Steadying ourselves
My mother, Phyllis Gwendolyn Bolling Williams, has been gardening since she was a small girl. At 87, she still finds a way to tend to the earth and coax beauty and nutrition from small patches of ground.
“I know what it’s like to be free and I know what it’s like to be encaged.” Dexter Romweber
When I saw Romweber in 2015 I wasn’t sure how much of his shtick was harmless stage antics, and how much of it was ‘honest-to-god I’m falling apart before your very eyes folks’ reality.