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Monthly Archives: June 2011
On the Fall of the Spring of 1964
In the early spring of 1964 I was in advanced flight training at Naval Air Station Whiting Field, a few miles north of Milton, a small city 20 miles northeast of Pensacola, in Florida’s panhandle. Advanced flight training was as … Continue reading
Four Addresses for Our Future
By now the commencement speakers have delivered their varying degrees of wisdom to America’s eager classes of 2011. With those words to guide them, the new crop of college and university graduates who weren’t plugged into iTunes or engaged in … Continue reading
Posted in Class of 2011, Commencement Addresses, Environment, Nature, Published, Social Justice, Wisconsin
Tagged Anna Quindlen, Bennington College, Charles F. Bolden Jr., Class of 2011, glacial ice, Grinnell College, iTunes, Karl Garson, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., McMansion, Middle East, Mother Nature, NASA, National Security Council, New York Times, Occidental College, partisan gridlock, Samantha Power, skylarking, Wallace Stevens
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On Wisconsin, and other states of mind
Published in the Wisconsin State Journal on June 2, 2011 On Wisconsin, and other states of mind by Karl Garson Right off I’ll tell you that I love Wisconsin; tell you that without hesitation even after living in 11 other … Continue reading
Posted in Social Justice, Wisconsin
Tagged Alice Walker, common ground, Jesse Jackson, Scott Walker, social justice, The Color Purple, Wisconsin
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