David LaMotte

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First Day in Brisbane

Mar 13, 2008
I suppose this counts as “hitting the ground running.”    After arriving at 7AM, making my way to the hotel and getting settled in, I checked email and found an invitation from Judy Magub, who is the Rotary liaison for Peace Fellows at U.Q. She said there was a Rotary meeting Wednesday night where three […]

First Day in Brisbane

by David LaMotte

I suppose this counts as “hitting the ground running.”    After arriving at 7AM, making my way to the hotel and getting settled in, I checked email and found an invitation from Judy Magub, who is the Rotary liaison for Peace Fellows at U.Q. She said there was a Rotary meeting Wednesday night where three […]

From somewhere over the Pacific…

Mar 12, 2008
Qantas Flight 741, LAX – BNE 12:23 PM (Black Mountain, NC), 2:20AM (Brisbane, Australia)   Mmmm… good travel luck: This flight to Australia is a long one, especially on top of flights from the east coast, but somehow I ended up with  a bank of three seats to myself. I offered to switch with  the […]

From somewhere over the Pacific…

by David LaMotte

Qantas Flight 741, LAX – BNE 12:23 PM (Black Mountain, NC), 2:20AM (Brisbane, Australia)   Mmmm… good travel luck: This flight to Australia is a long one, especially on top of flights from the east coast, but somehow I ended up with  a bank of three seats to myself. I offered to switch with  the […]

George’s head and Abe’s seat

Mar 9, 2008
Tonight I played at Abraham Lincoln’s church. No kidding. Yes, that Abraham Lincoln. John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson went there, too, and Dr. King preached there a bit more recently. I can’t help but have those images run together in my mind and imagine how Abraham Lincoln would have enjoyed listening to a sermon from Dr. King at his own church, New York Avenue Presbyterian.... Read More →

George’s head and Abe’s seat

by David LaMotte

Tonight I played at Abraham Lincoln’s church. No kidding. Yes, that Abraham Lincoln. John C. Calhoun and Andrew Jackson went there, too, and Dr. King preached there a bit more recently. I can’t help but have those images run together in my mind and imagine how Abraham Lincoln would have enjoyed listening to a sermon from Dr. King at his own church, New York Avenue Presbyterian…. Read More →

Dan the Tan Van

Mar 8, 2008
I guess it’s fitting that Dan the Tan Van is retiring too, given that my own career is being suspended soon. You might think that my own plans to move to Australia would be more glamorous than Dan’s retirement plans, but you’d be wrong.... Read More →

Dan the Tan Van

by David LaMotte

I guess it’s fitting that Dan the Tan Van is retiring too, given that my own career is being suspended soon. You might think that my own plans to move to Australia would be more glamorous than Dan’s retirement plans, but you’d be wrong…. Read More →

That’s not Peace

Mar 6, 2008
This morning I checked the news when I found a disturbing story in the news about a military recruitment center on Times Square being bombed by a small and ineffectual improvised explosive tossed from a bicycle. The ‘comments’ beneath the article are predictable, including some anti-immigrant posturing, “I bet they’ll find out it was someone foreign!”; and […]

That’s not Peace

by David LaMotte

This morning I checked the news when I found a disturbing story in the news about a military recruitment center on Times Square being bombed by a small and ineffectual improvised explosive tossed from a bicycle. The ‘comments’ beneath the article are predictable, including some anti-immigrant posturing, “I bet they’ll find out it was someone foreign!”; and […]

Of Notes and Blogs

Mar 4, 2008
Black Mountain, NC  (home) In an unforeseen fit of motivation, I find that I’m finally joining the new millennium and starting an honest-to-goodness blog. Not that I’m a luddite.  Actually, it could be argued that I was a proto-blogger: blogging before we had even made up the word.  I started writing “Notes From the Road” […]

Of Notes and Blogs

by David LaMotte

Black Mountain, NC  (home) In an unforeseen fit of motivation, I find that I’m finally joining the new millennium and starting an honest-to-goodness blog. Not that I’m a luddite.  Actually, it could be argued that I was a proto-blogger: blogging before we had even made up the word.  I started writing “Notes From the Road” […]

From deep in the Vault…

Jan 1, 2000
I was a “proto-blogger.”  That is to say that I started publishing “Notes From the Road” on my web site back in way 1997, laboriously chiseling them into my stone pda with a woolly mammoth tusk. Coincidentally, my first blog was published a few weeks before the word “weblog” ever appeared in print. These are […]

From deep in the Vault…

by David LaMotte

I was a “proto-blogger.”  That is to say that I started publishing “Notes From the Road” on my web site back in way 1997, laboriously chiseling them into my stone pda with a woolly mammoth tusk. Coincidentally, my first blog was published a few weeks before the word “weblog” ever appeared in print. These are […]