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Ah, the benefits of a liberal arts education
On 12/30/16 1:22 PM, Paco Loco wrote:
On Thu, 29 Dec 2016 07:16:50 -0500, Keyser Soze wrote: On 12/29/16 2:04 AM, wrote: On Wed, 28 Dec 2016 16:37:40 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: Seems to me that "Liberal Arts" was what you signed up for in college when you didn't have a clue what you wanted to be when you grew up. Maybe that was my "Problem". I had a very good idea of what I wanted to be when I grew up and I did it. Any education I sought was toward that goal. Once I had a good job, I had the opportunity to seek knowledge in all sorts of other fields and in other venues. My dad parlayed his apparently significant graphic arts abilities he developed in high school into an academic scholarship at a major Pennsylvania university. His uncle, a Russian immigrant like his dad, helped out, and during the Great Depression after graduation, he worked for that uncle as manager of displays and merchandising for the latter's small chain of variety stores, and also a store and regional manager. When he had his boat store, my dad would spend the slow winter hours at the store painting rather risque portraits of nudes and semi-nudes of voluptuous women he never met, an avocation that drove my mom nuts. A friend's father in Overland Park, Kansas, a real estate developer, had artistic abilities, too, and he would sculpt nudes of well-developed women he never met, a hobby that also drive his wife nuts. Ahhh, art!  Sure hope he didn't wear his arm out patting himself on the back as much as his son does. He was a talented guy, and in addition to his art skills, he was a decent amateur writer and a professional quality organist on the Hammond and on some theater organs. When one of the big local theaters in New Haven had "silent movie nights," he often was invited to play the accompaniment on the theater's "Mighty Wurlitzer." During his late youth in Philadelphia, while in college, he was a member of a Mummers' Club in Philly and strummed banjo and ukulele. On the other hand, he never sent us out to hunt squirrels for the family dinner. He did rescue/adopt a pair of motherless baby raccoons when I was about 10 and built a big indoor/outdoor enclosure for them at the back of the shop of his boat store. They later were donated to a local nature facility, where they entertained kids for many years. They were completely tame and spoiled. |
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