drmstream[writing]

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CMTC camp was the hot thing to do in Summer 1929

Let’s go rough it a lit­tle, what do you think?” It’s 1929 and the coun­try is at the cusp of social cri­sis. Change has hap­pened too quickly, dri­ven by sur­feit. A sur­feit of things, a sur­feit of oppor­tu­nity, a sur­feit of peo­ple, a sur­feit of money. The Great War is a dis­tant mem­ory. The moral nature of […]

The nearness of you…”

Why do I just wither and for­get all resis­tance When you and your magic pass by? My 12-year is ready to hear music now. Car rides become the oppor­tu­nity for dis­cov­ery. Yes­ter­day, we heard the care­ful bal­ance between art and craft and authen­tic­ity: Chrissie Hynde, Aretha Franklin and Sarah Vaughan. I could feel the music opening […]