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Don McIver 1801 Gold Ave. SE Albuquerque, NM 87106 Moon As a young man, I was fond of dropping trou... finding some out of the way place: the roof of a school cafeteria, the top of empty bleachers, a rock overlooking a cityscape and announcing, "Hey look everybody....it's a full moon over Cheyenne, Boulder, Lakewood, Golden, out of the way remote locations, usually after a night of suburban drinking, or smoking, or both. Don't know what I was trying to achieve or hoping to prove, but after a while it became a running joke and then the places weren't even remote or private: full moon against my best friend's bedroom window, the dining room at our local favorite fast food joint, the Xerox machine at my first office job. I'm still not shy, but, older now, find reasons for keeping my pants firmly in place: hiding behind words like appropriate, maturity, "not really feeling it." What do we hide behind when we're on display? ostentatious, blending in by sticking out? How much do we notice the moon anymore? The full moon doing nothing more than just being. February 1,2011 Read w/ Chuck Hawley on lap steel on February 4th, 2011 Encylopedia Show: The Moon. |
The United Kingdom Up at the top of that map, basically the top half, is a tiny nation with a big footprint. With roughly the same population as Minnesota, Scotland has a land mass the size of South Carolina, yet there are more people in the United States that have Scottish and/or Scotch-Irish ancestry than live in Scotland. My family is one of those. In the course of growing up, I was indoctrinated to celebrate my Scottish ancestry (primarily by my grandmother but we'll talk about that later). So a year ago, my wife took a trip with her mother to Japan. I looked at the pictures that she posted, and when I'd talk to her on the phone, I noticed something. She was happy. This is not to say she's always unhappy, but this was different. She was having a good time, engaged in the world, curious, and happy-like no matter what the challenge. And traveling to Japan with her mother posed some interesting challenge...
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