Peace Love & Bugs – VW Show

April 29, 2012

Yesterday was Peace Love & Bugs – VW Show. It took place at The Atlanta Progressive Preschool between Druid Hills and Clairmont Roads in Atlanta. I set up my tent really early. I dragged myself out of bed earlier than that. I forgot to get proper change but it was okay. The weather was perfect. They bought me free coffee and a bagel. Later in the day it got really hot but that was easy enough. We had some shade and a tent.

I had been working hard to get the paintings and tent ready for the show yesterday. I was the only artist at the event and I had a lot of fans (mostly under the age of 6) that came by to say, “Hi.” A lot of cool bugs and beetles and buses showed up. They had good music by Swami Gone Bananas and Lefty Williams Band. I even got a henna tattoo on my arm of the snake I painted across the front of my tent. My mom showed up and had on some cool sunglasses. You can’t do much better than that!

I made a lot of paintings for the show and I sold almost everyone of them. I had a lot of people tell me how their children were crazy about The BeltLine Bears. I do not know what I really did but something has resonated with the children and people that see my painted bears. Sometimes things just flow through us and are amplified. People react to what The Spirit has done through us.

Thanks to Alicia and my other friends at Atlanta Progressive Preschool for all you have done for me.

– Kyle