February 7, 2007
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1 Okay den. So...Frankie Laine walks into a bar...
2 Another crooner. Jazz man. So it goes.
3 Moving on, and that's with all due respect to Frankie: That's the last time I ever date an astronaut. I mean, dude.
4 Yeesh. Cuckoo. Cuckoo. Cuckoo.
5 2000 light years from home.
6 The reason I have a Rolling Stones album cover up there is because the Stones make any DN cooler, plus they wrote a song called 2000 Light Years From Home.
7 Which is a perfect segue to what is really going on today. After weeks of struggling, negotiating, and almost complete failure, I'm taking my first group to Camp Everytown today!
8 Camp Everytown.
9 A teacher friend of mine refers to it as Camp Anywho.
10 I like it.
11 Has a nice ring to it.
12 This has been my number one project since November, and I almost lost the patient.
13 But now I'm happy that I can take a group up to that magnificent place and introduce them to this guy:
The Socratic Richard14 No matter how you swing it, Camp Everytown is the real deal.
15 I won't go into all the details, but I reached the breaking point trying to get this one off the ground. We had testing, teachers bailing, students not signing up, and all sorts of other obstacles.
16 But the bottom line is I pushed through, and now we are going to Camp.
17 So this is the last DN until Monday, when I will again learn something from the venerable Richard. He is a mentor, and a great role model.
18 I read the news today, oh boy...
19 A BB gun, pepper spray, a mallet, and diapers. A female jilted astronaut. Loony tunes.20 It's always around that sort of a story that I need a good dose of Camp Everytown.
21 We're all mad. That sort of story is the exact reason that people need a little schooling in relationship issues. Camp Everytown embraces all those sorts of things.
22 People go nuts over relationships and idiotic, misplaced desires, hopes and many wind up mental cases. Camp Everytown brings a practical approach to nearly everything they DON'T teach us in school.
23 Like how to live and forgive and love.
24 Sounds so simple.
25 I'm just going to pull it all in now and see you on Monday.
26 I'm going to the redwoods to become spiritual once more.
27 And I'm going to have to say so long for a bit.
28 So...
29 So long, Frank Lloyd Wright.
30 I'm outta this insanity.
31 Peace.
~H~
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