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I suppose one's global perspective might also be colored by one's own ethnicity as well...

As you discover the history of Africa...after the coming of the whites it was all downhill from there, not too many ways to lighten that up I'm afraid...of course there is much history written about Africa before colonization as well. I would suggest starting with Alex Haley's "Roots". I second...

I've probably been here before but first thoughts Captain Fantastic Tumbleweed Connection Goodbye Yellow Brick Road-Elton John The Best of The Band Wired Live with the Jan Hammer Group-Jeff Beck Heavy Weather-Weather Report Eat a Peach-The Allman Brothers Stormbringer Made in Japan Come Taste...

Something I regret is not having the dogs before...the human kids. It's wonderful to have two creatures that hang on your every word. They'll never play video games, seldom talk back, you always know exactly where they are and they're grateful for the slightest praise...perhaps I should have had...

Power, Passion and Beauty-Walter Kolosky Actually I want to reread it again after visiting YouTube. The Mahavishnu Orchestra was a few years before my time. The authors behind the music stories make the music that much more accessible Five Days at Memorial The ethics of life and death...

Actually I just switched to this, I use my grey tom on some sites. This image shows two things I'm passionate about...bullies and a good cup of joe.

It sneaks up on ya son...

My Dad is incredible with his outlook on life. At 91 he still has a busier schedule than people a quarter his age. A lifelong conservative transforms to a liberal...it's amazing. Funny too when he grouses about the "doddery seniors" he has to walk behind on tours. Even after a bypass some years...

Awww Harry looks like our Levon. And last night I got my kid another young rat. Nice thing about rats compared to other creatures, you can add a baby or even adult to unrelated ones and everyone gets on fine. Beautiful pictures Meadow!

Hawhawhaw, haven't been on the skateboard since uh '95 perhaps? At thirty a fall smarts, after fifty that same fall lays ya up fer weeks...

Just out of interest I counted bookcases...nine, all of different heights and widths. I agree with the idea of only buying books I will definitely reread. Our library system is very good with taking book purchase requests. I just read most of "Five Days at Memorial". An interesting story that...

However this rule is lifted after the age of fifty when we have lost any and all cool credibility. As you approach geezerhood you are free to use "awesome", "far out", "groovy", "nifty", even "okily dokely" with aplomb. However "Supdawg" is grating to the outside listener. There's a thread that...

"I Hate Myself and I Want to Die" by Tom Reynolds. For music geeks with a dark sense of humor. In light reading I love this kind of stuff. The second book is "Touch Me, I'm Sick".

There is a series by Neil Pasricha that began with "The Book of Awesome". Just simple everyday things that make us feel so darned good. Might be an interesting ongoing thread...I shall begin You're at the near end of your workday. Then a customer with a mega complicated issue comes to your...

However as a teacher... In the age of high tech, we can throw in a sentence or two of your paper and locate plagiarism. If you go to something like Wilkipedia make sure to double check with another two sources or so, the information might not be quite accurate. And finally low tech...when we...

I know that feeling Meadow. I remember reading Richard Wright. The opening chapters have him burning down his grandmother's house, becoming a child drunkard, and hanging out with neighborhood kids eavesdropping on the local brothel. Not the kind of things you discuss with your parent...even...

I came on this thread way late. I suppose as a teen I was something of a poser. Philosophy and all the deep intense stuff went over my head. My patron saint was Lou Reed so I looked the part...but what they were talking about? Of course if you're baked and everyone else is too things can sound...

Realistically...as a former kid and raising five to assumed adulthood...as a parent you can't stop your children from doing a blessed thing unless it involves duct tape and cutting them off to any freedom whatsoever. Kids will be kids, I remember being a preteen and feeding a neighbors cats...

I say 25 because I still was optimistic and young...one kid and one on the way and the whole world ahead of me. Then my Mum passed a year later and I aged another twenty years instantly. Now it's about falling apart gracefully...when the wife has to carry me up the stairs I'll be ready to go

I rather like to remember him on the cover of "Transformer"...nobody like it before, there'll never be anybody like it again. For further reading there's a great tribute in the new Rolling Stone magazine. Picture of him with Laurie Anderson that epitomizes love in your later years. Goodbye Lou...