Truth on Wings

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Photo/Text © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker
Photo by R. Baker taken Sept. 8, 2013 at Letchworth State Park, NY.

Photos From My Photography/Epigram Show Titled "Potentials of Us (U.S.)

"Potentials of Us (U.S.)" 

Photo/Poetry/Epigram Show by Rick Baker 

September 6, 2013

Aviv Cafe Gallery

Bethel Christian Fellowship 

East Avenue 

Rochester, New York

Thank you again, to everyone who came to the event last Friday to make the show a success! And thank you to all of you who offered support and encouragement but were unable to attend! We had a gathering through the evening of between 50 and 60 guests. This was a fun evening with friends and others I met for the first time. 

Thanks again to Pat Zarpentine for her support and for introducing me to the First Friday Gallery Night events in Rochester.  

Another thank you to artist and gallery director Richmond Futch Jr.  for hosting this event, and for all his encouragement. 

Thank you also to First Friday - Citywide Gallery Night, Rochester NY, and to all the supporters and sponsors of this monthly event. 

It's my hope that some of the images and words will challenge those who see and read them to think about their surroundings differently each day. That's what the showing was and is all about! 

Thanks again to you all....I'm honored to know you all, and humbled by your kind words and friendship! 

Here are a few select photos from the event. 

Rick 

My mother, Betty Stovall Baker

Snacks from Edible Arrangements & Wegman's 

My mother and Pat Zarpentine

Summer Down the Path.....

Photo/Text © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker
Photo taken by R. Baker at Letchworth State Park, NY, September 8, 2013.

Magpie Tales 185: Remember and Remember

paths incarnate: 

revisited

abundance describes us perfectly - 

opportunity too. convenience 

is a lighted path - toss the maps 

in a bin;  no shortage of owner's manuals 

to predetermined clarity. 

try beating an intellectual path then do it.

(if you can see that well at night)

think neon:  a visual allergy making 

you blink, rather than think. 

a pitch black forest at the end of your steps

is dark - is 

either life abbreviated or extended 

                    for one or the other.

Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Rockwell Painting shared by Tess Kincaid.

A Poem Before My Art Show

unself


upon the countenance of wisdom
we are in need; we search; we 
falter; 

we cling. there are hands to hold
words to encourage, dreams to 
unfold;

in that is the allowance of requite
to see the other side and believe
clemency.



© 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

My First Gallery Show Preview

The photos are hung. Friday is day after tomorrow, and my first showing begins! 

Here are a few photos of the gallery after we got everything set up. Many thanks to Pat Zarpentine for her help today, and encouragement all along. 

Thanks also to Richmond Futch Jr. who was there today to help us and offer valuable suggestions and encouragement. Richmond is the director of the gallery and an accomplished artist many of you have seen and will see again. 

Hope to see you all at the event this Friday!

Magpie Tales 184: Out On A Limb? A Political Comment

on human rights, 

doves of peace,

and hypocrisy

cow shit fertilizing the 

garden 

does not equate 

blossoms 

on the moral high road. 

sit high and observe. 

pontificate. 

tighten your thorny 

halo. 

wear it as a 

crown. 

pretend to feed the 

masses

with seeds of piecemeal 

hope

on ethnocentric rendering.

climb the 

high mountain.

swim the 

deep ocean. 

shoot the 

cosmos stars.

win 

hearts and minds.

when tilling 

the garden 

consider: 

moral high roads 

are constructs of 

intellectual relativity. 

cow shit 

holds

its own rewards. 

Poem © 2013 Rick Burnett Baker 

Photo by Jeanie Tomanek shared by Tess Kincaid.