Wednesday 12/16 at 7:30pm, Walker Talks! Catch Walker Brents III, the store’s resident mythologist philosopher poet, holding forth on the gift of truth.

Lewis Hyde’s book, The Gift, is the inspiring text here, with Truth the enriching theme, like an intuitive moral compass. Clean simple spare lines betokening beautiful proportions, inwardly sensed, like Shaker furniture…and all that jazz…

The Gift of Truth is its untouchability. Seemingly wounded and used in public display, yet always abiding. The original open secret. It lives in the realm of intuition, and when it is needful for it to be drawn forth, we have the arts. The economy of the arts is a gift economy, an economy of intangible forms that increase their value as they are shared. A circulation system, whose ways are charted by the imaginative sense. In these hungry and thirsty times it is still possible to see this.

Catch Walker’s talk at 7:30 this evening, Wednesday, December 16 on Bird & Beckett’s Facebook page or YouTube channel.  Donate to reward him for his contribution to the culture at this link

Tune in again Thursday evening for the rural blues juggernaut HowellDevine
and Friday evening for guitarist Scott Foster’s jazz trio featuring
saxophonist Larry de la Cruz and drummer Russ Gold!