We went for a ride along the Chattahoochee River on Saturday, a nice 43-mile ride. The river looks like this:
And part of the ride looks like this:
Of course, as we have noted in this space before, we only go over there to ride for the breakfast. When in Columbus, visit the nice people at Plucked Up Chicken and Biscuits. You’ll thank me for it later.
Baseball that night:
And the days turn to nights and the days after, faster and faster.
That’s outside Telfair Peet, the theatre building. We were there for a show tonight. If you’re in or near Auburn you need to come see this show this weekend.
Dr. Tessa Carr, who wrote and directed the show, is a friend of ours. We’ve been talking about this performance for months. It sounded great and played even better. Go see “The Integration of Tuskegee High School.”
What Tessa wrote about this show gets right to the point of the performance:
All of the players are college students. And in every show I’ve seen they always do a great job, especially when you consider the demands on their time. And even moreso in this case, some of the actors and actresses aren’t theater majors or have never been on stage before.
Also, I know some of the people being portrayed in the play, and know most of the names of the rest. A few of them were in the audience. That must be wild, to see yourself portrayed on stage.
They’re doing a Q&A after the show, and that’s worth hearing, particularly when the people who lived in those moments are there to take part. But the show itself, the show is powerful and terrific.
UPDATE: They’ve uploaded the full show. It is full of important history lesson that we should remember, lest we forget:
Beautiful, gorgeous spring day. We went for a bike ride because today was the sort of day you’d custom order if you could and bottle up if you knew how. We didn’t train or hit maximum heart rates or set any personal bests. But we did enjoy the sound of two silent wheels and the warmth of the sun and the stillness of the air.
And even if the time did not meet your very low expectations, you could still find views like this.
I’m never good at remembering this, so I’ll need you to remind me of it, but moments like this are why you always say yes, I do want to go ride.
Auburn and Alabama play one game of baseball in the state capital each spring. It is a non-conference thing, meant to allow people that don’t normally see the two teams face off on the diamond. Auburn has won all but one of these, and they won this year, 10-1.
This is the ticket:
And that same gaudy graphic is adorning the walls at Riverwalk Stadium (home of the Montgomery Biscuits). It is worth keeping around, I think.
The game was fun, the ribs before it were good, as ever. But the highlight, and the point of all of this, is the people. Here’s the @AUSection111 Glee and Chess Club and Live Bait Shop, class of 2016:
(Daniel, C.J., Beck, Emily, Josh, Thomas, Chandler, Clint and Autumn.)
I heard a speech one time years ago where the speaker said, “Look around. Take a moment and look around this room. This is the last time we’ll all be here together.” And I think about that often. These are good folks. It is a shame we won’t all be together again, very often if at all.
Well, the people and the fireworks. The fireworks are the other point. And if it is possible to say such a thing seriously, these fireworks lacked nuance:
