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Keeping it Small: Hutchmoot and Tacos
There's this restaurant in East Nashville called Mas Tacos, right down the road from Cason Cooley's home studio. Ben, Gully, Cason, and I walked there for lunch several times during the Light for the Lost Boy sessions, and I can tell you it's some of the best Mexican food in Nashville. I can also tell you it annoyed me, for a couple of reasons.
First, they don't take credit cards. These days—when even Waffle House takes credit/debit cards, when most folks I know don't bother to bring much cash, when even regular dudes like me can take credit cards at my merch table—why in the world wouldn't Mas Tacos? There are fees associated with it, sure, but isn't it an inconvenience to the customers? Several times we wanted to eat there but couldn't because I was footing the bill and didn't have the cash. Your loss, Mas Tacos.
Secondly, their hours are a little weird. Like many of the restaurants in East Nashville, they're closed on Sunday and Mondays. Due to invisible forces in the universe, this creates a fierce craving for Mas Tacos on Sundays and Mondays. Almost every Sunday after church I find myself thinking, "Oh! We should totally go to Mas Tacos—ugh. Nevermind." There have also been several times when I wanted to take Jamie out to a simple, small dinner and headed towards Mas Tacos before I remembered that they're only open for lunch (except on Fridays).
Because I'm a spouter, I spouted off about it to Cason. "Why wouldn't they want to take credit cards and make it easier on me, the Almighty Customer, to pay for my food? If there's a demand for business, why on earth wouldn't they add to their hours?" Cason gently pushed back, as is his way, and said, "But the owners are interested in keeping their food local, in having their own lives, in keeping their business simple. What's so wrong with being small?" Mas Tacos serves excellent food. Maybe part of the way they keep their food great, not to mention part of the way they maintain good customer service, is by virtue of their simplicity. Maybe their commitment to buying local vegetables and meats requires that they resist the American urge to grow, grow, grow, GROW. Maybe the very thing I like about that place would disappear if they gave in to my grumpiness, at which point I would be the first guy to say, "It's too bad. Mas Tacos used to be great."
I tell you this story in order to apologize to the many of you who didn't get into Hutchmoot this year.
Sacred Places
There are no unsacred places;
There are only sacred places
And desecrated places.
–Wendell Berry, from "How to Be a Poet (to Remind Myself)"
Just a few miles from my house there's an intersection that always makes me happy. If you ever want to go there, it's a four-way stop at the intersection of Old Franklin Road and Cane Ridge Road. Here's the link, if you want to see it on Google Maps. If you end up doing the Street View you'll notice that it's not terribly interesting. This isn't a scenic overlook. The houses aren't gigantic. But it's a strangely pleasant place. I don't know why, but I feel a rightness every time I pull up to that intersection, and I tend to look around as if I'm on the verge of solving some bright mystery—until the driver behind me honks and I'm forced to putter up the hill.
I've mentioned it to Jamie and the kids, and they agree. It's a nice spot. To them, it's probably just that. But my mental wheels start turning and I want to know what about it makes me feel that way. Is it the shape of the land? Is it the fact that the stop sign forces me to pause for a moment and consider my surroundings? Does it remind me of some lovely childhood drive? I can't put my finger on it. There are other intersections in more beautiful locales that don't make me feel the way this one does. Psalm 16:6 says, "The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance." I know the psalmist wasn't thinking of country roads when he wrote this, but I always think of this verse when I sit at that intersection. "This, surely, is a pleasant place," I think to myself. And in some ways, a pleasant place is better than a breathtaking one, isn't it? I love the Grand Canyon and have hiked into it a handful of times over the years, but I wouldn't want to live there.
You'll Find Your Way: A Letter and a Video
I wrote "You'll Find Your Way" (from Light for the Lost Boy) for Asher, my second son. He turned 13 last month, and I wrote him a letter for part of his birthday (the other part was a drumset). Here's a little excerpt from what I told him:
You're thirteen today. I know you know that, but it feels kind of weird and wonderful to sit and think about it, doesn't it? I remember being that age, and beginning to realize more than ever before that growing up was an inevitable adventure. "Inevitable" means it's coming and there's nothing you can do about it as long as you're drawing breath. And I don't just mean getting older and taller, either. I mean your heart is growing up. You've experienced some pain, some loneliness perhaps, some sense of your smallness in the great big world. It's a scary thing, isn't it? There's no shame in saying yes. But it's not all the bad kind of scary, either—it's also the good kind of scary, like roller coaster scary: you've been clicking up, up, up toward the top of the ride, and any minute now the coaster is going to peak and plunge you down into the wild and holy speed of life. Throw your hands in the air and scream.
But one of the grand things about growing up, I've learned, is that you're already ancient. Your soul, whatever the "soul" is, will live forever in Christ, and God exists outside of time. That's a crazy thought, isn't it? God looks at us and sees the beginning and the end at once, kind of like a song or a story. When you hold a book in your hand, you're holding that character's whole world—the terror, the joy, the lostness, and the final good ending. But if you think about it, the character in the story doesn't see the ending, doesn't know his story is something that can be held in one hand. The character is feeling whatever he's feeling when you read that sentence. But the reader, a little bit like God, can flip to the end and see how it all works out. Maybe that's how God beholds our lives. He sees the ending, the middle, and the beginning as one good story. Right now, you're thirteen and wondering where you're going to work, who your friends will be in twenty years, where you'll live, who you'll marry, what your kids will be like. But in some mysterious way, God knows all those answers even now. Every day is another page in that story, and you can't know how it's all going to turn out, just like riding a roller coaster for the first time—except that because of Jesus, because he has made you his son, you can embrace all the twists and turns with joy because you can be confident that he built the ride and loves you more than you can presently know. You will survive until the end of your life (whenever he has decided that is), and then you will continue on into the next book of your life in Christ. That's Heaven.
I guess that's what I'm saying. Your soul and your body are mysteriously connected. Your body, like Mr. Clarence's body, which you saw at the funeral a few weeks ago, is going to waste away, but you, Asher Jesse Peterson, will live on. After your body dies, your soul will happily await the day when Jesus will return to earth and raise us all again. Then, like moving into a new house, your soul will inherit a new, perfect body that is neither old nor young, and will go on living in a perfect world without disease or the great shadow of death. So in that sense, you who were made from the mind and imagination of God himself, were born on December 15th, 1999, but what you are made OF has always been, and, because you placed your life in Jesus' hands a few years ago, you will go on living forever and ever. So yes, you're thirteen. But in God's eyes you're already as old as the stars, and indeed, you will outlive them. Is that a crazy thought, or what? Your experience and age and wisdom are merely catching up to the eternal nature of your redeemed soul. And I believe that you'll go on catching up to that eternal age, well, for eternity. Our lives will unfold and unfold and unfold forever into the Kingdom of God, the expanse of which is infinite. That means you're already old, and you'll continue growing younger as God's son forever. Does your brain hurt? Mine does.
Some Stuff I Saw in 2012
Here's a quick list of some good films/television shows I saw this year. (Asterisks signify availability on Netflix Instant View.)
I just watched this for the third time. Yes, it's that good. I paused it a few times when we watched it as a family—mainly to point out where I thought George dropped the ball with his marriage. (The film gives the impression that his marriage was already doomed and he would be better off abandoning it. Obviously that doesn't jibe with what I want to teach my kids.) Other than that, it's storytelling at its best: funny, heartbreaking, imaginative, entertaining, inspiring. Re-reading this, it's a good time to point out that every one of these films probably has moments that might offend more sensitive viewers. Please don't throw a brick through my virtual window. I'm a bit neurotic about recommendations like this because I'm a pastor's kid who's always assuming that something he says will get him into trouble. I'll do my best to voice any caveats you should know about if you plan to watch these with your family. There. Disclaimer over. I exhaust myself, honestly.
I'm a big fan of Wes Anderson films (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tennenbaums, The Fantastic Mr. Fox), and if I had to give one reason is this: he's a great storyteller who seems to care about the audience. His attention to detail is staggering, and it feels like he's bending over backwards to delight us with his stories. That said, most of his films have a moment or two that make me shake my fist and say, "Now why did you have to go and do THAT?" Moonrise Kingdom, in addition to having one of the most magical titles ever, is the perfect vehicle for Anderson's prowess. But it has one scene that, frankly, ticked me off and, in my opinion, kept it from being the classic it might have been. Anyone who's seen the film knows exactly what I'm talking about.
The BBC knows how to do television. There are two three-episode seasons of Sherlock so far, and each episode is about 90 minutes, which gives the story time to develop in ways most feature films only dream of. From a parental perspective, these are probably PG-13, though the first episode of season two, with the Irene Adler storyline, was racy enough that I fast-forwarded quite a bit of it. You wouldn't be missing anything to just skip it altogether. I watched the last two episodes of season two with my teenagers and we loved them. The ending is ridiculously good.
Some Books I Have Read (2012)
Hello, rabbits. Here's a short list of a few books I read and liked this year, very few of which were published in 2012. They're not in any particular order, and a few may have actually been read at the end of 2011. Here goes.
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, by Allison Hoover Bartlett
I stumbled on this one at Goodwill and picked it up because I had the creepy feeling the title was describing me. I had, after all, just spent thirty minutes with my head cocked to the right so I could read every single spine of a hundred yards of used books. I'm a sucker for a good detective story—if it's based on actual events, then even better. One of my hobbies on the road is visiting used book stores, so learning about not only the world of rare book collecting but the world of rare book thievery was fascinating.
I've read every book by Larson—first Devil in the White City, then Thunderstruck, then In the Garden of Beasts. He's a great writer, and has carved a niche by unearthing relatively obscure bits of history and humanizing them as deftly as he researches them. His books are usually about two things: Devil in the White City isn't just about the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, it's also about a serial killer who was in the middle of it; Thunderstruck isn't just about a famous English murder, it's about the invention of the radio; and Isaac's Storm isn't just about the tragic Galveston flood of 1900, it's about the beginnings of meteorology and the anatomy of hurricanes. Anyone who's interested in American history and is awed by the power of storms will love this book.
The Terrible Speed of Mercy, by Jonathan Rogers
It is no secret that Flannery O'Connor is one of the great American writers. I have read and appreciated many of her stories without going bonkers over them. I find that O'Connor only appeals to me when I'm in a certain mood, and I'm seldom in that mood. But Jonathan's book changed that for me. I found that after reading The Terrible Speed of Mercy her stories feel deeper, more human, less eccentric—no longer do they feel like they're written by the fierce, intellectual lioness of Georgia who doesn't much care what I think, but by a weak, lovely and lonely girl who sees her writing as a way to wake the world to the glory of God.
Sleuthing C.S. Lewis, by Kathryn Lindskoog
This isn't the greatest book ever, but it's one of the most interesting. Lindskoog died a few years ago, having gone perhaps a little crazy trying to get the world to believe her theories on corruption in the C.S. Lewis estate. I finished the book feeling like Lindskoog was truly out of touch with reality on some points and yet raised some excellent questions about others. If even 10% of what she proposes is true, then I'd love some straight answers from the C.S. Lewis camp. It would make for an amazing documentary film.
The Sign of Jonas, by Thomas Merton
Merton lived and wrote at the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky, which is where I spent the weekend in 2002 that led me to a song called "The Silence of God." The Seven Storey Mountain is probably his most famous work, and I'm sad to say I've never read it or anything else by him until now. I found a first edition of Jonas at a bookstore on the road (I forget where) and started it one afternoon when I was feeling particularly sinful. It was just what I needed: the journal entries of a man in love with the mystery of God, who is discontent with his own sin and yet gives thanks for his suffering as the Lord's loving discipline. Giving thanks for my own suffering is a virtue I hope to practice in the coming year. There's so much to learn from Merton, and I'm excited that this is only the tip of the iceberg.
Carter Beats the Devil, by Glen David Gold
Sometimes you don't feel like reading a book written by a Trappist monk. Sometimes you read a book just for fun. If a tale about a Houdini-esque magician on the run from FBI agents who think he killed the president isn't fun, I don't know what is. I think this is Gold's first book, and I think they're making it into a film. I'm not the kind of guy who thinks every great book would make a great movie (Narnia is a case in point), but I kept thinking while I read this that it would make for a great ride in the theater.
Surprised by Hope, by N.T. Wright
A few of the songs on Light for the Lost Boy were influenced by this book—"Day by Day" is probably the most obvious, and I had the honor of singing it for NTW himself at a Rabbit Room event earlier this year. Chapter after chapter I found myself thinking, "I hope this is true," and because Wright uses so much scripture I then found myself thinking, "It is true." I've read a few theologians' critiques of this book, but even the harshest admit that there's much to be learned from it.
The Old House of Fear, by Russell Kirk
Every October I get out my collection of spooky stories, and Russell Kirk is at the top of the list (thanks to Jason Gray). I've read most of Ancestral Shadows, his collection of ghostly tales, but this was the first time I read Old House of Fear. If you're ever in the mood for foggy moors, old castles, dashing heroes, ancient mysteries, and shipwrecks, then this is the book for you. And if you haven't read Ancestral Shadows, it's great. Search for Jason Gray's excellent review of it.
Ghostopolis and Cardboard, by Doug TenNapel
Cartoonist Jonny Jimison was at Hutchmoot this year, and we talked a bit about Doug TenNapel. I had heard a lot about him (and knew of his creation, "Earthworm Jim") but hadn't read any of his graphic novels yet. Then at a local bookstore I was arrested by the cover of a book called Cardboard. I thumbed through it and loved what I saw: big, bold lines, cartoony but artful and bursting with energy—at times the panels felt like the best Bill Watterson drawings. I was sold before I ever realized it was a Doug TenNapel book. And it's so good! I pushed it on my kids immediately. Then I went on a TenNapel binge and read Ghostopolis, Bad Island, and Monster Zoo. I grew up reading comics and graphic novels, but I've never read stories quite like his. He's unabashed about being a Christian, and yet is well-respected in the comic world. That's saying something. (His newer books are kid-appropriate, but Creature Tech, for the record, isn't. I'm working my way through the back catalogue.)
There's my short, off-the-top-of-my-head list. If I think of more I'll tack them on. What about you guys?
Merry Christmas, Rabbits!
Justin Gerard created this Christmas card a few years ago and posted it on his site today. It was too good not to repost here, in light of our rodential leanings. Thanks, Justin, and all you Rabbit Roomers for another great year.
Be sure and visit Justin's blog for mounds of artistic inspiration. (But don't worry–no recipes.) Also, for you Tolkien fans, he's got an amazing array of original Hobbit pictures here.
C.S. Lewis Seminar in Nashville
You'll notice that in addition to Dr. DeWitt and Dr. Rogers, they've lined up some great folks, including my pal Josh Wilson who will be doing some music.
The Rabbit Room exists in part to encourage this kind of conversation, community, and thought, so we've partnered with the seminar to offer an exclusive Rabbit Room discount to you guys. The registration for the day is $35, with lunch provided—but if you register here we'll give you a $5 discount (registration now closed).
Have fun at the seminar. Be sure and heckle Jonathan for me, and know that as you listen to smart dudes talking about fauns, I'll be in Texas listening to smart dudes talking about hobbits. Ah, the life.
Marc Cohn's Moment of Grace
Last week Jamie and I sat in a small, classy theater in downtown Franklin, Tennessee and listened as one of the finest songwriters in America blew my mind.
I first encountered Marc Cohn's music in 1991, my junior year of high school. I was steeped in heavy metal, hair metal, pop rock, swamp rock, prog rock—basically, [choose any adjective] rock. (I know, I know. Shocking. I'm saving my Tesla/Extreme post for another time.) But when "Walking in Memphis" strode through the airwaves back in 1991, I experienced something altogether different.
I liked the emotion and the musical high I got when I was listening to straight-up rock and roll, but I often rolled my eyes at the lyrics (except for those of the aforementioned Tesla and Extreme). Lyrics mattered to me even then, but not enough to make up for my disdain towards what I thought of as Easy Listening music. Basically, if it was on my dad's radio station, I avoided it like homework. This included James Taylor, Paul Simon, Jim Croce, Jackson Browne, and others I've come to love.
So, I kept looking for stories and deeper meaning in rock and roll, but I just couldn't seem to find it. Then one day I heard a pretty piano part dance out of the car stereo, and a raspy, warm, and welcoming voice sang,
Put on my blue suede shoes and I boarded the plane
Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues in the middle of the pouring rain.
I sat up straight and paid attention. It was as if I had happened upon a deer in the woods. I froze. I don't remember the exact moment I first heard that song as a seventeen-year-old kid, but I was probably driving my dad's Pontiac station wagon with the volume cranked, wearing a look of dumb delight. Like a great film or a great book, that song goes everywhere your heart wants it to go, and yet you're still surprised by it. It's no overstatement that "Walking in Memphis" feels like a moment of grace.
Andrew Peterson: Live at the Warren
Hey, folks. I'm writing from North Carolina, where I'm doing a few shows this week. The fall leg of the Light for the Lost Boy tour is over, which is sad, but just around the corner waits the 13th annual Behold the Lamb of God tour, followed by—I'm pumped about this—a tour with Jason Gray in February, followed by—and I'm also pumped about this—a spring Lost Boy tour, once again with CALEB.
But as much touring as we've been doing, there are still pockets of the country (nay—the WORLD) to which we haven't come, not because we don't want to but because no one in that part of the country (nay—the WORLD) has booked a show yet. In the meantime, though, we have the interwebs. And thanks to a cool thing called StageIt, I can put on a 30 minute concert in my living room. It isn't recordable (computer hackers, please comply), ensuring that what you're seeing is a legitimate one-time event, which you can watch from the comfort of your couch or Starbucks chair. There's even a real time chat room, where you can make requests and say hello to each other. Hook it up to your TV, invite your friends and family over, pop some popcorn, and enjoy some live music. I'm not saying it'll be better than whatever sitcom you usually watch, but I suppose that depends on the sitcom. It's pretty cool, and it's only $5.
So. This Sunday night, November 11, at 6 p.m. Central, join me (and perhaps a surprise guest) from wherever you are for what promises to be a slightly awkward but entirely live and raw concert. Click here to get your tickets, and reply to this post to make any requests. I can't promise anything, but I'll do my best to accommodate them. Thanks for supporting me and mine, everybody.
Wendell Berry, "Planting Trees"
This week I checked out Wendell Berry's The Country of Marriage and stumbled on a poem I hadn't read before. Just a few days ago my kind neighbor Tommy gave me permission to harvest a few maple seedlings from his property and I spent an afternoon replanting them around the Warren with these same hopes for the blessing they might be to my children's children. Once again, the sage words of the Mad Farmer gave me a clear picture of what it means for us to be keepers of his creation, standing amidst a breadth of old beauty that we didn't ask for and don't deserve. I'm tempted to draw out a metaphor, like I did in my song of the same title, but I think maybe it's good (especially in light of the glorious autumn all around me in Nashville right now), to let the trees in the poem stand in their own bright significance as members of God's creation.
In the mating of trees,
the pollen grain entering invisible
the domed room of the winds, survives
the ghost of the old forest
that was here when we came. The ground
invites it, and it will not be gone.
I become the familiar of that ghost
and its ally, carrying in a bucket
twenty trees smaller than weeds,
and I plant them along the way
of the departure of the ancient host.
I return to the ground its original music.
It will rise out of the horizon
of the grass, and over the heads
of weeds, and it will rise over
the horizon of men's heads. As I age
in the world it will rise and spread,
and be for this place horizon
and orison, the voice of its winds.
I have made myself a dream to dream
of its rising, that has gentled my nights.
Let me desire and wish well the life
these trees may live when I
no longer rise in the mornings
to be pleased by the green of them
shining, and their shadows on the ground,
and the sound of the wind in them.
Check out Wendell Berry's books currently in the Rabbit Room Store.
The Lamp Post Guild? Sign Me Up.
A few years ago I had to bid farewell to one of my favorite haunts in the interwebland: Portland Studios, an illustration and story company. I went there for inspiration about six times a week, but after a good run, the folks there decided to dismantle the company and, more or less, to go freelance. I'm sure it was the right decision, but I was sad. It was a company that felt more like a community, and among its many artists and web developers and storytellers were three guys whose work I've loved for years—guys whose websites I still visit almost every day, just to see what cool pictures they're cooking up.
There's Cory Godbey, who illustrated the first Slugs & Bugs CD, as well as the amazing video for the equally amazing Stephen Delopoulous song "The Ruin of the Beast", which we featured here; Chris Koelle, who did the cover for Andrew Osenga's The Morning, not to mention the tour poster for the still-underway Light for the Lost Boy Tour, the stunning Revelation App, and John Piper's JOB; and finally Justin Gerard, Hutchmoot alumnus, illustrator of my Wingfeather Saga books and covers, as well as my 2006 album The Far Country and Phil Vischer's Sidney and Norman. Whew. That's a healthy portfolio for these guys, and that's just with the stuff we're associated with—the tip of the far corner of the iceberg, so to speak. They've done gobs and gobs of great work for publishers and film companies the world over.
You get the point. I'm a fan. So check THIS out.
Cory, Chris, and Justin are putting together an online illustration course called The Lamp Post Guild (a name of which I heartily approve). If you're like me and you've always wanted to spend more time learning to draw, or if you're like my son Aedan, who's very seriously pursuing a life of illustration, this little video might geek you out. They're raising money to develop the class, and for a relatively low contribution you can take a serious step toward doing better—maybe even excellent—work. As a homeschooling dad with a kid who's into art, this was a no-brainer for me. It's hard for me to imagine a more perfect scenario for my boy. Thank you, Justin, Cory, and Chris for doing what you do.
Hutchmoot 2012: Announcing the Special Guest
Let me tell you a quick story about something cool that happened to me over the course of about twenty years. I promise it has to do with Hutchmoot 2012. It all started at church camp. I was working as a counselor at North Florida Christian Service Camp in the 1990's—the same camp where as a guilt-ridden kid I rededicated my life to Jesus every year—when one night, while everyone was hanging in the gym playing carpetball or foursquare or Audio Adrenaline songs, the high schoolers suddenly went crazy over a video that featured talking vegetables. It was the first time I had ever seen Bob and Larry, and I was delighted that whoever had put the film together seemed to take the Gospel very seriously while not taking themselves seriously at all. (This is something I would love to be said about me behind my back or at my funeral.) I laughed and I learned, and I was proud that the folks behind this video were Christians and genuinely funny.
Fast forward to when Aedan and Asher were toddlers. We fed them a steady diet of VeggieTales and bought every episode when it came out. I looked forward to the "Silly Songs with Larry" segment every time, thinking how fun it would be to write one of those songs. (I was also thinking how fun it would be to pay some bills by writing one of those songs.) One night in Estes Park, Colorado I was performing a short set for Compassion International (along with Phil Keaggy, of all people), and after I finished playing I bumped into a guy wearing a VeggieTales cap. I mean, come on! First, Keaggy and now VeggieTales? I introduced myself to the guy (who turned out to be Kurt Heinecke, the brains behind the Big Idea music for years), and told him my kids loved the videos. He gave me his card and told me that if I was ever in Chicago I should come by and play some songs for the employees at Big Idea.
You Shall Be My Pumpkins
Last night I tromped down the hill with a hammer, six wooden stakes, and a spool of fishing line to do battle with deer. But it's not what you think. As far as I know there are no vampire deer in the neighborhood. No, our deer are the usual docile, graceful, and enormously frustrating sort. Frustrating because I'm a wannabe gardener, and they seem to think I'm doing all this work for them.
I planted a pumpkin patch down in the lower part of the yard, just past the young willow tree. I've never had much luck with pumpkins, so this year I went all-out. My kind neighbor brought his tractor down the hill and turned the ground, revealing darker soil than further up where I plant my corn. When it rains a lot (well, when it used to rain a lot) I can't even mow this spot for fear of getting stuck in all that soggy grass–which is why I planted the thirsty willow tree there last year. I'm guessing all that moisture and runoff has been feeding this little section of the yard for a hundred years. Now, by golly, that soil was going to feed my pumpkins.
Pre-order the New Andrew Peterson Record, Get Four Songs Now
The lame duck period is, well, pretty lame. The months during the making of a record are equal parts exhilarating and exhausting, and the months of touring and supporting the record are the same. But the period of time between the two, when the artwork is finished, the album is mastered, it's sent off to the presses, then packaged and shoved into a Raiders of the Lost Ark warehouse to await its eventual shipment—that part is fairly maddening.
I don't write songs just for my own pleasure, after all; these are for you. Sure, I may get some enjoyment out of the process, and there are residual blessings that come from the writing and production of the music, but the real thrill for me has always been the mysterious way songs (and whatever light lives in them) have the potential to find their way into the world, into your ears, and, hopefully, your hearts. That you would give them that chance is a great honor, and my great hope for the album.
Teacheth Us to Prayeth, Mortimer
When I was a boy my dad consistently called on a wrinkled old sage named Mortimer Hawk to offer the closing prayer at church. He was so old that the congregation's stillness deepened as soon as he opened his mouth. "Most Holy Father," he quietly boomed. (I know that sounds impossible, but that's how I remember it; he boomed—quietly. Honest.) "We thank Thee for Thy bounty, and humbly seek Thy guidance as we depart this place to proclaim in word and deed Thy merciful affection."
So he began. That's not verbatim, but it's the general vibe of Mortimer's weekly supplication. The way he pronounced every "Thee" and "Thy" assured me that in his mind they were capitalized. He transported the whole church back about a hundred years, and reminded us how rich and humble a prayer could be. And that was the weird thing—he didn't speak that way in normal conversation; he reserved his King James prayers for church, but somehow it never struck me as pretentious or put-on. It was merely this humble old saint's way of honoring the King to whom he spoke. He didn't pepper his prayer with mindless repetition ("FatherGod, we pray, FatherGod, that you, Jesus, FatherGod, Jesus, would be with us, Jesus, God", etc.), a habit many of us have acquired which strikes me as dangerously close to "babbling like the pagans do" (Matthew 6:7). My guess is that this odd repetition that's so pervasive in our prayers is either nervous habit, an oratory device employed to buy us time to think of what to say next, or maybe we've grown up thinking it's just what you're supposed to do. I'm sure someone out there will demonstrate that I'm wrong to reference that verse here—but hopefully you see what I'm saying: sometimes our public prayers are padded with nice sounding words and phrases that don't mean a whole lot. (This is what is known on the Internet as "opening a can of worms.")


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GDF participates in Exercise Tradewinds
In keeping with the integration of Regional Militaries, a contingent from the Guyana Defence Force comprising 5 Officers, 1 Warrant Officer and 5 Senior Non Commissioned Officers, participated in Phase Two of EXERCISE TRADEWINDS 2014 which was recently held in the Dominican Republic, a release from the GDF said today.
This exercise was conducted from 2014-06-15 to 2014-06-26. The GDF contingent was headed by Captain Cleon Coppin.
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Phyllis Schlafly, founder of the "pro-family" Eagle Forum has authored a column in which she takes a hatchet to videogames, while attempting to outline the fight by both sides in the Schwarzenegger vs EMA case to rally state attorneys general to their respective squads.
A few of the descriptors used by Schlafly to portray videogames in her piece include: "extremely violent and addictive," "polluting," "increasingly realistic bloodshed," "highly disturbing," "heinous acts of terrorism" and "evil products."
In case you hadn't guessed it yet, Schlafly is not a huge fan of games. A sampling of her more inane arguments against videogames follow:
Some games are programmed to become more violent while the game is being played, and parents usually don't or can't play the games.
Brain research indicates that teenagers' brains, as well as children's brains, are still developing and may store violent images as real memories.
Virtually every school massacre can be traced to the young killers' addiction to violent video games. The video game industry reaps tens of billions of dollars in revenue and now even surpasses Hollywood in profits, revenues and influence.
It's time for families to make clear to their own state attorney general that the voters will hold them accountable for what they do about this problem of filling children's minds and memories with gory, criminal images.
The industry is asking the High Court to create a new type of free speech that would make it impossible to put any limit on this victimizing of children.
The Eagle Forum was one of the groups involved in lobbying Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtlef in late August, in an attempt to sway his as-of-yet-unknown stance on the matter.


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Hi Kris,
Great to hear your story too! If it has shrunk that much already (and just work out the volume change in those measurements) then there's no reason why it can't continue to shrink more. Keep at it!
I met my radiologist tonight as my stents are now blocking, after 9 months. He's going to replace them on Thursday, and is already talking of advances in technology where stents can last longer still. But replacing stents once in a while is a small price to pay for being alive and healthy and cancer-free!
My best wishes - and thoughts - are with you.
1 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:11:13
Re: My story, in case it helps... (48 replies, posted in Good News / What's Working)
Hi Kris,
2 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:14:49
Re: My story, in case it helps... (48 replies, posted in Good News / What's Working)
Hi Joolz, Maria and Jim,
Sorry I've not responded before, but glad to hear your stories. Hope you are still doing well - I've now been 'free' and well for 18 months...
3 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 16:27:49
Re: My story, in case it helps... (48 replies, posted in Good News / What's Working)
Hi Janet,
I don't know about your mother's overall health, but I was amazed that my chemo (with Gemcytabine only) had no side effects on me at all, at least for the first 5 or 6 cycles. After then it messed up my liver enzymes, but by then my tumour was gone. I know from others and my oncologist that Cisplatin has harsher effects, so maybe Gemcytabine on its own would be worth talking about?
Keep up your strength!
4 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:47:19
Re: Good News! (11 replies, posted in Good News / What's Working)
Great news - and if it can slow down maybe he can get it to shrink too? Either way its great. Best wishes to you both!
5 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 09:38:52
Re: Metal stents (9 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Hi All
Thanks for your suggestions and support. After rather a long stay in hospital (I went in for a couple of days, but actually spent most of January in hospital, as I got an infection in my bile duct, then got dehydrated, then got another infection in Gall Bladder, but all is now well) I'm now home again and loving being here.
In the end after several discussions we decided:
1. Not to put more metal stents inside the first ones (as what happens after another year or two? - we can't do it forever like that),
2. Not to just leave it - as it would clog up pretty quickly anyway,
3. So the only option left was plastic stents inside my metal ones. This is now done, and all is working perfectly. The only problem will be after 3 months or so when/if they block, as they'll need replacing again. However this should be an ERCP thing, not a stabbing, so less intrusive.
There is another option we discussed, which uses a new bit of technology to clean the inside of the metal stent by cutting away all the cells and stuff sitting there. As this is still new (at least here in my part of the UK) it's a bit experimental but sounds like it could be good. Also done via ERCP so not intrusive. Will keep you posted as to what we do next - but it will be a while or so yet as for now all is working fine.
In the meantime thanks again for your thoughts - and enjoy every day!
6 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 13:36:11
Topic: Metal stents (9 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Hi - this is a query to any survivors out there with metal stents.
I was diagnosed in Feb 2009, and the only option at the time were two metal stents + chemo + a range of alternative therapies (they don't do resections etc in the UK if you have potential secondaries - and I had three lymph nodes swollen). The good news is I'm now fine and cancer free (since November 2009) - you can read my story here: http://www.cholangiocarcinoma.org/punbb … p?id=4553)
The slight puzzle is what to do with my stents. They just blocked over New Year so I was jaundiced (again!) and now have been cleared so bilirubin on its way down.
But does anyone else have experience of long-term metal stent management? Mine can't be taken out as my bile duct cell wall has grown through the mesh. I could have another stent inside it, but then after another 2 years where does that leave me? And plastic stents don't work, according to my radiologist, as they clog up too fast.
So any info or ideas are welcome!
Thanks in advance,
7 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 11:10:42
Re: Any bile duct specific cancer survivors out there? (14 replies, posted in Introductions!)
Hi Jeand,
There's actually quite a few of us who are CC survivors, some much longer than me (19 months since diagnosis, 12 months since first all clear CT scan). So it can happen! My story is here if you want more: http://www.cholangiocarcinoma.org/punbb … hp?id=4553
Best wishes to you,
8 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 10:43:40
Re: 3 years (11 replies, posted in Good News / What's Working)
Fabulous news! Best wishes for the future - and thanks for letting us all know.
9 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 12:50:29
Re: Now 1 day over life expectancy and doing just fine! (14 replies, posted in Good News / What's Working)
Me too!
10 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:18:07
Re: Now 1 day over life expectancy and doing just fine! (14 replies, posted in Good News / What's Working)
Hi Kathy,
That 1 day is now 1 month, right? Keep on and it will soon be adding up. I'm now 7 months over my sell-by date, and no sign of tumours anywhere. So all things are possible.
Keep going!
11 Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:14:57
Re: Clear Ct (9 replies, posted in Good News / What's Working)
Hi Lulu
Excellent news - it's such a fabulous feeling, isn't it. I've just had my regular 3 month CT and still no sign of anything - now 12 months of being clear. And 19 months since I was told it was inoperable, incurable, and my life expectancy was 12 months...
Don't believe the negative - positive is possible!
Best wishes for you,
12 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:12:42
Re: CA 19-9 Results (15 replies, posted in General Discussion)
I've just been catching up on CA19-9 as my values went down when my chemo and other treatments succeeded in 2009, but in 2010 they've gone up and down erratically. However it seems that if your bile duct is blocked or inflamed, it secretes the same CA19-9 as a cancer even though there is no cancer there! A simple gall stone will do it.
References for this start with Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CA19-9) and then go to:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10065510 (in 1999!) or more recently
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17273004 (2007)
So in my case it has simply coincided with my stents getting blocked (CA919-9 goes up) then when they sort themselves out CA19-9 goes down again.
My relief is that it's nothing to do with cancer - I just wish one of the medics had told me in the first place!
13 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:51:53
Re: What causes cholangiocarcinoma? The Liver Fluke connection (9 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Thanks for this - I guess I should have looked first! There's also a lot of research going on in Thailand, given the hotspot of Northern Thailand as a global CC centre. There's links from the reference I posted.
Thanks again,
14 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 04:00:50
Re: Dad diagnosed with inoperable klatskin Tumour oct 2006 (16 replies, posted in Introductions!)
Hi Narinder,
Fantastic news and thanks for sharing. I've only been 18 months so far from initial diagnosis, so it's good to find others who have gone further! And we did many of the things that you describe too - juicing, supplements and positivity. The main difference is your dad had surgery and I did chemo. But it seems like either way it can work!
15 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:34:05
Topic: What causes cholangiocarcinoma? The Liver Fluke connection (9 replies, posted in General Discussion)
There is a question bugging me since I was first diagnosed with CC - where did it come from?
Then I found that liver flukes can cause CC in some parts of the world - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholangiocarcinoma for a general review, or http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/inf … BF0B2759DA for more details.
So if one possible cause is getting a fluke infection from eating raw fish in south-east Asia, how many CC patients have been there in the last 3-5 years, and eaten fish?
I visited Thailand in 2005, and ate fish (not knowingly raw, but fish all the same). So for me the ulcer I got in 2007 and the CC in 2009 could have come from a fluke infection...
Anyone else the same?
16 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 03:14:55
Re: Why do the stents block, when it's not tumour related? (4 replies, posted in General Discussion)
Hi Andie,
According to my radiologist, stents can block even when there is no cancer. It seems that if the bile fluid gets too sticky and viscous it just stays there. Then back pressure in the liver may force it out, or it may require minor surgery to unplug it. But drinking plenty of water keeps it fluid (and is good for you anyway!).
Best wishes to you and your mom,
17 Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:46:46
Re: My story, in case it helps... (48 replies, posted in Good News / What's Working)
Hi All,
Thanks so much for your positive responses. It really does make a difference to know others care and are supporting you.
For those that want details of what we did in terms of supplements and diets, I've now posted them here:
http://www.cholangiocarcinoma.org/punbb … hp?id=4557
There's a lot that others have already posted, but I hope the references and sources are useful.
Best wishes to all for a positive future!
18 Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:50:30
Topic: My story, in case it helps... (48 replies, posted in Good News / What's Working)
Here's my story so far


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I find that if I push the screen to the side it becomes very difficult to level the camera; the horizons are mostly tilted; probably because the screen and view is at angle. I do not have that problem if I keep the screen straight behind the camera.
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Jaroslav Halak stopped 33 shots as the Blues dominated the Flames 5-0 at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Five different players scored goals for St.
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DALZELL from Northern Ireland - descendants in New Zealand
Thompson DALZELL was born 1810 in Newtownards, County Down - 16km East of Belfast, Ireland
- he died 1885 in Amuri, North Canterbury, New Zealand
- married Sarah WILSON in 1831 in Kilcarn, Newtownards, County Down
- they had 4 children in Northern Ireland
- Sarah died the same year their last child was born
- he remarried to Susannah STEELE in 1939 in Belfast
- they had 12 children in Northern Ireland from 1840 to 1865
- between 1865 and 1866 most of them emigrated to New Zealand, see link, some emigrated at another time ...
- they had a 13th child in Canterbury
All the children were:
David Dalzell 1832 in County Down - 1910 in Timaru
- he married Elizabeth Jane WRIGHT had 6 children
Martin Dalzell 1834 in County Down - 1871 in ?
Robert Dalzell 1835 in Northern Ireland - ?
Jane Dalzell 1837 in Northern Ireland - ?
William Dalzell 1840 in Northern Ireland - 1893 Christchurch
- married Margaret ORR MILLER had 10 children
- emigrated on the CAROLINE COVENTRY
- 1 daughter born on board they named her Agnes Caroline Coventry
James Dalzell (twin) 1841 County Down - 1920 in Rangiora
- married Anna Yuill McCALLUM had 12 children
John Henry Dalzell (twin) 1841 County Down - 1924 Palmerston North
- married Jessie Catherine CLARK had 9 chidren
Robert Dalzell 1843 in Northern Ireland - 1922 in Ashburton
- emigrated on the CAROLINE COVENTRY with brother William
Letitia Dalzell 1848 Northern Ireland - 1918 Rangiora
- married Robert SLOPER had 11 children
Thomas Dalzell 1849 Northern Ireland - 1918 Christchurch
- married Elizabeth EWART had 9 children
Mary Dalzell 1851 County Down - 1913 North Canterbury
- married William GRAHAM had 11 children
Alexander Dalzell 1857 Northern Ireland - 1887 NZ
Eliza Jane Dalzell 1858 Northern Ireland - 1922 Canterbury
- married Thomas BUNTING had 3 children
- married William COSTELLO had 9 children
Henry Dalzell 1861 Northern ireland - 1947 Canterbury
- married Mary Anne EWART had 8 children
Samuel Dalzell 1863 County Down - 1947 Rangiora
- married Mary BUNTING had ? children
Sarah Dalzell 1865 in Northern Ireland - 1944 in Wanganui
- married Carl Maldersen AMUNDSEN
- he was previously married to Margaret Theresa LORIGAN
Abraham Dalzell 1866 Canterbury - 1931 Hastings
- married Christina Margerethe Sophie GARTNER at least 8 children
Ethelbert Alfred RANSOM + Antonette Katinka SONDERGAARD, Dannevirke NZ
ROBERT RANSOM was born in Lawshall, Suffolk, England
- he married Harriet Lucy SOWERBY in St Giles, London, England on October 9th 1849.
John and his wife Harriet sailed for New Zealand from London on the 12th August 1852 aboard the CORNWALL
They had 9 (known) children around Wellington, New Zealand
Vincent Christopherson Ransom
- born 1851 in Campbeltown, now called Rongotea, near Levin - died 1905 in Levin
- married Mary Ann KNIGHT in 1875 in Lower Hutt
- they had 11 children
Florence Jane "FLORRIE" Ransom
- born 1853 in Lower Hutt
- died 1842 in Wellington
- married William Henry FRETHEY in 1887 in Lower Hutt
- married Reverend John Wesley WORBOYS 1902 in Wellington
Harriet Lucy RANSOM
- born 1855 in ?
- died 1951
- married George MUNT
William "WILLIE" Sowerby Ransom
- born 1857
- died 1945
- married Clarissa Sarah Mary HART in 1884 in Auckland
Evelyn Mildred "EVY" Ransom
- born 1860 in Lower Hutt
- died 1942
- married Alexander McCULLOCH in 1882
Susanna Mabel Ransom
- born 1863 in Lower Hutt
- died 1895
- maried ? McCULLOCH
Reginald John "REG" Ransom
- born 1865 in Sanson
- died 1884 aged 19 felling trees on his brother Vincent's farm
Sir Ethelbert Alfred RANSOM, KCMG (1868-1943), Mayor of Dannevirke
- born 1868 in Lower Hutt
- died 1943 in Dannevirke
- married Antonette Katinka SONDERGAARD in 1889 in Palmerston North
Marion Catherine `MAY Ransom
- born 1873 in ?
- died 1954
- married Charles henry WORBOYS in 1901 in Palmerston North
I would like to know who the parents and siblings were of Antonette Katinka Sondergaard
where is William INKPEN of Perth West Australia ?
There are 26 people with the surname INKPEN buried in the Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, West Australia
EMILY died aged 27
Louisa Inkpen 19-6-1826 - 3-8-1906
- nee Strickland of Westminster, Greater London
- married William Inkpen in 1850 in WA
- where is William buried ?
- her parents were Robert Henry Strickland and Mary Farell
- she had a brother David Strickland, 1818 London - 1898 Ashburton, Canternury
- he moved to New Zealand
- he married Harriet Baldick in Blenheim in 1848
children of Charles & John CUDBY - Upper Hutt
John CUDBY (1801-1861)
- was born in Stoke by Clare, Suffolk, England
he married on 3 September 1825, at East Hornden, Essex to:
Henrietta CLAMPIN (1803-1880)
- Henrietta was born in Mount Bures, Suffolk, England
JOHN & HENRIETTA had 12 children:
* 1826 - 1918 William Cudby
* 1828 - 1907 George Cudby
1830 - 1920 JOHN FRANCIS Cudby
* 1831 - Sarah Cudby
* 1832 - 1904 Henry Cudby
* 1834 - 1908 Thomas Cudby
1835 - 1914 CHARLES Cudby (b.27th Dec)
* 1839 - Sarah Ann Cudby
* 1841 - Emma Winifred Cudby
* 1844 - 1859 Elizabeth Cudby
* 1847 - 1847 Ann Cudby (aged 11 days)
* 1850 - Frederick Cudby
JOHN and CHARLES emigrated to New Zealand
CHARLES CUDBY married in England and went out to Sydney with his young wife, on the ship Matoka, in 1856 when he was 20
After a short stay he CAME to Wellington by the William and Alfred, arriving on the 1st of May 1857.
A sawyer by trade he found work at the Lower Hutt till 1863, when he settled at the Upper Hutt, finding employment in his own line for many years.
Having leased a section of forty-four acres, he cleared the bush and erected a comfortable dwelling, which was specially notable by its tastefully laid out garden in front with well kept ornamental trees and pretty box borders.
For about 15 years he conducted a growing trade as a builder and undertaker.
Charles joined the order of Odd-fellows in 1857, soon after his arrival.
For several years he served as a member of the Upper Hutt School Committee.
CHARLES CUDBY married ELIZABETH PAYNE (1837-1885)
- they had 15 children in Upper & Lower Hutt:
* 1857 - 1959 Emma Jane Cudby
* 1858 - 1928 Frederick William Cudby
* 1861 - 1943 John Walter Cudby
* 1861 - 1932 Louisa Frances Cudby
* 1863 - 1915 Elizabeth Cudby
* 1865 - 1942 Charles Cudby
* 1867 - 1854 Alfred Cudby
* 1869 - 1964 Eliza Cudby
* 1871 - 1917 Mary Philomena Cudby
* 1873 - 1949 Agnes Cudby
* 1874 - 1940 Henry Herbert Cudby
* 1876 - 1967 Arthur Joseph Cudby
* 1877 - 1963 Thomas James Cudby
* 1880 - 1949 William George Cudby
* 1882 - 1947 Herbert Edward Cudby
JOHN CUDBY emigrated on the 'Thomas Sparks' at the age of 13, leaving London on 27 November 1842 and arriving in Port Nicholson (Wellington) on 31 January 1843.
He was, at the time, the servant of the Honourable Henry William Petre and his wife Eleanor (their son Frank William PETRE was the architect for St Joseph's Cathedral)
John lost an arm when his gun accidentally exploded
He was a teenager when he was involved in the fight at Boulcott's farm and is mentioned in "The New Zealand Wars: A History of he Maori Campaigns and the Pioneering Period. Volume 1: 1845-1864
- from which I have taken the following:
... A little later that morning John Cudby, then a youth of seventeen, who was engaged in carting commissariat from Wellington to the troops at Boulcott`s Farm (for Mr. W. B. Rhodes, the contractor for supplying rations), harnessed up in the yard of the Aglionby Arms, Burcham`s Hotel, near the bridge stockade, and drove out into the bush for the front, unaware of the fight which had just been waged a short two miles away.
In this duty it was the practice of Cudby and the other carters to bring out their loads along the beach road as far as Burcham's in the afternoon, stay there that night, and go on to Boulcott's Farm on the Taita in the morning. Cudby had previously had the protection of an escort of fifteen men under a non-commissioned officer, but, to use his own words, the poor fellows at the stockade were worked to death, and so I said I`d do without them in the future.
His sole companion henceforth was a clerk, the military issuer.
A double-barrel gun loaded with slugs was carried in the cart, but it never became necessary to use it. (This gun was the means of depriving Cudby of his left arm a few months later in Wellington; one of the barrels accidentally exploded, the charge shattering the lad`s hand and necessitating amputation of the arm at the elbow.)
The carter and his companion were in the middle of the bush, jolting over the boggy corduroy patches of road, when they were met by two men in a cart driving furiously from the camp. One of them shouted: Go back boy, go back! The Maoris (sic) have attacked the camp!
But Cudby did not turn his team. I dursen`t go back, he cried in his broad English dialect, I dursen`t go back; I`ve got the rations to deliver.
The two carters whipped up their horse and hurried on toward Fort Richmond, while Cudby, in fear every moment of receiving a volley from ambush in the dark timber that almost overhung him, but resolved to fulfil his duty, drove on to Boulcott`s. When he arrived at the camp he saw laid out in the barn six dead bodies, the soldiers who had fallen; one of them was Bugler Allen, whom he knew. It was Cudby who, later in the day, took the bodies in his cart to a spot on the river-bank where they were temporarily buried a place since washed away by floods.
JOHN CUDBY married JANE NICOL/NICHOL
- they had 9 children
* 1851 - 1923 James Cudby
* 1854 - 1908 William Cudby
* 1856 - 1942 Charles Cudby
- Charles married Emma McIntosh in Lower Hutt 1882
- daughter of John McIntosh of Falkirk Scotland and Arabella Firth of Mirfield Leeds
* 1858 - 1941 Emma Frances Cudby
- Emma married Joseph Frederick FLEET in 1884 (1 known child)
* 1860 - 1946 Henry Cudby
* 1862 - 1934 George Cudby
- George married Jane MUIRHEAD in 1896 (3 known children)
* 1864 - 1955 Henrietta Cudby
- Henrietta married James TURNER in 1890 (2 known children)
* 1868 - 1936 Walter Thomas Cudby
* 1870 - 1958 Ada Winifred Cudby
- Ada married Edward Dowling DUNNE in 1898 (5 known children)
NOTE George & Walter Thomas Cudby were Livery and Bait Stable Proprietors and Contractors, near the Railway Station, Lower Hutt. "Coaches run daily to and from Taita to meet all trains arriving at the Hutt. Buggies, carriages, and saddle horses are supplied as required to picnic and other parties. Mr. George Cudbyan enthusiastic sportsmanconducts visitors on game intent to the best places for fishing and shooting in the district. The firm undertakes contracts for earthwork and construction, and supplies materials for building foundations to many of the leading contractors of the Empire City."
Orlando GORRINGE - Masterton, Wairarapa 1800s
Maria Ann Wyeth (1844-1920)
was the 3rd of 12 children of Robert WYETH & Jane RUNNALLS
MARIA married Isaac SYKES 8 Oct 1865 St James Church, Lower Hutt
They had 3 known children:
... 1
Annie Maria Jane Sykes
- Annie died aged 3 months in Lower Hutt & buried at Taita
... 2
George Robert Sykes
- George married Esther Elizabeth Bishop MURRAY in Masterton in 1893
- they had 6 children
GEORGE is buried in his families plot at Christ Church Taita
... 3
1869 - 1932 Isaac Skyes
- Isaac married Selina Matilda Maud CHAMBERLAIN 31 Dec 1890 in Masterton
- they had 1 known son
ISAAC SKYES snr drowned in the Hutt River 6 years after their marriage
- he is buried in a family plot in the Christ Church Taita Cemetery
MARIA became a widow at 27
She remarried 7 years later to Orlando GORRINGE (1832-1888)
- see the helpful comments below
Orland Gorringe was born in Ore, a village of the urban area of the town and borough of Hastings in East Sussex, England. He arrived in NZ in 1861
- they were married 8 March 1878 in Masterton, Wairarapa
- they farmed at Fernridge (5km west of town, up Upper Plain Road)
they had 2 known children
... 1
1879 - 1904 Ada Jane Gorringe
- Ada died aged 25 and is buried with her parents in Masterton
... 2
1885 - 1955 Henry Horace 'Harry' Gorringe
- Harry married Lavinia Letey FOGDEN in Wellington in 1911
ORLAND Gorringe died 12 Dec 1888 aged 56 in Fernridge
MARIA Gorringe died 20 July 1920 aged 76 in Masterton
- they are buried together Plot 4, Row Mag, Area Plan V Archer St Cemetery
Masterton c1895
Descendants of Robert WYETH - Jamaica & Jane RUNNALLS Cornwall - Wairarapa
Robert WYETH was born in Jamaica, West Indies
He arrived in Port Nicholson (now Wellington) on the 3rd January 1840, sailing on the CUBA having left Deal, England on the 2nd August 1839 - a journey of 154 days.
All the passengers were men, any wives following in the next ship.
He married Jane RUNNALLS in April 1840 in Petone, 8 months after his arrival in the colony.
She was born in 1816 in Bodmin, Cornwall, UK - not known when or who with, she emigrated to New Zealand but it would have been only months before her wedding.
(Her sister Sarch Runnalls also emigrated and had emigrated with her husband Thomas Poad)
Robert and Jane had at least 12 children:
William George Wyeth 1841 Wellington area - 1916 Masterton - he married Mary HORSFALL
Charles Wyeth 1842 Wellington area - 1928 Invercargill
- he married Elizabeth Ann Shirreffs
Maria Ann Wyeth 1844 Wellingtn area - 1920 Masterton
- she married Isaac Sykes 1843 Hutt Valley - 1871 in Hutt River
- he was 27 with 3 small children when he drowned he is buried in
Christ Church Taita Cemetery
- she remarried in 1877 to Orlando Gorringe
Sarah Jane Wyeth 1847 Wellington area - 1930 Masterton
- she married Walter Harris
Thomas Wyeth 1849 Wellington area - 1940 in Masterton
Mary Wyeth 1851 Wellington area - 1852
unnamed baby Wyeth 1853 - 1853
Joseph Wyeth 1854 Wellington area - 1902
Elizabeth Ann Wyeth 1856 Hutt Valley - 1921 Masterton
John Wyeth 1858 Stokes Valley - 1942 Palmerston North
Mary Ellen Wyeth 1861 Stokes Valley - 1951 Masterton
- she married John Linoln Murray
unnamed baby Wyeth 1864 - 1864
John Grout DENBY - Auckland & Wairarapa
John Grout DENBY (1832-1904) was born in Chigwell, Essex, UK
- he married
Mary Agnes ROBINSON (1830-?) OF Kendal, Cumbria UK
they had a son, John Grout Denby in June 1856. They boarded the ship KENILWORTH (Captain James Thorn, commander), in London arriving in Auckland 4 May 1857 (thanks to Tupela, see comments)
John & Mary had another 8 known children in New Zealand, one of whom was:
Walter Henry DENBY in 1873 in the Wairarapa, possibly Masterton (now questionable-possible his parents were still in Auckland)
Walter Henry Denby married Eterina Mary POWER in Masterton.
- 8th of 16 children of James Hamish POWER & Louisa Fanny Pane WRIGHT
- granddaughter of Thomas POWER & Rahapa Te HAUATA
Walter & Eterina had 6 (known) children before he was killed in action on the 15th September 1916 in Somme, France at the age of 43
... 1
1904 - 1977 Walter James Denby
- Walter married Nina Mary BLAKE (1907-1986) in Greytown 1928
- daughter of Charles Richard BLAKE & Elizabeth SUNNEX of Carterton
... 2
1906 - 1964 Albert Charles Denby
- Albert married Edith Lillian WELLINGTON about 1929
- daughter of Foster WELLINGTON & Lilian Beatrice OLIVER of Masterton
- her ashes are buried in Masterton Cemetery
... 3
1907 - 1982 Eterina Lillian Denby
- Eterina married Cecil Roy PYCROFT in 1926
- son of Henry PYCROFT & Ada SWINDELL of Wellington
- Eterina & Cecil are buried in Hawera
... 4
1910 - 1955 John William Denby
- John married Rena Rainsford Jessie HATTON (1909-1967) in 1933
- daughter of Douglas Llewellyn HATTON & Margaret Swinton DICKSON (married Milburn)
- John & Rena were cremated at Kelvin Grove
... 5
1911 - 1979 Hilary Thomas 'Tom' Denby
- Tom married Vena Joyce PECK 16 December 1939 in Taita
- daughter of Samuel PECK & Edith WHITE of Taita
- she was a daughter of Samuel Peck and Edith White
- granddaughter of Samuel PECK (1850-1931) & Frances STENT (1857-1938)
- Tom & Vena are buried in Rotorua
... 6
1915 - 1915 Bride Trenthamine 'Ina' Denby
- Ina died aged 2 months & is buried in Masterton
Walter's widow Eterina remarried in 1921 to Sydney Reginald HARRIS
- Sydney was born 1892 in Masterton and died 1961 in Masterton
- he was one of 15 children of Walter Harris and Sarah Jane Wyeth
- Walter was one of 13 children to Abraham HARRIS & Sophia HARRIS, early pioneers of Taita
- Sydney 1st married Fanny Sutherland. She died in 1918 aged 31, in Masterton
Eterina and Sydney Harris had 3 (known) children:
1923 - Bruce Campbell Harris - married Helen LOPER
1926 - 1952 David Trevor Harris
1928 - Alisha June Harris - married David Watchman POTANGAROA (1927-1992)
- buried at Masterton
Sergeant Walter Henry Denby
WADMANs & HOOPERs 1500s Somersetshire England to 1900s Taita New Zealand
William Wadman was born in Hosington, Somersetshire, England in 1532
In 1841, 309 years later, his gggggg granddaughter
Caroline Wadman emigrated to New Zealand with her husband John Hooper...
William's Wadman's (1532) son Virgill Wadman was born in 1564
- he married Mary Perratt
their son Robert Wadman was born in 1601
- he married Agnes Pluckett
their son Robert Wadman was born in 1628
- he married Margaret Lambert
their son Robert Wadman was born in 1681
- he married Mary King
their son Martin Wadman was born in 1707
- he married Grace ?
their daughter Martha Wadman was born in 1731
- she married Martin Wadman
their son George Wadman was born in 1759
- he married Jane Kiddle
their son William Wadman was born in 1784
- he married Elizabeth Shepherd
their daughter CAROLINE WADMAN was born in 1815
- she married John Hooper as his 2nd wife
In 1841, with the 4 children from his first marriage and 2 of their own children, they sailed on the ARAB to New Zealand.
Caroline gave birth to Elizabeth at sea, the baby died during the voyage as did 14 year old Sarah Hooper from John's first marriage.
Caroline had a total of 13 children
- John's first child was born in 1826 when he was 21
- his 18th child was born in 1859 when he was 54
All his (known) children were:
Sarah Hooper 1827 - 1841 at sea
Robert Hooper 1829 - 1831 in England
Eliza Hooper 1832 - 1912 in Canterbury
- married George Whiteman in Taita, New Zealand
- she left George and lived with Stephen Avery for a time
(read Francesu's comment below)
Caroline Hooper 1834 - 1875 in Lower Hutt
- married Charles Henry Ashton
Robert Hooper 1837 - 1932 in Upper Hutt
- married Emily Rebecca Louisa Fellingham
William Wadman Hooper 1839 - 1869 in Taita
- married Susannah Hirst in Taita
- he is buried in Plot 9 at Christ Church Taita cemetery - as are others of this family
Elizabeth Wadman Hooper 1841 - 1841 at sea
Mary Jane Wadman Hooper 1843 - 1866 in Taita
Emma Wadman Hooper 1844 - 1932
- married John Eaton
Selina Ann Wadman Hooper 1847 - 1918 in Sanson
- married John William Hirst
- his brother George married Selina's sister Elizabeth
- Thomas, a son of Selina & John, married Minnie Gertrude Wall, a daughter of Selina's sister Mary Wadman
Elizabeth Wadman Hooper 1849 - 1923 in Pahiatua
- married George Henry Hirst
- his brother John married Elizabeth's sister Selina
Samuel Wadman Hooper 1850 - 1850
Ellen Wadman Hooper 1850 - 1873
- married Benjamin Rayner in 1869
- he remarried in 1874 to Alice Perkins
- they had 4 (known) children up to 1880
- he died in the 1906 Great Eathquake of Los Angeles
Harriett Wadman Hooper 1851 - 1854 in Taita
Mary Wadman Hooper 1855 - 1932 in Hastings
- married Joseph Wall
Harry Wadman Hooper 1856 - 1871
George Wadman Hooper 1857 - 1941 in Taita
- married Eliza King
Henry Richard Wadman Hooper 1859 - 1871 in Taita
Looking for Hotel Owners /Proprietors of Wellington, New Zealand before 1900
One of the 'priorities', it seems, of the early settler to Wellington, New Zealand was to establish drinking establishments to quench the thirst of the weary traveller
Before 1900, considering the *population of Wellington pre 1900, there were MANY hotels, rooming house, doss houses etc
*During the last half of the 19th century Wellington grew rapidly.
In 1867 there were 7,460 residents.
By 1899 Wellington became a city with a population of 49,344.
I would like to reference these hotels with owners from the settlers of Wellington pre 1900
I would like you to help build the page - do you know of anyone who had one of the hotels below ? - An ancestor perhaps?
Do you know of other hotels pre 1900 Wellington not on the list ?
They would have changed hands a number of times, maybe you can add other proprietors ...
WELLINGTON NZ HOTELS - pre 1900
Some of the owners so far are highlighted below
Who was Emma May Trezise ? - married Charles Bould 1915, Wellington NZ
Charles William Hensman BOULD was born in 1873.
He was a son of Thomas Bould and Georgina Saunders.
He served in the Boer War and in WWI.
He had been married for just 3 months when he was killed in action on the Somme, France
He married Emma May Trezise 28th December 1915 in St Marks Church Wellington.
Emma remarried to William Russell
Who was Emma Trezise?


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Drawing hands - tutorial! by NImportantWatch
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TUTORIAL IS HERE: hakeme.com/tutorials/show/3342
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Hands are not too fun to draw, and I don't think they're really noticeable when they're well done, but when they aren't… ouch! It's like I can only see that!! XP
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I need to improve at hands, so I might be borrowing this for future reference.
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I am looking for step by step method I saw years ago on how to faux paint a ceramic tile look on walls. It involved laying the base then taping for the faux grout lines and covering with glaze before removing taped lines. Any help?
Faux painting to emulate ceramic tile
Sherwin-Williams sells high-quality paints that make nice faux finishes easy. The company also has a lot of information on its web site about finishing techniques - http://www.sherwin-williams.com/do_it_yoursel...
So can you show me what ideas you have? I am no professional but have painted on my walls. You can get very creative and I have that itch again, hmmmmm.


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In the video above, ESPN's Buster Olney said Red Sox ownership really had no choice but to fire Bobby Valentine.
"I don't think you can understate what a complete disaster Bobby's tenure with the Red Sox was. ... It was a derailment right from the beginning in the relationship between Bobby and the players, and that's why the Red Sox had to get rid of him. I think if ownership had decided to keep Bobby, you would have had players in that organization basically say, 'If he's gonna stay, I want out.' That's how bad it was."
Olney said that the team's next manager is likely to be "welcomed with open arms."
"As one person said to me, it's a great opportunity for the Red Sox's next manager," he said.


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Tre' Norton, Randall soccer
On the pitch: Norton scored three goals for the Raiders in a 4-0 District 5-4A win over Borger on Saturday in Borger. Norton leads Randall's offense with six district goals and an assist, giving him a team-high 13 points.
Coach Matthew Driver: "He's a leader on our team. He was going to have an explosion at some point, it just happened to be against Borger."
Norton: "I was pretty excited but I was also thankful for having such a great midfield."
Favorite athlete: Michael Jordan.
On his iPod: Rap, hip-hop and country.
Bet you didn't know: He has had a Mountain Dew before every athletic competition since he was about 10 years old.
Parents: Grant and Rhonda Norton.
Haley Sparks, Wheeler basketball
On the court: Sparks put up a double-double in Wheeler's Region I-1A Division I area upset of No. 5 Canadian on Friday. Sparks put up 15 points and grabbed 10 rebounds in the 53-46 win at Panhandle.
Coach Mike Bailey: "The whole team played great, and she had her success because of what the team did. That night, she was the piece of the puzzle that put it all together."
Sparks: "Honestly, it just proved anything is possible and any team can win. God had a big part in it. We prayed before the game, after the game and during timeouts."
Favorite athlete: Steve Prefontaine.
On her iPod: Independent rock, including Iron and Wine.
Bet you didn't know: She has a pet rabbit named Benjamin.
Parents: Shelly Sparks, and Dianne and Buddy Sparks.
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Solidifying Yury Khashchavatski's position as Minsk's Michael Moore, "Kalinovski Square" is a harrowing yet acerbic docu on the contentious March 2006 re-election of Belarusian strongman President Alexander Lukashenko and the trampling of human rights in its wake.
Solidifying Yury Khashchavatski's position as Minsk's Michael Moore, "Kalinovski Square" is a harrowing yet acerbic docu on the contentious March 2006 re-election of Belarusian strongman President Alexander Lukashenko and the trampling of human rights in its wake. As absorbing for its righteously furious tone as for its sad portrayal of governmental corruption, pic will be of great interest to politically aware fests and reps a solid smallscreen item.Described even by diplomats as "Europe's last dictator," Lukashenko has been tightening his repressive grip since first ascending to the presidency in 1994. Helmer's been calling him out for nearly that long, having made the withering "An Ordinary President" in 1996 and been hospitalized for his troubles after a severe beating by state thugs. New pic assembles official footage and shots grabbed clandestinely by "those who have to stay anonymous," according to the credits, to show police brutality and the arrest of those protesting the election in the frigid Minsk downtown area. Populace assembled in Minsk's October Square, which was informally renamed on the occasion for 19th-century martyred patriot Kastus Kalinowski. Khaschavatski's chief witness of the event is a young university coed known only as Dasha. Fresh out of detention and visibly trembling as she cradles a warm drink at 5 a.m., she tells her view of what happened as protestors faced off with police. Events are punctuated by news footage of the president in action, accompanied by helmer's v.o., which transforms low despotism into high comedy. Tech credits do nothing to betray the DIY nature of the production. In a kind of viral Samizdat, helmer has apparently made the pic available for free download at various Internet sites and via YouTube. Original Belarusian title means "square."
Kalinovski Square
An Estonian Film Film Foundation, Baltic Film Production presentation of a Baltic Film Production production. (International sales: Deckert Distribution, Leipzig, Germany.) Produced by Marianna Kaat. Directed by Yury Khashchavatski. Screenplay, Khashchavatski, Yevgeni Budinas, Sergey Isakov.
Camera (color, DigiBeta), Vladimir Petrov, Sergey Gelbach, Dima Zavadski; editors, Dmitri Pivovarov, Kaspar Kallas; sound, Vasily Shitikov, Tiina Andreas; assistant director, Isakov. Reviewed on DVD, Sydney, June 16, 2008. (In Silverdocs Film Festival, Silver Spring, Md. -- Silver Spectrum.) Running time: 73 MIN.
Alexander Lukashenko, Dasha. (Belarusian, Russian dialogue)


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