asfoxseesit: On August 5 Eva Said Spartanburg

About Me

Born May 18, 1953; got saved at Truett Memorial BC in Hayesville, NC 1959. On rigged ballot which I did not rig got Most Intellectual class of 71, Gaffney High School. Furman Grad, Sociology major but it was little tougher than Auburn football players had Had three dates with beautiful women the summer of 1978. Did not marry any of em. Never married anybody cause what was available was undesirable and what was desirable was unaffordable. Unlucky in love as they say and even still it is sometimes heartbreaking. Had a Pakistani Jr. Davis Cupper on the Ropes the summer of 84, City Courts, Rome Georgia I've a baby sitter, watched peoples homes while they were away on Vacation. Freelance writer, local consultant, screenwriter, and the best damn substitute teacher of Floyd County Georgia in mid 80's according to an anonymous kid passed me on main street a few years later when I went back to get a sandwich at Schroeders. Had some good moments in Collinsville as well. Ask Casey Mattox at www.clsnet.org if he will be honest about it. I try my best to make it to Bridges BBQ in Shelby NC at least four times a year.

Tuesday, August 06, 2024

On August 5 Eva Said Spartanburg

Eva is my brother's grand daughter. For more than a year Ive been teasing, prompting her to say Spartanburg. I ask her where she lives Greer or Spartanburg. Yesterday first time she said, I live in Green, I do not live in Spartanburg.

Said it clear as a bell perfectly enunciated before the turn four in a couple months. I think next step is to go to the Beacon to reify the word.

She said there is a horse on Stone Mountain which she visited recently. I told her the horse name is Traveler but she forgets. Pretty soon Traveler will be in her working conversational knowledge like Spartanburg and strawberry ice cream and her favorite colors Blue and Pink.

She doesnt know the difference between Duke Blue and North Carolina Blue

It was her Dad's Birthday and the 25 anniversary of the funeral of my Dad and her Great Grandfather Billy Fox, a Baptist preacher.

I gave a eulogy later reprinted in the Gaffney Ledger and linked at Baptists Today. I think President Carter read it. I quoted William Blake and the Great Hymn For All the Saints.

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