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Sunday, January 13, 2013
ADLEN ROBINSON
Columnist
My dad used to say,
“Well, if you live long
enough, you are bound
to see everything.”
I know I haven’t seen
“everything” yet, but
the more I observe our
culture, the more
amazed I am by some of
the things I see and hear
about.
Many of these in
years past would have
been extraordinary but
today have somehow
become “normal.”
The other day I was at
my favorite superstore
when I saw a grown
man wearing his pajama
bottoms. Like me, he
was leisurely shopping,
pushing his cart and
checking off items on
his list.
I followed him for a
bit (yes, I can be known
to stalk if the person
warrants a stalking) and
saw he was buying reg
ular items similar to
things I was purchasing.
I estimated him to be in
his late 40s, and from
the waist up, he looked
completely “normal.”
I wondered how his
morning routine went.
Did he have a cup of
coffee, make his list and
then begin to get
dressed when he
stopped himself and
said, “What is the point
of wearing pants? I am
just going to come back
home and put these
back on.”
What part of his life
told him this was OK?
Obviously, he wasn’t
married, or if he was,
she must have been at
work.
There is no way a
woman would let a man
out of the house if he
were wearing his paja
ma bottoms instead of
pants.
I'also noted that
nobody else in the store
seemed particularly
bothered by his attire.
' My friend who is a
cashier at the store
laughed when I told her
about it. “You have no
idea the things we see
on a daily basis,” she
said.
I remember when this
pajamas-out-in-public
thing began a few years
ago. I believe the popu
lar lingerie chain that
puts words on the bot
tom portion of its sweat
pants was instrumental
in popularizing this
trend.
Of course, teenagers
and young girls were
the first to jump on that
bandwagon. While 1
may not think it the best
choice of clothing to
wear in public, they are,
after all, teenagers.
Having a good bit of
experience with that
particular animal, I'm
rarely shocked by what
they do and wear.
But adults? Really?
I certainly don’t don
my Sunday best when I
go shopping (wait ...
you can wear flip-flops
to church now), but at
least I change out of my
pajamas before leaving
the house. Workout
clothes are fine in my
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Justin Davis, 2005 Forsyth Central graduate, and Sarah
Zimmermann form the country duo Striking Matches.
Editor Kevin Atwill can be reached at editor@forsythnews.com or (770) 887-3126.
Community
Longtime
director
By Crystal Ledford
cledford@forsythnews.com
A new job opportunity was bit
tersweet for Nicole Morgan.
After serving nearly seven years
as executive director of the Forsyth
County Community Connection,
she began last week acclimating to
her new role with the Georgia
Center for Nonprofits in Atlanta.
“It’s really funny because when
the opportunity came available
with the Georgia Center, it was one
of those things that just sort of
came out of nowhere in some
ways,” said Morgan, who started
with the local Community
Connection in June 2006.
“One of my friends saw [the job
posting] and said, ‘You should
look at this.” I really began to
think, ‘Oh my gosh, I can’t believe
it has been almost seven years and
in a lot of ways I think I’ve grown
up in my job."”
Morgan said-she made the deci
sion then to move on.
“But that was hard because this
really has been my baby,” she said.
“] cried a lot.
“But it’s a neat kind of step to
the next level for me because it’s a
statewide position and after almost
seven years I was like it’s time to
do something a little different, take
what I've learned and hopefully
use it in great ways.”
Morgan is still on partial con
tract until Feb. 9 as the director of
the local Community Connection,
which works to serve local non
profits and link volunteers to
opportunities through its Hands On
Forsyth program. She will plan the
organization’s annual Heart and
Hands Gala fundraiser and help
with the transition to a new direc
tor.
That person has not yet been
selected by the organization’s
board, but Morgan, said the new
official would likely be named by
early February.
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Davis is part of
Striking Matches
By Crystal Ledford
cledford@forsythnews.com
Justin Davis can’t remember a
time when music wasn’t an impor
tant part of his life.
“I actually have baby pictures of
me holding guitars and stuff that
were bigger than me,” he said.
“People ask me when I started
playing and I really don’t have an
answer for them just because it’s
always been around.
“I really didn’t have a moment
where I was like, ‘Well, I don’t
really know what to do with my
lite,"
That lifelong love has paid off for
the 2005 Forsyth Central High
School graduate and his musical
partner, Sarah Zimmern.ann.
Together, they make up the
Nicole Morgan has begun a
new job with Georgia Center
for Nonprofits in Atlanta after
serving nearly seven years as
executive director of the
Forsyth County Community
Connection. During her time
in Forsyth, she helped guide
the local nonprofit through a
period of tremendous growth.
Photos by Autumn Vetter
Forsyth County News
Nashville, Tenn.-based band
Striking Matches, and their music,
which Davis describes as “abso
lutely country,” has gotten a lot of
attention lately.
In December, a song the duo
wrote called “When the Right One
Comes Along™ was featured on the
ABC television series “Nashville.”
After that, the actors’ perfor
mance leapt onto the iTunes coun
try charts and Davis and
Zimmermann were featured in a
“Nashville” Web video featuring
the show's songwriters.
Davis said seeing their song
performed on national television
was “really cool and surreal.”
“1 guess the coolest part has
been the response afterward,” he
said. “It’s just been really cool to
see how [the song] connects to
people. There have been so many
people who have found us on the
Internet ... and so many of them
have come to our version over the
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