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Veterans Day

12 Monday Nov 2018

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As we celebrate the past and now of those that have stood for all of us over the years let us give thanks that we can look to a brighter future.

Here are some rather appropriate words written over 150 years ago that ring so true today:

“I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the alter of freedom.”

And to a nation divided:

“If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time or die by suicide.”

Both attributed to Abraham Lincoln.

Naturalization Ceremony 2008 Gines Ramon Pedraza, E6, New River, Cuba Dion Leo Pierre, E6, Ft Bragg, Tinidad & Tabago
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Cuba via Roberta Kayne

27 Wednesday Dec 2017

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A good friend of mine – and a great landscape photographer – has volunteered to go to Cuba to teach some English classes. She is looking for some items, listed below, to take and leave with the children. Also listed are some links to read about the trip and her photos from the trip, to come after she returns.

Roberta Kayne FB    Twitter    and   Roberta Kayne website

Here are the literacy supplies that are needed:

Dry erase markers in dark colors
Dry erase erasers
Flashcards for Advanced English students (ie, SAT vocabulary prep)
English to Spanish dictionaries
Notebooks with lined paper
Markers, crayons, colored pencils
Pens
Maps
Children’s picture books

 

Lounge vs Cafe

28 Saturday Oct 2017

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Last week was fun running from Roscoe Village Apple Butter festival to Circleville Pumpkin Show and in the evenings attending my first HighBall. At the end of each evening after running up and down High street finished and home bound I passed 2 completely different worlds from what was running the streets.  A reverse zoo sort of thing with people in restaurants watching the crazies passing by and then inside the bars a whole other party cranked up from a Frat/sorority mixer at  Granero Lounge to the HighBall moving inside at the Union Cafe.

So depending on who you think is upscale or not and where to go for the ‘most’ fun, well that’s something fun for you to find out. But for me… well let the pictures speak… first Friday then Saturday.

Bar scene

Martini Modern Italian inside looking out…

Bar scene at Highball 17 Granero Lounge on Vine St Union Cafe
Bar scene at Highball 17 Granero Lounge on Vine St Union Cafe
Bar scene at Highball 17 Granero Lounge on Vine St Union Cafe
Bar scene at Highball 17 Granero Lounge on Vine St Union Cafe
Bar scene at Highball 17 Granero Lounge on Vine St Union Cafe
Bar scene

stolen moment

HighBall 17 at Union Cafe
HighBall 17 at Union Cafe
HighBall 17 at Union Cafe
HighBall 17 at Union Cafe
HighBall 17 at Union Cafe
HighBall 17 at Union Cafe
HighBall 17 at Union Cafe
HighBall 17 at Union Cafe
HighBall 17 at Union Cafe
HighBall 17 at Union Cafe
HighBall 17 at Union Cafe
HighBall 17 at Union Cafe
Bar scene

Stolen moment at the Union Cafe

Bar scene

watching HighBall 17 from The Eagle

Bar scene

And a tip of the hat to the ‘guys’ for their help at Union Cafe

Rosh Hashanah Happy New Year

21 Thursday Sep 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’?

28 Wednesday Jan 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

26 Monday Jan 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

13 Saturday Sep 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…