Initial reaction:
I LOVE college. I would never find all of the fascinating things my professors connect us students to on my own. That's the reason I'm here. Most recent find: Brian Doyle. I added his photo to my account on a site called Pinterest with the caption "Imagery on steroids". Talk about pictures and talk about stories. On ers.byu.edu you can watch a lecture that he gives at Brigham Young University. It is to a LDS (mormon) audience, so it is a bit catered toward that crowd but I believe it is an awesome presentation, reading, conversation, conglomeration of insights and laughter. And what fantastic insights they were!
As Mr. Doyle (I know he would hate me referring to him like that, sorry, I'm tainted by academia!) himself tells us, he has quite a reputation for crying and making others cry. I, personally didn't cry while he was speaking, sniffle sniffle, but that's really only because I was watching it in the library. I did laugh out loud however, and try to cover that with a cough, not weirding out anyone to an exorbitant degree. I loved the lecture. There were so many good ideas that it is going to take me some time to work through them all. I always have to let things sit and simmer and settle into all their far corners and implications until I really feel comfortable writing about them, which has begun to cure me of the terrible sin of procrastination. I'd say I'm at least on the road to recovery, but most addicts would say the same.
Would you like to know my only complaint? Here it is. He doesn't have a blog. Why doesn't he have a blog? Come on! I may be spoiled with such easy access to genius and innovation as one of the Web 2.0 generation but please, just give the people what they want! Supply and demand, there is a rule about that somewhere (smiley emoticon). If anyone happens to have his email, let me know so I can let him know! Thanks and check out that link, it's a fun ride that I highly recommend!
ers.byu.edu
ENJOY!!!
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