I figured out there are two emotions in life, fear and love

by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 9, 2016 | A Southern Soul

“I am an optimist, but I am more of a hope barterer. That is more of what our world needs. There is so much negativity. I am from Mississippi and I know we are last at everything, but I love an underdog. You can’t give up and hate on an underdog because...

People get upset when they get a parking ticket, it is important that I don’t get upset with them and reassure them that it will be OK

by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 7, 2016 | A Southern Soul

“I give out parking tickets. I have been doing this for almost nine years. People get upset when they get a parking ticket, it is important that I don’t get upset with them and reassure them that it will be OK. I try to always be kind and keep a peaceful...

We need diversity in art here. We try to be the radical ones that throw it out there, just to get people’s minds turning

by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 6, 2016 | A Southern Soul

“We need diversity in art here. Most of Mobile art is beach scenes and oyster shells. We need to bring in other cultures.” “There are social issues going on in the world and art here stays away from that. It doesn’t show the world the way it...

I got divorced in July and I am starting over again and moving to a house on the bay

by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 5, 2016 | A Southern Soul

“I am moving to Fairhope. I left Indiana when I was 58. I had five children and when my youngest went to college and had a pity party and bought a little place in Costa Rica in ’99. I sold everything I had to get my son into college and was going to Costa...

I became a rabbi because God called me to do it, but I ran from that calling for years

by Lynn Oldshue | Oct 4, 2016 | A Southern Soul

“Rosh Hashanah is the Jewish new year. It is also called the Feast of Trumpets. The Torah commands us to blast the shofar on the first day of the seventh month of the Hebrew calendar. Throughout the world, services are happening and the shofar is being blown. We...