This summer, I received an award. It’s from the Tanne Foundation. The foundation identifies artists and supports them with the award…
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OK, something that's been on my mind recently. It's a song. It came to me when I was listening to a jazz station on Pandora. The music got my attention…
Read MoreIn my post on June 15, I mentioned the monuments at The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. There was a story about these monuments in the June 27 edition of the AJC. Dekalb County is in the process of accepting its monument from the memorial.
Read MoreThis thought made me think of the lyric, "this is not my beautiful house .." from the Talking Heads song, Once in a Lifetime. It was my reaction that Marcia saw. Thinking of this song made me smile.
Read MoreMarcia, Grace, and I went on a trip to Alabama last week. We visited the locations on the Civil Rights Trail in Alabama. We started at the Civil Rights Museum in Birmingham. From there we went to Selma, to see the Edmund Pettus Bridge…
Read MoreI grew up in the shadow of my big brother. He was an artist before I was. I watched as he learned to play music, and as he began his life in visual art.
Read MoreI recently helped produce an original musical by my church. This was the second production our church has done…
Read MoreI’ve been listening to a lot of bossa nova recently. It started when I found myself listening to the Antonio Carlos Jobin station…
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