Monthly Archives: October 2009
Our First Date 32 Years Ago
October 27, 1977. Abilene, Texas. Mid-afternoon, I get a call from my sister who is working for a local radio station. She’s got two extra tickets for the Doobie Brothers concert at Taylor County Coliseum that night. Would I like … Continue reading
Filed under Beauty, Daily Life
Enchanted April’s Closing Weekend
Friday morning, as I stood with Scott and Pam Nolte in the Gordito’s parking lot watching water cascading into the lobby of Taproot Theatre, one thing was very clear: there would be no performance of Enchanted April that night. There … Continue reading
Filed under art, Faith and Art, Theatre
The Near-Taproot Fire
So I’m sitting at the coffee shop at 6:10, when a prayer request from one of the women at church comes across my desktop. Something about a 3-alarm fire near 85th and Greenwood, and that my good friend Scott Nolte … Continue reading
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Seeing a Master – Andrew Wyeth’s Helga
So we’re taking one day a month for spiritual retreat and renewal, and I hadn’t gotten to mine yet, so yesterday, I took half a day. I spent the early morning reading from the prophet Isaiah and from Matthew’s gospel, … Continue reading
Filed under art, Faith and Art, Spirituality
