Sign Bar

“Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don't want it....You do not know what wars are going on down there where the spirit meets the bone.” -Miller Williams

The skies above us didn’t have the heart to really threaten rain, instead they just mailed in a decent cloud cover that kept things cool on this May Austin night. A few of us gathered while in town to reconnect around adventures we’d shared as kids. I’ve written in other places about the near mythical experiences I was blessed with as a kid on a traveling summer camp. Those of us who got the lottery ticket of life that allowed us passage on the Bluebird share a deep bond.

It was to be a night of sharing memories, and there couldn’t have been a much better place than an out of the way East Austin watering hole called the Sign Bar, a museum of sorts with a collection of various signs salvaged from old Austin establishments. The nostalgia was thick as