Sunday, May 04, 2008
Simple Things
I went to pick strawberries yesterday and even going early I was late. The field was packed with pickers and it took some simple ingenuity to find a bucket of berries. The farm is just over the bridge into Currituck County and we have been casual acquaintances with the owners for years. Stephen and Andrew were in school together with strawberry son, Lee, who is now finished with the NC bar and ready to hang out his shingle. Yesterday he was helping Mom and Dad and he walked with me to the car as we caught up. He was not at all surprised to hear that Andrew was teaching math. We both agreed that Andrew has what it takes to write a world changing scholarly paper some day.
Lee added to this vision with a story about how Andrew had written a formula for him to better his chances at a shooting competition he was facing. I am sure it was thorough down the the nth point. Lee said he used the formula and hit his mark dead center every time. He never got a chance to tell Andrew because they all graduated and scattered. When I told this story to friend Becki (Mom to Katelyn) last evening she replied that an ad in a NRA publication would bring Andrew a lot of business!
And now for your viewing pleasure I present, Simply.
Keep your eye open for these gals, Elanit, Katelyn & Marlowe. Last night while they were performing a lady from Busch Gardens slipped her business card in their tip jar. The cool thing about these gals is that they don't need thoughts of fame. They are strongly supportive of each other and all have very different creative lives on their own. They write all their own arrangements. I missed recording their version of Over The Rainbow, but it's awesome. They sang for almost three hours straight and only repeated a few selections. You can slip on over to YouTube to catch another of their tunes, Break Bread Together (Simply sings Break Bread Together).
They simply LOVE singing together and it shows.
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