Retirement Stuff from the A-Team

The A-Team Artists of Trenton, a group of artists who regularly use the services of the Trenton Area Soup Kitchen (from which my wife is retiring at the end of this week!), are a cooperative whose purpose is fourfold:

1 to promote the work of TASK artists, including visual artists, musicians, writers, actors and craftspeople;

2 to work together as a group to support and encourage each other’s success;

3 to learn entrepreneurial skills by taking responsibility for developing and maintaining the A-TEAM as a business entity;

4 to generate good will and public support for the artists, the TASK community and the city of Trenton.

Today, they showed their appreciation for Cathy's support with several gifts. The first was a collage of the entire group. The two close-up pictures show the "gardening" theme.





They presented her with "crossed" tools: a ladle and a trowel to signify the passage from soup kitchen to garden.



And finally a hand-made card with an appropriate pun!