Kevin Atkins

"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."
-William Saroyan

"Not where I breathe, but where I love, I live;
Not where I love, but where I am, I die."
-Robert Southwell

"I have remarked very clearly that I am often of one opinion when I am lying down and of another when I am standing up."
-C. G. Lichtenberg

Photo of the week:
Moon over Mama Mia

What I'm doing here...

Missing my mom
mourning my friend and step-brother David Hinman
Updating my master list of my digital photos of all sorts
Enjoying this slideshow of Lake Michigan from the Northwest Indiana Paddling Association which will give you some idea of what my childhood looked like, from a sailboat on the lake.
Slowly posting the pictures from the 14th Annual Lotus World Music Festival
Enjoying the Starlite Drive-in theater.
Enjoying the collaboration of a bunch of local musicians and artists on the Wilderness Plots project. Carrie Newcomer, Tim Grimm, Tom Roznowski, Michael White, Krista Detor, and Scott Russell Sanders perform a show of music and readings, while Jim Krause's renderings of Frank Hohenberger photographs and Mark Blaney's paintings open and close the show. Here's a Myspace page for the show and it plays music when you open it.
Trying to keep up with owning a house!
This fellow, Bob Webster has done something like one of my favorite techie/historical/maping fantasies -- he's flown ultralight aircraft over the route of the Lewis and Clark Expedition taking photographs and linking them to the text of journals corresponding to the same places. I really enjoy his monthly "junkmails" (the first link).
Helping out a little with the 19th Annual Soupbowl Benefit.
Repairing damaged RAID arrays. Listen here to the sounds of hard drives failing (remixed as music)
Thinking wistfully of Agawa Bay Ontario, on Lake Superior
Enjoying the thoughtfulness of many of the audio essays on NPR's series This I Believe
...speaking of which, right now my two favorite public/listener supported local radio stations are both listanable online: WFIU and WFHB. I think this is great news for Bloomington ex-pats who want to hear old familiar voices and shows!
Keeping Sam Bartlett's web page running.
Dreaming of flight... everyone remembers Larry Walters, right? Well, the concept of Cluster Ballooning is, er, taking off.
Gathering information on freshwater jellyfish, which we have in Yellowood Lake in Indiana
Looking for lost friends... (Are you on my list?)

My favorite things about Bloomington

My favorite people

Things that have had a big influence on me

Music -- both the practice and performance and the people, and going to Interlochen and to the Village Harmony camp, and the 1981 North Carolina School for the Arts (NCSA) summer orchestra tour of Europe
Spending a semester in China
going to Indiana University
wilderness trips, especially canoe trips with my uncle, to Quetico, the Missinaibi River, the Churchill River
travelling around England, Wales, Ireland, and Scotland
marriage and divorce, and serious relationships
deaths of friends and family (here's a brief mention of my old friend Kert Fox who died 22 years ago this Fall)
Here's a little bio of me, with some repetition of the above...

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Dear spammers and scammers

I never have and never will respond to spam or scams.
I bounce all spam to the FTC ( spam@uce.gov ) and all 419 scams to the US Treasury office ( 419.fcd@usss.treas.gov ).
Since I use a unix email account, they get your original headers, unaltered, and my email client is too dumb to open inline URLs or graphics or other confirmation techniques. So, you get nothing, and, it looks like you have emailed the FTC or the US Treasury office directly.
Your spiders and 'bots are probably so stupid that they picked up the email addresses of the two offices above.

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Inland North You may think you speak "Standard English straight out of the dictionary" but when you step away from the Great Lakes you get asked annoying questions like "Are you from Wisconsin?" or "Are you from Chicago?" Chances are you call carbonated drinks "pop."
The Midland
The Northeast
Philadelphia
The South
The West
Boston
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

My Amazon wish list

last updated May, 2013