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Boomtown John R. Hall - August 27, 2019

In 2016 I found myself on the bust side of North Dakota’s oil boom. That was the beginning of the down-and-out years for the oil industry within the Roughrider State. Eventually, through an illness and misplaced trust and other...

WORDS OF WISDOM – JUST FOR YOU

“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” — Plato

JOHN’S BOOK: RED WHITE AND THE BLUES

“The process of writing a book is not unsimilar to the process of rehearsing before a performance. The preparation is a lonely, private affair—even if collaborators are involved. Throughout the entire creative process, there’s an unrelenting, nagging knowledge that an audience will be exposed to one’s art, and this gives one great pause. The reality and constant awareness that people will see one’s creativity permeates the whole process, triggering anguish over each verbal inflection and physical motion for the performer—and over each word, punctuation mark, font stylization, sentence transition, design, and layout of the final product for the writer. It’s not natural to stand exposed for all to see. It is enticingly nerve-racking. It’s yin and yang at its finest. It is a curse to be an artist” (John R. Hall).

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Boomtown Left Town Shell-Shocked

WORDS OF WISDOM – JUST FOR YOU

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