Author: A. David Thomas

US 2 – Dancing with Change Part 1 of Adventures with My Dad

Acting on dreams in the Daylight is a dangerous business. Bill Cosby (Who is going through a self imposed rough patch, right now) knows that and rightly maintains that conventual education is not friendly to it. He thinks “daydreaming” should be a class and you should get a grade for it. Wouldn’t it be cool if daylight dreaming was celebrated.

Right now, Daylight Dreaming makes the dreamer seem disengaged, bored  and strange – not engaged in conventual education. As a result, willful dreamers are frequently stigmatized and labeled as slow or difficult. Continue reading “US 2 – Dancing with Change Part 1 of Adventures with My Dad”

Now That’s Interesting 1 – Dreamers of the Day

 

I love this quote.  It’s by T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia):

“All people dream: but not equally.  Those who dream at night in the dusty recesses of their mind wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous people, for they may dream with open eyes to make it possible.” 1.

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US 1 – Grandpa Tales or Cute Little Jugs of Genes

As I said I am a native born Bloke – I am British and Yank raised American. I lived in England (Birmingham, Warwickshire) for four years before I came to America – and I have lived here for the better part of my life ever since. But I am profoundly proud of my British ancestry, but as such I am prey to the consequences of one of the most confused gene pools that has ever existed. Continue reading “US 1 – Grandpa Tales or Cute Little Jugs of Genes”

Let Me Tell You a Story 1 – A Singer of Songs

If I have any credence at all, it’s because I won the heart of of the most beautiful woman in the world; fathered six great children; and I am by both nature and profession a teacher. Or to borrow a quote from a great old movie  Spartacus (Kirk Douglas, Stanley Kubrink and Dalton Trumbo – 1960)  – “I am a singer of songs – stories.” Continue reading “Let Me Tell You a Story 1 – A Singer of Songs”