I can hear Alice Cooper singing it now…”School’s Out for Summer!”

I suppose that is true for most around these parts.  Most Indiana schools are finished with their 2016-2017 school year, for sure.  My school year will be over too this week.  Until I come back for a few days later this month to help facilitate some testing business.  There is another test.  There is always another test.  There is always another test ordered by folks who don’t take tests.  Oh, Lord have mercy, don’t get me started.

We graduated a class of over 150 at North Harrison High School where I serve as a school counselor.  The students in this year’s class was an impressive bunch.  For the most part they were very polite all year long.  That is not always an easy thing to do.  They got that down.  I will be looking forward to seeing what they do in the future.  There is a great deal of potential there.  Optimism.  That is a quality of each graduating class.  In addition to potential, I would say this class has “promise” as well.  Good luck to them all.

I was asked today what the summer held for me moving forward.  I can report that my dear wife, Carrie, and I will be making our annual, well, 4th annual trip to the Northeast to take in the sights and sounds and newspaper reading and eating at the Olde Forge and just plaing hanging out in a place called The Berkshires in western Massachusetts.  I have learned to spell that state with no problem.  It took nearly fifty years.  There will be a lobster roll to be found and eaten.  There will be a big hill to walk down and walk back up trying to offset too many lobster rolls.  It is a good trade-off.

Carrie and I will be going to a concert at SPAC.  That would be Saratoga Performing Arts Center.  It is a nice outdoor music venue  in a BEAUTIFUL place with trees and more trees.  That would be Saratoga Springs, New York.  The place with the horse track.  Carrie and I are going to see Train there.  We saw Train there two years ago.  They always put on a good show.

In addition to relaxing and listening to Train, I plan to do some writing there also.  I hope to write more speaktherights.com posts and place a few pictures on these pages to give a few reports.  We’ll see how that turns out.  I am also going to be writing some other things, trying to organize some thoughts about a larger project.  I don’t know if it will get off the ground or not.  Some days I know it will.  Other days I want to look at it and run the other way.  That is the nature of the material I suppose.  Writing can be a great thing.  It can also be a not so great thing.  Either way, the creative process is a good thing.  Keeping the brain moving and pushing it is a good thing.

I will be so glad when it is time to put college football predictions on these pages on Thursday evenings again.  Bring on Football Season.

Later in the month there are a few more concerts to see.  On July 1st I will be going to my last Moody Blues concert.  I have my reasons.  I will share them later this month with a last Moody Blues retrospective post.  That too is the kind of writing that can be great and not so great all in one.  I understand it.  That, I know, is a good thing.  Otherwise I would be in a great deal of trouble.

I know I have mentioned Dr. Millard Dunn on these pages before.  I need to get in touch with him.  We have some unfinished business to take care of.  He told me via email the last time we transmitted that he had something he wanted me to read…something he wrote I assume.  I hope to get in touch with him soon.

I think I will get my Alice Cooper CD off the shelf, yes, I do have one, and play that song tonight.  Well, I am working tomorrow but I can get ready to cue Alice Cooper.

Speaking the Rights…

Danny Johnson