...it's nice to have them when you need them. It's also nice to make new ones when you least expect it. That's what happened to me this last weekend. Last year I was 'Hut-less and stayed in motels on the weekends I had shows. Either that or I depended on the generosity of friends and their compassion for taking in wayward artists. This year with the 'Hut and the show promoter's offer of parking lots for the artists to stay in on the weekends, I have not had to impose on the generosity of my friends here in Florida. I also had not realized that an invisible network seems to link traveling artists and those that take them in.
...this last weekend during the Venice show the 'Hut was not parked in some noisy parking lot crammed between giant motor homes and pulsating generators. It was parked at a "friend of a friend's" under Live Oaks and Palms on real grass with acres of quite space! Other artists were there as well, accepting the offer of respite and quiet to be found under the trees. The offer to stay for many more days was tempting. I did stay an extra day and had homemade pizza, wine made by a distant friend and the conversation of fellow artists that evening. We were supposed to have the world's best Oatmeal cookies too...Warren and I forgot to buy enough whole wheat floor on the grocery run...next time we won't! To John and Laurie whose home is now a home to me...God bless you.
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