This is Susie Love...
It's a very rare occasion that you have the opportunity to acquaint yourself with as unique an individual as this week's featured No Fly Zoner! So take it from us, if given the opportunity take the time to introduce yourself to Susie Love, because she is just that.
Beneath this easy going, all-smiles exterior is a complexity that remains too elusive for us to describe, and that is even after the longest interview in Gadzooks! history. Susie is simply not a person that can be contained within any one label.
We started by trying Singer/Songwriter;
but that was only part of it,
then we added Artist;
and it still wasn't enough, though her paintings are stunning,
Designer;
nope, though the clothing and jewelry she creates lends itself nicely to its neighbourhood influences,
we then added Antique Collector;
not quite there yet, though she frequents the antiques shops almost daily,
Community Networker Extraordinaire;
we are getting closer. She introduced us to at least 20 new Gadzooks! readers, who are people you will undoubtedly read about in future episodes;
Animal Lover,(we are as well so she's definitely in our good books),
BOUNDLESS BALL OF CREATIVE AND SOCIAL ENERGY;
and Bingo, we have arrived!
Within her multiple talents lays a very accomplished singer/song writer that is just returning to the craft she holds so near and dear to her heart after a year long hiatus due to an almost fatal elevator incident that left her bent and broken, but not defeated. A skilled visual artist as a painter, working through a mind-numbing creative explosion lasting 8 weeks and producing 25 paintings.
It truly amazed us to the point that we hung out with her for hours, and it was almost as though time stood still during portions of the night. At one point having looked at a clock on the wall, we were amazed that so much had happened in one evening. If the world were made up of all Susie Loves, this world, my friends, would be a much better place than it is now! For the simple fact is that we would all laugh, and smile a hell of a lot more, not to mention that we would all have such positive, unselfish, considerate attitudes, that we would all be walking around with no shirts on having just given them to a friend in need! But come to think of it, if the world were made up of all a bunch of shirtless Susie Loves walking around it would be a better place for other reasons...
