The Blanton Art Museum, Austin

The feather sort of makes the hat, don’t you think? Daniel chose it from a selection of about 300.

Our new Youtube channel is gaining 100 new subscribers per day! That’s a new subscriber every 12 minutes, 20 hours a day. We’re now up to nearly 8,000. (Brian Brushwood, on the other hand, has more than 2,000,000 subscribers to his channels. Not views, subscribers.) But even though our channel is still small, it’s driving a lot of […]

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Eli gave us a poem in Portuguese by Manoel de Barros. We translated it into English with the help of Google. The Boy Who Carried Water in a Sieve I have a book about waters and boys. I like best the boy who carried water in a sieve. His mother told him that carrying water in a sieve […]

This is the new floor plan for The House of the Lost Boys. Have you ever been to the lowest courtyard of Engelbrecht House? The little gate that currently opens into wilderness will – next spring – open onto a sidewalk that will curve with the rock ledge to take you to six new ground-floor […]

This is why we moved The House of the Lost Boys to that same rock shelf in the valley on which The House of the Broken Angels (Engelbrecht) sits: The wizard realized the cognoscenti enjoy hanging together more than apart. The previous location would have situated these six rooms too far from the interior comforts of Spence Manor and Engelbrecht […]

Clarissa McDaniel (left) works as an Academy Ambassador in the Welcome Center. On Friday at noon she was to take the Wizard and I on a tour to the top of the Tower so that we could judge the quality of her guiding. As we held the door open for two strangers as they were leaving the Welcome Center, we […]

Two Out of Three = Job Security You always get your work done on time. People really like you. You do amazing work. It only takes two out of three. VARIATION “A”: You get your work done on time and people really like you. You don’t have to do amazing work. VARIATION “B”: You get […]

House Cat, Alley Cat My friend Jeffrey admits he is a house cat. No shame in it. It’s a natural consequence of his upbringing. I’m an alley cat. I was brought up differently. When a house cat purchases something too big for his car, he dials his alley cat friend who owns a pickup. Alley cats know […]

Three Ways to Get Rich: L.A.D. I always look forward to my lunches with Ray Bard because he teaches me valuable things. He doesn’t intend to teach me things; it just happens. Our short lunches last 3 hours. Our record is 6 ½. Ray is my publisher. During our most recent lunch, Ray said – […]

Lisa Sutton, a cognoscenti of Magical Worlds, plays violin 900 feet above the city of Austin. Lisa played Titania, Queen of the Fairies, in Monica Ballard’s amazing production of Robin Goodfellow, an adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (below) at the base of the Tower one evening. It was fabulous. This sculpture by Gary Lee Price – along […]

This is Gary Lee Price, the sculptor of Journeys of Imagination, with his wife, Leesa, who is wearing a silver pendant of The Statue of Responsibility which Gary designed as a counterpoint to the Statue of Liberty. Amazed at the campus, Leesa gave the pendant to Pennie. If you’ve ever been to the top of the Tower, […]

On the night we opened the just-completed Tower on the campus of Wizard Academy… Pennie accepts a gift from Tom Bluemlein, a famous painter of impressionistic Legacy Portraits. (Meet Tom on Facebook.) It now hangs above her office door in The Enchanted Emporium. (Visit Tom’s website)

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The Link Beneath My Feet. Heh, heh, heh.

“Her name is Dulcinea, her kingdom, Toboso, which is in La Mancha, her condition must be that of princess, at the very least, for she is my queen and lady, and her beauty is supernatural, for in it one finds the reality of all the impossible.” – Don Quixote, (1605)

This is the backside of the Philbrook Art Center in Tulsa, where Princess Pennie and the wizard grew up. Pennie plans to build a garden like this down below Engelbrecht House, extending to where the statue of Don Quixote looks up at Chapel Dulcinea. The House of the Lost Boys will be built on the rise […]

At far left is Chris Lowry who built one of the rooms in Engelbrecht House. The woman in blue is Nancy Mullis, the man in pink next to her is Kary Mullis, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. This building is the original home of the Academy.

Don Kuhl funded our fabulous art gallery. Mia Erichson and Jeffrey Eisenberg have helped us in a hundred ways since the earliest days of Wizard Academy.

PropertyGuys.com built us a banquet hall.

David Krueger and Patricia Greiner built the Krueger Room in Engelbrecht House. They are delightful, happy people to be with.

Chad Prosser and his sons stepped forward to fund a room, as well.

Dan and Carolina Roitman funded a room in Engelbrecht House, as did Shaun Courbat. And both have taught classes for us, as well.

2004: After J.P. Engelbrecht (on the right) provided the money to begin construction on Engelbrecht House, he worked behind the scenes to keep the beer cold beneath the tent where Roy was debuting his soon-to-be-famous Pendulum presentation. Humility is one of J.P.’s virtues.

On a rainy day in 2004: Roy points to where the tower will someday stand while a handful of friends look on. Richard Kessler (second from right, yellow shirt, white shoes) and Robert Ramsey (Just forward of Kessler in light blue shirt, bright blue shoes) immediately volunteered to buy the historic, bronze church bell for Chapel Dulcinea […]

In the late 1990s, Roy found this image online and said, “Someday Wizard Academy will have a tower with a star deck like that, where we’ll sit at night and look at the stars and talk about the meaning of life.” Roy kept the image, obviously, and created a real-life version of it. Notice the castellated […]

One morning, a few days before closing on the Wizard Academy land purchase that took all the money we had, I got sucked under a dark wave of inadequacy as I thought about the vision Roy had been sharing with Wizard Academy students. After a few moments of breathless panic, I was calmed with an […]

If wild animals could talk, would they talk like cartoons? Would the dismal swamp resound with shrill, befuddled, childlike voices; a cute choir of cuddly Kermits delivering gentle froggy inanities? Or would bears converse in the style of Hemingway, in sentences short, brave, and clear; each word a smooth pebble damp with blood; aboriginal speech, […]

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If you’re pressed for time, the comment you see below is referring to an observation made by Daniel and Rex at 7:12, when they begin talking about percentiles of heavy drinkers. And then there’s the new “guest” ending at 10:40. It’s Whiskey Vault Mirth! – Indy  

  Roving Reporter Rotbart is roving undercover for the FBI this week, so there’s no new edition of MondayMorningRadio.  (sigh) BUT, I have a high level of confidence that he will rock your world when he’s back in his studio a week from now. Want to tell him you missed him? Send an email to dean@mondaymorningradio.com

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American Exceptionalism in 1687 Exactly three hundred and thirty years ago – roughly ten generations of parents and children ago – the French explorer La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, was murdered by his own men. We were experiencing dysfunction among supposed team members. In Virginia, a panicked Nicholas Spencer of […]

Walking the Dog Two universes mosey down the street Connected by love and a leash and nothing else. Mostly I look at lamplight through the leaves While he mooches along with tail up and snout down, Getting a secret knowledge through the nose Almost entirely hidden from my sight. We stand while he’s enraptured by […]

Take a trip with the wizard and Princess Pennie. Come home in a higher gear.

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Every successful person has a blind spot. Here’s how it happens: You have a unique approach, a particular process, or a special emphasis. It separates you from your competitors. Your commitment to it makes you successful. So far, so good. You found a way to be different and it made you a success! But now […]

I try to make sense out of the insensical. I’m weird that way. Looking for patterns where no patterns wander. Let me explain: The digital clock hits 5:38 twice every time the earth completes a full rotation. But I witness that number so often I wonder what message is God sending me. I’ve checked out various versus […]

Wizard Academy’s “Tower Update” is about to be expanded. Vice-Chancellor Whittington tells us how. Big plans are afoot. Be sure to subscribe to our new channel on YouTube.

The next session of the Magical Worlds Communications Workshop is August 1-3. If you’d like to encourage Vice-Chancellor Whittington to put Portals and the 12 Languages of the Mind  into the schedule for 2018, you can ring his bell at daniel@wizardacademy.org

 

This is our man, Cedric, practicing the big scene from Dirty Dancing with Becca, his bride-to-be, the day before the wedding. Yep, James Bond finally got married.

Click to read the the MMMemo Rod and Gene are talking about. Below are the radio ads Rod mentioned. I like them both. – Indy Beagle