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I think good years come in cycles. I know that the fish and game people would applaud this. But, before I start talking game tags and spawning cycles let me explain: the year 1992 was particulary an amazing year which stood out in my memory. 1992 - I turned 16 - began my first real job washing dishes at Preswtich Farms (I'm still reeling from the encurred trauma) - I met Andrea Patch which altered the lives of many. Because of that encounter Chris met and eventually married Morgan Lhorke, we met Morag McCloud, and were placed in the crossroads of familiar acquantances of people who would pop up randomly and not for the next ten years ie, Regan Marshall, Cindi (I sat next to her this year at the Cowboy Junkies concert) Whitney, whom I've also run into on SEVERAL occasions. Meeting Andrea also changed Reed's life for he began a serious relationship with Andrea quickly after we broke up (no hard feelings) which lasted for three years and ended in death threats and voodoo dolls. -Much of my current style and taste originated from that summer with Andrea, Morgan, Morag, et al. I was introduced to James, The Trashcan Sinatras, and Wynton Marsallis. -It was a magical and enchanting downtown-Provo summer. -I began to play in the jazz band at Mountain View High School -I got in my first and only fight (it consisted of a big wrestler picking on me, me clocking him in the mouth, then dancing around like a balerina, careful to avoid his nethandreal hands and slow motion punches until someone came and broke up the fight--he didn't touch me). -I learned to drive, joint-inhereted with Chris "The Malibu," a paint-eroded, chevrolet station wagon. It had a V6 engine, AM, and was plastered with The Smiths stickers. Good year. It is hard to believe that it has been 10 years later. This year was another branding year, one that I'll remember for a long time, a watershed year. 2002 -Courtney Jean and Ian, captains in our war waged with Nedra. -Jason Dirtchee -Malissa -I began to to teach yoga -Bryan Kest (twice) -Alpine Yoga -D'ana, Aliza, Martha, Kim -Malissa and Jazz -The S.P. Coltrain Jazz Combo -Brig, Mitch, Al, Jeremy, April -Recording: Key Fussion nightmare and First Take. The CD comes to life. -The prison gig -Bela Fleck, Cowboy Junkies, Inigo Girls -Seatle, the Bertrands, Fog and Ferries. -Island Lake -Grandpa's 90th _Lake Tahoe -San Fran (twice) -Raw food -The cleanse -Jack=selling the Pontiac and Babar -Ryan and Juice and Java -5 and 10 mile race -Korea -Jake Elison, Darrin Wells, Ryan Jensen -Graduated from college -Winner of the Elsie C. Carrol essay award -Inscape escaping me -Feast of Foodways _Leslie Norris -Shakespeare -Gloria Cronin and Toni Morrison -Kris Delmhorst -Jonatha Brook -Kate Rushby -Eva Cassidy Regardless of all this that has happened, much of what I experenced this year, what occupies such a majority of my mind, was books, books, books. Here is a list (I think its complete) of the books I read and that occupied my mind this year: Tender at the Bone: Growing Up at the Table--Ruth Reichl Rooted in America--David Scofield Like Water for Chocolate--Laura Esquivel Moby Dick--Melville Treasue of the Sierra Madre--B. Traven Edgar Allen Poe (everything) Death In Venice--Thomas Mann Turn of the Screw--Henry James The Natural--Malamud The Great Gatsby--F. Scott Fitzgerald All The Pretty Horses--Cormac McCarthy Wuthering Heights--Emily Bronte Cold Mountain-Charles Frazier In the Time of Butterflies--Julia Alvarez Report on the Last Miracle at Little No Horse--Louise Erdrich Jazz--Toni Morrison The English Patient--Michael Ondaatje Mumbo Jumbo--Ishmael Reed The Crossing--Cormac McCarthy The House on Mango Street--Sandra Cisneros From Puratan to Postmodernism The Little Prince (in French and English) Big Trouble--Dave Barry Toni Morrison: -The Blues Eye -Tar Baby -Sula -Song of Solomon -Jazz -Paradise -Beloved Shakespeare: -Romeo and Juliet -Macbeth -Othello -King Lear -Hamlet Good year. A Good Year--Scottro [2003-01-06]
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