Lessons Unlearned

 I give you the indelible Charles Bradley.  Something tells me I should probably sign these photographs as mine, but I am honestly to lazy for that and I just want to share these wonderful scenes that seemed like a dream to me when I was at the Moody Theater in Austin, witnessing this outstanding showmanship.



Off the top of my head, on a snowy Sunday in the last days of March:

You can't, you can't, you can't
'Cause that's not the way its done
It just won't turn out right
You can't, you can't, you can't

Let's not try a new way, a different way
Nevermind it won't be the same
Take a chance, dream with me
and find Astounding Mystery


Thank you to Sarah Gillespie for taking these photographs of me in our Fibers studio at SIUE

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