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Nickel Creek

Nickel Creek
Sean Watkins
Chris Thile
Daniel Gooch
Lisa Ault

Yesterday Molly and I went with two of our friends from choir, Daniel and Lisa, to see Nickel Creek at Mississippi College in Clinton, MS. We left at 3pm to drive 3 1/2 hours one way and didn't get back till 2am, but it was well worth the trip!
Nickel Creek was of course, as Daniel put it, ridiculously incredible. This is their "Farewell For Now Tour" because they are breaking up the band after this, but plan to reunite in a few years.
They played all the old favorites, opening with The Fox, and closing with The Lighthouse, and also some new ones. They have grown up but still connect with the audience in an incredible way. During the third number the audience on the ground floor rushed the stage; we stood about 4 feet from the stage for most of it...you couldn't stay seated for anything - the music was too intense. It was so incredible to be so close to them while they played. Seeing their faces added a whole new dimension to the performance. I wished for all of you who love Nickel Creek to be there with me.
All four of us bought t-shirts that are very cool. We would have stayed till they came out to their van but it was Tuesday night and we had a long way back.
We realized half way there that none of us had brought a camera, which was really aggravating; but we did use our camera phones, so these pictures are really little. Daniel and Lisa look a little crazy...but they are really nice!
Great, great experience that can't really be described with words. You know.

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Might I direct your attention to a post by Dr. George Grant...

Read with a southern accent, very fast.

"I was getting along fine with Mama, Papa-Daddy and Uncle Rondo until my sister Stella-Rondo just separated from her husband and came back home again. Mr. Whitaker!"
-Why I Live at the P.O.


Have you ever heard Eudora Welty read any of her work? You should. It's great! We have this wonderful tape of her reading some of her stories and this is one of our favorite passeges to quote 'cause it's so hilarious the way she says "Mr. Whitaker!" at the end.

I don't know. You just have to hear it.

"How come nobody has ever written an action story about penguins?" - Julia

weren't she the cutest thing?
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BOO!

did i scare you?

Argh!

caption, please.

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fill in the blanks

"I'm having _______ soup with ____!"

-- ____ ______

Who said...?

"Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger..."

Happy Birthday to Mr. Incredulous!

Shafer is Eight today!

Happy Birthday, Small Wonder.

Shafe the Waif

A face only a mother could love...

We're late! We're late! for a very important date!

Happy birthday to the best Papa in the whole wide world!

We love you. More than you can possibly know.

does anyone happen to know where the post title comes from?

for RoBear

"What I do and what I dream include thee,

as the wine must taste of its own grapes..."

~E.B.Browning

EBB: Sonnett XXIX I think of thee!

I had decided I'd post a love poem every day, but hadn't chosen them yet, when I saw that Beatrice posted one of EBB's lovely sonnets. Ah, yes! You just can't get any better than those sonnets...so here's a favorite of mine. btw, someone had a thread going on 'long distance relationships,' and I don't know how that dialogue ended, but if you want to know how the Browning's relationship was affected by long distance, just read Sonnets from the Portugese. They'll knock your socks off. (My Little Portugese was Robert's nickname for Elizabeth. The sonnets are not written in a foreign language. ;-)

I think of thee!--my thoughts do twine and bud
About thee, as wild vines, about a tree,
Put out broad leaves, and soon there's nought to see
Except the straggling green which hides the wood.
Yet, O my palm-tree, be it understood
I will not have my thoughts instead of thee
Who art dearer, better! Rather, instantly
Renew thy presence; as a strong tree should,
Rustle thy boughs and set thy trunk all bare,
And let these bands of greenery which insphere thee,
Drop heavily down,--burst, shattered everywhere!
Because, in this deep joy to see and hear thee
And breathe within thy shadow a new air,
I do not think of thee--I am too near thee.

~Elizabeth Barrett Browning

(belated) Poem Sunday: Yeats

He wishes for the cloths of heaven

Had I the heavens embroidered cloths
Enwrought with golden and silver light
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light;
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

~William Butler Yeats

...Be Mine...

Happy Valentine's Week!