What might be

The director of Fine Arts for the school district I work for has asked me to go with him to the School Board meeting tonight. He has told me that he will be making a report to the Board about all of the winter and spring Fine Arts activities and would like to talk about Winter percussion and introduce me.

Part of me thinks that this is no more than what he said it is. Another part of me hopes that this is really my first step towards being named Director of Percussion Studies.

You gotta have dreams

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Putting things into perspective....

We have a young man working for us who is just married and has an infant son. His home life in the past has been, shall we say, volatile. He has had his share of run ins with the law, but seems to be really getting his life in order. I have high hopes for him, that he will keep to the straight and narrow, and let his talent come through and be what God meant him to be.

Today, he came in to work and told my father that he and his wife got into an argument. He said that he told his wife that he was not going to argue with her and walked out of the house. He wound up walking all the way across town to his mothers house.

When he cooled off, he called his wife to tell her where he was. She told him that she needed money for the baby to buy diapers etc. Since she had the car, she came to him, and he gave her $100. When he went back home, he walked into a disaster.

She had literally wrecked the apartment. She broke every piece of china. Every mirror. She pulled a 30” TV off the stand and broke it. She broke all of his CDs. She broke all of his tapes. When there was nothing left in the apartment to break, she took a hammer to his car. Then she took his child and went two states away.

He is devastated. I don’t have the foggiest idea what I can do to help him.

She will probably get away with it.

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The start of a new era maybe?

I received a gentle nudge from my friend Bekah that I hadn’t posted in a long time, so I am going to ease my way back into the blogging world a little at a time.

I am not sure why I haven’t had much to say lately. Its not like there is nothing going on for me to write about, I have been busier than at any time in my life, but the question I have is, would it interest anyone to read about.

I was talking with a group of friends this weekend while we ate dinner at a sports bar. The TVs were constantly flashing clips from the Alec Baldwin fiasco. Naturally the conversation turned toward him. A lot of people had not heard what he actually said, and how he said it. I made the statement that I felt that anyone who talked to his daughter that way deserved whatever he had coming to him. The person who was sitting across the table from me actually started defending Alec Baldwin, telling me that I had not walked a mile in his shoes, and didn’t know what might have caused this.

I couldn’t care less about what caused it, no adult should get away with calling their daughter a pig. It’s a good thing we did not all have a chance to drink more alcohol because I think things would have come to blows shortly, as heated as the conversation got.

But since I have a blog, and get the last word, it is my sincere hope that Baldwin gets off no easier than Imus did, since Imus did no real harm to anyone and Baldwin did, but I wouldn’t mind it if he was castrated in the process so that he cannot breed and subject another child to his abuse somewhere down the line.

Peace

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