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David BolesBest of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 15 (2024): Buy Now!Hey, there! Welp, it’s that <a href="https://amazon.com/author/boles" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">time of the year again</a> — yes, time for us to ask for the indulgence of your continued, kind, support for this blog by <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQ65MMWD" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">buying our eBook</a> — <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQ65MMWD" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 15 (2024)</a> — to show your support so we may continue to <a href="https://bolesbooks.com/boles.blogs/volume-fifteen.hmtl" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">publish this blog without advertising</a> while <a href="https://bolesbooks.com/boles.blogs/volume-fifteen.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">still being able to cover our yearly, ongoing, online publication costs</a> that include server space, hosting fees, and bandwidth payments. Yes, we live in a money world — even for free reading!As you may know, we don’t publish junk articles, we don’t republish old articles with new paid for backlinks, and we never accept <a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2021/06/18/the-sponsored-post-brigade/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sponsored posts</a>. We also have never allowed, or published, any “do follow” links here on <a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2023/12/11/best-of-david-boles-blogs-vol-14-2023-is-now-here/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BolesBlogs.com</a> — and we are able to do that because of your fine support for our eBook publishing program. Thank you for being a part of our effort, and a part of us all!<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQ65MMWD" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BUY NOW!</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQ65MMWD" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>From the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DQ65MMWD" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">introduction of this year’s eBook</a>:<blockquote>Welcome to this year’s edition of — the “Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 15 (2024)” — this handheld electronic edition brings the best of BolesBlogs.com, and provides you easy access to the best writing of the year 2024 by David Boles. This year’s topics include an amazing trip back to Nebraska to bury my mother and to visit family I haven’t seen in over 40 years. Plus, 2024 was a big year for Artificial Intelligence and AI has swept into all of our lives – whether we realize it or not. Plus, lots of reflections are shared concerning what it means to be human and what it means to know just how you fit into the world. Plus, you get to meet The Boles Birts: Percy and Lotty! Two, new, and beautiful British Shorthair kittens that are now a big part of our family.You are purchasing this eBook to support the ongoing online publication of David Boles, Blogs located online at BolesBlogs.com where servers, bandwidth, and images support all have a rising, substantial, cost for production. Thank you!As well, be sure to follow us all year long via Discord server: <a href="https://discord.gg/boles" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">discord.gg/boles</a> and join our Federated Mastodon server at <a href="https://Boles.xyz" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Boles.xyz</a>There are no hyperlinks or fancy formatting in this ebook. In fact, this is a purposeful, old-timey, “flat file” publication — just like the old paper books of yore, where you start on page one, and finish reading on the last page. This is a mechanical choice of function, not a historic moment in amber!</blockquote>Keep in touch with us online here at <a href="https://BolesBlogs.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BolesBlogs.com</a> and <a href="https://ScriptProfessor.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ScriptProfessor.com</a> and <a href="https://BolesBooks.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BolesBooks.com</a> and <a href="https://HardcoreASL.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">HardcoreASL.com</a> and <a href="https://ASL-Opera.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">ASL Opera</a> and <a href="https://HumanMeme.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">HumanMeme.com</a> — and <a href="https://Boles.tv" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Boles.tv</a> and <a href="https://Boles.radio" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Boles.radio</a> and <a href="https://BolesBrits.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BolesBrits.com</a> and <a href="https://SOSasl.com" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">more</a>! — and we publish all those projects to help memorialize the pitfalls and the pinnacles of the human condition.Thank you!<a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/2024/" target="_blank">#2024</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/ai/" target="_blank">#ai</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/amazon/" target="_blank">#amazon</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/best-of/" target="_blank">#bestOf</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/boles-blogs/" target="_blank">#bolesBlogs</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/boles-brits/" target="_blank">#bolesBrits</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/buy-now/" target="_blank">#buyNow</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/cats/" target="_blank">#cats</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/david-boles/" target="_blank">#davidBoles</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/e-book/" target="_blank">#EBook</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/kindle/" target="_blank">#kindle</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/lotty/" target="_blank">#Lotty</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/percy/" target="_blank">#Percy</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/publishing/" target="_blank">#publishing</a>

David BolesMy mother, <a href="https://www.bmlfh.com/obituary/wilma-boles" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Wilma Jean Boles, died on June 24, 2024</a>. She was 85-years-old. Her death was unfortunate, and unnecessarily gruesome in that, in the end, she chose not to walk, or eat, or take her medication after a major surgery; the only thing she desired was a quick death. My mother always fought for what she wanted, and sometimes what she wanted is what nobody else wanted, including her death. Wilma never really recovered from elective surgery she had on May 23, 2024 to fix a perforated diaphragm where half of her stomach and part of her colon were stuck in her chest cavity, placing pressure on her left lung. Her surgeon believed she’d been living with that condition for more than 25 years; and he also believed there was “no good reason” for her not to recover and get better. As I have worked to come to terms with Wilma’s death, and the first 23 years of our life together, <a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2016/02/03/the-narcissistic-mother/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">I am surrounded by — and often hunted with</a> — the memories of my mother’s life, her successes, her disappointments, and her ability to continually confound the unwary. I have also realized, but not quite yet accepted, that no matter how hard I try, or how fast I may run, I will always be “Wilma’s Boy.”When you are born into, and grow up in, a small village in Nebraska — North Loup, to be exact — there is an exacting sort of lingering punishment of social norms that always percolate and surround your every moment. You must always behave. Everyone knows who you are. You are a stranger until you have been defined by someone else. I quickly learned, in my many visits to my mother’s hometown of North Loup as a young child, that associations and relationships matter more than character.When you’re a stranger in town, you don’t get introduced as yourself by name. Others introduce you to those who ask about you by using your familial ties. You are constructed in space by their name, not your name in time.“Oh, that’s Bill Vodehnal’s grandson.”“Sure, this is Wilma’s Boy.”With those credits you do not own, you’re in.Once those small town ties have been mentioned, and accepted by others, you are bound into a new community in a strange and fitful way. You now echo in the hills of your kin and you scream in the valleys of your ancestors as if you yourself were born and bred along the banks of the Loup River.But there’s an expectation that comes along with all that sudden belonging.You don’t speak up.You don’t misbehave.You are quiet until spoken to.You are being watched by the town, and analyzed by unseen eyes, and you are immediately, and always, judged by societal agendas; and if you do the wrong thing, even by a little bit, you not only bring shame upon yourself, but upon your family as well.“Wilma’s Boy, indeed!”And that’s how the small town mentality inks its way in your bloodstream. You are always aware of timestamp belonging, you always want to fit in, you always become hypersensitive to those around you who are trying to look for the smallest fault to exploit and conquer.In response, you become harder, more stubborn, colder, and inflexible, imagining yourself as stoic and suffering. You have values. You have strong beliefs. You don’t like strangers without association. You define first, lest you be defined last.You are embedded into not wanting to stand out, but also wanting to be someone, and yet you are expected to always do your humble best. That dichotomy fosters an immobile sense of self that is always in motion while completely requiring stasis. You survive that way just fine in a small town, even as a young, named, visitor, but when you take that communal baggage out into the deeper, wider world, the temptation for flexible social norms to break you becomes even more powerful the harder you try to escape and not just settle for<a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2010/11/05/you-dont-have-to-be-where-youre-from/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> being where you’re from</a>.My mother was the daughter of WIlliam Henry Vodehnal, the village pharmacist: “Bill’s Girl.” Wilma was born into the malingering dust of the Great Depression, and she was slender, and beautiful, her entire life. She had Scarlet fever as a child, and became Deaf in one ear. She struggled to understand, to listen, and to communicate, the rest of her life. She never accepted her disability.I would have loved to have met my mother when she was in her early teens — just to get a real sense of who she was born to be, and to try to understand what she believed. I wanted to know her childhood dreams before life turned on her, and before the promise of her future just became about survival and belonging.My mother left North Loup. She toured Europe. She graduated from Nebraska Wesleyan University in Lincoln, Nebraska. She got out! And then, for some reason that I still do not understand, she decided to get married to a university classmate. A classmate who, after several years of a strained marriage, would become my father.And that’s when it all changed.That’s when the collapse of a life happened.That’s when “Wilma’s Boy” was born to save a marriage that was still doomed to fail, and yes, not even being a first born son was enough for my father to stay married to Wilma. The divorce judge ordered him to stay with Wilma for five days after my birth, and then he was free to go live and cheat with the woman he was seeing. He later sired three additional children.His alimony was to pay, for 10 years, the mortgage on the new home they built together and to pay $100 a month in child support until I was 18. That is the sum total of me knowing anything of value, or of substance, about my father. I do not understand him. I would not recognize him on the street. I have not set eyes upon him for 55 years.I never understood why my mother chose to marry my father. My mother was not a romantic. She was a hard realist. From their start together, there was no real excitement, or engagement into a sustainable future. I get the feeling there was some sort of slow motion, underwater, push, neither of them fully understood that, after each left their own small town for a bigger city, and after earning a university education, the next natural step expected of them was to get married as soon as they graduated. That’s what you did back then in the radical Sixties. You got married, built a home, and had a child. That’s how you fit in the new modern world. That’s how you named your family with tendril roots.And that was the beginning of the landslide disappointments for my mother. Divorced at 26, stuck with a five-day-old infant, and no job — she was lucky to find a fourth grade teaching position at a public school right across the street from her new home that provided for her for the next 35 years.I know my mother felt held back by me, even if she didn’t directly blame me, because I know my mother had higher ambitions than just being a single-mother-divorcee in the 1970s and only teaching the fourth grade.A bit later, Wilma married again, settling for another loser who came with three sons, and was subsequently divorced again a few years later.Double divorced, but still stuck with a son who failed to save the first marriage, my mother sank into a deep, lifelong, depression. She vowed never to be married again, and to never tempt the perils of love another time. That glowering darkness scraped the bits of joy and the residue of life from her every second of every day. She was an expert at covering her real feelings in public. Her upbringing in a small town — where you put on the mask in public, and you wept, and let loose your monsters, and invented new demons, but only in the privacy of your own home — served her well at work.However, living with her was an entirely different experience.Later, she privately lamented that in each of her failed marriages, she had to buy all the diamond rings. Her second husband kept his ring, and put the diamond in a tie clip.As a child, as long as I did exactly as my mother said, no questions, no quibbling, life was acceptable.In order for me to survive, and to try to escape into safety and sanity, I became her “performing puppet” where I would act in plays, and make her proud, and I was pressured by her to be involved in community events in order for her to appear to be a good and supportive mother. It was all staged without any underlying substance or passion, but Wilma was never happier than when she was receiving an award, or while she was shouting out support when I found success in her shadow.My <a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2007/03/05/the-first-betrayal-a-five-dollar-beating/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">misbehaving was never an option</a>; and I was the perfect child: the perfectly miserable, malformed, disconnected, and forlorn child stuck in a distant, cold, and loveless relationship with his mother.Yes, over the years, I’ve learned the hard way that not all mothers are willing, or capable, of loving their sons; and not all sons are capable of loving unloved mothers. It all can spiral into a vicious circle of regret, and pain, and failed expectations that all ultimately become so untenable that either things will explode, or things will slowly, and deliberately, break apart.And that’s what happened.We broke apart.Together, my mother and I tentatively, but without saying so, came to understand we really didn’t ever like each other. Love? Sure. Like? Not so much.Oh, we played well together when others were watching — I know how to act the role of “Wilma’s Boy” really well — but deep down there was never any real connection to family, or to love, or to respect, or to understanding what was really happening between us. I sometimes wonder if it may have been too painful for her to ever really love anyone for fear of losing that idyllic small town adoration she longed for, but never really found in her personal life beyond North Loup. Thinking about that often makes me terribly sad for my mother.After graduating from the university, and at the tender age of 23, I escaped to New York City and graduate school. I never looked back. I grey-rocked my mother for the last 20 years in order to preserve my own independent sanity, and to try to come to terms with the fluffy confection of a braided prairie education. Wilma had her secret life without me.I had my life without her.I always considered myself her third divorce that was never consecrated in a court of law. There was no tidy paper ending or proper emotional closure. What is real, and what remains, is emptiness and longing. A circle unclosed. And so, here I am at age 60, burying my mother at 85, and the childhood feelings of sorrow and regret are overwhelming, even in the fading light of an old man — but I also realize, and accept, that we each have one life, there is no repeating, there is no going back. You own what’s happened.You give other people the right to live, or end, their own lives, and you try to find meaning in what’s left behind; and the answer is the meaning is only what you choose to bring to it, and what you use to define it, and there’s no way to guarantee a satisfying end except to accept the life that was offered to you, and to make the best of what’s left of the fractured path ahead.As I said my final goodbyes to my mother in the North Loup Hillside Cemetery under a steamy, and unforgiving, disc of an afternoon sun on July 12, 2024, I recalled the last thing I said to her a few weeks before, in the early morning, while she lay dying in a Lincoln, Nebraska hospital emergency room. I had been her Durable Power of Attorney for four days. I was half a country away in New York.My mother was flowing in and out of consciousness, defiantly and stubbornly trying her hardest to die. A few hours earlier, her medical team and I decided to place her in comfort care. The nurse let me call her cell phone, and the nurse put me on speaker, and she held the phone close to my mother’s good ear so I could say one last thing to Wilma before she died.Here is what I struggled to say out loud — to try and finally close our circle: “You are safe now. We will let you go. I love you. Thank you.”Wilma did not respond. Three hours later, she died.I hope she heard me.<a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2024/07/30/wilmas-boy/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bolesblogs.com/2024/07/30/wilmas-boy/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/david-boles/" target="_blank">#davidBoles</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/depression/" target="_blank">#depression</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/haunting/" target="_blank">#haunting</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/lincoln/" target="_blank">#lincoln</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/marriage/" target="_blank">#marriage</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/nebraska/" target="_blank">#nebraska</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/north-loup/" target="_blank">#northLoup</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/small-town/" target="_blank">#smallTown</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/suffering/" target="_blank">#suffering</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/surgery/" target="_blank">#surgery</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/wilma-boles/" target="_blank">#wilmaBoles</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/wilmas-boy/" target="_blank">#wilmaSBoy</a>

David BolesWe’ve <a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2023/10/10/your-ai-voice-clone-will-hear-you-now/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">discussed AI</a> here several times here on Boles Blogs, and today we’re taking the logical next step into the Uncanny valley by sharing <a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2024/03/19/boles-ai-where-machines-sing/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">original musical</a> creations and starting our own website radio streaming service using our new songs to accompany our new <a href="https://Boles.radio" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Boles.radio</a> TLD (Top Level Domain)!Okay, so now you have your <a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2024/03/18/human-meme-gypsy-jazz/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">original music</a> published on the major streaming services, <a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2011/07/18/bye-bye-pandora-and-itunes-the-spotify-review/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">like Spotify</a>, but to hear those songs, your listeners need to have an account to access the entire song and not just a 30 second sound snippet.But what if you want to drill down even more into your songs, and create your own website that will help you stream your music your way?You have a few choices.You can go to a website that specializes in helping you create your own radio station where you will have to stream from their proprietary domain. You will have to upload your music, and your storage space is limited. You also will have a limit on how many hours you can stream. The cost for that sort of service is around $150 a month for 10 hours of streaming. Not a great deal, but if you want to do everything live as an old time radio announcer, that’s one way to go.A second choice you have is to go for an .FM domain name. The “Dot FM” name is popular for some music-related websites, playing off the old “radio” idea of an “FM” radio station. I’m not sure how many folks in the emerging generation even know what “FM” stands for when it comes to terrestrial radio broadcasting (frequency modulation); not that the definition really matters anymore.An .FM domain will cost you around $100 a year to register. So, for five years, you’re in for $500 in domain registration fees alone. That’s not a terrible deal for a website domain, but knowing that the .FM domain name is really the TLD for the “Federated States of Micronesia” — (not “frequency modulation” at all!) — which is an independent island nation located in the Pacific Ocean — and so you might not really think .FM means really associates “radio” in mind. However, if you’re old, like me, and you want to try to be a little more traditional with your non-terrestrial web streaming domain for your music, the “.RADIO” domain might just be what fits best with your interest.Yes, you can get a “Dot Radio” domain for $25 or so a year — if you are an individual with a want to “stream” radio, music, commentary or a podcast. Companies pay about ten times that amount per year for a .Radio domain.Compared to the .FM domain — at $500 for five years — you can instead get a .RADIO domain for $250 for a 10 year registration; that’s half the cost for twice the time! I’ll go .RADIO all day.And so I did!<a href="https://boles.radio" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Boles.radio</a> is now live, and streaming my original music, as well as streaming highlights of my Human Meme podcast, along with other great bits of my<a href="https://boles.com/media/unique.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> ancient radio history</a> to come!Right now, I have started to curate my original SoundCloud music playlists — with my spoken vocal stingers added to my songs stream — to create “channel streams” on Boles.radio based on musical styles, and spoken topics. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/davidboles" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Boles.ai</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/davidboles/sets/boles-radio-dance" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Boles Radio Dance</a> Being able to control the flow of the Boles.radio experience was important to me. With easily editable<a href="https://soundcloud.com/davidboles" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> SoundCloud playlist streams</a>, I can better form the proactive listener experience moment-to-moment.Since all my original songs embed the domain name, or project, they are promoting in the lyrics, I am currently creating all new songs just for the Boles.radio streamcasting experience.I’m currently able to create a new song a day, so in a month or two, Boles.radio will have a good, and deep, visual playlist available for your listening pleasure — a playlist I can always expand, update, edit, or delete as needed.Hey, give me a shoutout if you need help, or if you have any ideas to share for the future of AI in our everyday lives!<a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2024/04/04/boles-radio-is-live/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bolesblogs.com/2024/04/04/boles-radio-is-live/</a><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/boles/" target="_blank">#boles</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/boles-radio/" target="_blank">#bolesRadio</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/cccccc/" target="_blank">#cccccc</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/creative/" target="_blank">#creative</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/david-boles/" target="_blank">#davidBoles</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/fm/" target="_blank">#fm</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/music/" target="_blank">#music</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/podcast/" target="_blank">#Podcast</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/production/" target="_blank">#production</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/radio/" target="_blank">#radio</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://bolesblogs.com/tag/streaming/" target="_blank">#streaming</a>

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We also have never allowed, or published any “do follow” links here on <a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2022/12/09/best-of-david-boles-blogs-vol-13-2022-is-right-now-available-to-buy/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BolesBlogs.com</a> — and we are able to do that because of your fine support for our eBook publishing program. Thank you for being a part of our effort, and a part of us all!<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPZ17FH6" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">BUY NOW!</a><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BPJZKYKS" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>From the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CPZ17FH6" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">introduction of the eBook</a>:<blockquote>Welcome to this year’s edition of — the “Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 14 (2023)” — this handheld electronic edition brings the best of BolesBlogs.com, and provides you easy access to the best writing of the year 2023 by David Boles. This year’s topics include Artificial Intelligence, AI Art, AI Voice and real life American Sign Language interpreted Opera performances! As well, we cover issues of inclusion, communication and equity in human living.You are purchasing this eBook to support the ongoing online publication of David Boles, Blogs located online at BolesBlogs.com where servers, bandwidth, and images support all have a rising, substantial, cost for production. Thank you!As well, be sure to follow us all year long via Discord server: <a href="https://discord.gg/boles" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">discord.gg/boles</a> and join our Federated Mastodon server at <a href="https://Boles.xyz" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Boles.xyz</a>There are no hyperlinks or fancy formatting in this ebook. In fact, this is a purposeful, old-timey, “flat file” publication — just like the old paper books of yore, where you start on page one, and finish reading on the last page. 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David BolesMy delightful wife<a href="https://bolesbooks.com/sweenie.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"> Janna Sweenie</a> and I are big lovers of opera. Opera is the pinnacle of all the Performing Arts — Painting, Acting, Voice, Costumes, Lights and Sets — and when put together, in unison, in an exaggerated and elevated performance, the entire world glows and resonates! We have always been dismayed that opera is not often, if ever, interpreted in American Sign Language for the Deaf like <a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2002/11/02/juilliard-interpreter-training/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">all Broadway shows are interpreted</a>. Janna and I are currently working on our “Opera Project” where she will present ASL renderings of famous opera arias. We will place those performances online as proof-of-concept. This is a challenging, but rewarding, and complex academic process of <a href="https://bolesblogs.com/2009/12/23/the-dying-artful-adaptation/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">interpretation and adaptation</a>, and implementation.Here are some of the dramatic, visual, description-rich arias we plan to present in ASL. We will begin with:<a href="https://youtu.be/l1C8NFDdFYg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">O mio babbino caro</a>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1C8NFDdFYg]<a href="https://youtu.be/2J7JM0tGgRY" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Una Furtiva Lacrima</a>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2J7JM0tGgRY]Here are other arias we plan to perform — these recommendations are thanks to our friends in the <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/opera/comments/13tdtbs/opera_in_asl_translation/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Reddit /opera group</a> — many who who believe in us and who are helping us:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuBeBjqKSGQ" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Der Holle Rache</a>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuBeBjqKSGQ]<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2snTkaD64U" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">L’amour est un oiseau rebelle</a>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2snTkaD64U]<a href="https://youtu.be/zh6RS-abaMg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre</a>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zh6RS-abaMg]<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXuxkrcW62E" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Madre diletta abbracciami</a>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXuxkrcW62E]<a href="https://youtu.be/OkHGUaB1Bs8" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Che gelida manina</a>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkHGUaB1Bs8]<a href="https://youtu.be/dtL8eVTnNyA" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ariadne auf Naxos</a>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtL8eVTnNyA]<a href="https://youtu.be/umFPxL52QoE" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Pif, Paf, Pouf</a>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umFPxL52QoE]<a href="https://youtu.be/Rs3dPaz9nAo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">I Am The Very Model of a Modern Major-General</a>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs3dPaz9nAo]<a href="https://youtu.be/i__XsGDYpb0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Non, Pagliaccio Non Son</a>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i__XsGDYpb0]<a href="https://youtu.be/tACTn-reWJM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Tu qui, Santuzza</a>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tACTn-reWJM]<a href="https://youtu.be/4Ou5L_BsYOM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">In Questa Reggia</a>[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ou5L_BsYOM]If you have a favorite opera aria you think would make a good, dramatic, visual, ASL performance, please leave a comment here, or <a href="https://bolesblogs.com/contact/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">send us a note</a>!In the spirit of this dramatic ASL aria project, we sent a letter to <a href="https://www.metopera.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">The Metropolitan Opera in New York City</a> asking if we might help them set up select American Sign Language interpreted performances. We were not able to find a single point of contact for that request at The Met, so if you happen to know someone there who might be amenable to our request, <a href="https://bolesblogs.com/contact/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">please get in touch with us</a>!What follows is the letter Janna and I submitted to The Met asking them to let us work with them to create select, accessible, ASL interpreted opera performances for the Deaf.American Sign Language Interpreted Performances at The MetHi There!Will you allow the Deaf to sing at The Met?We apologize for including more than one point of contact for this inquiry, but we didn’t know who is responsible for accessibility for performances at The Met, and we didn’t want this message to get blackholed, and finding specific email addresses has proven a challenge. If we don’t have the right person, might you please forward this email to the correct point?My wife and I are interested in providing American Sign Language interpreted performances for The Met.My wife, Janna Sweenie, originally from Iowa, is Deaf and has been teaching ASL for 50 years. For the last 35 years, she has been teaching ASL at NYU and at other major universities in the Tri-State area. She is a language pioneer, and served as a Julliard/TDF instructor for interpreting Broadway musicals for interpreters from around the world. Janna also finds jobs for the disabled as a rehabilitation counselor for the State of New York.I am Hearing, and I have written several ASL books with Janna. I created the ASL program at CUNY-SPS, and I operate the HardcoreASL.com and sosASL.com websites. I also teach American Sign Language, Theatre, Dramatic Literature, and Public Health. Fresh from Nebraska, I started in New York City as a graduate student at Columbia. I was Peter Stone’s associate. I was Al Carmine’s librettist and lyricist. Milos Foreman and I worked together on film theory in performance. Liviu Ciulei and I collaborated on my Wozzeck adaptation. I was an editor and consultant for Helen Merrill. I fixed dramaturgical structure for Marty Richards and Sam Crothers at The Producer Circle. Since then, I’ve written several books on a variety of topics, done a lot of teaching, and I am now embedded in AI Art, Voice, and Performance research, and revolution.Janna and I both admire and appreciate opera, and we would really like to provide live ASL interpretation – stage right in the audience near the stage – for select Met performances. We are not seeking payment, we are just hoping to open a dialogue, and perhaps even begin a relationship with – The Met – to see if you are at least willing to try out this idea in some meaningful way for the Deaf Community.Here are a couple of common concerns you may have:1. You already provide text captions. Text captions are not ASL and text captions are for Hearing people who don’t understand the language being presented on stage. ASL is a visual language, and many Deaf people do not have good English comprehension, and so providing interpreted performances in ASL, in their language, honors their Culture, and facilitates inclusion in the experience. ASL grammar and syntax are more French than English. ASL was invented by Laurent Clerc, a French speaker. ASL does not equal English text.2. You stream HD Video and Open Captions. Interview portions of the shows are not captioned. Text translation captions during the performance are not a substitute for experiencing a live performance. The Deaf have the right to be provided the same in-person opera experience that the Hearing audience is able to enjoy in real time, in the same building, with the orchestra and on stage performers. Few realize how much the Deaf enjoy the sounds of music and the vibrations of live music. The Deaf see with their eyes; the Deaf sing with their hands. The Deaf Community appreciates a full, immersive, experience that can easily be provided if you give us a chance to make this happen.3. The Deaf Community isn’t interested in opera. Sometimes, as Steve Jobs famously said, “People don’t know what they want until they have it.” Opera is the same way for the Deaf. There has been no exposure to the music, no teaching of the ideal, no attendance of the aesthetic. Many Deaf have no clue what they’re missing in an interpreted opera experience at The Met. We can solve that with you. We can demonstrate the beauty of the Art and bring in a whole new audience of appreciation.For many years, all Broadway shows have been live interpreted via the TDF. We understand The Met has been kind, and wonderful, in providing disabled wheelchair access for performances. Why doesn’t The Met offer the same, disabled, groundbreaking inclusion of the Deaf? You can if you decide in favor of a reasonable accessibility.If you have any questions or concerns for us, we are delighted to answer them in email or in person.Janna and I would love to have a meeting with you to discuss the viability of this idea. Janna will even do a live, ASL interpreted, presentation of “O mio babbino caro” for you if you are interested.We realize ASL interpreted Met performances will require many hours of preparation on our side – the translation from the original language to English to ASL will be important to get right, and we will work with you to get there – as well as also involving several accommodations on your side; but we know this should be important to The Met, and for the Deaf community, to finally be brought together to unite in unison of purpose and performance.Yes, together, we can help the Deaf sing at The Met!Best Wishes,David Boles Janna SweenieWe have yet to receive a response from The Metropolitan Opera. 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