Celebrations & Events

  • Casart® Coverings,  Celebrations & Events,  Performance,  Uncategorized

    We’re off and Flying

    Busy week this week as we just sent out a press release regarding our new line of products for casart coverings. Kinda like this parachute performance art, we’re prepared, organized and jumping, now we’re off and flying: 70waycollage-parachutes-iphone-cell

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  • Celebrations & Events,  Music

    Ted Kennedy

    I am not a real fan of Ted Kennedy, as I do not agree with a lot of his politics but I was deeply moved by parts of his funeral service this past Saturday. I had it on in the background as I caught up reading six or so newspapers. I could no longer read when I heard Susan Graham sing Ave Maria. That song always gets me. It brought tears as it did to many in the congregation. What a beautiful piece of musical art. Then Teddy Kennedy, Jr. spoke. His speech revealed a side of his father that seemed more down to earth than his Senatorial, “force of…

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  • Celebrations & Events,  Family,  Sewanee,  Trips

    Tragic Loss

    “What happens when art dies?”…”It leaves a hole in the universe,” said Washington artist Aziza Gibson-Hunter (as quoted from the story about Peggy Cafritz’s home suddenly burning to the ground recently in The Washington Post). She had a massive art collection and I think this quote is very profound to describe the loss. Sadly, this quote without reference to art, may ring true in a personal way for those who knew the Weeks brothers.  How could one not be moved by the obituaries of Stone Taylor Weeks, age 24 and his brother, William Holt Weeks, age 20? As a mother of two boys about this age, Piers (turning 21) and…