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Eighteen years ago tomorrow I melted into the couch trying to disappear while I processed the fact that my mother was dead. I didn't want everyone gathered around me. I didn't want to talk about it. I didn't want to react in front of anyone. I just wanted to soak into the beige cushions and have my moment, but at 12 years old everyone expected something different, something extravagant and wild that required taming and tending. I didn't. I absorbed the information and took a shower, because it was the only place I could go and not be followed. I spent the next several days trying to gauge what was expected of me. I helped plan a funeral for the first time. I went with my best friend and her mom to buy something nice to wear with no idea what acceptable mourning attire for someone in my position could possibly be. I settled on a navy blue skirt with flowers on it. My goth stage wouldn't flood my life with black until a year or so later.
Eighteen years ago today, however, was a very different experience. One of life.
You always remember the last time you heard someone's voice before they leave your world. I remember her laughter and her words. I remember mine. I have since had to uproot my guilt over not going to visit as I had promised and how nonchalantly I threw in that last "love you, bye" as only adolescence can cast. She was coming home the next day. I was excited, but I didn't feel any particular need to drag it out over the phone. This would change how I handle phone calls, I-love-yous, and anticipation for the rest of my life, because the next day she simply didn't come home.
Yesterday I took a walk around the cemetery to clear my head. Eighteen years after the last time I hugged her my mom is still the best friend I go to for guidance, as I've developed a habit of laying on the grass under the tree she's buried near and telling her all the things I can't articulate anywhere else. It's the only place I can reach the voice inside me that has answers, because the part of her that lives within me is something I wasn't capable of recognizing as a preteen.
One of the things I inherited from my mother was her capacity to see the good in people. Whatever she called it, that woman embraced the spirit of Aloha in the very air she breathed. No one was ever turned away from her heart, and to those she gave pieces of it too she gave everything. For a long time I tried to run from that part of myself. I tried to cage it up, wall it in, and silence it for good. I hated it. I hated myself for it. I struggled for years with the very thing that makes me who I am, because I had let it shine only to have it ripped out, held in front of me, and tortured before my very eyes. I had watched something beautiful be eviscerated in the name of love, and I couldn't fathom anything worth experiencing that again. The lesson from my mother's last day had not yet sunk in.
So let's go back to that week.
My mother's funeral was the first I had ever planned. The first at which I had ever spoken. The first I had ever attended. The first time I had personally shaken Death's hand had taken from me the most important person in my life, and the seeds of this lesson were planted. Since then I have been to more funerals than I can count, spoken at many of them, and helped plan seven. Family, friends, children. Old, young, unborn. Sick, sudden, at their own hands. Loss. Loss is something you never get used to and something you can never truly plan for no matter how hard you try. Loss is where the seeds Death planted the day my mother said, "if you're not coming today, don't bother, because I'm going home tomorrow" and I chose to stay home instead begin to sprout. Loss is where those sprouts blossom into regret and sadness every time one of those last conversations is replayed in the back of my mind. Loss is where I gained the strength and courage to let the part of me which my mother tried so hard to cultivate within me finally be free, because the only thing that can grow taller than Death's crops in my soul is love.
There are times when I doubt. There are times when I'm told that opening myself up to love this way makes me weak and vulnerable. There are times when I'm told it's ignorant and ugly to let my heart be naked this way. Not everyone appreciates it. I'm called crazy, overwhelming, and naive every time I put my heart at risk, but to me this risk is far more acceptable that the one that someone I love never knew it. In this lesson my mother's voice lives on. In this way her heart continues to love. In this way I am showing her every day how much I loved her and how important she was to me, not just as my mother but as the fire that burns within me.
I've written about it before, the reasons I love the way I do. What it all boils down to is that love is something you can't do halfway or there's no point in doing it at all. It can hurt. It can burn. It can tear you apart when you least expect it, but so can regret, fear, and doubt. At least my way I also run the risk of being happy and loved in return, and that's the secret my mom knew.
"What would you say," a friend posed to me as I sat at his table, "to a friend who had just told you what you just told me?" We had been discussing certain decisions coming up in my life and what I should consider when making them. He was right. If I took the sentiment and nostalgia out of the situation the answer I was looking for was right in front of my face. I just didn't want to accept it. I tried to take what he had said to heart, and in the following days I gained such a powerful sense of clarity that I felt foolish for not having seen it before. I knew what I had to do, but I also knew that this meant fortifying my relationship with myself.
Then there came this night. A night when all the love and support in the world was gone, and everything was quiet. A night when loneliness took over, and my only option was to learn to stand up in the darkness by myself. You know what? In that moment I learned what it was like to become my own best friend, to really trust myself to be available for me when I needed a little extra strength and love, and to actually do so.
Don't get me wrong, my outer support circle is fantastic, but they can't be with me all the time. I cannot allow myself to become dependent. I also cannot allow myself to become self-destructive when left to my own devices. I must learn to thrive and enjoy being alone, and this is a very fresh lesson. I must learn to do this myself or it will overpower me. The darkness, the silence, the solitude. It all comes from within, so it is from within that it must be overcome.
What would I say to a friend? Nothing. She already knows the answers. She already has the seeds of change within her. She just needs a friend. It's up to me to be that friend.
In years past, Litha has been about pure celebration. Love, revelry, and the raw power of the sun god filling us with waves of blessing. If you've ever smiled up at the sun and felt completely whole and happy, you know the feeling I'm describing. This year is a little different for me. There are some big changes coming my way, and I'm finding it extremely difficult to feel the sun in any aspect but burning. That strength and blessing I generally get this time of year is shadowed, and I feel myself weakening. I've begun to lose my spirit and the energy to keep pushing forward.
I don't usually keen for Litha. It's not generally a happy summer solstice activity, but it felt necessary. I didn't go into the woods like I normally do. I went to the beach. If you're not all aware, the beaches of Northern California do not warm. The moment the icy cold hit my toes I wanted to turn back and give up, but if I couldn't do this how could I begin to claim my life back from the edge of the long night that loomed over me? I trudged forward, tears coming to my eyes as I remember why I was there and what stakes were at hand. I got as far as my knees before the screaming started, not the releasing wail of keening but the angry screams of someone who suddenly realized she couldn't breathe. Friends, I've been drowning in my own life. For years. I've allowed myself to fight for enough air to keep sinking, but not much more. So I screamed. I screamed until the water knocked me off balance and straight into the sand of the undertow. I had not intended to go in. My clothes were soaked, my butt was cold, and my mouth was full of salt. I felt scolded by the ocean that has always lead me, and right well I should have been. I've let myself be dragged by the undercurrent for so long I've forgotten how to swim. I laid back and let the water rush over me. I stopped screaming, and I began to laugh. I laughed until the taste of salt once again assaulted my senses. The ocean wanted me to listen. To be quiet for once in my life…and listen.
I had forgotten that I carry the sun within me. I had forgotten the strength that has carried me through more hardship and darkness than I care to think about. I had forgotten the brightness that has always kept a smile on my face and my spirit alive despite that darkness. I had forgotten what it means to channel it all and become a force of nature. These are things I must hold on to if I am to come out of this alive. Alive. Not survived. Alive. Heart, soul, and spirit intact. This is a crossroads, not a dead end. This is the harvest of the seeds I planted when I asked for progress and the life meant for me, and if I let it all die on the vine I have wasted it all. I've fought too hard to be weak now. Wherever this road goes, and it will go through some thick, dark, places, I will carry the sun within, and it will guide me if I let it.
Aloha and a Blessed Litha
Go now, be strong. Be Alive.
There's a point where you make a decision. There's a point where the only thing left to do is move forward and act on that decision. There's a point where you know it's not quite the time yet, and all you can do is stand there like a horse at a starting gate. This, friends, is where I find myself today. I've been through all the doubts and fears. I've been through all the options and best courses of action. I've deliberated and debated, and the only thing there is to do now is throw it all out there and let life sort it out trusting in the guidance I've been given. All I can do, however, is wait.
Patience, as I've mentioned before, is not really a virtue I possess, but right this moment I am my own lesson. If I jump the gun I lose before I even have a chance. If I wait too long I lose by the nature of the race. If I trust the strategy of the game I have a chance, but that requires me to be still. Patience is not merely waiting; it's listening and paying attention to the cues and behaviour of the environment around me. It means being quiet. It means being focused. It means freezing everything else around me and being…patient.
Go now, smirk at the visual pun.
The last several weeks for me have been full of reconnections, reunions, and a lot of dredging places I forgot I had sunk some pretty heavy ships. These day's I've stayed afloat by riding the waves and staying on the surface with the belief that what I really needed to focus on would be blown my way. As someone quite often lead by emotion and intuition, this approach has been a refreshing change from being ruled rather than lead. This is the only way it's been possible for me to accept the sudden resurfacing of so many abandoned parts of my past. For the most part this had been a positive experience on a very cathartic level, but also because I missed having some of these people in my life. I've shared a lot of laughs, shed a few tears, and had some amazing conversations. I've also vowed not to try to sort these relationships based on their former blueprints. Easier said than done, right?
Well, enter Mercury Retrograde and its not so gentle reminder to examine information coming in for what it truly says instead of what I think it should say, including self chatter. I talk to myself a lot, both internally and externally, but how often do I really try to analyse any of it? The answer is, most likely, almost never, which is probably counterintuitive for a writer and an energy worker. Right on the heels of this retrograde, like a questionable sidekick, are the days where nothing seems to work right, the tied tongues, and the miscommunication that starts to break the harmony I've worked so hard to restore to this household after the changes of the winter. I can't let this happen, friends. So, it's time. Time to dive a little deeper.
My aim here is not to exhume old shipwrecks and the tragedies that went down with them, but to see what they've now become. Actual shipwrecks become their own ecosystems. I'm anxious to see what lives in mine now and what might float to the surface when I find whatever it is that's calling to me. These are the things that will be important moving forward. Adversely, this kind of diving reminds me that sometimes what looks like a jewel is just a shiny rock, and where there are cute fish there are also sharks. There were reasons these ships sank, and if those problems haven't been resolved there's no reason to revisit the vessels to begin with.
This Mercury Retrograde is a bit oddly timed, but not in a particularly bad way. It's introspection I have needed to really sort how I feel about the events of the last several months. It's facing a broken part of me and working through the trust issues and emotional avoidance I've been struggling with for almost a decade. It's being able to enjoy the root good of these relationships without all the barnacles that have since grown around them. The beauty of the Titanic wasn't lost with its demise, which is why it's been the focus of romance, adventure, and exploration for over 100 years. That beauty still fascinates us to this day, and the stories of survival and strength pulled from her wreckage are inspiring and powerful.
We often give Mercury Retrograde a bad rap. Yes, it can be frustrating. In fact, there can be moments where it's infuriating. There are storms over even the most calm seas. This can also be a time to do some organizing, some regrouping, and a lot of thinking outside the box. It is in time of our greatest frustration that we sometimes find our greatest inspiration and perspective. So, I let myself be overtaken by the current and sink below the surface, and I find some amazing things. It is when I am submerged that I am reminded why I live and love the way I do and why I will always choose it over the alternative, which is to risk never experiencing the tides at all. When I do come up for air it will be to blue skies and a shining sun, and that, my friends, is the only way to live.
Go now, dive deep.
Mental illness is no joke, nor is it something we can ignore. You can find all manner of statistics on the percentage of children, adolescents, and adults will some form of mental or emotional disorder, but it continues to be almost taboo to discuss in polite company. On any given commute train I can hear all the details of someone's physical struggles, and it's a story of strength and challenges overcome, but most stories about mental illness or emotional struggles end in "well, what can you do? She's crazy!" This social attitude has lead to two things.
First, it has given the world the idea that it's acceptable to ignore, or even mock, the issues of mental illness. To those who live with it, depression is not just an unwillingness to be happy or overcome life's obstacles, but a crushing inability to even fathom doing so. We have very few resources for people who struggle with these issues, and the ones that do exist are costly and unstable at best. In the end, many are labelled as "helpless" or "chronic" and left with the options to either heavily medicate to an almost nonfunctional level or to wing it with little to no support. Either way, it generally leads to a very isolated life.
Secondly, it has opened the door for a lifetime of excuses and scapegoating, usually because the first condition exists. Mental illness is not an insurmountable obstacle. It just takes work, time, and a lot of inner fortification. For years I have had people tell me, "you don't know what it's like", which is always true. No, I don't know what anyone else's personal struggles are like, but they have no idea what mine are like either, and I refuse to get into a "woe is me" pity war. Everyone has mountains to climb. Those with additional imbalances and emotional scars may have extra obstacles in the path, but nothing makes the climb impossible but death.
The harsh reality of mental and emotional illness is that it doesn't stop life from coming at you. You don't get a reprieve from adulthood because of a rough childhood. You don't get a pass on responsibility because someone else may have dropped the ball on you at some point in your life. There are no mental wheelchairs or emotional hearing aids, but there is no excuse for refusing to try and live life, especially if you've made the choice to have children, go to school, or start a career path. It took me years to learn this lesson, and a few more to learn that no one was going to be able to help me when I really needed it if I wasn't willing to at least try to help myself first.
There is a happy medium here between being labelled a nut job, told it's all in your head, and deciding there's no way you can ever be functional. It's called life, and we all have to live it to our best abilities no matter what tools we're given. I will always give support to someone having a bad day, but never sympathy for someone using these struggles for anything but an opportunity to grow as a person. I don't believe coddling helps anyone, nor will I sit by and listen to someone blame bad choices on something that possibly can't be controlled but can be mitigated. The words "I've got this issue, so you should have expected my bad behaviour," is a cop out and an insult to everyone who has overcome tragedy, loss, or illness in his or her life.
We owe it to ourselves and others who are fighting along side us to do everything we can to get through this life together. Everyone has the opportunity to make excuses. Those who choose not to are the ones who will get the support they need when the time comes.
Way back when I did my Poly-tics series I wrote about The Deep End. Well, it all came back to haunt me recently when I became involved with someone who had just opened a long-time monogamous marriage. The result was a lot of exactly what I cautioned in the second installation of the series. Had I known at the time how deep this deep end really was I might not have ventured into it, but there I was, surrounded by dark waters of insecurity, doubt, mistrust, and miscommunication. I did what I could to be helpful. I offered the same advice I would offer friends or people seeking counsel. I tried to help both parties through what I know can be an extremely tumultuous storm. In the end I was left adrift in a Deep End that was not my own with an overload of red flags and I-told-you-sos.
It was during this time that I began to hear the term Testing the Waters in reference to poly. What struck me immediately was the fact that once you've involved another human being and a relationship begins to form you can no longer be "testing" anything. It's unfair to both members of the new relationship, and it's a detrimental attitude to the entire situation. Polyamory requires complete commitment and dedication. If you can't give that to yourself, your partner, and any new partners you bring into your life, you're better off sunbathing on the shoreline until you can really brave the deep end.
Take it from me.
As I've stated before, Hubby and I have very few rules for our polyamory. It wasn't always this way, however, and I have to constantly remind myself of this fact every time I encounter a couple who is just opening up. The more I read other poly blogs about rules and how much they hold us back, the more I think sometimes we all forget that we were once new at this, too, and that the fears and hesitation that spawned those rules were very real.
There's a flip side to this coin. At what point do rules become restrictions, and at what level do restrictions start to become detrimental?
When Hubby and I opened up we had a "no kissing during sex" rule, which was not only extremely hard to follow but extremely silly. Here we were welcoming new people into our hearts and our family, and we weren't allowed to kiss them sometimes because of what we perceived the attitude and environment of the actions involved to be. My first couple of experiences were awkward. On top of the stress that already surrounds a new encounter, there were these stupid little stage notes I had to follow, and it made everyone tense and a little withdrawn because we all felt like we were being graded. I remember very clearly the night I eschewed that particular rule right in front of Hubby in the most free feeling french kiss I'd ever given anyone. This died the "no kissing during sex" rule and thus began the beginning of a serious re-evaluation of what essentially boiled down to micromanaging of something that should be very organic.
What changed our mind on these rules? Trust. We realized at that moment that there are things we couldn't, and shouldn't be, controlling about relationships that needed to form their own shapes. I could mask my insecurity with a litany of things Hubby wasn't allowed to do with someone new, or I could trust him to be a decent human being and act accordingly. After some growing pains and restructuring it was the best decision we have ever made for our marriage and our respective relationships. It not only fosters trust but respect for the trust given to us by our partners.
A new relationship is like a seedling . If you nurture it and give it the fresh air it needs, it will grow to it's full potential. With the right maintenance and some appreciation, under the right conditions, it will be enjoyed for a long time. Rules tend to put that seedling in a pot, which isn't always a bad thing. There are some integral broad rules, if you choose to call them that. Honesty. Respect. Safety. Communication. However, the more rules you add to the mix the smaller the pot gets, and the relationship can eventually be restricted in its growth or completely choked. The whens, the wheres, the words, the whats…none of it is important if you can hold to the tenants of the broad set.
So, I refer back to the beginning. Patience and understanding versus a relationship's need to form and grow organically. Can the two reach a level of homeostasis that is healthy for everyone involved? I think they can, though I sometimes question the spirit behind the rules. A little help can quickly become a crutch. A seedling can very quickly become a bonsai tree, even when it could be a great Sequoia.
A friend recently posed a question to her pagan friends on social media about being openly pagan in the workplace. As unfortunate as it is, this can be a serious decision to make. While certain things are protected by both company policies and federal laws, nothing is immune to the office politics game. Nothing.
With my new job I don't generally work with the same people for more than a few days at a time. This means I'm constantly meeting new people and forever telling my story. I wrote before that we never come out just once as anything. We do it every time we meet someone new. Nothing has made this as apparent as the internal checklist I go through in my head every time I meet a new crew. What has this person told me of his life? How open-minded does she seem? What has our rapport been so far? If none of these things throws any red flags there's a deep intuition check. Does this feel right?
As a general rule I am fairly open about who I am. I've found that it mitigates the amount of gossip that finds its way back to me. I won't lie when people ask questions about my life, but I do try to gauge my audience before I speak, and I very rarely offer unsolicited information unless it's appropriate to the conversation, which is even more rare. There are some things I will never mention unless a coworker divulges it first or I consider her a close friend.
The simple fact here is that it's none of anyone's business. Would I like to be able to mention what I did over the weekend or casually talk about my family? Of course I would, and while it's a shame that I have to gauge my listener first to do so, that fact remains. Honestly, I wish more acquaintances did this before blessing me with information about their lives that I'd rather not have.
Go now, be you!
This Ostara, despite weather in the low 40s, Hubby and I attended the first Ostara ritual we've been to in, I'm ashamed to admit it, a couple of years. When the invitation came through I felt it was something we had to make happen. Our family has been extremely blessed this year, and I needed to offer some of that fertile energy back to the earth to show my gratitude.
"Spring", the High Priest started as I stood in the circle on a close-to-freezing March afternoon and tried to wrangle the sun's warmth to sustain me, "is a work in progress. It's not summer. It's not there yet." Nothing could have exemplified his meaning quite like my own breath visible in the air around me, when just days before I had been in sandals and a skirt eating ice cream in the park.
His words struck a very strong chord this week. After five weeks of training and a week of recuperating, I started a job that has been a personal goal for over six years, to become a flight attendant. I knew I had all the training, but I was terrified. Would I know it all at the right time? What if I really messed up? Would I be ok? The confidence that had pushed me onward in training quickly deteriorated around me the night before my first day, that morning, and well into my first flight. Just before landing my crewmember looked at me and said, "Breathe. You're doing just fine". The ice in my nerves melted, and as we got through each flight over the next few days I began to feel more comfortable.
On my last day of the trip I made a mistake that I considered pretty big. As much as my crew told me it wasn't as bad as I thought it was, I beat myself up about it for the rest of the day. The ice returned, but so did the words from our ritual. A work in progress. I, too, am a work in progress. I am not yet the flight attendant I will be. The nerves will subside, but they also may return sometimes, and that's OK. I am OK, and I will continue to be OK. I'll get there, but the only way to do so is to keep moving forward.
The summer will come. My summer will come. Hail, and welcome.
Go now, push forward.


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From May 14-17, the city of São Paolo will become host to activists, chefs, musicians, artists, DJs and young food activists. The occasion? The country's third Disco Soup: a concept invented by the Slow Food Youth Network (SFYN) which sees people come together to highlight the problem of food waste by cooking up a soup from perfectly good vegetables and other products that would otherwise have ended up in the trash, always to the backdrop of music, socializing and a festive atmosphere. Quickly catching on around the world, these events vary slightly according to location. This most recent Disco Soupe for example will use street market leftovers. Along with the soup, the Disco Xepa event, as it's called locally, will see four days of film screenings, discussions, music, street art and activism events designed to address issues related to responsible food production and consumption, such as educational workshops on how to fully utilize food while cooking. The goal is to inspire visitors to take conscious action towards responsible food consumption in order to make food waste a thing of the past. Through the mediums of entertainment and awareness, the SFYN in Brazil is hoping to unite the vast number of creative groups focused on the subject of food waste. Current hunger and food waste statistics are astonishing. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), around 1.3 billion tons of food are discarded annually while there are still millions of people suffering from hunger. Brazil is no different. The country, one of the world's biggest food producers, discards 26 million tons of food annually while approximately 35% of Brazilian households struggle to put food on the table. Food is wasted from the initial stages of harvesting all the way to the dinner table and at every step in between. The Disco Xepa Festival hopes to receive funds from its campaign on the Kickante crowdfunding website to reward the team's work and to produce media material to continue activities to raise awareness. Click here to participate and help fund the campaign. Find out more:
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Wednesday, 30 October 2013 00:00
St. Brigid's will be holding a National Safety Council's Defensive Driving Course, for anyone looking to become a safer driver. Students will receive a 10 percent insurance reduction from their liability and collision premium, and up to four points will be deducted from their driving record. The class will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at St. Brigid's School on 101 Maple Ave. Cost is $45 per person. Call 631-360-9720 for information and to register.
The Carle Place Athletic Booster Club will be hosting its annual staff vs. staff volleyball tournament at 7 p.m. in the high school gym.
Parachute, best known for their single "Kiss Me Slowly" will join the Plain White T's at the Space at Westbury, with special guest Tommy and the High Pilots. Tickets are $25 in advance, and $30 at the door. Doors open at 7, show starts at 8 p.m. For tickets and more information visit www.thespaceatwestbury.com.
Grammy award winning artist Patti Labelle comes to the NYCB Theater stage to perform hits like "On My Own" and "Superman." Tickets range from $59.50 to $69.50. For tickets and more information visit www.venue.thetheatreatwestbury.com.
The cake boss will share stories, answer audience questions and do live cake and cupcake demonstrations at this event at 3 p.m. at NYCB Theatre. For tickets and more information visit www.venue.thetheatreatwestbury.com.
Come find gently used and new clothing, shoes, costume jewelry, shoes small appliances, linens and more at Community Reform Temple's rummage sale. Saturday, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon. On Sunday, if you buy two large bags you get one free. Admission and parking is free. At 712 The Plain Road in Westbury. For details call 333-1839.
Come out to Westbury United Methodist Church at 365 Asbury Avenue from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for their church bazaar.
The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau Conty is celebrating 21 years with their annual Tribute Dinner. The dinner will be held at Old Westbury Hebrew Congregation, at 21 Old Westbury Road. At the event, Gloria Gaynor will perform her hit single, "I Will Survive." Cocktails start at 6 p.m. and dinner begins at 7 p.m. For tickets, visit http://tributedinner.karma411.com.
See over 5,000 hand-carved Jack O'Lanterns light up the night at the Old Westbury Gardens. Rise of the Jack O'Lanterns features the work dozens of local artists and sculptors in a unique walk-through experience that's suitable for visitors of all ages. Advanced tickets are required and there are a limited number of tickets available per day and time. Tickets are available on a first-come first-served basis. Tickets for adults (13-64) are $18-20, child (3-12) and senior (65 and older) are $16-$18 and children 2 and under are free. The Rise will be in town for one last weekend Nov. 1-3. More information and tickets are available at www.therise.org.


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Since I acquired a DSLR camera, I've taken so many photos of birds and each time I think to myself, how many pictures do you need of each kind of bird? Well, you can never have too many poses, and this is a favourite of a bluejay taken in winter.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
At Home with the Birds
Since I acquired a DSLR camera, I've taken so many photos of birds and each time I think to myself, how many pictures do you need of each kind of bird? Well, you can never have too many poses, and this is a favourite of a bluejay taken in winter.
13 comments:
- Crafty Gardener said...
I was just sorting through all my photos for the past month or so and was wondering the same thing ... why so many photos of each bird. But I keep taking them. Now if I had to pay to have them developed and printed it might be a different story.
Lovely collection of bird items throughout your home.
- November 14, 2012 at 2:09 PM
- Bella said...
Hi Judith,
What a great shot of the Blue Jay! We are breakfast time bird watchers, it's a quiet way to wake up. Beautiful birdie decor too, my favorite is the nest with the clutch of blue eggs...
- November 14, 2012 at 2:11 PM
- Sandi@ Rose Chintz Cottage said...
My hubby and I love watching the birds and we could become avid bird watchers if he was retired! My son is studying all about our little feathered friends in Wildlife Conservation Tech. and he can share a wealth of information about them. We are having wonderful conservations about these little wonders. Yours are all so cute. I have many birdies in my home too. Thank you for sharing at my HOME and have a lovely rest of your week.
- November 14, 2012 at 2:42 PM
- Beth said...
I enjoyed seeing your birds, Judith! I especially like the cardinals.
- November 14, 2012 at 4:43 PM
- High Heeled Life said...
Living in the country we are so blessed to see bird's fly here and there too! Truly magical. You have some wonderful pieces , the teapot feeder is my favourite. Hugs and blessings, C. (HHL)
- November 14, 2012 at 5:15 PM
- kitty said...
I love watching birds, too, Judith! I love your photos and love your bird decor. The teapot looks interesting. What's the little opening in the bottom?
- November 14, 2012 at 6:22 PM
- scrappinnana said...
Your pictures and home decor of birds are very beautiful. We often see bluejays and cardinals in our yard. In the summer we see alot of yellow finches. And there are always the robins and sparrows. Thank you so much for sharing. I really enjoyed it.
- November 14, 2012 at 8:46 PM
- Sylvia said...
Hi Judith, thanks for sharing your pictures of the birds that visit you, I also enjoy watching the birds fly around in my yard. Hope you're having a great week.
- November 14, 2012 at 9:29 PM
- Michele @ The Nest at Finch Rest said...
I love your post - and what a coincidence, just posted bird decor myself!
Birds of a feather, my friend, we stick together!
Birds and tea, honestly? Aren't they just your favvie favs????
I really adore your collection of birdie things.
You need to come visit and stay in my aviary guest bedroom, too! Consider yourself invited!!
- November 14, 2012 at 10:51 PM
- Sunray Gardens said...
I agree that you can't have too many photos of birds. Like your collection for the house also.
Cher Sunray Gardens
- November 15, 2012 at 6:15 AM
- Vee said...
That is a wonderful and unique photo of the jay in winter. Lovely touches of birds in your home, too.
- November 15, 2012 at 9:35 AM
- podso said...
Nice post! Funny thing, those little cardinals live at my house too!
- November 15, 2012 at 11:38 AM
- My Little Home and Garden said...
Hello, Judith
It must be fun playing with such a good camera and I love your bluejay shot. I'm rather fond of "bird" things too and it was nice to see your collection.
- November 16, 2012 at 12:06 PM


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Today Egon von Greyerz told King World News he received an email from his good friend Alf Field predicting silver would move quickly to the $158 level. Von Greyerz also discussed the initiative in Switzerland to get the Swiss franc backed by 20% gold. Egon von Greyerz is founder and managing partner at Matterhorn Asset Management out of Switzerland. Here is what von Greyerz had to say about Alf Field's call for $158 silver: "Eric, overnight I received an email from my good friend in Australia, Alf Field. To his amazement he found the silver chart, from an Elliott point of view, runs in parallel to the gold chart. His count is now very clear that silver will, in the next move reach $158."
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Egon von Greyerz continues:
"Alf's next target for gold is $4,500 and I think this silver target of $158 makes sense because that would put the gold/silver ratio just under 30. I think we could see Alf's targets of $4,500 gold and $158 silver this year or certainly in the next 18 months. This is going to be a quick move. In Elliott terms this is the 3 of 3, which is the strongest wave.
I mentioned to you previously that gold has already broken out to the upside in its 3rd of a 3rd wave. Silver hasn't quite broken out yet and we need to see silver break above the $36 to $37 area to establish silver has entered this next leg higher, which according to Alf targets $158.
So, we're not far away and the way I see silver now it's going to happen very quickly (the breakout). I agree also with James Turk that once silver clears the level I described, we could see $60 to $70 very quickly. But we should see the more aggressive target of $158 in the next 12 to 18 months."
Here a portion of what Alf Field had to say about how silver will get to $158:
"We can now attempt to make some price forecasts. Silver, as with gold, is starting intermediate wave 3 of Major THREE, which should be the longest and strongest wave in the bull market. It should certainly be longer than intermediate wave 1 which was the gain from $8.77 to $49.52, or +464%, as shown above.
Thus the gain in wave 3 of Major THREE should be larger than +464%. It should be a gain of at least 500%. Starting from the $26.39 low, a gain of 500% would produce a target price of $158.34 for silver. That is the number which equates with the $4500 price forecast for gold and produces a silver to gold ratio of 28.4 ($4500 divided by 158.34).
The gain in gold was forecast to be 200% for this move while the forecast rise in the silver price is 500%. Silver is again predicted to perform better than gold based on these EW calculations."
When asked about the initiative in Switzerland to back the currency with 20% gold, von Greyerz responded, "We have what is called a gold initiative. So there is a Swiss politician who has started the initiative to have to have the currency backed with 20% gold.
I just talked to the politician who started this move and he said it's going very well and he firmly believes they will get the 100,000 signatures that will lead to the referendum. It's a very interesting initiative and it's too early to say how successful it will be, but it's certainly on its way."
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Kegler's Lanes in Charlottesville was a busy place Thursday night. Every lane was filled with with participants in this year's Bowl for Kids' Sake event, benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge.
"Big Brothers Big Sisters has 150 youngsters looking for matches. So there's definitely a need," said Dave Koehn. "And an event like this allows us the platform to let people know what the organization is all about."
Koehn's primary job is the play-by-play radio announcer for Virginia football and basketball. But he's also an active Big Brother for the past four years, with Little Brother Adrian.
All 48 lanes were sold out for Thursday night's event, with more than 300 people attending. Mingled throughout the crowd were several 'celebrity' bowlers, including former UVa basketball coach Pete Gillen.
"Any time you can help young people, the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization is tremendous," Gillen said. "They really need help with that, something that the young boys and girls can look up to. So I'm glad to help out in a small way. I'm not much of a bowler, but we're having fun and it's a great cause."
Other 'celebrity' guests included UVa athletic director Craig Littlepage, men's basketball coach Tony Bennett, women's basketball coach Joanne Boyle, and former UVa football players Perry Jones and Ahmad Hawkins.
"One of the things we pride ourselves on with this particular event is having fun," said Koehn. "And it's all having fun for a good cause, which is supporting so many youngsters in our area that are looking for a mentor, and need somebody to provide that guidance."
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It's worth learning about Peter the Great. Time and available space does not permit much about him here, except to say that he was clearly an extraordinary figure … and not just in the 18th century.
Today my guide, Natalya, took me to the Grand Palace at Peterhof, located about 30 miles outside of St. Petersburg. It's called the "Russian Versailles" and no wonder. Plans made and construction begun under Peter, but he died in 1725 and the palace was completed by his daughter, Elizabeth, in the 1740s.
Big, eh? (Best to click on these photos to enlarge them.)Sorry, it was backlit at the time and nothing I could do about that, but get the idea? Actually, you don't, because there is more to this magnificent building to the right of where I was standing, and behind me …
Natalya German-Tsarkova, who discretely flashed her guide's license, murmured into the ear of watchful docents, and led me around the mobs and under the ropes and into the palace.
For this post, however, I will skip over descriptions and photos of this palace, except to say it is opulent, magnificent and there are treasures to behold in room after room. But the beautiful day drew us to the palace gardens and, again, the size and scope is almost more than can be absorbed. But today, we're going to see the gardens!
And, finally, here's a view looking back at one of the buildings – not the main palace – from a small portion of the park at the very beginning of the grand canal that features the main and most impressive fountain. How's this for a visiting guest's first impression!
Bottom line: St. Petersburg is a must-see experience. And, when you come, connect with Natalya. It will make all the difference.
Next … back to Moscow and then the private train all the way to Beijing. Wow!
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Anonymous (Mexico, mid 19th C)
Saint Julian, Martyr
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For over twenty years Sara and Frank McKnight collected retablos from Northwestern Mexico which they later sold in their El Paso art gallery. Fortunately the McKnight's retained some of their favorites and in 2007 their collection of seventy-one retablos was generously gifted to the El Paso Museum of Art by their children, Dr. Steven McKnight, Elizabeth McKnight Manning and Nancy McKnight Howell. The children simultaneously set up the McKnight Family Fund in the El Paso Museum of Art Foundation. Including paintings of saints, the Virgin and Christ, martyrs, apostles, angels, the Pieta and ex-votos from the 17th through the 19th centuries this exhibition recognizes and highlights a selection from the diverse collection they assembled. Some retablos are signed by known masters, while others are included to reveal the large variety of perspectives. Mostly influenced by religious paintings from Europe, many of the indigenous artists were not academically trained and therefore used their imaginations and local knowledge to fulfill the wide demand for these artworks throughout provincial Mexico.
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Susan Eisen (American, b. 1953)
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Collection of the artist
Body Art
celebrates contemporaneous local expressions of the jeweler's art, a form with an exciting and vibrant past and present in El Paso. The principal center of jewelry production and training in the area has been and remains the University of Texas at El Paso, whose Metals Program was directed for many years by Wiltz Harrison and since then by Rachelle Thiewes, who came from Illinois in 1976 to replace Harrison at his retirement. Thiewes has subsequently become celebrated internationally for her jewelry making, and she herself has nurtured the metalsmithing talents of numerous students. Among other unique qualities, Thiewes's designs display a creative concern with their literal and symbolic activation by the individual wearer's body in motion.
The exhibition will include several pieces by Thiewes, along with selections from approximately ten other area jewelers, many of whom studied with Thiewes years prior or as recent UTEP graduates. Just a few of the artists represented in
Body Art
include Susan Eisen, who studied with both Thiewes and Harrison and has established a flourishing retail business alongside her commitment to creating original pieces; Margie Melby, a founding member of El Paso's Las Artistas in 1970; and Helen Ellison-Dorion, a transplant from England who is today an adjunct professor of metalsmithing and jewelry design at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces. Some of the diverse currents that run through the creations of the
Body Art
artists are the original mixing of gem and metal types; witty expressions of multi-functionalism (such as a necklace-cum-jump rope); inspiration from local geography and culture (for instance, Eisen's El Paso pieces incorporating gold castings of rock forms from the Franklin Mountains); and the pairing of whimsy and delicacy or melding of sheer fun with simple elegance.
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November 27, 2014
Aging, Memory and Alzheimer's Disease Class
June 21st
Martha Jefferson Outpatient Care Center
Registration required, call: 434-982-7009 or 1-888-652-6663
The class is 2 hours. We'll have a neurologist and attorney and Ellen from the Alzheimer's association to talk about physical, legal and financial implications associated with memory loss. What changes can be expected with normal aging, as compared with signs and symptoms of memory impairment and Alzheimer's, how to plan for health care, financial and legal needs for yourself and for aging family members.
When people think about staying fit, they generally think from the neck down, but having a healthy brain is crucial role in almost everything you do: thinking, feeling and remembering.
Ellen Phipps of Martha Jefferson Hospital discusses the latest developments in the management of Alzheimer's Disease. The more you use the brain the more you have a chance to maintain it. Some of the things you might do everyday are going to help you keep your brain in shape. Eating the right foods, exercising and keeping fit, the same sorts of things we do for heart health. Another way to energize the brain is to do word games, crossword puzzles and memorization. Lastly, studies have shown that those who stay socially active and involved are less likely to suffer loss of brain function.
We all have experienced memory loss, but no need to fret. We are all allowed a certain amount of forgetfulness. It's when daily functions become impaired and normal routines are interfered with by forgetfulness that concerns should be raised. A person experiencing this type of behavior should consult a neurologist.
There is a class offered at Martha Jefferson Hospital which speaks of the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer's and what is actually happening to the brain. Also, we discuss what to expect as things progress with the diagnosis. An attorney, Mr. Vitt, will go over what it actually means to get your financial and legal documents in order. This is a crucial part of the process and needs to be addressed. Lastly, we will educate people about the disease and being as prepared as possible. Information on these classes is at the top of this article.
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For as long as I can remember, we always had this wonderful soup on Christmas Day. In our part of the country, where winters are long and cold, this sure warms us up.
7 Servings
Prep/Total Time: 25 min.
2 cans (6-1/2 ounces
) chopped clams
2 cups diced peeled potatoes
2 cups chopped celery
2 cups diced carrots
1/2 cup water
2 cups milk
1 package (5 ounces) frozen cooked salad shrimp, thawed
4 bacon strips, cooked and crumbled
2 teaspoons minced fresh parsley
Salt and pepper to taste
Drain the clams, reserving juice; set clam aside. In a large saucepan
or Dutch oven, combine clam juice, potatoes, celery, carrots and
water. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and cook for 15 minutes
or until vegetables are tender. Add the milk, shrimp, bacon,
parsley, salt, pepper and reserved clams; heat through. Yield: 7
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Jeb Bush's basic idea of investing "cold, hard cash" in a venture that may or may not pay off in the distant future comes under attack in this Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel editorial. Meanwhile, the Ft. Myers News-Press tallies-up Florida's biotech investment and the payoff in jobs here with a balancing piece here. The Ft. Lauderdale piece is primarily an anti-Jeb! piece, while the News-Press laments the slow pace of job creation.
I seem to remember that the federal highway system was expensive and took a long time to complete. But it turns out that it was a pretty good investment in terms of economic impact. Well times have changed and we are solidly in the information economy. We don't need a new interstate system, more skyscrapers and airports. In fact, some areas are now downgrading paved roads to gravel.
The future is less industrial and more information based. But expectations and mortgage payments won't wait. There is reasonable anxiety over the time lag between investment and payoff. This generation of workers is rejecting an investment that will benefit their own grandchildren.
The Tea Party is going after virtually all public investment that does not pay off now. Florida's biotechnology leadership must loudly, publicly defend Florida's investment. Florida's biotech investors must recognize that loudly, publicly creating jobs now may be their best investment. All of Florida's biotechnology industry needs to get ahead of this public argument or become roadkill.


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Efficacy of Fingolimod in de Novo Patients Versus Fingolimod in Patients Previously Treated With a First Line Disease Modifying Therapy (EARLiMS)
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This study will assess the efficacy of fingolimod in patients with short duration relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis who have not been previously treated with disease-modifying therapies (DMTs), versus patients with the same disease duration who have previously received first-line Disease Modifying Therapies.
Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Drug: Fingolimod (FTY720)
Phase 4
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Multi-centre, Open-label, Non-randomised, Parallel Group Clinical Trial to Assess the Efficacy of Fingolimod in Naive Patients Versus Fingolimod in Patients Previously Treated With Interferons or Glatiramer Acetate, Based on the Presence of Relapses in Patients With Relapsing-remitting Multiple Sclerosis.
- Difference on Annual Relapse Rate for both groups [ Time Frame: 12 month ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]The annual relapse rate will be calculate for both groups based on the number of patients examined, total number of relapses for all patients and the total of days that the subject take the medication
- Time to first relapse [ Time Frame: 12 month ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]A Kaplan-Meier method will be used to calculate time to first relapse in both groups, indicating the percentage of release-free patients at month 12 for naive and pre-treated patients
- Disability progression [ Time Frame: 12 month ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Differences between Expanded Disability Status Scale score in naive patients versus and pre-treated ones compare to baseline
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|December 2011
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|January 2016
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|January 2016 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Fingolimod
Both groups of patients in the study will be treated in parallel with Fingolimod.
Drug: Fingolimod (FTY720)
Fingolimod will be used in two group of patients with treatment different characteristics at baseline
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 50 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, according to the 2010 revised McDonald criteria, with a relapsing-remitting course, and with at least 9 T2 lesions consistent with the disease, with disease duration greater than or equal to one year and less than or equal to five years.
- Patients who have had at least two relapses in the past two years and an Expanded Disability Status Scale score between 0 and 3.5, inclusive.
- Treatment naïve: patients who have never been treated with a Disease Modifying Therapy or
- Previously treated with a first-line Disease Modifying Therapy
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who have received treatment with:
Fingolimod at any time (e.g. participation in a fingolimod clinical trial), Immunosuppressant drugs such as azathioprine or methotrexate at any time; Immunoglobulins in the past 6 months. Monoclonal antibodies including natalizumab, Cladribine, cyclophosphamide or mitoxantrone, at any time.
- Other protocol defined inclusion/exclusion criteria may apply
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01498887
|Contact: Novartis Pharmaceuticals
|Contact: Novartis Pharmaceuticals
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|Novartis Pharmaceuticals
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|Novartis ( Novartis Pharmaceuticals )
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|Study First Received:
|December 19, 2011
|Last Updated:
|October 16, 2014
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
Spain: Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios
Spain: Ministry of Health
Keywords provided by Novartis:
Multiple Sclerosis
Relapsing Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
Early multiple sclerosis
Naive patients
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Multiple Sclerosis
Multiple Sclerosis, Relapsing-Remitting
Autoimmune Diseases
Autoimmune Diseases of the Nervous System
Demyelinating Autoimmune Diseases, CNS
Demyelinating Diseases
Immune System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Pathologic Processes
Immunologic Factors
Immunosuppressive Agents
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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In celebration of Black History Month, Portland is hosting its annual Jazz Festival!
The nationally-recognized Portland Jazz Festival is dedicated to preserving America's Jazz identity. The event takes place all over Portland, with many performances in multiple venues throughout the city. At the heart of the program lie Jazz education and outreach programs for local schools and neighborhoods.
As Portland's Arts & Culture Commissioner, Nick looks forward to seeing our own homegrown, Grammy Award-winning Esperanza Spalding, who will sing in a Spring Quartet along side Jack DeJohnette, Joe Lovano, and Leo Genovese with Matt Fleeger. They will perform at the Portland'5 ArtBar & Bistro on Sunday, February 23, at 2 pm. The event is free.
PDX Jazz, the non-profit cultural arts organization that co-produces the festival also has year-round Jazz performances at the Mission Theater and Jimmy Mak's.
The festival goes until March 2. For more information about Portland Jazz Festival and its events, please visit the website.
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About the property
Footprints in the Sand is the perfect getaway! It is a beautifully decorated oceanfront four bedroom home with striking views from practically every room. It is surrounded by a wrap around deck and screened porch. There is also a private walkway, which is steps away from the beach! A Sports membership to the BHI and Shoals Club are available for a separate purchase.
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- Development: BHI Stage I
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- Location: Bald Head Island, NC
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About 1843, Charles and Ann Herrick, and their five children, moved onto a farm neighboring Isaac U. Willets' property on the west side of what is now Shelter Rock Road, just north of Old Courthouse Road. It was near the heart of the land owned by William Herrick two centuries before. The somewhat mysterious William, who died at Maspeth, Queens in the 1650s, left no children, while his brother, James Herrick of Southampton, had hundreds of descendants. Charles Herrick was not a descendent of James, and was not from the Suffolk County Herrick clan. He was from the extensive Herrick family of Maine (his close relatives included two Maine Congressmen), and came to Long Island by way of Minnesota.
The original published family histories, compiled by General Jebediah Herrick of Maine in the 1840s, attempted to connect the Southampton Herricks with the various New England branches, and to connect the Herricks in America with those in Leicester, England. These Leicestershire Herricks (or Eyricks) of Beau Manor castle traced their lineage all the way back to a 13th century knight and, by tradition, to a line of Scandanavian kings and to Eric the Red, the Viking explorer.
The General wrote decades before the widespread publication of town records, wills and other legal documents made historical research considerably easier and more objective, and it became clear as the years went by that some of his educated guesses were not correct. Jebediah had guessed that James Herrick (he missed the existence of William completely) was the son of Thomas Herrick, Chamberlain of Leicester. By 1950, family genealogist Herrick Crosby Brown wrote that the evidence for this particular guess had some flaws: "Even the most naive will recognize the danger of assuming a conclusion based on such evidence." The Herrick family historians in Leicester researched the issue and came to this conclusion: "Who was James Herrick of Southampton?"
Jebediah and other early Herrick historians also confused the Henry Herrick who was in Salem, Massachusetts by 1629 with the Henry Herrick who was in Virginia by 1641. Virginia Henry was an actual son of Sir William of Leicester, and Salem Henry, the progenitor of many of the New England and New York Herricks, was someone else. Notable bands of Herricks are still floating around in the genealogical ether. These include the Herricks from Maine, from the Hudson Valley (the Peekskill Museum is located in Herrick House, the 1870s Victorian-style house designed for prominent citizen Dwight Stiles Herrick and his family) and from Albany (a long series of Herricks have served as judges, district attorneys and state legislators in Albany and Renssalaer Counties).
Herrick family genealogists now acknowledge that while James Herrick of Southampton and the mysterious William might have been connected in some way to the Leicester Herrick clan, and to all the colorful knights and kings that come along with them, there is no actual evidence of this.
So the 1840s Herrick of Herricks and the 1640s Herrick of Herricks may have been related, perhaps through Henry of Salem two centuries before, or perhaps through the original Eyrick six centuries before, or perhaps not at all.
However, it doesn't seem that Charles and Ann Herrick dropped into Herricks, North Hempstead totally out of the blue. Ann was a member of the vast Cornell family, by the 1840s spread throughout the United States and had close family right nearby. Charles died in the 1870s and Ann and her children, now adults, moved to Lakeville Road. Two of her sons, John C. Herrick and the younger Daniel, farmed in the area for many years, usually as employees on local estates. In 1889, John C. Herrick was nominated by North Hempstead Republicans to be the town's tax collector (he was not elected). In the 1930s, the two elderly and retired brothers lived together (Daniel had been widowed) in a rented house on Cutter Mill Road in Great Neck.
Web sites and even local historical associations still publish incorrect or discredited information about the Herrick family and its background. The Herrick story is a good example of why local histories must continually be tested, reviewed and rewritten to reflect new information and interpretations.