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   8888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888888 Alphabetical Index 2022 9/11 Remembrance Day  A00067 A Day at the Beach with God  A00229 A Day with Bernadette, A Few Moments with Moses the Ethiopian A00063 A Day with Bernadette ... and the Lady  A00144 A Full Card Table of Black Economists  A00163 A Happy Fourth of July Dancing Under the Stars  A00167 A Meditation on John Coltrane  A00197 A Most Memorable Date  A00276 A Most Profound Thich Nhat Hanh Memorial  A00113 A Musical Meditation on Rumi A00180 A Poker Game in Heaven  A00155 A Return to Allensworth: From a Field of Weeds to a Field of Dreams  A00149 A Return to Disneyland, A Return to Tomorrowland  A00218 A Return to Monserrat and a "Miraculous" Introduction to the Black Madonna  A00145 A Side Trip to Dublin and an Exploration of Black Irish Roots  A00146 A Study on Night Owls  A00306 A Surprising Connection to Our American Soul  A00148 A Tale of Two Black Economists  A00161 A Tale

  For the month of August 2024, I read   The Truth About Tesla: The Myth of the Lone Genius in the History of Innovation.  As the back cover says,  "Forget everything you think you know about the "father of electricity."  In this new, revealing analysis of Nikola Tesla's life, Christopher Cooper uncovers beguiling sagas and curious inconsistencies in the history of the man credited with inventing everything from alternating current to radar.  Along the way, he explores serious questions about how conventional history has created a mythology of the lone inventor striving against society to generate a truly singular idea." It appears that in the world of patents, it is not always who gets there first but rather who gets there with the richest backers that matters most.  At least, that was the case underlying many of the "inventions" attributed to Nikola Tesla. For the month of September 2024, I am reading  The Seat of the Soul  by Gary Zukav. I am readin

  In response to my request for additional information concerning Thurman Luce Dodson, Amherst College Class of 1926, I received two emails which proved to be a pleasant surprise.  The first email came from Frederick Drew Gregory, Amherst College Class of 1962, Fred clearly recalled Thurman Luce Dodson as his Washington, D. C. neighbor and also recalled spending many childhood moments at Mr. Dodson's rather spacious home. He expressed some surprise, however, by the revelation that Thurman Luce Dodson went to Amherst College and particular surprise that Thurman Luce Dodson was an Amherst College Classmate of his Uncle Charlie ... the man we know as Charles Richard Drew. The second email came from Junius White Williams, Amherst College Class of 1965.  Junius who received his own honorary degree from Amherst College in 2024, remembered Thurman Luce Dodson as the President of the National Bar Association in 1947.  Junius would know because he served as the President of the National Bar