Something new at the Golden Art Gallery is our Final Friday event. On the last Friday of each month we will feature poetry, music, and other arts.  I attended the May 27th one and it was a heartfelt experience for me .  Marese Mitchel opened with introductions of the poets read one she composed about childhood experiences.  Duff McAndie read poems about his concerns with his own life and expressed concern with the world we live in and wars.  Brian Tours entertained us with his rendition of Waltzing Matilda which he sang as well as spoke.  Then he shifted the North and told us about the Legend of Sam Magee.  Brian is very good at expression so pictures of the cold , the wind and the old boat came vividly to mind.  Ned Bodie created some realistic pictures with description of line fencing and two cowboys who haven’t bathed in two weeks.  There they were in a bar crowded with patrons except there was a large circle of vacant space around the two smelly cowboys.  Ingrid Archibald expressed her great sense of loss in a poem telling about her husband of many years dying.  In another poem she told us about how the loss of his master affected his dedicated dog.  I think we all felt that loss in her poetry.

Many thanks to Margaret Burkhart and Charlene Morrison for their contributions of wonderful goodies.  Donation proceeds were given to the Guild.

Duff McAndie expresses his concerns