GRABBINGSAND

Found something. A bit of (my) history.
I started using my Mindspring tilde webspace in 1997, thinking I was going to call it “The Den” (today I am not sure why really). So I found the first page I ever made, bad HTML and all. Times New Roman, black text on white, horrible homemade graphics. I will spare you the icons and share with you this annoyingly verbose introduction (be warned, pontification and ponderosity ahead):
Decisions and mistakes are equally hard to make, yet both provide some kind of lesson. So I have decided to actually test the sturdiness of my electronic soapbox. No, I will not be railling (much) against the political juggernaut barrelling down upon our children’s future, nor will I pick up (too many) banners of revolution to brandish madly in its wake. What I will do is speak my mind and share some ideas — that seems to be the point of this mighty Internet anyway.
But just what ideas? Well, we will start here at the center where I am most comfortable. Music. Six years of piano lessons brought me little keyboarding ability. Three years of guitar left me with a beautiful acoustic instrument. Less than a year with a suffering garage band gave me a fleeting taste of high school notoriety. But a life spent in a home of music, attending a church of music, coming from a family of music cannot leave a person unaffected. Music. We will start there. Or rather, here.
What else… what else… what else to throw at you? To my left sits this dust-laden tome. The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy written by three sad men led by a sadder man all upset about the sad state of education and the sad children that grow up so very sad these days. Basically, in their opinion all this generation needs is a return to the classics and the manner in which they were taught back when Television was Golden and War was Ice Cold… With that in mind, with the presumptuous idea that there really are bits of knowledge one needs to fend off ignorance like a social vitamin, here are my Keys to Cultural Awareness.
you never really appreciate what time has to offer you until you actually see the physical and mental evidence of change. wow.

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