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History is never how we remember it…

[ Personal or Collective ]

 

Before I go on, a nod to the folks in Napa Valley; seems not that long ago my wife and I toured the wineries there and in Sonoma, riding in a limousine, our driver a retired radio DJ who entertained us to no end (but sometimes a volume control knob would have been nice…lol); our limo partners were a female computer programmer for Gateway Computers (in South Dakota?) and her husband:

 

 

 

Who invented the submarine?

Who invented a lot of things your culture calls its own?

 

I want to write today but the noise in my head is excruciating (symptoms we call tinnitus, which I directly attribute to the five cans of Monkeynaut Ale I consumed at the Three Caves Concert Saturday night).  In its place, I study history, the jointly agreed-upon fable we call the narrative of our lives together as one species (before we branch out again):

 

Dave Dean was my sponsor and a keynote speaker at the Southwestern Book Company national sales training (in 1983?).