Well, it’s Saturday and I’m on the road to Virginia, Alexandria specifically, to deliver the body of work for my show that opens next Friday, June 12th. It’s a trip I don’t mind making since it marks the end of a hectic period where there just doesn’t seem to be enough time to get everything done.
My trip is relatively easy, as easy as any day with ten or eleven hours of driving can be. Traffic is usually very light on Saturday mornings, especially in the early hours in which prefer to leave, so it gives me a chance to just glide along and let my mind wander a bit.
One piece that will be keeping me company on my ride is above, called Vade Mecum, which translates from the Latin as “Go with me” and is usually meant today as a reference manual or something that is carried to instruct one. I liked either definition and felt that both the literal translation and the object that is carried with you fit this piece. I really like the depth that goes into this picture and get the feeling that it speaks of a journey and those intangibles which we carry with us as we travel along. Thus, vade mecum…
I’m gonna leave you with some classic Bob Dylan that was one of my favorite singles as a little kid growing up. Thank god for my sister and the influence her musical choices had on a 7 or 8 old year kid. I feel so fortunate that I was weaned on this kind of stuff and feel a little bad for today’s kids and the inane kid music that is everywhere– the Wiggles and such. They may never know what they’re missing. Anyway, here’s “Positively 4th Street”…
Redtree Times 