By: Megan M. Seckman
It is hard to capture the essence of a someone amongst mere words. Description ofttimes falls curt together with cannot really bring the exact release energy a radiant human together with hence strongly casts. This for sure applies to Nana Lampton.
Sure, in that location are articulate bios out in that location that especial her accomplishments: a published author; graduate of both Wellesley College amongst a bachelor’s inwards English linguistic communication together with the University of Virginia amongst a master’s inwards literature; the chairman together with CEO of Hardscuffle Inc. together with American Life together with Accident Insurance Company of Kentucky; board fellow member to virtually everything that advocates for nature conservation or historical preservation — Louisville community development, Shakers, Berea, or the arts. Oh, together with she is the Honorary Consulate to the Kingdom of Kingdom of Morocco too every bit a grass-fed Angus farmer, painter, together with poet.
But this listing exclusively defines what she does — non how she thinks, non how she inspires, non her feminism. This is where description fails me.
In i threescore minutes together, I heard well-nigh a montage of life experiences that go past times Nana’s lifelong abode of Louisville. Like poetry, they were pieced together inwards images that defined a life: Attending a really small-scale Collegiate all-girls school. Attending spoken communication classes every bit a Wellesley freshman. Talking to Diane Sawyer at Wellesley v years earlier Hillary Clinton arrived there. Meeting Gloria Steinem at a C200 conference inwards New York when she was i of exclusively 4 women inwards her M.A. programme at UVA. Being hired past times her granddaddy “in a fourth dimension when women weren’t seen every bit much.” Traveling to Republic of Ireland together with Morocco. Waking upwards to farm trouble organisation each morning. Publishing her most recent mass of poesy inspired past times her grandfather, Wash the Dust from My Eyes. Being “crowded out” of her historic abode past times books.
Through these experiences, these images, Nana has nurtured her mind, get-go together with foremost, together with cultivated rigid ties throughout her community.
“If in that location is i affair I believe, it is that belonging to a place, a company, together with surrounding yourself amongst people that honey y'all — belonging to them — that is what is really of import for encephalon development,” Nana says.
“I’m drawn to a higher view,” she adds every bit she looks out toward the winding Ohio River from her lofty downtown office. “In literature together with inwards life, a higher view captures to a greater extent than of what’s happening. From higher up, y'all larn to a greater extent than of the picture; to a greater extent than indicate of view. Tolstoy is my favorite because he tin lavatory accomplish this. He tin lavatory run into an effect from all perspectives. I read to gain a higher view.”
What She’s Reading:
What She’s Watching:
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| Nana's watercolor epitome shows Can Boix inwards the Castilian Pyrenees. Photos past times Melissa Donald. |
It is hard to capture the essence of a someone amongst mere words. Description ofttimes falls curt together with cannot really bring the exact release energy a radiant human together with hence strongly casts. This for sure applies to Nana Lampton.
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| The writing desk Nana bought inwards Morocco. |
Sure, in that location are articulate bios out in that location that especial her accomplishments: a published author; graduate of both Wellesley College amongst a bachelor’s inwards English linguistic communication together with the University of Virginia amongst a master’s inwards literature; the chairman together with CEO of Hardscuffle Inc. together with American Life together with Accident Insurance Company of Kentucky; board fellow member to virtually everything that advocates for nature conservation or historical preservation — Louisville community development, Shakers, Berea, or the arts. Oh, together with she is the Honorary Consulate to the Kingdom of Kingdom of Morocco too every bit a grass-fed Angus farmer, painter, together with poet.
But this listing exclusively defines what she does — non how she thinks, non how she inspires, non her feminism. This is where description fails me.
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| Nana's wide life experiences together with curiosity pick out contributed to her success. |
In i threescore minutes together, I heard well-nigh a montage of life experiences that go past times Nana’s lifelong abode of Louisville. Like poetry, they were pieced together inwards images that defined a life: Attending a really small-scale Collegiate all-girls school. Attending spoken communication classes every bit a Wellesley freshman. Talking to Diane Sawyer at Wellesley v years earlier Hillary Clinton arrived there. Meeting Gloria Steinem at a C200 conference inwards New York when she was i of exclusively 4 women inwards her M.A. programme at UVA. Being hired past times her granddaddy “in a fourth dimension when women weren’t seen every bit much.” Traveling to Republic of Ireland together with Morocco. Waking upwards to farm trouble organisation each morning. Publishing her most recent mass of poesy inspired past times her grandfather, Wash the Dust from My Eyes. Being “crowded out” of her historic abode past times books.
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| Nana created forest carvings to brand the prints for her comprehend jacket using the block printing technique. |
Through these experiences, these images, Nana has nurtured her mind, get-go together with foremost, together with cultivated rigid ties throughout her community.
“If in that location is i affair I believe, it is that belonging to a place, a company, together with surrounding yourself amongst people that honey y'all — belonging to them — that is what is really of import for encephalon development,” Nana says.
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| Part of Nana's library. |
“I’m drawn to a higher view,” she adds every bit she looks out toward the winding Ohio River from her lofty downtown office. “In literature together with inwards life, a higher view captures to a greater extent than of what’s happening. From higher up, y'all larn to a greater extent than of the picture; to a greater extent than indicate of view. Tolstoy is my favorite because he tin lavatory accomplish this. He tin lavatory run into an effect from all perspectives. I read to gain a higher view.”
What She’s Reading:
- Age of Acquiescence: The Life together with Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth together with Power past times Steve Fraser. From the American Revolution through the Civil Rights movement, Americans pick out long mobilized against political, social, together with economical privilege. But over the terminal half-century, America’s resistance to controlling wealth has vanished. Fraser’s mass attempts to response this conundrum. “This mass was given to me past times Ben Chandler. It’s basically well-nigh the notion of “have brain, volition travel,” pregnant that the most creative thinkers together with activists tend to survive inwards flux. So, bad things plow over off when these minds don’t unite, lay downwards roots, together with force together for things similar women’s together with civil rights.”
- Our Only World: Ten Essays by Wendell Berry. Tackling capitalism, Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan together with post-war restoration, climate change, population displacement, together with many other complex, controversial topics, Wendell Berry provides nutrient for idea for dealing amongst our world’s most pressing issues. “This mass is non exclusively ideological. This mass really discusses how nosotros tin lavatory practice things. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 lovely collection of essays!”
- Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving. The storey of Juan Diego together with his sis Lupe, who thinks she tin lavatory read the future, but she tin lavatory really exclusively read someone’s past. Discusses the themes of aging together with how our past times collides amongst our future. “This is what I’m reading currently. He’s such a wonderful author who has created such interesting characters. He’s my age, together with I saw him utter over this mass at an author forum recently.”
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| This was a terminal infinitesimal add-on to her list. Nana says the mass is good written together with explains much well-nigh the Middle East. |
- Youth. Starring Michael Caine together with Harvey Keitel, this is the storey of a retired composer together with a screenwriter vacationing at a Swiss spa. “This epitome is together with hence bizarre together with visually imaginative that it had me talking well-nigh it for weeks. It is subtle amongst roughly big punches.”
- Brooklyn, the Academy-nominated storey of an Irish Gaelic immigrant inwards the 1950s. “I pass a lot of fourth dimension inwards Ireland, together with hence this cinema is sentimental to me. The courage of the heroine together with how she finds her agency inwards America is inspiring. The character’s confront is together with hence lovely — subtle together with modulate together with refreshingly expressive! She volition stick amongst you.”
- Madam Secretary on CBS (Sundays @ 8pm). The individual together with political life of a woman someone secretarial assistant of state. “This present is together with hence on point. The portrayal of how the grapheme has to create practice amongst decision-making — this present is bright together with realistic.”
- The History of the U.S. by The Teaching Company, a comprehensive history of the U.S. of A. composed past times multiple professors together with historians inwards 84 30-minute lectures. “I necessitate heed to the 42 CD recordings on my commute to together with from function every day. My friend John Hale (an archeology professor at the University of Louisville) gave this to me, together with I pick out institute it together with hence interesting. When I complete amongst this, War together with Peace is next!”
- Cecile Salvant. This 26-year-old award-winning jazz vocalist has a vocalism akin to Ella Fitzgerald.
- Met Opera. “Winter has many bad Saturdays, together with hence I’ve been listening to the Met Opera’s Sabbatum matinee broadcasts. It’s together with hence beautiful together with makes a dreary twenty-four threescore minutes stream to a greater extent than bearable.”
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