I'll Be Around - The Spinners

Original recording dubbed over a recording of a live performance.

Scoreboard!

What a game.  Whew.   I couldn't bear to watch it at times.   I know I'm supposed to have faith, but...  Horror movies never scared me, but sometimes while watching Dallas play I have to cover my eyes.

I'm not nearly as big a fan of the Cowboys as I used to be, but there's two games...three if they meet again in the playoffs...I agonize over every year, and it's when the 'Pokes play the Eagles.    It's torture to watch them lose to Philly, but it's even worse to see the posts by Eagle fans in forums, particularly the Dallas fan sites.

I won't go into specific reasons, but let's just say Will Rogers never met an Eagle fan.

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The Lesson

This statue is in front of the Pampa Lovett Memorial Library; it's one of a pair that were dedicated Jan. 9, 2005. (blog post about the other, Pioneer Woman)

Here is a closeup of the plaque on the base:

The statue was done by Don Ray of Channing and is named "The Lesson".

A closer look reveals the superb detail:

To me, the woman looks tired, but glad to take the time to help educate her young charge:

I like the expressions on both faces, but the one on the boy's seems to be a combination of love and trust, almost an amazement at what the woman had been reading to him.

The boy is barefoot, and the attention to detail by the sculptor is evident, even in a part that might be overlooked in favor of others.

(and no, I'm not trying for the unintentional hits that this blog received from "My Sister's Feet" )

Stepping around to the back of the statue shows more of the fine detail that normally wouldn't be seen...

...even down to the slingshot in the boy's rear pocket.

From the library's website:

Gift of R. L. Franklin: The sculptures are dedicated to all those women whose service to family, church, and community has brought and brings aspects of American life to what was so recently in historic perspective a dangerous and daunting land. Four women of such acumen and industry are: Virginia Green, Louise Franklin, Betty Henderson, Annie Buckler.

Thanks TBS!

For airing "Cast Away" twice in one evening!


I only hope they don't show a Movie of the Week titled:

"My Sister's Feet"

On My Own - B.W. Stevenson

A beautiful song; not so great video, but....



If I don't see before I go
Remember what you've seen and what you know
Sunshine, you will be on my mind eternally
But you remember you and I'll remember me

I want to be on my own
It's a long way home
I feel like a baby boy
Just being born

If you find your true love once again
Please don't do the damn same thing to him
Even when I was with you, I felt so all alone
So I'd as soon do without you and be on my own

I want to be on my own
It's a long way home
I feel like a baby boy
Just being born

A captive of your heart, I guess I was
You gave no reason to stop loving me:just because
Well, you dragged yourself right down, you could not hear a sound
Just the tapping of your teardrops on the ground

I want to be on my own
It's a long way home
I feel like a baby boy
Just being born

Get outside your shell
Those things don't make you well
You're the broken part of a living fairy tale

I want to be on my own
It's a long way home
I feel like a baby boy
Just being born.


JUST got this CD in the mail today; my roomie in college turned me on to B.W. Stevenson and we'd go to sleep with one of his albums playing all night long. This is one of my favorites off the CD, along with "Texas Morning".