Got into Denver about 9:15 p.m. MDT. Pushed to get in with enough time to get (for me) a full night’s sleep before attending tomorrow’s conference activities. Glad my mother’s flying in to meet me here rather than in Iowa because I made the drive with only one 15-minute stop once I left Des Moines–where…
Category: REAP National Conference on the Spiritual–June 2013
Fire and Rain
Packing for early morning departure. Find myself looking at news about severe storms crossing Iowa. However, the system is heading east away from my planned route. The other news is about the fires in Colorado. THe map below shows the fire evacuation around Colorado Springs. No indication that Denver is involved. My prayers for those…
Hot Stuff!!
One of the things about combining business and pleasure is that you have to pack for both. Professional and semi-formal dress for the conference part and comfortable travel stuff for the vacation part. Weather forecast in Denver is for mid- to upper-80’s (very comfortable for a southerner after a long winter in the Midwest). The…
R E A P Conference on Negro Spirituals-Denver, CO
Getting ready to attend a conference on Negro spirituals at the University of Denver. Scheduled to present a lecture-recital on using dialect in performance of spirituals. Information about the conference is at http://spiritualsproject.org/reap/. Planning to take advantage of the opportunity to see parts of the U.S. I’ve not seen up close before (flying over them…