Under The Great Elm by Rich Flanders7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() We have a fascination for people who live life on their own terms and Flanders definitely fits that bill hitchhiking all over America doing odd jobs to survive, wandering through Paris on an LSD trip, and selling blood to finance trips through Greece, Turkey, and Israel are just a few of his exploits. ![]() And the charm.Īlthough at times Flanders does come off like one’s daffy uncle spinning yarns for a family trapped at the dinner table, there is enough that’s enchanting about his journey to keep reader’s sitting there to ‘listen’. ![]() So who is Rich Flanders and why should we read his memoir, UNDER THE GREAT ELM? It’s a legitimate question, particularly when his story twists and turns and detours here and there and doesn’t seem to be heading towards any discernible climax– but remarkably, that’s the point. Rich Flanders is not a famous singer, although he’s won awards he’s not a motivational speaker, although he was a very successful salesman and he’s not a spiritual guru, although he probably could gather his own band of disciples by sheer force of personality. ![]()
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