Friday is September 1 - that means I will be performing at Grossman's from 6 to 9pm for the monthly "First Friday" matinee with Sandi Marie and Under The Bus. Along for the ride in the "mini bus" will be guitarist , Marcus Walker.
We've been having great fun over the last 6 months and this Friday promises to be even more exciting. We are pleased to welcome as our special guest, singer-songwriter and amazing guitar player, Brian Cober. You may know Brian for his Sunday night blues jam where he leads The Nationals with his unique brand of "double slide" (see www.briancober.com) guitar. We're really excited to be featuring Brian and sure hope you will all join us at Grossman's!
A beautiful story sent to me from someone at work.
A young man was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from
college. While he was walking through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air.
The elephant seemed distressed so the man approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot. There was a large thorn deeply embedded in the bottom of the foot.
As carefully and as gently as he could he worked the thorn out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot.
The elephant turned to face the man and with a rather stern look on its face, stared at him. For a good ten minutes the man stood frozen thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned and walked away.
The man never forgot that elephant or the events of that day. Twenty years later the man was walking through the zoo with his teenaged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of them turned and walked over to where they were standing at the rail. The large bull elephant stared at him and lifted it's front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times, all the while staring at the man. The man couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. After a while it trumpeted loudly; then it continued to stare at him. The man summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. Suddenly the elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of the man's legs and swung him wildly back and forth along the railing, killing him.
