and yes, I have been googling Queen again, this time Mr. John Deacon. From the way he looked and sounded at the Concert for life, and in interviews around that time, I am not at all surprised that he has left the public spotlight for good. And with a wife and 6 kids, he has plenty on his plate without trying to be in another band, or even a new version of Queen. Freddie was so decidedly the lead personality in Queen that for John, who did not have so much of a solo career alongside Queen, Freddie's death was the death of Queen as he experienced it. The same sort of dynamics underly the difference between my own reaction and Andrew's to changes at camp, and Chuck's retirement. I was integrally involved in the management and planning of camp for all of my years there, and for me the 'superstars' of camp, the ranger and the directors and executives, were people with whom I hung out at the South 40, swapping stories, or people with whom I tried to make Venturing exist in reality the way it appeared to on paper, through all the Venturing Leadership Council stuff I did. Andrew worked his way up through the ranks, so his view of camp was through the illusions and ideas the group I knew had helped to create. Had he been in my place he may have done more or better with it, but as it was he experienced PV in much the same sense as Mr. Deacon experienced Queen, as a vital and active part, but where the energy and direction come from elsewhere. And just as Mr. Deacon left Queen, so Andrew left PV, completely.
And with that overly complex analysis, I ought to sign off. I had a great time setting up my computer with Excel and then instead of doing the data spreadsheet and summary I was supposed to have sent off tonight, all the info from my records combined with all the stuff in my head about all those 80-90 species of plants I was raising for plant systematics this past year, instead of doing all this I went back into Project Gutenberg, a site I love and consider important. I had started proofreading books for this organization before my computer died, so now I had to go back and proof read a bit, and I wound up spending several hours proofreading mammalogy publications on pocket gophers and kangaroo rats. Fun, and maybe even good for me, since I am picking up that style of thought and writing again that I will need for grad school, but I have a lot to do for my own project still tomorrow.
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