Chapter 293: First Wholly Communion
As you could probably tell from the sheer volume of pictures around this time last year, I love crawfish and tonight, I got a little bit of religion before I ate the holy heck out of some great crawfish straigh from the Louisiana Bayou thanks to our friend Steve.
The first part of my night started with a gallery opening from my friend and client Lori Gordon at the artist's co-op downtown Bay St. Louis that she and her husband, Cairo (who makes beautiful driftwood chairs and small tables) belong to. Anyhow, if you remember, I helped design a steel frame structure for Lori for her property in Carriere which is coming along nicely (update soon!). She is a mixed-media artist creating great 3-D wall art/sculpture using all material that she has salvaged after Hurricane Katrina.
Last night, she debuted a breathtaking collection of reliquaries that were incredibly impressive. Lori was a great client and a great artist. If you'd like to check out more of her work. Check out her websites at: http://www.lorikgordon.blogspot.com/ and http://thekatrinacollectionbylorikgordon.blogspot.com/
After the debut and a great chat with Lori, I headed across the Bay St. Louis/Pass Christian bridge (which just recently finished installing it's tall lights) and headed over to the all new home of Jessie (of the Design Studio and couch surfing fame), Kendall (the official Hands On casework Diva), and Anne Kotelba (resident Jimmy Buffett-head an art outreach extraordinaire)... the Wisteria Estates in Ocean Springs! For a housewarming party, the girls talked Steve into helping out by getting a ton of great crawfish from his buddy that he used to work with in Louisiana and have the whole gang over for fun and frivolity.
Their new place is huge for only having three people and really affordable so I'm really happy for them, especially Jessie who has been trying to find something that she and her dog Deloris could live with for a long ass time. The three of them really seem to enjoy living together and I think they are going to have a great time at the "Estates".
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Design Studio Poetry Corner for 04 January:
It's Ours by Charles Bukowski
there is always that space there
just before they get to us
that space
that fine relaxer
the breather
while say
flopping on a bed
thinking of nothing
or say
pouring a glass of water from the
spigot
while entranced by
nothing
that
gentle pure
space
it's worth
centuries of
existence
say
just to scratch your neck
while looking out the window at
a bare branch
that space
there
before they get to us
ensures
that
when they do
they won't
get it all
ever.