Author: Jim Mitchem

Imagine for a moment that tomorrow everything blinked off. All sense of normalcy gone. No Internet. No phone. No electricity. Nothing. But darkness. What would you do? Well, if you’re not throwing yourself out of a window in panic or looting the local electronics store (duh), your next step would be to start doing whatever is necessary to survive. Things like hunting for food, finding water, and gathering firewood. But then what? Well, you’d probably reach out to others. That’s right, you’d turn to your…

Overcome, by Live, was written before the events of 9/11/2001, but quickly became a lasting anthem to the idea of love, in the face of fear. *** Jim Mitchem

And summer ends the way it began – with blue-lipped children who are 3-months older, but who are in the same denial about the water’s chill. Goodbye summer.

This morning I made a comment on a blog that resulted in some strange and beautiful private dialogue. First, here's the blog.  For those who don't know them, Wray Ward owns 'advertising' in Charlotte. Sure, there are a couple of other agencies that bill MANY tens of millions annually, but WW is pretty much synonymous with advertising in Charlotte. That's all I know about them. I once interviewed there, but nothing ever came from it. Which is cool in retrospect…

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