Kevin Says: Part One of walking in Baltimore…………the dinner after the show

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Kevin Says:

Part One of walking in Baltimore…………

Kevin

He has to admit that he is blessed,

Who is he ……..I sorry I forgot the med’s

I mean me………….

Anyway

What a wonderful weekend I had

In Baltimore, Maryland.

I had an opening at the American Visionary Museum, there

Right by the water.

It was amazing weekend.

And not for the reasons you might think.

It was a weekend of good people and company,

Of friendship, exploration And kindness………….I know I sound a bit over wrought.

But I am finding out more and more as I age,

It’s just about honesty,

Not even truth,

You can even lie honestly………………………

Anyway I am going to write this backwards, I will start at the dinner, after the show.

Now shows and me

Are a some times difficult thing,

I love the people, and I love the buildup

But I get burnt out quick

So in a little while, ……………………………..you can always find me outside smoking my pipe or a cig.

Pacing prowling muttering to myself alone in the dark and secure in the knowledge

That people are draining…………..not because they are bad

But because they are people

Anyway

After the show closed most were still partying at the great hall in the museum

The fat ones feet hurt

So I didn’t dare to dance………..I just chilled and enjoyed the vibes

My family left and walked across the street

To Schooners restaurant on the water

Looking out over the harbor.

Both families are there,

My family the Sampson’s and Remolds family

I won’t use their last name to spare them my writing………

Ok I am going backwards

I drove down to Maryland with my best friends  Reynolds, husband Raul

And God son Raphael

Reynolds

the first place we stopped was a soul food restaurant in the hood

not my idea, guessed whose........but the food was so damn good....

 

She is a hoot my friend, my teacher, my nag..

She keeps me in line

Anyway she is originally from Maryland,

She resides in Brooklyn New York now.

She is a great painter, the best teacher i know,

she is the one that took

a dum cop and walked him into the art world

she teaches at two different museum schools in New York.

Having said that she is crazy

And funny and brilliant and full of life

She can bitch with the best of them, is a stanch and I mean stanch

Feminist.

Reynolds made me go to like ten coffee shops to promote

the show, she has always been my promoter, and she makes me

do things better...........gives me that push

very few people can push me

but Reynolds can, and thats why I love her so....

So you know what I do for entertainment……………I throw out right wing non sense

And watch her explode; she is smart and usually right

But I have to try to win.

I torture her with talk of my guns, my aversion to any thing not American

My secret love of any thing George Bush

She screams throws stuff and we laugh until we are howling

We howled all the way to Maryland…………..

Ok so her family was there

They live outside of Baltimore

And came to see my show………

Reynolds was raised here and around

the family home one of the most beautiful houses i

have even been in

 

Anyway

Reynolds had to leave to catch the train back to New York

Right during the show

She had to teach a class the next day

So she couldn’t come out to eat……….

Ok at the restaurant

It doesn’t matter what was said

Except to say their where many animated conversations

At that table

This table full of people of different colors and backgrounds

Democrat, republicans and others sat here

Do you know why I am blessed because?

My father told me long ago

To always surround yourself with people smarter than yourself

But I will ad one on

Surround yourself with nice people

Good people

People with manners

People who aren’t so full of themselves

That they can’t see around their egos

You can be brilliant and simple

The real bright bulb is truth

And truth is simple

Ok ……………………………..simple…………….read

Looking around this table

I could see just that

Family hard work, friends,

God

Or a good reason for why not…………..

It didn’t hit me until I came home………………..

What America truly could be

Anyway

So we are sitting at this fancy table

And I look around the room,

To my right is Reynolds……………...

Brother drew and his wife Joan

http://theslowcook.blogspot.com/2009/02/were-in-martha-stewart-living.html

These two people have the largest organic farm

In the nation

He is starting and designing new ways of farming

He advises other farmers and is well sort out world wide

But when he spoke he spoke of the hard

Journey that he took too get to this good place

And so many around the table……….nodded their heads

And got it…….

Famous

But you wouldn’t know it

They spoke of the farm humbly

Look I am a black guy

Farms are on television

I come from sharecroppers……….ok

I had now idea how big and famous that Couple was

Until my daughter sent me an article on

Them today

And these are good looking folks……… Reynolds family

They all are handsome

Mother beautiful tall and regal (recently deceased)

Father from the Midwest

Retired…….. Genius ………Doctor, practitioner surgeon

Lecturer……………………

A man who some say helped to put’

Johns Hopkins on the map

But you wouldn’t know it

Elderly,

Funny

In pain from a recent Health bout

No complaints

Only smiles

Next to drew was my Godson

A mix of Reynolds and Raul

Filipino and Caucasian

Too smart

Well mannered

Too handsome

Can hold his own in an adult company

Without wanting like most of the rest

Of young people

To be the center of attention all the time

No I am proud of my Godson

And his parents

They raised this boy right

He is still a boy, still his own person

Funny as hell

And a developing smart ass like his father

A trait that he will find will come in handy in the future

He wants to be some body

Praise the lord

Ok let’s keep going

Ok after

Joan Drew’s wife Joan

Who is nice and warm and friendly

And not scared to talk

I liked her right away

Down to earth

But smart

Smart

And drew lets back track

Drew right next to me

About 6’5” inches tall

I instantly liked him

Reed thin

I was instantly reminded

Of Gary cooper

Or chuck Conner the rifle man

I don’t know

This guy is an America portrait

There is a famous picture

Shown below

Depression era

Of a farmer face wrinkled

Eyes tired

But with head unbowed

There is something in this face

Some thing more

It’s that magical part of America

That one can never really put their finger on

Some thing bigger than the farmer

Anyway

That is what I thought of

Drew famous

Hard working

Dirt under the nails

Smart, genius, unassuming

And most of all nice

Best farm in the land

But you wouldn’t t know it

Onto my –Step sister Sheila,

Beautiful, strong real strong………..she

Has worked at every thing

And has done well at every thing

Works for a big company in pa

Makes great money

And believes In God

No lives with god

Next her

Her husband Johnny

I grew up with him just two doors down

In the city of Elizabeth

He was a nice boy

And he is a nicer man

Full of God and grace

Unassuming

This guy set up and I don’t mean as a flunky

I mean as in charge

Set up communications

For the army

During desert storm

And during the current war

20 years in the National Guard

Retired just recently after a call back

He is an Exe with a tech computer company

I never know which one

In Pa big time

Good money

Nice house

Great wife

Smart smart

And humble

You would never know

What he has seen

Or what he knows

He must have stories to tell

That many of us would die

To hear………..must have pain

But you wouldn’t know it

Next Reynolds father

I mentioned him already

Nice man

Onto my brother in law Keith

Ivy League

Black is proud doctor

Who runs aids clinics in Texas

In the poorest of places

Who lectures and sets up clinics

All around the world

He just returned from South Africa

With my sister

Amazing guy

But you wouldn’t know it

My sister Smith grad

Proud, project manager

Who recently moved to Texas with Keith

After living and working in Dc for years

She still has a home there

Bright I mean as in bright

Funny, sensitive

And my Theo

Next Gran ruby

My step mother

Who is my mother, my best friend and my sister

She is the rock of the family

And after my father died

We all got stronger

She took over and she is the first person

I call for any kind of advice

Kind soft spoken, Christian

Smart smart smart

Runs tax centers

Nursed

And ran her own business

Years ago

The best barbeque in New Jersey

For many years

Business woman

Mother

And at the head of the table

Raul

Reynolds husband

One of the smartest men I know

Tech head to the max

It runs and has a chip he knows about it

But he is also one of the most human people I know

Good man

Reynolds says she married him because

He looks like jimmy smits and you can see that

I can’t say enough about Raul

He drove me here

Never asked for a thing, listened to my madness

For hours

He needs a metal

And last but not least

My daughter Lauren

Annual funds manager at the top art school in the nation

Yes I am proud

Beautiful as hell

Takes after her mother

Smart funny, nice……………

Every time I look at her I wonder where she came from

Then I remember her mother

And I know

She is my best student

Best buddy we call each other several times

A day

Why because we like to talk to each other

Love it

Love her

Then me the hero

All decked out in my father’s suit jacket

With a pair of pants from ABC discount store

And a tie I brought in the museum store

And you know what

I looked good and it was me

And Kevin found his grove years ago

And through it away

Artist moment in the sun

But you wouldn’t know it

All these people

Talking

Laughing

Exchanging life stories

No pain

Every one is hurting

People around this table

Had lost love ones

And money

And more

But you know what

You wouldn’t know it

It was Middle America

Meets northern elite

And starving poor me

And we met in the middle

Bonded by our survival of hard times

And by our understanding of the need for good ones

I was amazed at how long these two families got along

They became mine real quick

It was the American family the real one

One were even though you are right

And you are left

We can hang

I sound like I sound sing we shall over come

Or kumbia

But I mean it

We are all not so different

And no matter what you do

If you remain humble by your success

And spread it around as every one at that table had

That you will prosper

Through friendship and the education that diverse

Exp. Provides

This moved me more than any thing

I began to understand the two America

I began to understand values

Republicans aren’t wrong

We aren’t right

We just have to learn to be tolerant

Of each other

America can fix itself

But you wouldn’t know it

the next day i went to drews farm

and it was a life changing experience.

Drew and Raul

my cute daughter checking out the crops

and the best part of the whole trip

 

 

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