Rula and I were married in 1959. Periodically, during the course of our lives together, I composed music for us as a couple, as well for family situations and events such as weddings and funerals. Rula insisted that I write it all down, pointing out that musical expression opens a window on the soul, while cameras only reflect outward appearances. She created a collage to serve as a cover page for each piece that I wrote down. Recently, as I pondered the lineup of songs and solos we had recorded over the years, it dawned on me that we had at least partially filled the melodic hiatus in the outward soundtrack of our own lives. Even mediocre movies are accompanied by background music, which gives audible expression to what the protagonists are experiencing in their souls. Often I had remarked upon exiting a performance empowered by a musical score, that the lives of ordinary people are anything but ordinary, and that all deserve to be accompanied in their daily lives by the New York Philharmonic. JUST IMAGINE THE LIFT THAT SUCH A BACKUP WOULD LEND TO ONE'S SELF-ESTEEM -- AND THE IMPETUS FOR BEAUTY TO DISPLACE UGLINESS The chapters of this book discuss the setting or motivation which lead me to express its essence in music. The sheet music itself then rounds out the chapter. The author is not a professional musician, but has hopefully recorded in each case enough for others to perform and expand upon.

This book documents the history and traditions of story-telling practiced by the F. Wayne Lytle family of southern Nevada/Utah since their westward migration in the 1840s.

This book initially undertook to make available to linguists an extensive update of the junction grammar' model of language. However, as the project progressed, it became increasingly apparent that the upgrade model closely resembled what Benjamin Whorf may well have presented as his own formal model linking MIND, LANGUAGE, and REALITY had his life been extended. Coupled with this discovery came the realization that the author had more or less stumbled upon a seminal view of the 'big picture.' To test the consistency and systematicity of this surprising perspective, the model was ultimately coupled with a system of notation complete with its own primes to elucidate the substance and processes of universal structuring which arise from its axiomatic base. As the principles revealed by the research merged into a coherent 'one-liner, ' they echoed loudly the brazen proclamation of another star in the linguistic galaxy: "Linguistics has got to accept its responsibility now, as being the core science. In a sense it has to replace physics as the leading science." (Michael Halliday) This work undertakes to demonstrate why both Whorf and Halliday were correct in declaring linguistic science to be at the very core of epistemology and to formulate the essential features of the notation required to make the resulting LANGUAGE' system explicit.