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April Knoll, owner of the Travel Center, expressed her enthusiasm at being involved with the theater and to be able to offer this service to her customers.
The Travel Center is at 1265 S. Main Street in the Shoreline Shopping Center and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Knoll's active involvement with the Soper-Reese started when she approached them about hosting a New Year’s Eve celebration and featuring the LC Diamonds.
“The theater loved the idea and has scheduled this event, and now tickets will be available five days a week to our audience,” said Mike Adams, the theater's executive director.
For event schedules and online ticket sales go to www.soperreesetheatre.com.
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LAKEPORT, Calif. – Righteous Vibrations with Brown Bear and Lucas Swafford will perform at Kelsey Creek Coffee on Friday, Dec. 16.
Doors open at 7 p.m., with the show starting at 7:30 p.m.
Singer/songwriters Brown Bear and Swafford will play some amazing tunes that captivate.
There also will be dancing, moving, grooving, positive, reggae music with Righteous Vibrations, one of Lake County's best bands.
Kelsey Creek Coffee is located at 930 Main St., Lakeport.
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When we’re on all fours in a garden, planting or weeding, we’re as close to our ancient ancestors as we’re going to get. Here, while he works in the dirt, Richard Levine feels the sacred looking over his shoulder.
Believe This
All morning, doing the hard, root-wrestling
work of turning a yard from the wild
to a gardener’s will, I heard a bird singing
from a hidden, though not distant, perch;
a song of swift, syncopated syllables sounding
like, Can you believe this, believe this, believe?
Can you believe this, believe this, believe?
And all morning, I did believe. All morning,
between break-even bouts with the unwanted,
I wanted to see that bird, and looked up so
I might later recognize it in a guide, and know
and call its name, but even more, I wanted
to join its church. For all morning, and many
a time in my life, I have wondered who, beyond
this plot I work, has called the order of being,
that givers of food are deemed lesser
than are the receivers. All morning,
muscling my will against that of the wild,
to claim a place in the bounty of earth,
seed, root, sun and rain, I offered my labor
as a kind of grace, and gave thanks even
for the aching in my body, which reached
beyond this work and this gift of struggle.
American Life in Poetry is made possible by The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. It is also supported by the Department of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Poem copyright © 2010 by Richard Levine, from his most recent book of poetry, That Country’s Soul, Finishing Line Press, 2010, by permission of Richard Levine and the publisher. Introduction copyright ©2011 by The Poetry Foundation. The introduction's author, Ted Kooser, served as United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004-2006. They do not accept unsolicited manuscripts.