Redtree Times

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

–G. K. Chesterton, A Short History of England (1917)

I am writing this on my phone so it will be brief since I spend 3 times as much time correcting the text as it takes to write.

Thank you. Plain and simple.

Had a wonderful time at last night’s opening of my show at the Principle Gallery. Was able to spend some time talking with friends, old and new.

Please believe me when I say that it was just what the doctor ordered.

Many, many thanks to all that came out in the heat and humidity.

And special thanks to Michele, Clint, Taylor, and Owen, my longtime friends at the Principle Gallery. They are the best.

Heading home after a couple of hours in the gallery this morning so here’s sone road music from the late great Joe Ely. I first heard his music in 1981 when I came across his album Musta Notta Gotta Lotta. He was the darling of the critics at that point though in recent years he is most likely best known in his home state of Texas. This is his version of Robert Earl Keen’s The Road Goes on Forever. As much as I like the original from Keen, I prefer Joe’s version. Seems right for today.