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I live in a small town, less than 5,000 folks. \u00a0I’ve lived here over 40 years, and I haven’t been home more than about half of those 40 years, I travel to make photographs and work. \u00a0Because of that, \u00a0I have not made a ton of friends in Corbin. \u00a0Joe at the laundry, a few folks in the neighborhood where I live, some more people in our church, and my barber, Robert. \u00a0Today was a sad day for me, I went to Robert’s Barber Shop for the last time, actually called Bob’s Barber Shop because his father, Bob, started it many years ago. Sadly Bob passed away a few years ago and Robert his son, Penny, Robert’s wife and Alicia his sister, (and one of my photo students), \u00a0have remained as the barbers. \u00a0From time to time his mother, Theata, will be at the shop and I love to visit with her too.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n So why was today sad? \u00a0After over 40 years, at the end of December, \u00a0they are closing the shop doors for good and retiring. \u00a0Robert deserves to be able to do that but I will miss him and the crew! \u00a0A man’s barber is more than someone that keeps his hair and beard under control! \u00a0Robert has been my barber, a therapist, a good buddy to talk politics with, (who mostly agrees with me or visa versa). \u00a0Over 40 years, he has become one of my few friends in our community. \u00a0I don’t think we take the time to thank those folks that enrich our lives, so that is why I am writing this! \u00a0Robert, I will miss you my friend, thank you for years of taking care of me and keeping me from being so bushy I needed a dog license! \u00a0Enjoy your retirement, you deserve it and certainly have earned it! \u00a0Expect me to stop by your place to say hi from time to time! \u00a0It’s been a pleasure my friend! \u00a0 God Bless!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I live in a small town, less than 5,000 folks. \u00a0I’ve lived here over 40 years, and I haven’t been home more than about half of those 40 years, I travel to make photographs and work. \u00a0Because of that, \u00a0I have not made a ton of friends in Corbin. \u00a0Joe at the laundry, a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27630"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27633,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27630\/revisions\/27633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}