Give us this day three personal insights:

When I was teaching high-school English for 30 years from 1972-2002, I shared a ton of information, opinions, ideas, insights, and famous works and authors with the thousands of kids I taught.
At various times in the past, teacher-friends would ask “When are you going to write your novel?” I started planning one once in the 1980s, mapped out the plot from beginning to end, and then, didn’t choose to write it. Like Hitchcock used to say, the most boring part of his process was shooting his script; what he had imagined it would look like was far more interesting and better than the final film. In any case, this blog (started back in 2012) was and has been a much more interesting book than I ever dreamed of. BTW, the germ of this project was Michel de Montaigne’s Essays.
As it’s turned out, through teaching, musical performance, and this blog, my adult life has been largely about sharing views, experiences, and information from the Arts, particularly from great artists, great people, and great works. A sort of Matthew Arnold approach to life and culture. I know that when I die, I am going to take a large consciousness of the Arts and the greats with me. Walt Whitman’s “I am large, I contain multitudes” definitely sums up my experience, knowledge, practice, and whatever acquired wisdom about life.

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