell anybody what you’re doing. Don’t show it or recite it to anybody.”
“Then tear it up into teeny-weeny pieces, and discard them into widely separated trash recepticals [sic]. You will find that you have already been gloriously rewarded for your poem. You have experienced becoming, learned a lot more about what’s inside you, and you have made your soul grow.”
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You are My One and Only
Early Draft
Frank Trento is Dead/Ballad of Frank Trento
First cut.
Gas Masks
Pre-production, uncut live music version. Training wheels!
Mike Tyson
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Beyond the Seam - From the Musical "Fly"
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Giants Stalk the Earth
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Original Words
Table is Set in Innisfree
Excerpt from the Book "Spider on the Flag"
Excerpt from the Book "Spider on the Flag"
You came to me in a dream the other night /
We were standing in the old kitchen at home/
Your face thin and beautiful, sharp blue eyes under shimmering grey hair/
A rainbow pin I seemed to know but cannot recognize on the lapel of your blue seer sucker jacket/
Behind you the bright sun is shining in an open field/
A table is set with a white linen table cloth fluttering in the breeze;
Summer green grass on the ground catches the green from the marshmallow jello mold Aunt Ann is passing to Aunt Jane Big laughs upon their faces as they lean toward each other.
You looked at me with the stern serious look you use sometime asking me if I understand/
You looked over my shoulder toward the old kitchen cupboard by the door/
I can see the door marks where Captain chewed and clawed the door frame missing his family/ Then in an instance you were gone again
Excerpt from the Book "Spider on the Flag"
Excerpt from the Book "Spider on the Flag"
Excerpt from the Book "Spider on the Flag"
Before arriving in Iraq, I had never been in a sandstorm. I had always thought sandstorms came upon you quickly, blasting and obliterating everything in sight.
So, when I first saw a wall of sand approaching on the horizon from the Al Faw palace in Baghdad, I prepared myself for a scouring. But it wasn’t like that at all. The wall of sand moved across the ground like a slow-moving fog. Large groups of soldiers gathered at the open windows to watch the sand cloud make its way toward us. When it finally arrives, the sand seeps into every crevice, covers everything in dust, and hangs in the air for days. It is better described as a dust cloud.
Life travels like a slow cloud of sand that overtakes you. It does not arrive with loud whipping warnings. It seeps into your pores until you suddenly realize you are surrounded by sand and cannot see. In a sandstorm, if you find yourself in a place without markings, it is difficult to find your way back to where you came from. A life without markings can lead to the same difficulty finding your way back from where you came from.
Excerpt from the Musical "Fly"
Excerpt from the Book "Spider on the Flag"
Excerpt from the Musical "Fly"
Scene 1:
Old Claire sitting in an easy chart situated to watch out the window at a blossoming cherry tree. There is a Robin making a nest in the tree just outside the window. Claire stares and watches the bird build a nest for some time before the scene fades out.
Claire leans forward with interest to what the bird is doing.
Song Sung By Grace to the Bird at the Window
Nature Speaks
Can you speak the words of sunshine/
Can you speak the words of rain/
Avoid the many words of nothing/
Mouths banging causing pain/
Can you speak to me/
Do you know the words I am missing/
Can you speak to me/
No more talking without speaking/
The morning dove is calling/
The trees are whispering too/
The leaves are playing music/
Through the bass treble of the loon/
The ocean waves are crashing/
The wind is whistling tunes/
The nighttime sky is laughing/
From the beauty of the moon/
Can you speak to me/
From the voice that's deep inside/
Can you speak to me/
Like you have nothing else to hide/
No dialog in this scene.
Scene 2:
Location small theater in New York City playing an early version of Peter Pan set in December 1903.
Scene within a scene is Peter Pan flying scene with hook chasing from the ground and dialog before the song:
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree By William Butler Yeats
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree By William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree By William Butler Yeats
The Lake Isle of Innisfree By William Butler Yeats
Yeats: "I am going to begin with a poem of mine called 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' because if you know anything about me you will expect me to begin with it. It is the only poem of mine which is very widely known. When I was a young lad in the town of Sligo I read Thoreau's essays and wanted to live in a hut on an island in Lough Gill called Innisfree which means 'Heather Island'. I wrote the poem in London when I was about twenty three" Lake Isle of Innisfree is an uninhabited island within Lough Gill, in Ireland, near which Yeats spent his summers as a child." "For anyone wondering why Yeats is reading so strangely, here is a quote from him to explain: "I am going to read my poems with great emphasis upon their rhythm, and that may seem strange if you are not used to it. I remember the great English poet, William Morris, coming in a rage out of some lecture hall where somebody had recited a passage out of his Sigurd the Volsung, ‘It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble’, said Morris, ‘to get that thing into verse’. It gave me a devil of a lot of trouble to get into verse the poems that I am going to read, and that is why I will not read them as if they were prose."
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree By William Butler Yeats
Solitude and Leadership - If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts, By Wi
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Solitude and Leadership - If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts, By Wi
Solitude and Leadership - If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts, By Wi
The essay was delivered as a lecture to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009.
LTGen Charles Krulak: "The Importance of Integrity, Loyalty, and Loyal Dissent" part 1
Solitude and Leadership - If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts, By Wi
LTGen Charles Krulak: "The Importance of Integrity, Loyalty, and Loyal Dissent" part 1
1993: From the video archives of the Naval Academy. This talk discusses the value of loyalty and the role of dissent in military service. It argues that in some cases dissent is not only an obligation, but an expression of loyalty.
LTGen Charles Krulak: "The Importance of Integrity, Loyalty, and Loyal Dissent" part 2
Solitude and Leadership - If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts, By Wi
LTGen Charles Krulak: "The Importance of Integrity, Loyalty, and Loyal Dissent" part 1
1993: From the video archives of the Naval Academy. This talk discusses the value of loyalty and the role of dissent in military service. It argues that in some cases dissent is not only an obligation, but an expression of loyalty.
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Claude Monet, Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom) 1873
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Claude Monet, Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom) 1873
NY Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Claude Monet, Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom) 1873
Claude Monet, Spring (Fruit Trees in Bloom) 1873
The Angelus (French: L'Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet
The Angelus (French: L'Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet
The Angelus (French: L'Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet
Completed between 1857 and 1859.
The painting depicts two peasants bowing in a field over a basket of potatoes to say a prayer, the Angelus, that together with the ringing of the bell from the church on the horizon marks the end of a day or noon prayer.
The Angelus (French: L'Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet
The Angelus (French: L'Angélus) is an oil painting by French painter Jean-François Millet
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Across from the Naval Academy, October 19, 2024
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