One year I read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee which was a mistake because it really made me antagonistic toward my predominantly white American audience and my completely white American self. I have to watch because I really get into books. This year I'm reading Hans Christian Anderson and The Jungle Book. I love the way the scenery changes. It varies subtly from state to state, county to county.
Kentucky barns are so different from Wisconsin barns.
It's in that quiet, too, that all the garbled, frantic feelings and thoughts begin to settle, and slowly you begin to see the shape of the love of God. For two years, we did both things in practically every town we were in. It really keeps you hopping and as I'm older now, I hop a little less. I can't tell you how much difference their work makes in the tone and all of a concert. If their work goes well and the place is cooperative, the whole thing is pretty easy for all of us.