Toshio odate biography of michael

August has arrived and a few of our incoming freshmen are on campus already, as well as students on various fall sports teams who need to get a jump on the competition season. It was quite awhile ago that I was a teenage person entering my first year at college, but each year our students arrive with the same anticipation and excitement I felt.

In the s, science historian and television broadcaster James Burke created and hosted a show called Connections. I was a fan of the series because I loved the surprising ways discoveries, events in history, people, and accident led to innovations and the criss-crossing of continents and ideas.

Toshio odate biography of michael: My friend Toshio Odate

The interdisciplinary aspect of human culture, of science and the arts, fascinated me as a teen. Those networked ideas have shown up many times through my life. Connections: The photo above was taken by my fellow student Steve Lohman when we were freshmen. Steve later attended Pratt School of Art. We lost touch for a long time, and—I have forgotten how—I found his metalwork while I was looking for cover art for my book of poems The Capable Heart.

Granted, what a person pursues at age 17 or 18 is easily liable to change—but I was curious about how he started doing sculpture. Connections: My spouse took a job writing for a woodworking magazine, where he met Toshio, who wrote about Japanese tools and woodworking techniques.