Joe as a professional lad of 53 (now 64!)

Joseph Frank Landsberger

Life-long resident of
the City of St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

• Study Guides and Strategies website
  Discover the Guides!

• Professional life

  • Curriculum vitae

  • Keynotes, keynotes, publications
    (Contact me if you would like me to speak at your learner-centered conference)

2009

April 16-17:  Sokol de Paris
Paris, France. 
Project to develop an Internet chat and play space for Sokol children around the world.

May 27-28:  Google IO
Developers conference, San Francisco, CA

A more recent photo of me
at Minneapolis' striking Guthrie Theater
at the Kushner celebration.

Personal life:

• Joe, Steve & family
  Family Heritage:
  Czech (Dvorak, Moznett/Mazanec, Hlavic),
  Swede (Thompson, Peter(son), Bengston),
  Bavarian (Landsberger, Pace, Beissel, Kleinsorg),
  Luxemburger/ Lützelburger/Luxembourgeois (Moes, Irrthum, Kirpach, Kleyer)

• House & gardens
  My house is a Victorian stick-style, and includes additions, the gardenhouse, Japanese lanterns, features, and history. I am also restoring a Craftsman-style bungalow.
  Park developer:: North High Bridge Park, St. Paul, MN

• Ages & Birthdays | Animal companions
• Travels | Building giant Czech puppets
• Friend/Quaker | Sokol (President!)
• Web poet: Spring | Wintering | Mist

2009: City of St. Paul "Blooming St. Paul" advisory committee
2008:  David L Sons Award; Community Service
2008:  City of St. Paul Heritage Preservation Commission
Community Education as President of Czech and Slovak Sokol Minnesota
1995 and 2005: City of St. Paul, Department of Parks and Recreation; Honored Volunteer Award (sculpture park and garden development and design)
2001:  Association for Educational Communicaitons and Technology (Consulting Editor, columnist)
2001: West 7th Fort Road Federation/District 9 Community Council; Community Service Award

In the garden there are no hours,
only seasons.
jfl, May 2007

Basically, in my very flawed and human way,
I want to be a force for love in the world.
I want to let go of and grow beyond
everything that constrains me from that intention
Nina Rothschild Utne, Chair and CEO, Utne Reader.

Religious values motivate love, compassion, humility, justice and liberty for all people; religious beliefs and practices motivate hatred, cruelty, division, arrogance, injustice and oppression of others.
Reverend Kenneth Carder, United Methodist Bishop, State of Mississippi
Currently director of Duke University Divinity School’s Center of Excellence in Ministry

But those who have been under the shadow,
who have gone down at last to elemental things,
will have a wider charity.
H. G. Wells War of the Worlds, Book 2

Queers, to whom normal marriage and parenthood are forbidden,
are fools if they do not deliberately look for tasks
which require collaboration, and the right person with whom to collaborate.
W. H. Auden, American poet 1907-73, Journal, as seen in the New Yorker, "I, ME, MINE " a new biography of Christopher Isherwood, by Hilton Alsa, Issue of 2005-01-17

Joe's brain;
CAT Scan;
28 October, 2003