From Ted Parkhurst's Facebook:
-----------"Give people a fact or an idea and you enlighten their minds; tell them a story and you touch their souls”~ Hasidic Proverb
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| With Rome City Commissioner Wendy Davis |
From Chris Ozment's Facebook:At some point afterwards, #45 and the various disciples who still follow him (Hannity, Alex Jones, Toby, etc) will call Cohen a liar, rat, sleezeball. unethical, poor dresser (plaid suits), a looser, a person with no morals, greasy, ugly, fat, slimy, etc. Memes will be made, and "news" stories from nut job websites will be shared. It will not be difficult to portray Cohen (accurately) as reprehensible. This will be a rare situation where much of what is stated will have a high degree of truth.When those various derogatory statements are being made about Cohen, it's hugely important to keep in mind that this was THE guy that Trump choose to be his personal attorney for 12+ years. Trump also felt that he was the best person at the time to make a VP for the Trump Organization, too.The negative characteristics of Cohen that will be attacked this week by the ALT RIGHT (Hannity, etc) were an actual asset to Cohen during the time that he was seeking employment and later working for Trump.He is not being attacked because of what he is now and historically has been (i.e. a sleazy rat). He is being attacked because he is telling a version of what is quite possibly to a certain extent more or less the truth. Probably more than less.Trump didn't hire Cohen way back in 2006 and keep him close for 12+ years because he wanted or needed a stand up honest lawyer. (Yes, there is such a thing as that). He needed an unethical sleazeball.
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| This picture is actually from December 28, 2018. |
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Cindy Smith
Wow! That’s a LOT of water
Terrell Shaw
It surely is.
Cindy Smith
Terrell Shaw I’ve seen it this high before but it’s been a long time ago.
Terrell Shaw
Cindy Smith yes, I have too... but there’s still more rain coming, right? It was on my mind so much last night that I dreamed the city announced that the levees might be breached... and Sheila and I, in my dream, were busily bringing all our downstairs stuff upstairs!
Cindy Smith
Terrell Shaw surely hope you weren’t having a premonition! And yes, it’s supposed to rain until Sunday!
Renata Carlin
We are having the same problem here. My bottom half of the backyard is a big soggy sponge with standing water in the tree wells. We should begin a drying out spell starting tomorrow. As for you, I hope the levee doesn't break!
From John Schulz
February 17, 2019
Finding the living roomThe first part of November, I started a series of living room posts by quoting Emmy Lou Harris who said, “With radio, television, and other intrusions, we have lost the living room, where people would gather to tell stories, sing songs, and gossip.”I’ve been in search of the living room for four months now and I find pieces of it in a lot of places.This is the fifth year that Ridge and Valley Storyteller members have presented their storytelling clinics in local elementary schools. The clinics finish with a contest. The winners from each school this year will present their stories at the Rome City Auditorium on March 16 from 2:00-4:00. The afternoon event is free of charge.Here are a couple of testimonials for the program: (borrowed from the website)“My students have a difficult time with written expression. They have wonderful stories inside, but struggled to get them out. By learning how to be verbal storytellers, they became stronger storytellers as well as writers.”— Katie Chappell, Fifth Grade Teacher, Anna K. Davie Elementary, Rome City Schools“I was able to participate in the Big Fibbers Storytelling Festival and observe the student experience of the YoungTales Storytelling Program. To see the [young tellers] in action and to see them excited and eloquent was amazing.”— Kanute P. Rarey, Management Consultant/Storyteller, Hayesville, NC.And now we learn that “The living room is where you make it.”
Full disclosure: After one week of Weight Watchers Shiela is down 3.2 lbs. and after one week of being married to someone on Weight Watchers Terrell is down 3.5 lbs. Watch that slim fella in the upper left corner, that's gonna be me again!
Warren Lathem
Good luck! Maybe you can get some stimulus funds for this. :0
Lillian Shaw
Good job, Dad!
Terrell Shaw
<grin>
I tell you, those Republicans sure are proud of the stimulus now. Even though they called it socialism and worse a year ago, they now proudly pose with giant checks as the money is presented to their constituents.
Terrell Shaw
Lil, yo' Mama done good too!
Lillian Shaw
Good job, Mom!
Terrell Shaw
BTW, why "Blerrrrrrg"?
Lillian Shaw
I was writing a paper.
Terrell Shaw
Yikes! I misspelled my own wife's name! She is Sheila! Remember the rule: i before e except after c or when pronounced ay as in neighbor or weigh or when describing any gorgeous, brilliant, forgiving, woman to whom you are married.
Angela Flannigan McRee
great recovery!
Rhonda Ingram Bramlette
Impressive! Keep up the good work!
Judy Blankenship Emerick
Can anyone go??
John Paul Schulz It's open to the public. I'll get ticket informaation in the next few days--just letting you know what it's all about right now.
Judy Blankenship Emerick
John Paul Schulz thank you, you are making it VERY appealing!!!
John Paul Schulz Judy Blankenship Emerick Share it with all of your friends,
Robert Christopher Sawyer I'd like to take a crack at this story telling thing. You know I spent a lot of time in my youth listening to some great story tellers who had no televisions.
John Paul Schulz There are a lot of storytelling groups all over the world. You should go check out the events in Jonesborough, Tenessee some weekend. Are you still in Augusta? I'll ask my friends about contacts. (Terrell Shaw"
Emily Barba Can’t wait! He is fabulous!
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| At the ECO Center for Trout Expo... y’all stop by the Arrowhead table and say hi! |
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| Maybe learn to tie a fly? Trout Expo at the ECO Center... |
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| Terrell & Vivian Davis at Trout Unlimited's annual Trout Expo at the Rome ECO Center |
February 14, 2019Story telling in the public living room"You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.” - Evel KnievelOne of the things I admire most about the Rome, Ga. Storytellers organization is their children’s program.Several of our members are retired teachers, and who better than a retired teacher could teach storytelling? Jane Cunningham, Terrell Shaw, Mary Elena Kirk, and Bob Harris, among others, go to the schools and present storytelling programs in which the students are guided to compose and tell their own stories.Every year, as part of the Big Fibbers Storytelling Festival, the organization brings in a couple of nationally-known story tellers who accompany the teachers to the schools.Students from each school who shows the best story telling abilities is then selected to tell their story at the festival. These are referred to as “Young Tales.”This year’s Festival begins on March 15 at the Rome City Auditorium with stories from two of the best tellers in the nation. The “Young Tales” contest will be held on Saturday, March 16 at the auditorium.More information to follow. Stay tunedFeel free to shareThe Living Room is where you find it.Feel free to share.
- John Schulz
love this!
Terrell Shaw
You oughta drive up for the festival, Betty. You will be glad you did. I'll bet Leigh'd put you up.
Betty Smith Franklin
can't do long drives right now...but would love it.....
Laura L Adams
Named after the late, great Debby Brown
Maggie Elizabeth Holley
Can anyone go to this ? I so miss hearing your stories from when I was in school.
John Paul Schulz
Maggie, This show starts Friday night, March 15 at the Rome City Auditorium. The children's stories are the next day. Stay tuned
https://bigfibbers.com/1037-2/
Join us for the 243rd Annual Big Fibbers Storytelling Festival - Big Fibbers Storytelling Festival
Join us for the 243rd Annual Big Fibbers Storytelling Festival - Big Fibbers Storytelling Festival
Bill Amos
sorry I cant be there got some great stories bout the thing I seen and tne girls ive loved and swear to god by my tattoo bill.
My granddaughter came home today from Mrs. Hyde's class and said, "Nana, did you know that adaptations help things live" I said, "how did you know about that?" She said, "Mr. Shaw teaches me about that and I get to help him because he picks me" Thank you for a job well done. (And Collins Chambers described you very well.)
- Nancy waters Carr
Here is an apt and perceptive treatise on the character of Donald John Trump. I am blatantly stealing it from a friend who keeps her Facebook page open only to ....friends. Of course she in turn stole it from another who stole it also. And so forth...
A few things spring to mind.Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem.For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace - all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing - not once, ever.I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility - for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is - his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults - he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface.Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront.Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul.And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist.Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman should, would, could never do - and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of sh*t. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart.In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws - he would make a Trump.And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:'My God… what… have… I… created?If being a %*&# was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.
How sad that there are in the world people who still think like this legislator. I took this from Bil Lepp's Facebook:
This man makes laws in WV.
Look at minute 6.09 and on. He says if he found out his kids were gay he would "see if [they] could swim." I want to give him the benefit of the doubt, but dude... if I said anything that even could be construed as suggesting I would do harm to my children for any reason -especially on TV- I would not want to face Paula Gordon LeppAt 4.38ish he says #LGBTQ is ..."the most evil spreading and hate filled group in this country."Seriously? NAZIs? White Supremacists?The #WVGOP #SpeakerHanshaw #GovJustice and need to do something about this.#ProDiversity #IMProLGBTQAlso- people are attacking him for his appearance. Let's be above that.
Good Morning Rome!
I look forward to some tall tales from Terrell Shaw of the Ridge and Valley Tellers during the Monday edition of Good Morning Rome with Elizabeth Davis on TalkRadio WLAQ - AM 1410! The show goes on air at 7:05 am. Listen locally on the radio and wherever you are in the world at www.wlaq1410.com!
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Visit bigfibbers dot com and click on tickets to reserve your place at Rome City Auditorium for some of the best comedy storytelling anywhere with Bil Lepp & Andy Offutt Irwin!
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| When in the 1990s CocaCola decided to produce a miniature stained glass barber shop, look what they named it. |
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| The real Grady's Barber Shop, Milstead, Georgia, now part of Conyers in Rockdale County east of Atlanta. That's my grandfather, Grady Columbus Shaw, standing on the porch. |
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| And here a polaroid my Daddy took inside the barber shop -- I think it was the same day in July 1965 as the funeral of my grandfather Grady Columbus Shaw, Sr. I shined quite a few shoes there... and with each dime I earned I could buy a 6 oz. Coke AND a pack of Tom's peanuts |
Your home or business needs this lovely yard ornament! If you will allow us to plant a Big Fibbers yard sign at your home or another location that we have permission to do so, I promise to come back and retrieve it the week after the festival. Just message me with the address! We need ‘em in Rome, Cave Srping, Cedartown, Cartersville, Adairsville, Summerville, Calhoun, Taylorsville, etc. Just send me an e-mail (info@bigfibbers.com) or facebook message. Let’s fill up the city auditorium for these wonderful stories!
Ruth Pinson
115 Turner Chapel Rd. Rome
Russell Cook
I’m just down the street from yours, but the other side of the stop sign: 1002 Ave A
Terrell Shaw
Thanks Russell! I just now put one up!
Joyce Mink
I'll come by this afternoon about 3 and get 2 if you want them here.
Terrell Shaw
Great! I'll leave 'em on the back porch in case I'm not here when you come. Drive to the back of the house.
Joyce Mink
Terrell Shaw ok.
Terrell Shaw
Since the library is one of our sponsors maybe you could also take one to put in front of the CS library?
Jill Sealy Salter
We can put one or two at our house.
Jill Sealy Salter
Let me know if you want me to come by and get them or if you are planning to put in yard. I also do not mind putting one in our office window and I know Thom Holt would not care if you put one in front of his CVN building.
Terrell Shaw
Jill Sealy Salter there are a few on the front porch and the back porch.. stop by and pick up the ones you need. Thanks!
Terrell Shaw
There are some on my porch, Jill if you wanna pick 'em up. Let me know where they go and I'll pick 'em up after the festival.
Jill Sealy Salter
Terrell Shaw , Terrell, I will get some tomorrow. I will put 2 in our yard that is a double lot and a corner of about 5 roads. I will put one in office window and one in Thom’s yard.....will come by tomorrow.
Terrell Shaw
Jill Sealy Salter Great. Thanks!
Eric McDowell
10 Robin Street, my friend!
Terrell Shaw
I'll bring one by!
What a treat to watch Lillian Shaw perform in I Love You Because, the musical at Marietta Theater with our friends Laurie Craw and Steve Craw .
Laura L Adams She is so talented!
Michael J. Burton
Sounds like a great event
Terrell Shaw
http://mariettatheatre.com
MARIETTATHEATRE.COM
Marietta Theatre Company
Marietta Theatre Company
Michael J. Burton
Thanks
Laurie Craw The grand tradition of Shaws, Craws and theatre rolls on! Lillian was awesome! Very entertaining show with great singing and acting by all.
