February 26, 2010
February 26th, 2010 by Gary Osberg
Good frosty morning from Collegeville,
Between the Winter Olympics games and the tribute to Oscar on Turner Classic Movie Channel, I have not kept up with my Netflix diet. I really think it is time to get out my 35 year old Norwegian cross country skis and wax them up. The only way to beat these winter blues is to (a) get out of town or (b) take part in the “games”. One of my underwriters is involved in the Dark House Society. You sit in a small shack on the ice that has no windows and stare into a 3 foot by 5 foot hole cut in the ice dangling a “decoy”, a chunk of basswood carved to resemble a large minnow, painted in bright colors and weighted with lead to ensure it sinks instead of floats. The idea is to throw a spear at a large “game fish”. Of course there has to be a rope tied to the end of the spear. I am quite sure that I have such a spear in the rafters of the garage at The Parsonage in Upsala. It seems to me that I bought it at Pastor Ray Johnson’s auction in Upsala years ago. What the heck, it may be the best way to spend the month of March until Barby and I fly to Phoenix the last Saturday of the month for spring break.
The show this week is live from the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan. It is going to be a soulful live broadcast with special guests soul music writer and performer legend “Sir” Mack Rice, the Great Lady of Soul, Bettye Lavette, soul sisters Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele and the Guy’s All Star Shoe Band. Enjoy the show.
“Love is the magician, the enchanter, that changes worthless things to joy, and makes right royal kings and queens of common clay. Love is the perfume of that wondrous flower, the heart; and without that sacred passion, that divine swoon, we are less than beasts; but with love, earth is heaven, and we are gods.” Robert Green Ingersoll.
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