Well – as I write this it is very sad to think that Uncle R & I were supposed to be sitting with the Pamela’s Girls down in SC at this very moment. (Sigh) But we are immensely grateful that the Lord took such excellent care of Uncle R – guiding the doctors & technicians to discover what was causing him to feel so bad and providing excellent care with the medicine that he needed. He is feeling better every day but it is taking a bit of time to get his strength back after living on IV, ice chips and popsicles over the past weekend.
And because of all of the trauma – it ended up being the first week that I have missed a Pamela’s Girl posting… sorry about that!
In the midst of all of our worry about how Uncle R was feeling – we actually did have an enjoyable “musical week” with two opportunities to hear our good friend, Pat Terry. First Pat sang at a benefit concert at our church to raise money for a family who lost their home and most of their possessions in the flood last April and then the next night at the iconic, world famous music venue in Nashville called The Bluebird Café. The Bluebird is famous for hosting “writer nights”. On a typical writers night several writers will perch on chairs or stools in the center of the room and share their hits and sometimes offer songs they may hope will be hits. It’s always really interesting to hear a songwriter sing a song and hear his own take on a song that you have heard a hundred times by a recording artist on the radio. There are also many nights that feature new writers just hoping beyond hope that someone will hear them and sign them up for a publishing deal.
Both Uncle R and I love Pat’s music & the well-crafted songs that he writes. It’s always a treat to hear him perform and we have our favorite songs that we hope to hear each time we do. It was an additional special treat at the benefit concert to hear Pat sing his well known “That’s The Way” – the wonderful wedding song that he sang at our wedding twenty years ago. The concert for the Farrell Family also included Christian artists, Amy Grant, Susan Ashton and several others that we have not had the chance to hear in person for a long time and the whole thing was skillfully organized by my dear friend LLL.
A bonus from having Pat play two concert dates here in town is that he & his lovely wife (who I like to call The Countess because of her regal & graceful mien) spent a couple of nights with us and we had extra chatting and catching up time at the house. We thoroughly enjoy our time with this creative and loving couple and greatly value our friendship that has now spanned over many years.
Last week I also experienced an “in office” showcase at the music publishing company where I work to allow staff and select industry persons hear a newly signed writer with our company, Carly Pearce. She is a fresh and beautiful new face to the music industry and has a voice that perfectly suits her country/bluegrass roots. This type of performance is very helpful to other signed writers at our office because they can listen and get a feel for whether they might be a good match for co-writing with Carly. Industry officials there might also have suggestions for career development for this young writer and the staff always enjoys hearing someone that we will all support with our work efforts. It’s very interesting and quite useful at the same time.
I miss and love my Pamela’s Girls - this week especially – and Uncle R does too. We will keep looking for another time to travel to SC to see everyone and have us all together.
Auntie J
Yesterday B.K. and I had a fabulous lunch at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. There was a really good jazz band playing familiar tunes. As my Grandmother V would say, it was very nice. I ate everything from fruit with fancy cheeses with crackers, to salmon with artichokes (because Cici thinks I need more iron) to couscous that tasted like stuffing (but was completely meatless). The inside of the restaurant is so beautiful and very old SF style from the early 1900's which is old in California. I wanted Pamela's girls to see the inside of the restaurant in this hotel, but also my new haircut. Nothing too different but I did get a new stylist because my other one moved to NYC. We talked about changing my color and he thinks I can do a darker brown with a tint of auburn or really bleach blonde. I'm getting tired of pulling out these white hairs these days and want to add a temp/permanent color.
I believe I'll go back with the first and don't ever want to be a blonde. But he said since I have clear light baby doll skin and complexion (loved that compliment) that if I did blonde it had to be white with like red lipsticks or dark brown with auburn or maybe even a black color. Maybe in a few months I'll go back to get the color added. I've always wondered what I'd look like with auburn kind of like Debra Messing but much more subtle. I was thinking of something like this girls:
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