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Rosh Hashanah Happy New Year

Posted by Ed Zirkle on September 21, 2017
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Shalom aleichem and L’shanah tovah

Today is the start of the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashanah, and I had a chance to attend a service tonight with a good friend.  A great sermon which I will post here later spoke of new beginnings, taking care of life.  I learned a little about the Book of Life and Book of the Dead.  And even though I was totally lost I felt so included. Could not for the life of me even with the words in front of me keep up with the songs yet they felt so comfortable on my ears.

At the end of the service there was a Mourner’s Kaddish and I thought of my good friend Perry.  While he is no longer with us I keep him alive within me and all the great times we had.  If he had been with me or rather I’d would have been with him, he would have explained everything in detail to me.  And then tongue in cheek, explain why I would never really get it.  Miss you Perry!

Here are a couple of links for those of us that want to know but don’t quite know… Rosh Hashanah and Book of Life

One last thing, part of the service is the blowing of the Shofar and I had the privilege to have photographed Meira Warshauer’s music that she wrote for a Shofar. Fits nicely with today.

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What If Clients Don’t Really Need ‘Professional Photography’?

Posted by Ed Zirkle on January 28, 2015
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Interesting article by Don Giannatti about the need or not for a professional photographer.

Read it here at Petapixel

About the author: Don Giannatti is a photographer, designer, and writer who has never owned a Subaru or an Escalade. He once owned a PT Cruiser, but that it a long and tortured story not fit for telling without a few beers. He lives and works in Phoenix, Arizona, and prefers Mexican food to anything else. In fact, there may not be anything else. You can visit his website here and his online portfolio here

Ten Great Things About Being a Vicar’s Wife

Posted by Ed Zirkle on January 26, 2015
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After watching Grandchester on PBS and finding out what a ‘curate’ was came across this wonderful blog. Enjoy.

The Vicar's Wife

Inspired by Steve Tilley’s list of reasons to be married to a priest I thought I’d add a Vicar’s wife’s perspective. We’ve not watched the offending episode of Rev yet – we were interrupted before viewing on iPlayer by the Vicar’s diocesan golf team partner arriving to stay over so that he and the Vicar could get an early start off to their tournament today.

Anyway, I love being a Vicar’s wife, and here are some of the reasons why:

  1. I have a husband who is serious about loving me as Christ loved the church (Ephesians 5v25).
  2. We get to work as a team in all sorts of ways (hospitality, church strategy, cleaning the churchyard…)
  3. My husband is around to take kids to and from school, take them swimming and eat with the family most nights.
  4. He’s involved with the kids’ primary school and knows their teachers better than…

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TBDBITL

Posted by Ed Zirkle on September 13, 2014
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One thing that Mom loved was fall and the Buckeyes, especially the band. And one of the best show ever on stage is The Ohio State Marching Band on the stage at Vets Memorial. Close to the stage where you could feel everything!
This half time show you would love. Enjoy…

We are Groot

Posted by Ed Zirkle on July 31, 2014
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I’m not a fan boy nor do I know the ins and outs of the Marvel comic book universe, but the movies from them are great and I thought I’d see what ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ was all about.

Briefly, so as to not give anything away, sort of…  GREAT movie, even greater music.  Fun to watch and now I have to connect the dots at Marvel.  We are Groot, we grove to the music.

At the end of the film the audience applauded and NO one left.  Now I have to see how they take the end of the movie, end, and tie it all together.  Enjoy the flick, so worth it.

Ck it out.

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