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From the EDITOR OUCH! The virus finally got us! Anyway, it did a number on our local fall festivals. Some of our cities felt the festivals could be enjoyed at a later date and may reschedule. I will keep you posted. It is said that most things come back around. You know, like our old slang words... My grandchildren have no idea what I am talking about when I say things from my era like: just hang lose, that guy is a clod or a hood. Here are some more examples: grub, rockin’ out, flower child, the fuzz, groovy, a gas, five finger discounts. How about draggin’ Main? What ever happened to the days when teenagers drove up and down main street on Friday and Saturday evenings? Quite often in the evening I go to Braums for an ice cream cone and take a drive around town. And no. At seventy-one I do not still drag Main. However, as I wonder where today’s kids are during the ‘draggin’ Main hours, I find they sitting in and on their cars just
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RETURN TO PARADISE
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So many festivals have been curtailed, cut short, reimagined online, or cancelled due to current circumstances. It’s safe to say that your favorite fall festival may have disappeared or taken on a new look altogether. So before heading out for that weekend of fun you had planned, better double check with the event planners and see what’s up. If you find a place to go stay safe and enjoy! In light of the fall festival spirit I heard about a new music project released on August 28th by Tulsa’s Horton Records that should help fill some of the live music void some of us may be currently experiencing. Listening to an interview with Paul Benjamin and Jesse Aycock recently I learned of the just released recording
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project, ‘Return to Paradise- A Tulsa Tribute to Okie Music.’ The title is, in part, a tribute to Leon Russell’s Grand Lake Studio. Benjamin and Aycock are well respected musicians with deep roots in the Oklahoma music scene and both contributed to the end product. The recording project was the idea of Jesse Aycock, Tulsa musician/songwriter and Brian Horton of Horton Records. Horton says the idea began about 12 years ago among several friends, Paul Benjamin among them, and gradually came to fruition. In the 70s the Tulsa sound, the Tulsa shuffle, began to take hold and develop into a respected, recognizable, merchandisable product. Leon Russell and J.J. Cale led the way and soon Eric Clapton took note and even lived in Tulsa for a time. Russell had made strides in the music scene when touring with Joe Cocker’s ‘Mad Dogs and Eng-
lishmen Tour’ after a career as Los Angeles session musician. Of course David Gates of Bread was from Tulsa as well as drummers, Dave Teegarden, Jim Keltner, and a host of other vibrant and consistent nationally and internationally acclaimed talents. Any Okie music lover of a certain age will certainly remember when Leon Russell, who passed away in 2016, rose to stardom spreading the news about Tulsa talent. Russell’s briefly successful record company, Shelter Records, based in Los Angeles with a studio in Tulsa, (The Church Studio), produced much talent that went on to success, including the GAP Band, blues legend, Freddie King, J. J. Cale, Willis Alan Ramsey and others. Tulsa was a big blip on the national music scene and Leon helped to shine a bright light on the abundance of local talent. Most of us local folks know that great music is still produced in Tulsa and has been all along. And we mustn’t forget Bob WIlls and Western Swing, so instrumental in Tulsa’s history. It’s just that recently it hasn’t gained quite the national recognition to such a degree as it did in the past. This new collaboration is done as a tribute to the past as well as honoring the current lineup of all star Tulsa talent that still performs regularly throughout the area and nationally as well. The project also shines a light on some lesser known, but yet deserving talents. Brian Horton said a national tour of this core group was planned as well, to promote the album, and the talent but was put on hold in light of the recent pandemic. This project contains 17 tracks. All were recorded over a four- day period at the Paradise Studio on Grand Lake, back in February, when the future wasn’t as cloudy for touring musicians as it is today. About 20 Tulsa musicians participated in this collaboration, and from what I’ve heard in the pre-release cuts, I can testify that it is a treasure trove! A festival of sound all to itself. From a recent press release: ‘The Oklahoma songs chosen for the album represent the famous to the obscure, and everything in between. This recording honors those who came before and made it possible for Tulsa musicians to have an identity and a music scene today. Thank you to Leon for blazing a trail and building this lake palace. Thank you to all of the Oklahoma musicians over the years who have been role models through their authenticity and spirit of community. This record is dedicated to them. Back To Paradise: A Tulsa Tribute to Okie Music. One of my favorite cuts here is Steve Ripley’s gospel infused, ‘Crossing Over’ sung by John Fullbright. It’s a moving experience. Another is the perennial favorite ‘Blind Man’ written by Bristow’s Tom Skinner, Don Morris and others, performed by Chandler’s hometown blues man, Dustin Pittsley. Others cover songs by Leon Russel, J.J. Cale, Dwight Twilley, Hoyt Axton, Steve Pryor, Cliff Beasley, Lowel Fulson, the GAP Band and many others. When Shelter shuttered its doors in the 70s, Leon moved, but the local music scene maintained, thrived and morphed into what it is today and definitely still alive with natural talent and teeming with a synchronistic variety of styles and energy. In the 90s the The Church Studio was acquired by Glencoe native Steve Ripley. He and his wife, Charlene, oper-
ated it for about 20 years before moving back to the family farm. Ripley, guitarist, songwriter, and guitar inventor, was the originator of the 90s country rock group, The Tractors. Ripley also toured with Bob Dylan back in 1981. He also worked closely with Leon Russel for decades in one capacity or another. Sadly, Ripley passed away in 2019, about a year after orchestrating a Bob Dylan tribute , ‘A NIght Like This’, at Cain’s Ballroom along with many of Dylan’s former accompanists. The former Paradise Studio of Leon’s was near the town of Tia Juana, OK. It’s been owned for the past 30 years by Tulsan, Rick Huskey. I had the opportunity of recording for Shelter Records at the old Church Studio in 1973 but never made it to Paradise. Though I’ve heard stories from friends who did. A lot of magical musical history went through those two facilities. And this Return to Paradise is a living testament to that fact. Return to Paradise- a Tulsa Tribute to Okie Music will make a nice addition to your vinyl collection. Or an excellent way to begin a vinyl collection! The recording is available as a download, CD or double vinyl LP with poster. For complete information Google ‘Horton Records Bandcamp’ and follow the link to Back to Paradise. This will also lead you to the complete track listing and complete credits for everyone involved. You can also go to HortonRecords.org and find links to a couple of interviews about the project. n
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Stroud, we discovered a beautiful and peaceful safe place! Eagle Creek cabins are nestled on a ridge overlooking an aquamarine-colored stream teaming with trout and perch. (I caught a trout and lots of the biggest perch I’d ever reeled in!) We didn’t even have to enter the lodge for registration; the key to our cabin, the Wild Rose Cabin, was waiting for us in the front door. When we entered the cabin, we were greeted by fresh rose petals strewn on the bed and Jacuzzi. (Nice touch!) We spent hours on the front porch-swing watching for deer, squirrels, and bass hunting bugs on the surface of the lake. We cooked delicious meals together and would have sipped wine together had I not forgotten the corkscrew! For three days we didn’t speak to anyone, until we rescued a young couple who were having difficulty fishing. We shared our worm bait and I believe we made their day better. We loved every moment of our time away, but Connee’s favorite was the hot tub on the back porch. Ahhhh! Thinking of backyards! Perhaps this unprecedented fall presents a superb opportunity to enjoy our own backyards. We recently spent a precious evening with friends in Midwest City. Gary, my brother-from-a-different-mother, had recently created a stone patio in his backyard. His wife, Nancy, added beautiful furnishings and now they have their own little escape. After sharing grilled steaks and Gorgonzola salad, and a margarita, we watched Jupiter and Saturn rise above the Oklahoma horizon. I love the Holy One’s natural gifts! Fall in Oklahoma. The pandemic cannot take away everything the Creator has given. n
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Delilah’s DILEMMAS
It was late Sunday evening when Buford Beauregard pulled up the drive at the Royal Flush Ranch. Given the circumstances, he’d decided it was too dangerous to leave his daughter and her puny ranch hand alone in the middle of nowhere. So, he hopped a plane to Tulsa, and then rented a Ford Explorer. Hannah, his wife of 45 years, had decided to stay home because of social obligations she felt she could not abandon. While the matter of Eli and Dooby was in the forefront of Delilah’s mind, there was also the issue of her safety. Patty’s demise would surely have created complications for the organization of criminals of whom she had been head. Delilah’s knowledge of the operation and its members made her a target, still, and probably more so, now that Patty was dead. So, when Big Daddy offered to come stay with her, Delilah agreed without hesitation. “I’m sorry Mother couldn’t come with you,” Delilah said, once Buford had settled his belongings into Eli’s bedroom, and the pair sat comfortably in the living room. “No, you’re not,” Buford said with a grin. “You’re right. I’m not sorry,” Delilah said with a chuckle. “I’m relieved, actually. With everything that’s going on, I sure don’t need to contend with Mother’s self-absorption.” “Oh, she means well,” Buford said. “No, she doesn’t,” Delilah said, cutting an incredulous look at her father. Buford snickered. “You’re right. She doesn’t mean well.” Exhausted, Buford called it an early night, and retired to Eli’s bedroom., while Delilah spent the rest of the evening curled up in bed and silently crying. When she considered the evidence, the Buford was that two of the three men she loved most in the world were dead, and tears flowed copiously. But deep down, from the heart, she felt like they were alive. Delilah fell asleep on that note. Next morning, just as Delilah, Buford, and Joel sat down at the kitchen banquette for breakfast, a knock at the back door gave everyone a jolt. In a flash, Buford pulled a Glock 42 from the back of
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his trousers. “Good Lord, Daddy,” Delilah said, catching her breath, and rising from the banquette. “How in the world did you get that on the plane?” “You can pack a gun in checked luggage,” Buford said, also rising from the banquette, and following his daughter to the back door. Delilah pulled the curtain aside. “It’s Daniel,” she said, opening the door. It didn’t take long for Daniel’s golden-green, bedroom eyes to go wide when he saw the gun in Buford’s hand. “Daddy, put that away,” Delilah said. “This is our ranch hand, Daniel. Daniel, this is my dad, Buford. Have you had breakfast?” “Yeah,” Daniel replied as he guardedly made his way into the room. “Is there a problem?” “We had a little situation over the weekend,” Delilah said, shooting a keep-quiet look at Joel and her father. “Coffee?” Delilah offered. “Sure,” Daniel said. “Go ahead, have a seat,” Delilah said. “Delilah, would you get the apple butter, please?” Joel asked. Delilah poured a cup of coffee for Daniel, fetched the apple butter from the refrigerator, and returned to the table, where breakfast was eaten, and Damon, the part-time, teenaged ranch hand, joined the party, and a list of the days chores was made. Damon drew the lawn straw, and was charged with mowing and weed eating the front and back yard. Joel got stable duty; mucking stalls, cleaning water troughs, and
tending to livestock. Buford and Daniel addressed the fence in the northwest corner of the property that needed mending. Delilah went to the garden to weed and harvest. It wasn’t quite yet 9:00 in the morning when Delilah got to the vegetable patch. But it was already somewhat warm and humid. Mid-June in Oklahoma was always a crapshoot; a tug of war between spring and summer. The heat did not deter Pandora, the old gray goat, who was already doing some harvesting of her own. Delilah blew out a long sigh and growled. Pandora momentarily stopped chewing on the tomato plant, it’s stalk dangling from the corner of her mouth. She looked at Delilah; the goat’s ghostly blue-gray eyes and Delilah’s London-blue topaz eyes locked in a stare down. Neither blinked. Pandora chewed once. Delilah narrowed her eyes and tightened her jaw. Pandora chewed twice, and still neither blinked. “I hear goat meat tastes like chicken,” Delilah said. “Actually, it’s more like beef,” Daniel said, coming up from behind Delilah. Delilah jumped and spun around, at the same time Pandora scampered around the two humans and out the gate. “Dumb goat,” Delilah said. “I don’t know how she does it. She gets through locked gates and locked doors and over walls and . . .” “Why didn’t you call me?” Daniel asked. “I beg your pardon?” Delilah said, turning away from Daniel. It was extraordinarily difficult looking directly into the man’s penetrating eyes. She bent to check the underneath
side of the squash plant. “Eli asked me to look after things,” Daniel said. “Well, to help you look after things. I don’t know what happened over the weekend, but if it warranted your dad coming from Georgia, I suspect it was important.” Delilah pulled a couple weeds while debating whether or not to tell Daniel what happened. “Will you pass me that hoe, please?” Delilah asked, pointing to the tool leaning against the chain link fence that surrounded the garden. “I played poker with some friends Saturday evening and one of my guests had a . . . medical incident,” she finally said, her southern drawl ever so pronounced. “And you’re tip-toeing on the precipice of presumption. I mean, how do you know my dad came from Georgia, and what makes you think his visit has anything to do with what happened Saturday evening? It is possible that he planned this little vacation sometime back.” A grin slowly inched across Daniel’s face. He opened his mouth to retort, just as Delilah’s cell phone rang. “Tractor’s in the barn, unless you want to drive your pickup across the field,” Delilah said with a wry smile, extracting her phone from the rear pocket of her jeans. It was Charlie, the Lincoln County Sheriff. “Just wanted to give you a heads up,” Charlie announced. “Preliminary autopsy indicates she died of a heart attack.” Delilah let that news slosh around in her brain for a bit as she watched Daniel walk away toward the barn.
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“So, it wasn’t anything we did? I mean, duct taping her to the chair didn’t cause it, did it?” Delilah asked, her voice low enough that Daniel could not hear. Charlie chuckled. “No. Excess calcification,” he replied. Delilah sighed. “I’m horrible, just horrible,” she said. “I’m so thankful that neither Joel or I will be held accountable for Patty’s death, that I’m not giving a second thought to the fact that she died. I’m trying to justify my lack of compassion with the fact that she did try to kill me, and may actually have succeeded at killing Eli and Dooby.” Once again, she felt the emotion welling up inside. She thought she had cried all she was capable of crying, but here they were again, tears. “Have you heard anything on that front?” Charlie asked with empathy. “Eli’s plane is still at the airport,” Delilah said, wiping the droplets from her cheeks with the backs of her gloved hands. “Their rental car was found three blocks from where Abigail was detained, keys in it, all their belongings are still in their hotel room, and their credit and debit cards haven’t been used. Doesn’t sound good, does it?” “On the surface, no,” Charlie said, after a short pause. “But it could be they want it to look that way. I have some news. I called the local Chief of Police in D. C. and asked if they had any John Does.” “And?” Delilah asked anxiously. “None that fit Eli’s and Dooby’s description,” Charlie replied. “Well, that’s good news,” Delilah said.
“He’s going to check with the morgues in neighboring cities,” Charlie said. “I’ll let you know what I find out.” “Thanks Charlie,” Delilah said. She disconnected the line, and stuck the phone in her hip pocket. She procured the hoe and began hacking away at unwanted foliage. Once the weeds were eradicated, she plucked and pulled and snapped all the ripened vegetables and placed them in her basket. Then she worked three wheelbarrows of compost into the soil around the plants. When she had finished, and the gate had been locked, she hoisted her basket of bounty in one hand and the hoe in the other, and whistled toward the stable. She whistled again. “Will you set up the sprinkler in the garden, Joel?” she shouted as soon as the kid stuck his head around the corner of the building. Joel raised a hand and nodded. “Lunch’ll be ready in about thirty minutes,” she added. Before she went inside the house, Delilah found Damon and told him over the roar of the mower, in her own form of sign language, that lunch would be ready in 30 minutes. Once inside the house, she called Buford’s cell phone and heard it ringing upstairs in Eli’s bedroom. She rolled her eyes, shook her head, and chuckled. “Well, I guess the peach doesn’t fall very far from the tree,” she said under her breath. Delilah called Daniel’s cell phone. “So, you do have my number,” Daniel answered with a smile in his voice.
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“Who is this?” Delilah demanded quickly. “Is Rita there?” There was a long stretch of silence. Delilah began laughing. “Lunch’ll be ready in thirty minutes,” she said. And she disconnected. Thirty minutes later everyone was in the kitchen, lunching. “Damon, I want you to help Daniel mend fence this afternoon, please,” Delilah announced as she cleared dishes from the table. “Did you finish the lawn?” “What about me?” Bufford inquired. “I need you to help me with some things in the house,” Delilah said. “You want me to weed the flower beds?” Damon asked. “No, Hun. I’ll get that tomorrow morning,” Delilah replied. “Want help with the dishes?” Joel asked. “Thank you, no,” Delilah said. “Finish up the stable, and if you have time, I’d like the garage swept.” Joel, Damon, and Daniel were out the door, Delilah had finished cleaning the kitchen, and had joined her father, who was watching CNN in the living room. She stepped over to the oak desk in the corner, sat down, and powered up her computer. “Daddy, I want you to look at this,” she said. “I checked my email when I came in from the garden and found this. It has a noreply email address, so I have no idea who it came from.” They are gone – your turn now One line. One threat. n
Who sent the EMAIL? Are they coming after DELILAH?
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Don’t Judge a Tree in One Season
by ANDREA BYERS MOTR/L, CDT, PAMS
There was a man who had four sons. He
wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second son wen in the spring, third son in the summer and the fourth son in the fall. When they had all gone, he called them together to describe what they had seen…..
The first son said the tree was ugly, bent and
twisted.
The second said no it was covered with green
bulbs and full of promise.
The third son disagreed and said the tree was
heavy laden with blossoms that smell as sweet and looked as beautiful and the most graceful thing he had ever seen.
The fourth son disagreed with all of them and
he said the tree was ripe and dropping fruit, full of life and fulfillment.
The father then explained to the sons that they
were all right, because they had each seen but only one tree in one season in the tree’s life. He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person by only one season, and that the essence of who they are and the pleasure, joy, and love that comes from that life can only be measured in the end, when all the seasons of life are up. If you will
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