This was sort of nifty. I opened today's paper to the Faith section to see an article about Erie native Michael Warner, who practices Transcendental Meditation. In the early 70s, my parents hung out with a lot of counterculture/hippie folks, which was kind of cool. Michael Warner was one of those folks. I remember him as being a very quiet and pleasant sort of guy.
When my parents got divorced the first time (I was about 10 or so), my mom and we kids stayed at a hotel for a night before moving up to Rochester, New York. I remember that my mom had three of her female friends come over to socialize, and Michael Warner came over as well. My mom is almost as verbal as I am, and there was one point that all four women were talking at once. I turned to my goal, and said, "Oh wow. Quadraphonic yakking!" He smiled back.
Michael's family owned Warner Amusements, which I think used to be over on E. 12th St by French. Relatively soon after I started working as a computer programmer, we had a few support calls there. It was interesting catching up with somebody that I hadn't seen in over a decade. I am trying to recall if it was then that was setting up a database in R:Base 5000. I used that package when I did my internship at Hamot Media Services.
I seem to recall that Steve, the brother-in-law of David who was at the Erie Blogger picnic, as well as being the namesake of my brother, was also into Transcendental Meditation.
