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The Monday Morning Memo

Take Your Inspiration From Wherever You Find It, No Matter How Ridiculous

I have no idea who created the image, but there it was: a boy sitting on a tower at night with a book in his lap, looking up at the stars, contemplating the meaning of life.

I looked at that cartoon image and instantly knew that Pennie and I would someday build a tower with a star deck where people could gather late at night and look at the stars and think big thoughts.

High ceilings inspire big thoughts.

The stars are painted across a very high ceiling.

I have no idea who drew that image, or why, but the little boy with a book in his lap is now made of bronze, and he leans against the base of a monumental bronze sculpture by Gary Lee Price called Journeys of Imagination.

That statue sits squarely in the center of the star deck of the Tower at Wizard Academy where the boy flies 900 feet above the city of Austin, Texas.

When next you come to a class in the Tower, take a moment to sit down next to that little boy, and see if you can figure out what he’s looking at.

You can take a chair with you, if you want.

And maybe a glass of wine.

Roy H. Williams

[Promote May event and mention campus guidebook, Secrets of the Wizard Academy Campus.]

Add photo of tower at night, plus photo of Journeys of Imagination.]

Wizard Academy is a school that teaches communication techniques to business owners, ad writers, artists, scientists, scholars, salespeople and others who hope to influence human thought, emotion, and behavior.

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“Here and there exclamation marks stuck out of the ground, sharp needles piercing the scenery. Whenever my gaze caught on them, my eyelids began to quiver; the eye cut itself on those wooden structures erected in the fields, on their boundaries, or at the edge of the forest. In total there were eight of them in the Plateau, I knew the exact figure, because I’d had dealings with them in the past, like Don Quixote with the windmills. They were knocked together out of wooden beams, set crosswise; they consisted entirely of crosses. These grotesque figures had four legs and a cabin with embrasures on top. Pulpits, for hunting. This name has always amazed and angered me. For what on earth was taught from that sort of pulpit? What sort of Gospel was preached? Isn’t it the height of arrogance, isn’t it a diabolical idea to call a place from which one kills a pulpit?”

- Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, p. 54, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

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