He was entranced and promptly proclaimed “I want to play on that stage!” after Ricky Skaggs’ last song of the night. When a neighboring concert goer said “it’s neat that you brought your boy here,” I smiled and replied, “he brought us.”

Beauty is complex. Something that emanates from the mind. The heart. But, beauty is also brown and black.

We met on the second floor of our local library and right off the top they said the three magic words, “whatever you want.”