bobkinney
bobkinney
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Bio
About Me
Ever-seeking person … father … journalist … photographer … publicist … graphics person … enjoys a wide range of music and film …
Have photographed music shows from real country and rock to punk and blues since the early 1970s … happy to recall that I flunked my first college photojournalism course because I could not mount a print properly and … since then … folks have paid me to photograph and write during all my work years.
Service to Community of Austin
Austin means so much to me. I believe in giving back to where I am.
Moved to Austin for the music scene in 1978 after being communications director at Denison University in central Ohio through most of the 70s. Listened to music from Austin in the early 1970s, watched each new episode of Austin City Limits every Sunday night on pbs television in my house on a farm where pregnant dairy cows lived, came to Austin in mid-summer 70s to visit Ruthie during summer school, went to my first Willie Picnic in Liberty Hill and moved here in fall 1978. Worked at G&S, a type house before desktop publishing, for eight years and then did a range of communications work at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest from February 1986 to November 2009 when my job and eleven others were cut to help bolster the seminary’s economic health.
Past president and 15-year member of the board of directors of Wheatsville Food Co-op in Austin. Stepped down from board service in January 2010 due to term limits in co-op bylaws.
Joined board of directors of Mary House Catholic Worker in Austin in December 2009. Dorothy Day, co-founder of the international Catholic Worker in the 1930s, has always been a hero of mine. Nice to be part of her official family now.
Meals on Wheels driver for 20-plus years on same route. Miss Hale continues to live in her house on our delivery route since I first started driving.
Favorite Quotations:
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but rather spiritual beings having a human experience. (a bumpersticker)
Every Chippewa is taught from birth that these seven basic qualities must guide us as individuals and tribal members: honesty, respect, generosity, kindness, fairness, sharing and spirituality. Only by keeping to this path can we meet our responsibilities to ourselves and to one another. (Twila Martin-Kekahbah, former chairperson, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa)
I may keep this boy heart of mine … I am an idealist. I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way. (Carl Sandburg)
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. (Oscar Wilde)
These are my principles; if you don’t like them, I have others. (Groucho Marx)
So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin’ ass and celebratin’ the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was. (Molly Ivins)
What is essential is invisible to the eye (Pierre de Chardin)
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