One Last Trail Ride in Flint Hills

Smokve- Figs

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Packing for Montenegro

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Lucy

I discovered this lively subject during a recent stay with my cousin, Jacquie in Brooklyn

A Teacher of Note

I just finished my work at the MPW. We had our exhibition at the local library with a great turnout. Below is a quick summary of my story. It was a wonderful experience to work directly with some of the most talented people in the industry, Dennis Dimick and George Olson, and to see the end reaction of the town to our work.

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Scott Taylor is a music-loving school teacher and softball coach at St. Pius X, a local Catholic high school in Crystal City.

Taylor, as his students call him, often uses music to motivate his students to be more engaged in learning, such as paralleling Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales with “The Battle of Evermore” by Led Zeppelin. He uses many musical euphemisms in class to make things fun, such as a weekly vocabulary list he calls the “greatest hits.” His walls and bookshelves at home and in his classroom are replete with music and sports paraphernalia.

Taylor is responsible for writing many of the songs by The Bottle Rockets, a rock band considered to be the godfathers of the '90s alt/country-roots rock revival originally from Festus and Crystal City. Some members of the band were his students at St. Pius X.

Missouri Photo Workshop

I just learned that I am accepted to the Missouri Photo Workshop starting next week.

It is "a remarkable documentary effort. Since 1949 more than 2,000 photographers from around the world have worked in more than 40 small Missouri communities to create a historic and unique archive."

It is run by the University of Missouri-Columbia's School of Journalism

Looking forward....

Olja Ivanjicki died yesterday

"For me painting, and therefore any creative activity, is only a way not to come to the end of my life with an empty heart...I think it all started with russian science fiction stories that my father used to read to me instead of fairy tales when I was a little girl."-Olja Ivanjicki





She was one of Serbia's best and most accomplish painters, among many things she was the first to bring Pop Art to former Yugoslavia. She was also a dear friend to the family and will be greatly missed.

I believe her heart must be full.....