Musical Wanderer

Years ago, I found myself in Kent, Ohio studying music as a 30th birthday present to myself.  At first I was just studying voice aiming for a bachelor's degree, but after a while I was also studying ethnomusicology (basically anthropology for musicians) and choral conducting for a masters degree, because I heard everyone was looking for people with masters degrees in choral conducting and ethnomusicology (but I may have had a few drinks that evening).   As is my way, I always found ways to get distracted from what I needed to be doing, and one was wandering around Kent with my friend Wendy and taking pictures of a large stuffed dog.  The dog appeared in my group house one day.  'Not exactly sure where it came from or who brought him in, but he was accepted into the house readily because he was not an annoying flute player like one of our previous housemates. Wendy and I wandered town with Bear (not sure why he was christened "Bear") a couple days before h