Ken Kohler:
CLASS OF 1965
Olympus High SchoolClass of 1965
Salt lake city, UT
Ken's Story
Ken is from Holladay, Utah. He is married. His schools include Olympus High School. He later attended University of Utah (Sociology and Criminology). He retired from the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad in 2005.
Ken's interests include History, Geography, Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, Utah Utes football, Utah Jazz, SF 49ers, Mohammed Ali, Jackie Robinson, Joe Montana. Music he likes includes Alicia Michilli, The Official Sonny Rollins Page, Janis Ian. Books he likes include Blood on the Tracks: The Life and Times of S. Brian Willson, Yard Bull by Dean O'Shea, Michael Connelly Books. Movies he likes include The Sunset Limited, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Small Town Murder Songs. TV shows he likes include Jonathan Winters, The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell, The Rachel Maddow Show.
One of Ken's favorite quotes is:""I learned in Korea that I would never again in my life abdicate to somebody else my right in my ability to decide who the enemy is." ~ Utah Phillips - anarchist, songwriter, folk singer, railroad hobo.
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"Only under the dominion of fear do men fall a prey to superstition; that all the portents ever invested with reverence of misguided religion are mere phantoms of dejected and fearful minds; and lastly, that prophets have most power among the people, and are most formidable to rulers, precisely at those times when the state is in most peril." -- Baruch Spinoza 1632 - 1677
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“A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
~ Albert Einstein
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"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." Fra...Expand for more
nçois-Marie Arouet -"Voltaire" (1694-1778)
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. ~Edward Abbey
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“How many slams in an old screen door?
Depends how loud you shut it.
How many slices in a bread?
Depends how thin you cut it.
How much good inside a day?
Depends how good you live 'em.
How much love inside a friend?
Depends how much you give 'em.”
~ Shel Silverstein
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"The character of a society is the cumulative result of the countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of people." -- Duane Elgin - American author, speaker, educator, consultant, and media activist.
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If I ever become a rich man or if I ever grow to be old,
I will build a house with deep thatch to shelter me from the cold.
I will hold my house in the high wood within a walk to the sea
And men that were boys when I was a boy shall sit and drink with me. - A POEM BY HILAIRE BELLOC,1870.
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"She'd been alive long enough to distrust people who preached. She was too old to attempt proselytizeing. But exactly the right age for silence, certainty, and serenity."
Excerpted from High Steaks by Rob Loughran.
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"Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends." -- Excerpted from J. R. R. Tolkien's, Lord of the Rings.
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Often at dawn
when you darken as if to glaze
with the black reflection of sky on water
and begin to bleed into my sleep
half awake I swim out
to cut your mooring your moorings of air
and let you course through me
tiny bones of music
tumble clicking in my blood
having found you by diving in
distilled to pearl and drawn by the invisible cord
that connects moon to shore I emerge
bearing your ungraspable body
and try to write you alive
or release you from my blood.
POEM BY RICHARD MILES".
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