Quote from Forum Archives on December 27, 1997, 10:25 am

Posted by: elrond <elrond@...>

[Ignore the name in the 'from' field - it's my dad's name, though it's my
acount]

Hi Dave.
This is a rather late reply, but could you tell me more about that DR music
of yours?
In Christ
- Jakup
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> From: David L. Milner <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [DragonRaid] DR Intros
> Date: 24. december 1997 17:47
>
> Hi. My DR "handle" is Dariel, the Aged. My "real" name is David
> L. Milner, though most folks call me Dave...among other things.
>
> I am 50-something, am a pastor of a _very_ small church in a poor
> area of Pueblo, Co. I have been married to a _very_ long-suffering woman
> named Diana for 30 yrs. I hold a B.A. from John Brown University in
> Arkansas, an M.Div. from Midwestern Baptist Seminary in Kansas City, and
> am currently two or three semesters away from a B.L.A. from the Univ. of
> So. Colorado. I was born and raised in the Atlanta, Georgia area.
>
> My favorite music is eclectic, from Classical (Bach, Beethoven,
> Mozart, Copland) to Amy Grant, M.W. Smith, Petra, anything Celtic,
> Hebraic, or Russian, etc...
>
> Favorite Movies include Gone With The Wind, (obligatory for
> anyone from Atlanta), Braveheart, Casablanca, and Mr. Holland's Opus.
>
> I write and compose music and musicals, including one based on
> DR, do some musical arranging, wote a Christmas piece based on
> "Hatikvah", the Israeli National Anthem, have composed a Festival of
> Spirituals, including classical music themes, a musical based on the life
> of Christ, but setting it in the Old West, and am currently writing an
> opera based on Calvin Miller's "The Singer". It will be called
> "StarSong".
>
> I have two biological children and one foster son. My bio. son,
> James, is a student at John Brown Univ. studying Construction
> Management, my daughter, Patricia, is a Theater Major at Sterling
> College in Kansas, and my foster son, Terry G. Johnson, hopes to go to
> Sterling next year, having finished courses at Pueblo Community College.
> I have one natural (Kayla) and one foster (Trisha) granddaughters, who
> are, of course, the most wonderful children on earth, four dogs, one cat,
> and ride a motorcycle. (1981 Yamaha 920 Virago)
>
> Favorite books include "Lord of the Rings" Trilogy, anything by
> C.S. Lewis, Lawhead's Pendragon Cycle and Song of Albion Trilogy, and
> have discovered a couple of newer writers, Byron Huggins and Paul Meier,
> the latter having written "A Skeleton In God's Closet" which I highly
> recommend, despite it's similarity in ending to Irving Stone's "The
> Word", and Tom Clancy, which Huggins' writing resembles. Oh, and
> anything at all by Peretti. I'm still waiting for him to write another
> book to complete a trilogy from "This Present Darkness".
>
> I discovered DR in a Christian Bookstore in Buffalo, NY about 15
> yrs. ago, bought it on a whim, and was captivated by it. So were a bunch
> of inner city kids who begged for two hours of Sunday School so they
> could play more often. They would have played 40 hrs a week if they
> could have. When they get together, that's still what they talk about.
>
> I'm sure that's more than you ever wanted to know, but, WHOMP!
> there it is!
>
> For the Kingdom and the Overlord,
> Dariel the Aged
> aka Dave Milner
>
>
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