4TheArts
4TheArts's JournalNorth Carolina, north Georgia, east Tennessee
If you're in need of pleasant diversion come over the mountains (carefully in this rain) and see the National Danish Performance Team tomorrow night, 7:00 p.m. at the Murphy High School gym (only venue big enough). It's a spectacular show of dance and gymnastics. they are on their world tour, but our little rural community has some Danish historical connections so sometimes get this amazing Team stopping in to wow us.
Tickets only $10, but if you live within reach of Murphy North Carolina and show up, the first four DUérs who speak my nickname get in free. Hmm, in the previous line that must be French, Dee ooo airs. 
More hearts!!
Thank you anonymous givers of ?️
It's encouraging to this former observer only fan of DU. Glad to be among like minded citizens.
Oh! A heart!
Someone gave me a ❤️!
Thank you! I just started interacting with DU this month. This is cool..
Where to begin
Where to begin? Every scrap of news regarding 45’s crap flinging days has a negative effect on my health, yet I cannot stand to be uninformed. DU has helped, though I have remained silent in the back row for several years. Each morning I pick up my phone and check to see if the dotard has been arrested or stroked out. Not yet. But sometimes good news comes—the arrest of Stone, the skill of the smart, strong Speaker Pelosi, the fine scolding voiced by Sen. Bennett. Thanks DU for supplying the occasional good medicine of hoped for news. And thanks also to so many of the veteran DU posters I’ve grown to love and respect for their writings here. I hold back participation in these forums for a variety of reasons, including health (too easily stressed with real physical consequences) but also from having been pushed into the habit of holding my tongue. Pushed, because to make ends meet I took on a job that tends to constrain political speech in public. The non-profit I direct is both state funded in part, and dependent on private donations. And, I’m here in a North Carolina county that is 70% tea party, fundamnmental, sons of the confederacy, red hat sporting good old boys and their women folk. Because I am known in the community for the art supporting role, publicly voicing an opinion on political issues would definitely cost most of the support my organization gets from local businesses and private donors.
I am fortunate to have a circle of progressive minded friends, due in part to the large community of artists in the area, but for the most part I choose, or limit, my public words carefully, knowing that even the private me is automatically connected to the official Art Council director role in this small rural community.
I need a place where I can interact safely, relieving the bottled up stress and enjoying the reasonably free wheeling discourse of this online community. So, it’s time for me to join in the discussion. FYI, I am 72 this Beltane, a one time Air Force cop, fourth time married (two lost to breast cancer), classically music trained, former university research administrator turned starving artist. I read a lot, and sing a lot. I’d rather be living in Scotland. And I would have voted for Hillary when I first saw her as she campaigned for Bill in Florida for his first term.
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Name: DavidGender: Do not display
Hometown: Harlan, Kentucky
Current location: western North Carolina
Member since: Sun Dec 10, 2017, 06:08 PM
Number of posts: 75
