Craig Berry

First things first: anubis75, please email me; the address I have for you is bouncing.

My class at LVX Lodge last night on "Creative Destruction" went pretty well, I thought. I found myself wanting to read poetry the whole time; it's one of those subjects that seems to be best approached via art. But I limited myself to a couple of poems each at the beginning and the end of the class, with the middle devoted to such seemingly disconnected topics as the evolutionary origin and reproductive strategy of grass, the relative merits of capitalist and socialist economies, and the Kubler-Ross model of grief. I'm pretty sure there was a narrative thread in there somewhere.

I've had many requests for class notes from the LVX Tuesday night series. There are a few ancient examples on the site, but in general we've been completely ignoring this issue. I'm planning to solicit notes from presenters for inclusion on the site more often from now on, with my own notes from last night leading the way once I've cleaned them up a bit (e.g., adding titles and authors to the poetry selections).