Robert Lowe

Broschiertes Buch

Happy Vernday Birthcox

Revolution, Evolution, and an Uncommon Commune - 1970

Beschreibung

Sex! Drugs! Rock and Roll! It was bogus labeling! Humans have always engaged in sex, drugs, and music. The story begins with a journey through The Robin Williams Tunnel (formerly The Waldo, or Rainbow Tunnel). It is about the wholehearted pursuit of life; about striving to live without limits. It is a story of revelation, of trial and tribulation, of revolution and evolution, of exploration, and continual re-evaluation, often with agonizing re-appraisal. It is a story composed of emotion and memory, of seeking meaning and sharing realities of human triumph and tribulation. San Anselmo, California is a little town in Marin County, California, 18 miles north, and a little west of the Golden Gate Bridge. The land and air in this paradise are rich beyond delight and the richness has rested upon the people who have been blessed by that gentle bit of earth since the Miwok Indians first hunted and fished among the semi-arid, Live Oak covered hills. It has a near perfect climate protected by Mt. Tamalpais and Bolinas Ridge deflecting cold summer weather from the Pacific Ocean dragged into the bay region by the Central California San Joaquin valley heat. As San Francisco was The City, Marin was The County. The histories of City and County are of equally unique richness and beauty, blessed by creativity and excellence, and rife with excesses of money, power, talent, genius, inspiration, beauty in nature and people; excesses of wonder, and delight, as well as of sex, drugs, rock and roll, corruption, and terror. The history of this unusual place and time is also filled with wild explorations, human foible, interesting stories, and exceptional people. Vernon Cox being outstanding among them.

Autor

Robert Lowe is a retired Improvisation elder and lifetime dreamer. He was the founder, and chief executive of Improvisation Incorporated, an educational consulting firm. In his thirty-eight-year exploration of Improvisation, Lowe has been a dancer, a player, a teacher, a director, and a mentor in the uses of Improvisation for purposes beyond performance. His book, "Improvisation, Inc. Revised 2017 : An Applied Improvisation Handbook" is a pioneering work in the development of the global movement exploring, and practicing methods of using Improvisational Theatre practices, theories, and philosophies in all human endeavors outside the theatre. Robert has been a management consultant, a public speaker, a corporate vice president, a national sales representative, a program analyst, a project director, a welfare supervisor in the San Quentin district of Northern California, a customer service manager in South Central Los Angeles, a U.S. Navy officer, a legal services paralegal and community educator, and a legal secretary. He has been a Boy Scout executive, a corporate debt collector, a carpenter, an electrician, a political and community activist, an advocate for handicapped accessibility, an actor, a dancer, a meditator, a poet, an historian, and a philosopher. Robert has been a teacher with the Department of Communication at Georgia State University specializing in "Human "Communication", "Public Speaking", "Business and Professional Communication", "Voice and Articulation", "Acting I", and "Special Studies in Improvisation". Lowe holds the rank of Nidan, and the status of Fuku Shidoin (teacher) in Aikido, with over twenty-two years on the mat, including more than seven years specializing in teaching children. His articles have been published in "Aikido Today Magazine" and "The Journal of Asian Martial Arts". Robert grew up in a neighborhood which had one of the highest juvenile crime rates in America between 1950 and 1970. There were youth gangs in the schools before it was the fashion, and motorcycle gangs on the streets where he learned to walk in awareness and hope. He worked in poverty communities in South Central Los Angeles before and during the "first" Watts Riots of 1965. Through an era of revolution and evolution, he has seen the world come abruptly against itself only to find the deep need of some real personal, internal, and creative human work in human cooperation. Robert spent 10 years in Marin County, California, in an extraordinary community of communes, social services, and politics during the time of radical change between 1970 and 1980, just before discovering Improvisational Dance in San Diego. His second book, "Happy Vernday Birthcox: Revolution, Evolution, and an Uncommon Commune - 1970", a true story, was published in 2015 and tells of the extraordinary people, and times that prepared him for a life engaged in Improvisation, and various searches for understanding. He is the father of a fine boy who is now 29, and the delight of his father's life. Robert spends some time each day playing some music, writing, reading voraciously, delighting in the beauty and abundance of this life, and in grateful thanks to God for all that is.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Robert Lowe, Jr.
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780578168876
• ISBN-10: 0578168871
• Artikelnr.: 44341204