6/30/2019

Weekly Update 6/30/2019

Another week of not doing much except going to the pool and working on my tan.

I did get to see Toy Story 4. I love that series, and I wanted to know about the continued adventures of Woody, Buzz and others. It was just as good as the other ones, and I enjoyed it. It’s a little difficult, however, to be an old woman going into a kiddie movie without a grandchild. It used to me easier when I could make Emily go with me as a cover for wanting to see a kiddie flick.

I went to a lecture for an art exhibit opening at the Jepson Center on Thursday. It wasn’t as much a lecture, as a conversation. Suzanne Jackson, the featured artist whose works make up the exhibit, and Alphone Davis, another artist from the West coast during the 1960s were in a conversation. They talked about their early works, the galleries they opened in San Francisco, how their works evolved, and what challenges them to continue to create today, when they are in their 70s. Suzanne Jackson has worked in paintings, but also theater, dance, poetry, costume design, prints and drawings. She has also been involved in teaching, arts administration community life, and social activism. She primarily worked in California, but has lived on the East Coast, and moved to Savannah to teach at SCAD in 1996, where she retired a decade later.

Saturday, Barbara and I drove to Augusta. She had an errand to run, and asked if I’d like to ride along. I wasn’t doing anything else, so why not? We drove through some rain both going and coming home, but while we were walking around the lovely city, the weather was great. We ate a wonderful burger joint, FarmHaus, and the pimento cheeseburger with very thick onion rings were so good. We walked along the River Walk for a bit, and took pictures of ourselves with James Brown. It was an all-day travel, but it was worth giving up more pool time for.