Alone On A Limb: February 2022

Monday, February 28, 2022

Grizzled Old Men

L-R: Me, Mike Burton, John Johnston at Anamchara Gallery

It was a lot of fun to visit for a few minutes today with two fellow grizzled old men, in whose faces I can see the young artists I knew decades ago. Mike Burton has converted a commercial building in Cedartown into a combination art studio, recording studio, video studio, and performance venue. Still a ways to go to get all the red tape behind him to fully open, but what a great space. John Johnston, as has been true in several of Mike's many projects, is right there pitching in. And that after a weekend a few hundred miles away competing -- and winning -- in motorcycle races.

I'm the young guy in this picture.

A Sign of Different Times

Back when we and our partners Steve & Laurie Craw were closing down our newspaper in 1977, we evidently asked our mutual friend Mike Burton to store our sign in one his barns. He recently uncovered it and offered it to me. This relic will hang on a wall of our shed to remind us of those two sleepless years of youthful idealism, tilting at assorted windmills. A few Romans may be able to pair this image with one stored deep in their memories from a drive down Maple Street in the seventies.

As we were planning for our new weekly newspaper in 1975, with the bicentennial of the nation around the corner, we thought we'd capitalize on the interest in history, to use the name "Broadside", after those news sheets of the late 1700s.

PTSW: Till I Make It

Sometimes we say "Fake it till you make it." Regardles of what comes I just want to live my life optimistically. Bad things happen to all of us. If one lives to one hundred, it's really not a long time. But I choose to rejoice in the life that I have. I choose to push through.

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Clouds

Then blinding white

against pure blue;

Now curtains,

gunmetal grey.

Once opening me

to open you;

Now shutting

our dreary day.

But I've pushed through

the heavy drapes;

The blue's still there

I've spied!

You should see

the brilliant shapes

Just up there,

on the sunny side!

by Terrell Shaw

Sunday, February 27, 2022

Baby Recognition Sunday

Today was Baby Recognition Sunday at Trinity and I got to show off this picture of Susannah Mavis Carlin. Once again this year I'll sing "Jesus Loves Me".