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Monday, August 29, 2016
Art & Events: Ken's Picks - August in Memphis
Summer Begins - Art, Music, Events
Ken's Pics for June 2016 in Memphis
Well known and obscure, annual events and first evers, nice mix.
Good job, Memphis! Maybe I'll see you there.
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The Impact of Globalization on Fashion, Music and Culture
Young Arts Patrons presents a panel discussion on June 22 at the Brooks from 7-8:30 pm. Join moderator Eileen Townsend and panelists for a public conversation presented in conjunction with the exhibition Hassan Hajjaj: My Rock Stars, organized by the Newark Museum and on view through September 4. Young Arts Patrons is a leading-edge Memphis-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the ideas and risk-taking that fuel a creative and innovative arts community.
Jeniffer Church
New works at Playhouse on the Square 6/10/16
The Series of Series
Let the entertainment begin! And take your pick of genres and locations.
6/3-8/26 Orpheum Summer Movies
Old favorites,here's the list.
6/2 - 7/31 Levitt Shell Summer Music
We'e excited about the Big Ass Truck reunion, Steep Canyon Rangers, Sharon Jones & the Daptones, and, well, all of it really. Here's the lineup.
6/10 - 9/23 Live at the Garden
The performers will include.
Links you need
Bless Your Heart
From the Delta to Memphis College of Art an on to San Francisco, New York, and DC, Grant Ellis is building a reputation and a portfolio. His new book of photographs is entitled Bless Your Heart and is filled with Delta images. See the Oxford American for more.
Jazz on A Summer's Day
Filmed at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival, this is a feature length time capsule. Enjoy.
Got new about arts events?
We want to know! Send an email with details by the 25th of the month prior to the event and we'll try to get it in if possible. And we love to come out and take photos!
Eli Gold
Around Town, Out & About
6/3 The Man Show, L Ross Gallery, 6-8 pm
6/3 The Moonie Project: Lauren Asta, mural creation is Crosstown Arts alley, 7-10 pm
6/3 George Clinton & P-Funk, New Daisy, 9 pm
6/4 WLOK 40th Anniversary with Rev Al Green, Orpheum, 7 pm, $20-50
6/4 AIA Memphis Design Auction, Jackson Robinson Gallery, 7-9:30 pm , $35-45
6/7 Shoot & Slice, Indie Memphis , Crosstown Arts, 6:30 pm
6/8 The Life Aquatic film Brooks, 6 pm, $14-16
6/10 Cotton Boll Brunch, Cotton Museum, 11:30-1, $40-50
6/10 New works by Jeniffer Church, Playhouse on the Square, 6-7:30 pm
6/10 Say Hello to America art, Crosstown, 6-9 pm
6/10 Litertini, Literacy Mid-South, Booksellers, 7-10 pm $50
6/10-12 Potter’s Guild Show, Memphis Botanic Garden
6/11 Brewville at DeNeuville, 190 S. Cooper, 5-8 pm, $30
6/14 Vanilla Extract Vol Two art by Lester Merriweather, Crosstown, 6-9 pm
6/15 VolunCheers Minute Match, Volunteer Odyssey, Emerge Memphis, 5:30-7:30 pm, $5
6/16 Art After Dark, Dixon Gallery, 6-8 pm
6/16 Beale St Caravan 20th Anniv,Memphis Made Brewing, 6-9 pm, $75
6/17 The Power of Nature works by John Torina, James Lee House, 690 Adams, 5-7:30 pm
6/18 Outdoors Inc Canoe & Kayak Race, Miss River, 10 am
6/18 Margarita Festival, Overton Park, 3-6 pm, $25
6/19 Veda Reed opening & conversation, Brooks, 1:30 pm
6/24& 25 Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Memphis Black Arts Alliance, 879 E. McLemore, 7 pm, $15
6/25 Art by Design Finale, ArtsMemphis, location TBA, 6:30 pm, $150
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Tuesday, March 8, 2016
I'd Rather Walk Than Run
I'd Rather Walk Than Run
I’ll be honest, even though I own running shoes & clothes and generally take part in a handful of 5Ks each year, I hate running. I don’t always hate it while I’m running (depends on the terrain) but invariably, I hate it the next day when I am stiff & sore.
I’ll be honest, even though I own running shoes & clothes and generally take part in a handful of 5Ks each year, I hate running. I don’t always hate it while I’m running (depends on the terrain) but invariably, I hate it the next day when I am stiff & sore.
Of course, a whole bunch of folks really can’t run due to much more serious health impediments than my laziness & lack of regular training. So I shouldn’t complain. That’s one reason that the Church Health Center ditched its 5K run event in favor of a walk. A walk is more inclusive. Our annual walk fundraiser set for April 23 attracts of broad array – community athletes, CHC patients, kids, older folks, black, white, inner city, suburban. In fact, the diversity aspect is such a big deal that we picked a special name for the event: Walking As One.
I hope that you’ll sign up and maybe even form a team. Funds raised at the event will help us cover the costs of treating many thousands of the working poor in our community. And you’ll get a tee shirt, snacks, other goodies, enjoy a walk and other activities, and generally feel good about doing so. Plus you probably won’t be stiff & sore the next day.
Will you help me spread the word? In your congregation, book club, office, among your friends, fellow alumni, where ever? If you need flyers, I’ve got them. If you need someone to come speak, I can help with that.
Meanwhile here is a helpful link. http://walkingasone.org/ Thanks for considering.
Monday, January 11, 2016
Multi-week seminar on Caring for Aging Parent
Wednesday Night Class
CARING FOR AGING PARENTS
6:30 P.M. TO 7:30 P.M.
Second Presbyterian Church
This class includes presentations dealing with spiritual needs of the caregiver and parent: health issues faced by aging parents: determining when alternative living arrangements are necessary; managing the burden of care giving; responding to the emotional needs of parents; assessing alternative care arrangements; financial and legal considerations relating to parental care.
Schedule of Classes
Jan. 13 Managing finances of parents and financial planning –
Randy Flatt CLU AEP CLTC 746-6363
jflatt@financialguide.com
Jan. 20 Caring for the Caregiver--Developing coping skills, particularly patience.
Learning to navigate the health care system and avoid burnout. Pat Smith
P.C. Aging Life Care Specialist, Senior Resource Consultants 262-5425
patsmith8080@gmail.com
Jan. 27 Legal considerations for aging parents.
Price Morrison. Lawyer
522-9000 morrisonp@martintate.com
Feb .3 Alternative living arrangements and options available in Memphis; nursing homes, assisted living facilities, in-home care and 3rd party assistance –
Zev Samuels (Ombudsman – Shelby County)
529-4565 zsamuels@mifa.org
Feb. 10 Managing the burden of care giving; setting boundaries; responsibilities of spouse and children; burnout –
Dr. Paul Neal PHD Clinical Psychologist Christian Psychological Center 458-6291 pneal@cpcmemphis.net
Feb. 17 Hospice What is it? When to call? What are myths about Hospice care?
Mary Zimmerman RN, BSN 857-7020 jmzim@gmail.com
Feb. 24 Coping with declining health; grieving. Dr. Paul Neal 458-6291 pneal@cpcmemphis.net
Mar. 2 Health issues faced by aging parents; determining when life style changes are necessary; discussing alternative living arrangements with parents-
Dr. Dana Wright Internist 726-0200 palintir@aol.com
Mar. 16 Five Wishes
Eleanor Faber JD, LCSW is the Advance Care Planner for Baptist Memorial Health Care.
226-3372 Eleanor.Faber@bmhcc.org
Mar. 30 ABCs of Memory Loss- Mariam Clay, Manager of Program and Education Tennessee Alzheimer’s Association
565-0011 mclay@alz.org
Apr. 6 How to find the right level of care for aging loved ones. Kathy Brewster 901-752-2561,
kbrewster@village-germantown.com Melissa Rukstad, Healthcare & Wellness Dir., Julie
Repking, Healthcare Administrator
Monday, July 13, 2015
Escaped Monkeys, 12 Step Programs, Tackling Negativity
Aside from an embarrassed zookeeper or the animals rights
activists, one of the reasons that the rest of us were intently following the saga of Zimm (with 1,000+
Twitter followers overnight plus mentions by CBS and NBC) is that there was very
little hatred involved. No flags or SCOTUS decisions or boycotts or any of
that. How nice.
I attended a 12 step program meeting last week for the first
time. If you go with a certain attitude,
then, yes, the clichés and stereotypes will abound. If you go in with an open
mind, it can be a moving and humbling experience…no matter why or how you came
to be there. Two things struck me immediately: (1) everyone, from whatever walk of life, is on
an equal footing, attentive and supportive, and (2) there is a big emphasis on
making amends, directly or indirectly.
Stop me if you have heard this, but anger, negativity, grudges, derision, and the like are a virtual cancer in the mind
& body of the holder of those things: you may hate someone or something
else, but you are the one harmed most over time.
And that’s the other thing: one day at a time – whether alcohol or drugs or negative attitudes. Every day is a new challenge and offers new opportunities, but the key is proactive, intentional change; change in behavior is one way to begat change in attitude & outlook (see last weeks blog). A fine example is physical activity releasing endorphins.
And that’s the other thing: one day at a time – whether alcohol or drugs or negative attitudes. Every day is a new challenge and offers new opportunities, but the key is proactive, intentional change; change in behavior is one way to begat change in attitude & outlook (see last weeks blog). A fine example is physical activity releasing endorphins.
Monday, July 6, 2015
Two Movies, Two Songs about Starting Over
Theme from the film M*A*S*H: “Suicide is Painless, it brings on many changes…”
written by Johnny Mandel/Mike Altman and
recorded in 1970. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gO7uemm6Yo
From the film The Bells of St Mary’s: “In the land of
beginning again…” written by Grant
Clarke/George Mayer in 1919; performed
by Bing Crosby 1946. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52Wn8ocU1k8
Suicide is a huge burden on the surviving friends and
family, NOT at all painless as the song lyric suggests. But the “bringing on of
many changes” makes more sense is light of giving up your old life for a new
one, not physically, but in terms of radically changing things – careers,
values, friendships, focus. The Gospel
of Luke (14:25-33) and Gospel of Mark (8:34-35) allude to this sort of complete
realignment.
Leave it to Bing Crosby to phrase this more happily in song,
“The Land of Beginning Again”. This 1919 tune was an overripe chestnut when he
got around to recording it in 1946, and yet, it resonates. The land of beginning
again is indeed a place that we all need to visit sooner or later and sometimes
more than once.
Let’s be honest, if tomorrow holds no more hope that yesterday or today, if we
have seen our best days, then what’s the point of tomorrow? Will it be just another round of same old,
same old? Of oh kids these days? Of that’s
not how we used to do it?
Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Too Much Information
TMI. More than you really wanted to know. We occasionally run
into that in the workplace, check out lines in stores, restaurants, any place
to people might share a bit more than we are comfortable with. Of course, no where do you see this more than
on Facebook – not just food photos (guilty as charged) but diatribes about
ex-spouses, political views, and so very much more. Way too much.
I remember letters
with stamps. I remember when email was new and novel. I remember Myspace,
Plaxo, and the opening of Facebook to non-students. I
remember when Twitter got overloaded and the whale symbol went up. Seen that
lately? No. Of course Google+ is still
out there even though no one cares and then what happened with Ello, the next
big thing?
The thing is we now have a real time debate with no real
consequences for chucking civility. It is an angerfest, an axe grinding
marathon, and sad mess. I’m taking a break for a week or month or year or who knows. I am sorry if you enjoyed
my event photos and will miss them (and congratulations to the folks who hated
them and no longer have to endure them).
If you want to hear about my adventures, I will post to this
blog..but you will have to be proactive in looking me up, I will not be in your
face on Facebook! For now.
And I am looking forward to less screen time and dusting off
my books, magazines, and the remote for TV
news.
So happy posting to you and if you need me, FB messaging
will probably not be as effective as an email or , gasp, a phone call. Hello?
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