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Ask yourself: ""but how the heck did it get this way?"" Pondering Minds is the multifaceted, weird, and genre-transcending brainchild of New York-born, Austin-based musician and poet Paul Clancy. At once a tale of his travails hitchhiking across the United States in the late 1970s and a chronicle of late-night subway rides away from ten dollar rooms in Hoboken, Clancy's memoirs reveal a cross-section of American life and love at the tail end of a freewheeling era. This unique collection of fifty years of songs, poems, art, and original journal entries exchanges the grit of the road for backyard encounters with squirrels, opinions about rocks, and an exposition on the Problem of Stupid Heads today. Whether you too were a hippie now in search of nostalgia for bygone days, or are a budding songwriter or poet looking for inspiration, Pondering Minds will leave you asking of a former world hidden just a scratch beneath the surface, ""where the heck did it go?""

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he philosophical stargazing of a man taking a deep breath as he stands on the border between the finite and the infinite, Pondering Minds transforms words into songs which transport memories and ideas into the mind and emotions of the reader. Paul Clancy has suffered, but Lordy has he ever lived! His philosophy is distilled in the book's final poem, ""Riding Time,"" in which he beckons the reader to fully experience the reckless adventure that begins for all of us when we take our first breath in this strange and wondrous life: ""Time should be ridden Like a wild horse Charging across acrid plains..."" Paul Clancy has ridden the hell out of that horse. -Susan McDonald, Guitarist/Composer/Storyteller ""If you don't remember the 70s, and if you want a view, engage with the pondering mind of a musician, composer, writer, artist who takes you through his many adventures of the 70s (and elsewhere) this is the book. Ponder with Paul's evocations from logs, lyrics of his songs, and other stories and pictures. This book engages you to be Paul's shadow ponderer, experiencing his life in part of a decade wrought with change."" -David Clancy, who rescued the author many times from the Tappan Zee Bridge

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Paul Clancy is a musician, writer, and rambler living in Austin, Texas. He is the owner of Clancy's Guitar School, where he's gotten to know hundreds of musicians across Texas over the years. His music has appeared on a wide variety of recordings by legandary guitarists such as Susan McDonald. He loves hanging out in nature with his beautiful wife, three stunningly smart kids, and six grandkids who are being trained to fight the robots in the next robot war. When he's not writing poetry or music, he is befriending the squirrels and birds in his backyard. This anthology brings together in one place his writings, drawings, and musings from the past fifty years.

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