Nothing In Particular Bio – Jonathan Sawrie

Jonathan Sawrie has spent most of his short life involved in gospel music as a pianist, singer, writer, teacher, and producer.  He is a life-long resident of Faulkner County, Arkansas and makes his home near Greenbrier on Horseshoe Mountain with wife Danna, sons Jacob and Joshua, and cat Samson.   They are active members of Central Baptist Church in Conway.  (Samson has not joined the church.)  He holds a BBA Degree in Accounting from the University of Central Arkansas and is a master Spades player winning the Toad Suck Ferry Spades Tournament in 1998 and 2000.   He enjoys gardening, motorcycling, Razorback football, and has no spare time.  He gave up full-time bus riding in 2002 after 16 years with the Melody Boys Quartet but continues to do free-lance quartet work filling in for the sick and afflicted and those who were fired for stealing mic cords.   He appears at the Grand Ole Gospel Reunion each August as the pianist for the Grand Ole Gospel Reunion Quartet.  (And everybody else who doesn't have one or left theirs at home.)   He does not play golf.

.

Happy New Year!

 Yeah, it’s me again.  And yes, it has been August since I have graced the world with my writing prowess.  But no one’s said they missed me, so I really should use this as a good time to disappear. . .

By way of explanation, some of you will remember that I reported last year my temporary assignment to our District Contracting Office in Little Rock.  That developed into an opportunity to accept an assignment with a new mission we are standing up to provide contracting and program/project management support to the Air Force.  

I am not one who embraces change - at all - but felt like I had come to a place in my life where I was ready for a new challenge.  So I thanked the Lord (after I mumbled “why” a few times) that I still have a job and resigned myself to the fact that I now must make the dreaded daily commute to Little Rock for the foreseeable future.   

We did get to move into some new digs on the third floor however, and the third floor men’s room is much less crowded than on the seventh floor!  (Some of you will remember the issues I had with the seventh floor restroom.)

All of this has meant some long days as we get up and running and I really haven’t had any spare time to divert my thought processes to writing an article that I thought any of you would find interesting.  I just didn’t figure you all wanted to hear about the intricacies of the Federal Acquisition Regulation as it relates to soliciting and awarding Architect-Engineer contracts.

Although I suspect my new schedule will require that I miss a month now and again, I will strive to better fulfill my writing obligation this year - it is my ministry after all.

Before we end this month’s brief visit, I want to say a word of congratulations to young Devin on his being able to finally move back into the wonderful light of quartet singing.  I’m sorry Karen, you know I love you, but he had wandered in the dark wilderness of trioism far too long . . . far too long.

I wish all of you the very best for the New Year and hope to see you next month.