Southern guy's take on The Help

Written By Robin Wade

Southern guy's take on The Help

Southern guy's take on The Help1)  Chick Flick

2)  really slow (for mr. a.d.d anyway)

3)  But I'm so glad this movie was made.  So important.  These issues sooo need to be discussed.  In the beginning of the Movie, set in the early '60s, one of the actors said something like "we don't talk about this around here".  Well, obviously we've made some wonderful progress on many of these fronts, but WE STILL AREN'T TALKING about these issues.

We can't continue to make progress, until we acknowledge the atrocities we (or previous generations) made with the American Indians, with racial issues, and I'm sure plenty more.  This is complex stuff here.  So many unique perspectives.  No, Southerners aren't the only one's to blame.  But what does that matter.  Unbelievable mistakes have been made.  Let's acknowledge them, discuss them, and learn from them  Let's talk.

Southern guy's take on The Help

Robin Wade
Robin Wade Furniture is a celebration of nature—a melding of a forward thinking commitment to the environment and a quiet, harmonious design aesthetic. From his "slow studio" in North Alabama, award-winning wood artist Robin Wade designs and crafts one-of-a-kind handmade furniture. Years before a piece is ready to enter a client's home or a gallery, the process begins—naturally—with the tree. Sustainably harvested, each specimen of hardwood is flitch sawn into natural-edge wood slabs, debarked by hand with a draw knife, and stacked to dry, usually for years, before the final cure in the kiln. From here, Wade and his team use both hand and power tools to bring Wade's vision to life, and then finish each piece with a hand-rubbed oil blend. Each organic furniture creation by Robin Wade Furniture balances the raw, natural beauty of environmentally, locally sourced hardwoods with minimally invasive, clean lines—a juxtaposition Wade calls both rustic and modern. “I haven’t yet found a better artist than nature,” he says.
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