The Magic, Miracles and Joy of an Artist: Black Dog Salvage

Tuesday, January 7, 2020

Black Dog Salvage

After a quick stop today at Therry Neilsen-Steinhardt's ~ Patty, Jim, and I visited BLACK DOG SALVAGE. My first booth visit is always my friend John Reburn's Appalachia Press. SO many of his wonderful letterpress cards, framed prints, vintage items, tags, books, and so much more are available. I was thrilled to find two of his "Year of the Rat" cards still available!

A walk through Black Dog Salvage is always fun and interesting!

We then lunched at CANALE'S ~ home of George Canale's Ham & BBQ, in Grandin Village. Tasty!

Appalachia Press

"Year of the Rat" card and envelope. The little scroll that the rat is holding tells all about The Year of the Rat.

Black Dog Salvage

Fountain at Black Dog Salvage

Turtle Sculpture available at Black Dog Salvage

Beautiful wood slabs for table tops

Black Dog Salvage

Hundreds of doors at Black Dog Salvage

Black Dog Salvage

Pins on the map ~ visitors to Black Dog Salvage

Canale's Ham & BBQ

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For in that sleep of death, what dreams may come!

I AM A "SEARCHER"

"I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know - unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.

For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves."

~ James Kavanaugh

I am THE LOVERS Tarot Card

Motive, power, and action, arising from Inspiration and Impulse. THE LOVERS represents intuition and inspiration. Very often a choice needs to be made. Originally, this card was just called LOVE. And that's acually more apt than "LOVERS." Love follows in this sequence of growth and maturity. And, coming after the Emperor, who is about control, it is a radical change in perspective. LOVE is a force that makes you choose and decide for reasons you often can't understand; it makes you surrender control to a higher power. And that is what this card is all about. Finding something or someone who is so much a part of yourself, so perfectly attuned to you and you to them, that you cannot, dare not resist. This card indicates that you have or will come across a person, a career, challenge, or thing that you will fall in love with. You will know instinctively that you must have this, even if it means diverging from your chosen path. No matter the difficulties, without it you will never be complete.