Today has all been a wonderful gift from the Universe to me!
What do I mean by that?
Everything I did today was absolutely free -
and everything was exactly what I wanted to do!
It all began with the Lunch & Learn at the Jepson Center this morning.
A street worker asked me how to get to Broughton... so I enlightened him with my little acronym "AH GLOBB", my mnemonic based on old scifi movies.
AH GLOBB stands for: Anderson, Henry, Gaston, Liberty, Oglethorpe, Broughton, Bay.
Those are the cross streets that have traffic lights on Drayton as one proceeds from south to north downtown on that one-way street.
Ah, Globb!!!
The guy really got a kick out of that!
Right place, Right time!
On I went into the Jepson, having deliberately arrived a half-hour early to take in the sights.
I'd not yet visited "The Moss Mystique: Southern Women And Newcomb Pottery" and thought I should at least hit a few of the items before the lecture.
One of the other women on this tour came over afterward to tell me how impressed she was with what I knew!
See, this particular piece had caught my eye at once, and its title confirmed what I already knew it to be: "Plate with spiderwort flowers".
Alma Simmons must have cultivated them in her yard back in 1907 for her to have so fondly painted their image onto this art!
After all, that's what the genteel ladies did at this Louisiana institute: they "decorated" the pottery and earthenware crafted by men.
This particular plate, as well as many other pieces in the exhibit here, was fashioned by Joseph Fortune Meyer.
However, the women were the ones who earned income from the sales of this art, and they chose flowers from their homes in the southeast as inspiration: spiderwort, camellias, azaleas, hydrangea, day lilies.
I hadn't likened my little Christmas angel and Mama's other pieces sent to me in 1981 to these works until I saw this display.
It showed the clay all the way from greenware, through the first firing in the kiln, then through a second process, to the final firing of the painted work.
I remembered Mama talking about 'greenware' and how fragile it was.
Maybe now is the time to take Cameron's class in ceramics.
Right place, right time.
I had missed my annual visit to the museums for my birthday this year, but for good reason.
Then, I meant to peruse the Jepson more a few weeks ago, while I was there for the outdoor exhibit, but somehow that didn't happen.
Hence, the reason I had allotted so much time for today's trip here.
However, this luncheon lecture went on for well over an hour!
That's thanks in large part to the engaging guest speaker, Joanna Angel, the tall blonde on the right, against the wall, with Erin Dunn of the Jepson helping to field questions and spark discussions.
By the way, that's Erin with her back against the case that holds the "Plate with spiderwort flowers".
Perfect, right?
We had begun the tour in the other half of this major exhibit, eventually making it into this area, which is where I began today.
(smile!)
That entryway has been refashioned as a yellow submarine and features the crayon-and-pencil seafaring art of William O. Golding!
I'll have another "Lunch & Learn" next month to give me the details on that.
By then it was time to rescue my car.
I made it back with ten minutes to spare!
They were still holding a dessert for my birthday but I knew not what.
I settled on a slice of blueberry cake, a special that they had to enter as "strawberry" cake for me to get it free.
I cared not what they called it as long as it was free!
Then I did what I learned from Barbara about the value of the Salad Bar To-Go, making myself two delicious servings, with broccoli salad for lunch and the spicy corn-and-bean salad for dinner.
Just perfect for this Friday night!
One Spirit Dance Academy had a special performance and, wonder of wonders, it was free!
Silly me, I had missed on the poster that "A Twenty-Year Journey" was the Summer Camp show!
Held in the gym of Windsor Forest Church, the parking lot was packed and so was the auditorium.
(I'm wearing my sleeveless, 'spring flowers', dress, and was in the back row, seated between the man in the red shirt and the man in the white shirt.
That photo was put on fb by one of the photographers at the event.)
I absolutely loved the show!
Combining gospel songs and dance stories of the troupe through the last two decades, I felt so blessed to be there.
Right place, right time.
The 2002 penny I found at the Publix after the show confirmed it for me.
i thank You, God!
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