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Looking for a luxurious family vacation spot? Hawaii might just be the place for you!
Over Christmas break, while we were all cold and snowed in, Canfield seniors Lara Quirk and Ally Sammarco got a taste of the Hawaiian lifestyle.
Quirk was on vacation and Sammarco was visiting family, and both had an extraordinary time. They got to do things like scuba dive, zipline, and swim with animals of the sea.
The girls said it was nice to get away from home and all the cold weather we have in Canfield.
They never felt bored because of all the adventurous things they got to do, also because of all the new beaches and sea animals their eyes were opened up to.
Sammarco said, "the people were different, the way they live is just so carefree and everyone expresses themselves exactly how they want to" it's a different culture. Quirk agreed, saying that everyone was very welcoming.
They both appreciated the beauty of the land.
Sammarco said that there were no plastic bags on the island and she thought that was very strange, and Lara said it was interesting that you are not allowed to bring fruits home or away from Hawaii. Obviously, some things are different there, but they loved learning the ropes of a culture they'd never seen before.
Everyone has a favorite memory from vacation and Lara and Ally had some very cool ones to share.
Lara's favorite part was scuba diving because she got to swim through caves where she saw sharks and turtles. She also met new people that just so happened to be locals, and got to check out all of their hidden hangout spots. Lara even found out that Fergie was staying in the hotel next to hers.
Sammarco's favorite part was spending time with her family; and seeing whales, dolphins and manta rays while snorkeling.
The girls got to see some interesting things while they were there. They got to see green, black, and red sand beaches, bamboo forests, volcanos, lava tubes, rainbows, and underground caves and swimming pools. Both girls got to go exploring in nature and loved the trees, flowers, and animals they got to see. Most importantly, the Hawaiian Luau's at night lived up to their expectations.
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These are the dog days of cancer treatment. Waiting. Enduring. Today Al will get his 8th radiation treatment. He has done really well. Some side effects, but he is managing them pretty well. The nurse says that the doc only wrote up 12 treatments, so maybe we misunderstood the 20 we thought he was going to get. So he just has to get through next Thursday, for now.
We go on Tuesday back to the onocologist for bloodwork, Aredia, consult with doc and more radiation. We don't know if the doc is going to go ahead and start him on some maintenance chemo or wait until the radiologist is through with him.
Not sure why, but his back has been feeling very good since he started the radiation. He is not having to take any pain medication. The radiologist says it is not due to those treatments, but he will take credit for it anyway.
God is just laying his hands upon Al's pain for now. His real struggle now is his attitude. It is very difficult to find a reason to your life, when the doctors have said, "This is as good as it gets for the rest of your life, but it will get worse." I would ask that you pray for Al's heart and mind to be renewed in Christ.
God continues to bless me through His Word. I have begun a new bible study about the life of David. It is, once again, right on target. In I Samuel 14:6 Jonathan says, "Perhaps the Lord will act in our behalf". He knew that God could save him & bring victory through him, he just didn't know if that was part God's plan. The same with Daniel & his 3 friends in the furnace. They knew God COULD save them, but would He CHOSE to do so?
I have learned that obedience is more important than sacrifice.
Our struggles are personal. Not that we should not seek help and guidance from each other, but we have to have that one on one relationship with God. We have to have our own understanding of who God is, what our own salvation means, what our own faith is built on and we have to take responsiblity for own own actions and obedience.
We need to be following Christ. We do not choose the battles, He does. We just follow behind him, be obedient and BE PREPARED.
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Passionate and talented craftsmen and creative award winning designers – all deeply committed to bringing your ideas to life. That's the B&G Cabinet team.
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Jim Goulet, Owner
Having been introduced to the woodworking craft almost 30 years ago, Jim's passion has always been the art of fine woodworking. After spending several years building residential Custom Kitchens, Jim spent the next twelve years in the fabrication of high end architectural cabinetry.
The last twenty years Jim has spent designing and installing custom cabinetry. This year B&G Cabinet is proud to be celebrating their 20th year here on the Seacoast. Jim continues to bring a high standard to B&G Cabinet and has provided all His clients with superior service and the best products at all levels. Jim has been involved in Kitchen and Bath design and fabrication for over 35 years.
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Cathy's goal is to address the needs and desires of her clients. Her designs pay special attention to function, safety and aesthetics. She has found that this combination leads to highly satisfied clients and award winning designs.
Designing interiors since 1986, Cathy became a Certified Kitchen Designer (CKD) in 1993 and became NCIDQ certified in 2000. In 1998 she won grand prize in the Plain & Fancy Custom Cabinetry design competition. She has also received honorable mention in the 1993 NKBA design contest.
In 2003 her work was published in Woman's Day Kitchen & Bath Magazine and more recently, in April 2009, Cathy and two of her projects were featured on "What's in Store?", a WBZ-TV program highlighting Gerrity Stone out of Woburn.
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Patrick has enjoyed 15 years of success by providing clients with exactly what they are looking for. This success is due to educating his clients about the products they are interested in, a willingness to listen, and a close attention to details for all budgets. "I take great pride in the client loyalty that has lead to my success. This loyalty has been built with hard work and accountability for the products I provide."
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Pat Newman started with B&G Cabinet eleven years ago. She has been designing kitchens for fourteen years in every style and for every budget. She enjoys tailoring the kitchen to fit the client and their needs, taste, always keeping the budget in mind.
Pat has a long design back ground. She studied post graduate 2D and 3D design courses at Towson State University, as well as working at a daily newspaper for five years designing full page ads and flyers.
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Luke Joined the B&G Cabinet team Six years ago with over five years of experience in the Fabrication of Architectural & Custom millwork. Luke applies his cabinet making experience and space planning to each and every Kitchen Design. Luke will work closely with you and your builder to develop the best possible outcome for your next project!
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The NES Classic Edition, Nintendo's hottest selling console of the holiday season, is reportedly now able to be hacked to include additional NES games via ROMs.
Nintendo's NES Classic console was one of the biggest surprises of the 2016 holiday season, selling a staggering 200,000 units in November alone. That's more NES Classics flying off the shelves than Wii Us.
For a small box running a proprietary Nintendo Entertainment System emulator pre-packaged with 30 games, it's very impressive. But the limitation of only 30 games is frustrating for some players. Why not more? And that's exactly the question that has grown into a budding hacking/modding scene.
Within the past week, two different modders have reportedly hacked the NES Classic to play additional games beyond what's included on the console. One modder is from Japan, meaning his work is done on a Japanese Famicon version of the console and will require additional work to see if the process also works for the NES Classic. Nevertheless, modder honeylabs released his custom tools and instructions to load edited game ROMs two days ago. Whether the process works for the NES Classic, however, was never solved – but for a good reason.
One day ago Russian modder Madmonkey released his own version of the NES Classic hack, along with the tool to edit ROMs into a playable state. While the process takes a bit of work, users from various online communities are already confirming that the hack works. The best part is that the hack otherwise maintains the original GUI of the NES Classic, allowing owners to simply add the new games to the scrolling list. It even allows hackers to customize the game art associated with each game.
It must be reiterated that the modding scene for the NES Classic is extremely nascent. Modders attempting to alter their console risk "bricking" the platform, rendering it inoperable. More than that, because methods of modding are so new, it's easy for other modders and hackers to co-opt the code and produce software that can infect PCs with viruses. Within the past 24-hours a simplified version of Madmonkey's modding tool has been released named hakchi2 that's been shown to include a virus.
For those who already own an NES Classic Edition, it's hard to argue that the 30 games included are some of the best games available on the platform. For some, though, a few important games are missing and the possibility of adding more is too good of an opportunity to pass up. Either way, it's rather exciting that Nintendo's released a console in 2016 that gives players the opportunity to play all of these great NES classic titles on their HD TVs.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74053735709520414102017-08-14T02:15:12.046-05:00The Loquacious LoquatWritten by a Verbose Piece of Exotic Fruit.Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-21958819392176876192017-08-06T16:31:00.000-05:002017-08-06T16:31:05.552-05:00Welcome to My Protestant BlogI killed just under 400 posts because I didn't want all the Orthodox stuff on here. It's my prerogative.

What's left is interesting. I have to label Chris's posts about vacations we've been on (his sole contribution to the Loquat), and there are fun hikes we used to do before I got sciatica, and there's the time the world's greatest cat died. That's about all I kept on this here blog. I wanted to archive it and move to a different platform, but I've discovered that I'm getting old and that technology befuddles me. In other words, so much for Medium.

The Loquat may be the only blog left on Blogger at this point, but I'm essentially only talking to my parents, so that's okay.Chandlerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-44787022944670874892017-05-25T10:28:00.002-05:002017-05-25T10:28:47.433-05:00For Such a Time as That: Post-Fast ThoughtsFirst off, I blew it. On the last day. I couldn't resist fried chicken and one of those Midnight Mocha fraps from Starbucks--you know, the kind that's like a minty Oreo with caffeine ... so much caffeine. Didn't sleep well that night, but it wasn't my conscience. Chris would later inform me that those little buggers have like three shots of espresso in them. Oopsy-daisy.

And much to my dismay (caused by romanticizing the process), I'm swimming in leftovers. Wouldn't it have been great to feel my blood sugar plummet now that we were out of bean soup and bread? To have swooned over my lack of food? Yeah, it didn't happen. But what good would have come of it anyway? "Yeah, I feel your pain. I once ate only soup and bread for three days, and it ran out. So I totally feel empathy with your desperation and embarrassment at having to turn to church food pantries just to make it to the end of the month."

Yeah, I feel like a dumbass. On Facebook, my mom called my efforts "laudable". They weren't, really. But I still watched as the Texas Legislature killed a bill that would've required (on the first go-around) and pleaded with (on the second round) school districts not to have a policy of picking up the lunches of children who don't have enough money for food and plopping them in the trash. I still saw, on the last day of the fast, the Trump budget (which was named in all seriousness "A New Foundation for American Greatness") continue cutting safety-net programs, still cut funding for Meals on Wheels, and eliminate the federal school lunch program. So, fast or no fast, empathy or sympathy, I'm still pissed. Chris assures me from his political studies that presidents put out budgets as "suggestions" that always get ignored while Congress does the real work; however, my worry is that this conservative Congress will be so emboldened by having this president that they can still do significant damage.

Back to the grindstone, folks! We have serious work to do! If you don't know where to do that work, I have a few suggestions:

Bread for the World - Bread is a Christian lobbying organization, so if Christianity isn't your bag, you might try ...

Feeding America - They're not just food banks--they do some advocacy work too.

Also, if you have a little extra dough on you, the state representative who tried and failed to pass the lunch shaming legislation has, alas, resorted to begging. Feeding Texas is taking money to pay off overdue lunch balances.

And if your state rep was one of the little shits in the Freedom Caucus who blocked the lunch shaming bill because it required things of the school districts (that was the reason--no joke), you may want to send her/him/they a little note telling them what you think.

Sorry to get ugly at the end. I have a foul mouth and an angry brain. Thanks for reading, as always, gentle readers. Have a good day ... and get feisty!
Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-1459153973412765092017-05-20T13:30:00.003-05:002017-05-20T13:30:40.989-05:00For Such a Time as ThisSince leaving Orthodoxy, I'm not really that big on fasts. As a result of Orthodoxy, I'm not big on fasts that seem to set out to change God's mind. Yet, here I find myself: bean soup in the fridge and bread in the bread machine. And it all has to last two people for three days.

You can read about the "For Such a Time as This" fast that Bread for the World has called for in greater detail on their own webpage--I'd just be rehashing the same stuff--but I did want to blab on about my take on it and maybe encourage others to do it now and in the future. The first fast is three days (a la Esther) to prepare us for the major work of advocating against cuts to safety net programs. Subsequent fasts will take place (for one day) each 21st of the month--the day when 90% of SNAP benefits run out. When I heard about it, I put my thinking cap on and decided on some things:

I cannot go without food for three days voluntarily. That's madness.

I can eat a limited amount of food.

I can eat a limited scope of food.

I can and will force this on my husband.

When I give to food drives, dried beans are my big go-to. (And then I read Evicted and learned that some shit-hole apartments don't even have microwaves, much less a stove to cook beans on. That took the wind out of my sails.) So I went to my cupboard and got a pound of gourmet beans out. I feel bad about the gourmet, but I only know how to cook a pound of beans in the Instant Pot. So that's one less pound of beans in my pantry. With that, I made a simple bean soup with a mirepoix (onion, carrot, celery), a little oil (Instant Pots require a little oil with beans and rice and "expanding things" to prevent foam from building up), and leftover chicken stock. That was yesterday; today, I'm making a high-protein bread called Cornell bread that I've often made for others and never for myself. I'm ready to try it. Oh, and milk is allowed because I don't want it to go bad during the fast.

And here's the rub: This is all we'll be eating for this fast. If we run out of food, that's it.

No, I don't claim to know what 90% of people on food stamps go through when they have to spend up to ten days without being able to buy food. But these exercises are often enlightening, and I pray that they're enlightening to me and enlightening to my senators and congressman when I write to them about my experience. At least, that's the plan. Keep notes, write poems, write letters, try not to run out of food, live as best I can if I do. Oh, and wear burlap ribbon around my wrist (the "visible sign"--sackcloth without the ashes).

I do a lot of advocacy work for Bread for the World, and I'm glad to do this with them. I'm proud that the Episcopal Church has chosen to do this as well. Hunger has become an important issue to me--somehow it overtook homelessness as the most important issue to me. Maybe you'll join me? Instant Pots can make beans real fast!
Chandlerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-90885629968171396442017-05-07T14:49:00.000-05:002017-05-07T14:49:05.548-05:00Well Done, Denton. And France! No fascism for France! Well done indeed!

Anyway, Denton barely voted in favor of the tax freeze for the elderly and disabled.

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of the Denton Record Chronicle.

I clearly don't get out enough because there were NO TAX FREEZE!!! signs all over our neighborhood. But, then again, we're just a bunch of scrooges in this area of Denton. No heart. Sad!

(Boy, I'm suddenly hoping the newspaper doesn't come down on me for this screen cap of the results. Have mercy! No one reads this blog anyway!)

Good triumphing over evil everywhere!Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-52817791450771833682017-04-30T19:16:00.001-05:002017-04-30T19:16:27.755-05:00Political MusingI'm at my parents' house in Missouri, writing a blog on my phone. Things must be serious. And they are! After all, my little burg of Denton, TX, is contemplating the lucrativeness of the elderly and disabled. See for yourself from this article from the North Texas Daily: http://ntdaily.com/tax-freeze-for-elderly-may-lead-to-2-6-million-deficit-by-2027/

As a champion (debatable) of the poor, I simply must weigh in. I first became aware of this when I saw either on Facebook or Twitter: SHOULD THE YOUNG HAVE TO PICK UP THE SLACK SO THE ELDERLY CAN HAVE A TAX BREAK?!?

In a word: Yes. And while we're at it, can we not discuss how many millions of dollars we'd be losing if gave our most vulnerable citizens a break, Family Values State of Texas? Wait, we do still believe in family values, right? So, we get find out on May 6 if we serve God or mammon. Find your polling place here: http://www.votedenton.com/upcoming-election-information/

Is it okay to be upset about this--that some people are more concerned about the hipsters who are making Denton a more expensive place to live than the forgotten elderly? I just kept seeing tweets about this tax freeze and thought you couldn't lose on it. And yes, schools are covered by property taxes, but our lieutenant governor did attempt to force a vote on school choice in the legislature (so you know how important our public schools are). (For those not paying attention, they deep-sixed school choice. Well done.)

I'm not coming at this from a very political standpoint, and I'll admit it. Faith informs my politics and I hate having to have politics at all, so I do this with all reluctance. I was furious when the Trump "skinny budget" cut Meals on Wheels, and the same recipients of that program are the ones who'll benefit from the tax freeze: the elderly and disabled. These people are important. I will gladly pick up the slack so they can have a break in uncertain times.

I hope this passes, and I will be voting on May 6 because I'll finally be back in town (yay!). Hope you vote too.
Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-27519647613177644172016-12-15T15:26:00.002-06:002016-12-15T15:26:46.511-06:00So here's what I've been doing with my day. I bucked the BBC as my main source of news a few years ago and switched to Al Jazeera, and they've been reporting on what's happening in Aleppo A LOT. Stumped by what I can do that will help the situation and more than a little tired of pleas for donations that I know won't get there in time, I did something I've gotten quite good at doing: writing letters to my representatives.

Here. Copy it. I don't care. Send it to everyone. Just do your part to make this not end in genocide.

I have been reading the news about the recent events in Syria and eastern Aleppo specifically, and I have become quite concerned with what is going on. What I read describes what can only be described as genocide: double-tap bombing (bombing one area, waiting for civilians to come help those in the rubble, and then bombing again), civilians being gunned down as they run to safety, systematic rape, and more horrible things. I have read of women being killed or committing suicide to avoid getting raped by regime soldiers. Surely you know there are no hospitals left in east Aleppo, and all the makeshift clinics can do is stop a civilian's bleeding and send them on their way. Such things are too terrible to even hear about—I cannot even imagine living this nightmare.

There is absolutely nothing I can do to help, and that frustrates and saddens me. I have given money to the White Helmets and other organizations that are on the ground in Aleppo. I am bombarded daily by requests from humanitarian leagues that tell me to donate more money to help the remaining civilians. But I know the truth: That money will never make it there in time. The organizations will only be there to clean up whatever is left of Aleppo. In the meantime, I fear total genocide.

I know that only the world governments can step in in time to do something, and I hope that you will do what is in your power to stop the devastation in Aleppo. There is no advice I can give you. I know nothing about the military and diplomatic relations. I am just a sad constituent who is not content to hope and pray alone that this will end peacefully. I hope there is something our government can work together to do.

Thank you for your time in reading this. It is my hope that peace can reign again in Syria.
Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-59277837450386697922016-11-09T11:27:00.001-06:002016-11-09T11:27:23.244-06:00PeacemakersI've been reading Dietrich Bonhoeffer's The Cost of Discipleship leading up to the election (back when I thought Clinton's win would be a given), and today I'm in such a fog of disappointment and fear that I feel damned lucky to be this far along. I never imagined the New Fascists would gain the White House. But as I read, I found this--it's for my Christian amigos and hopefully won't piss off anyone else (as always, feel free to ignore me). And now's a good time to read Bonhoeffer, by the way.

"Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God." The followers of Jesus have been called to peace. When he called them they found their peace, for he is their peace. But now they are told that they must not only have peace but make it. And to that end they renounce all violence and tumult. In the cause of Christ nothing is to be gained by such methods. His kingdom is one of peace, and the mutual greeting of his flock is a greeting of peace. His disciples keep the peace by choosing to endure suffering themselves rather than inflict it on others. They maintain fellowship where others would break it off. They renounce all self-assertion, and quietly suffer in the face of hatred and wrong. In doing so they overcome evil with good, and establish the peace of God in the midst of a world of war and hate. But nowhere will peace be more manifest than where they meet the wicked in peace and are ready to suffer at their hands. The peacemakers will carry the cross with their Lord, for it was on the cross that peace was made. Now that they are partners in Christ's work of reconciliation, they are called the sons of God as he is the Son of God.

Now get out there and take care of your fellow man, pretty much all of whom but white males have been called out, and "quietly suffer in the face of hatred and wrong."Chandlerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-6820372108251324932016-09-04T19:13:00.000-05:002016-09-04T19:13:01.383-05:00There's a New Blog in TownI've been writing poetry for several months now. They have a pretty common social justice theme, and that makes me want to get them out there for all the world to see and fret over and change the world, etc. Just one problem ...

DO YOU KNOW HOW HARD IT IS TO GET PUBLISHED?!

I have one poem in literary limbo (I may just withdraw it because I'm tired of waiting), and all the rest have been rejects. There was a tweet I read about how, out of 500+ submissions, this person had been published 19 times. NINETEEN. Not good odds. Oh, but the fame! The exposure! The submission prizes! How about the submission fees? And the only place I've looked at paying for poetry is giving you a whopping $15 per poem. Yay. Meanwhile, the great Warsan Shire is lighting up the world (seen Lemonade?) publishing on Tumblr. Hmm. In fact, I've heard that the best young poets are showing their stuff mostly on Tumblr and Twitter. I myself have put out a few poems on Twitter (I like those brief poems). #micropoetry is a thing--often, quite a stupendous thing.

Chris suggested that I give the lit mags a miss and go solo. My initial response was that someone would steal my stuff, but with a little internet sleuthery Chris found that anything stuck on a blog (or Twitter, or Tumblr, or whatever) is automatically copyrighted. And I did want this stuff in readers hands (or rather, on their blinding blue-screens) while it was relevant. So I am giving the lit mags a miss: Meet Loquacious Loquat - The Poems.

FYI: The only poem up right now is one I wrote on Twitter. There are two others somewhere in the depths of my TL--I'll put them on Loquat Poems as I dig them up.Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-23655096520118093582016-04-02T18:13:00.000-05:002016-04-02T18:13:02.057-05:00Eulogy for Ma
I'm finally getting my eulogy for my grandmother up on the blog, complete with the quote from the book Holy Simplicity: The Little Way of Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day & Therese of Lisieux by Joel Schorn. Big thanks to those who laughed at my jokes.

-*-

I hate to start this little speech by throwing my dad under the bus, but one of the first things he said when he and my aunt met up at my house was that Ma's obituary was not going to be as long as her husband's was. My hackles went up because I erroneously construed this to mean that my grandmother was somehow less "important", to use a worldly term. This stayed on my mind for the rest of the evening, with thoughts coming from all directions to flesh this out. Eventually, I remembered something from a book I'd been reading about the Catholic Saint Therese of Lisieux (and I only just found out that Ma was Catholic herself for a time, so it turned out to be deliciously appropriate):

When Saint Therese lay sick and dying, she overheard two novices whom she directed chatting outside her window. They were speculating about the death notice that the mother superior would send to the other Carmelite communities, as was customary on the death of a sister. "I really wonder sometimes what our Mother Prioress will find to say about Sister Therese when she dies," one of the novices said. "She has certainly never done anything worth speaking of."

Those who know of St Therese are probably laughing to themselves; those who don't know must know that the book goes on to describe St Therese as having "a spectacular career as a saint" and receiving the much-revered title of Doctor of the Church. Obituaries and death notices, it seems, are not the best avenue for recounting the treasures a person has stored up in heaven. My grandfather did things that added up to a very expensive obituary in the Dallas Morning News. I'm not here to recount those things. What I'll recount is how Ma stayed with me while everyone went to the Mavericks game when I had the chicken pox … in sixth grade … over spring break … the same week the FDA approved the chicken pox vaccine. And I'll also recount how she took my mother out to shop for new clothes after my brother and I were born. And, my goodness, did you ever hear her hum or sing a hymn to herself? It just sounded right. And I remember when she took me out to lunch for my birthday and told my husband and me about about her job fitting glasses for WWII troops, and she said to us, "I swear, everyone in the Army needed glasses." No, not the stuff of obituaries, which doesn't bode well for my future obit. But like I said, these are treasures stored in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. That's infinitely better.

May you all have boring obituaries.
Chandlerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-24171973370263692062016-02-23T13:28:00.001-06:002016-02-23T13:28:17.026-06:00What the Hell is this Blog?I've been asking myself that question lately. A religion blog? A political activism blog? Perhaps, just a blog about voraciously knitting. All that and more! But not much more ... I'm not around here often anymore.

I wander the house now, clad in my jim-jams and a hooded cardigan, thinking differently about my glasses. You see, I read in N.T. Wright book that a "Christian worldview" isn't forcing your religion on others via a political system, but rather the lenses through which you see the world. That means something to someone so desperately blind as me without my glasses on. I think about that a lot now, so there's only one conclusion ...

THIS IS A CHRISTIAN BLOG.

I see everything--my political activism (such as it is), my psychology, even my knitting--as one of many Christian acts. Often I see myself failing in the Christian realm. Believe me, I really suck at being a Christian. I told Chris just yesterday that sometimes I want to give up and just be a secular humanist because good works in the Christian world seem to come attached with ulterior motives. Thing is, though, I kinda like Jesus. And I kinda think He's God. Little complications.

So welcome, for the billionth time, to my Christian Spectacles. I'll try to blog more often.Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-10000007492794055722016-02-04T12:19:00.000-06:002016-02-04T12:19:05.812-06:00Dear Linda, We Haven't ForgottenDear Linda, who art in Heaven ...

Last year, I called to wish you a happy Valentines Day. I got your daughter instead of you. She told me you died on February 4th, and I was glad to hear that you two had reconciled before your death. That was always near your heart. She apparently didn't know about your desire to have your body donated to science and cremated you instead. Chris laments that we don't have anywhere to go to visit you on this day. But we do plan to remember you in a little service of our own design. We'll light the candle on the sconce of Jesus the Good Shepherd; I will say Saint Francis's "Canticle of Brother Sun" because of your love of nature; and Chris will recite T.S. Eliot's poem "The Naming of Cats" due to your love of all things feline. Speaking of felines, I don't know how Mitzvah is doing. I know your last assistant claimed him, and I hope she's taking good care of him.

I admit that I thought you were a burden a lot of the time--even you have to admit you could be pretty demanding! But after you died, there were times when I'd get back from the psychiatrist and find myself wanting to call you to tell you about a new protocol or my latest prognosis. You know, I used to think you were schizoaffective, depressive type; now I just think you were a mystic whose ways we couldn't even begin to understand. No wonder you were depressed--I can't imagine a mystic who wouldn't be depressed! It seems like a hard thing to bear.

So many people loved you, yet you always said you had no friends. Now I'm doing that! I feel alone in the world, but there are so many people who care for my wellbeing, who miss me at church when I'm gone, who just come over for tea. You had a way with people, and I'm not sure you realized it. I remember being there when your former hospice caretaker came by. You were no longer in hospice care--she had no official reason to be there. People from your church came by all the time to see how you were doing. Heck, Chris and I always came to see you and called you long after the depression group therapy we met in was over.

The thing I regret most is not calling you to wish you "Merry Christmas" in the months before you died. I was with family, overwhelmed by my introversion and agoraphobia. My phone had no reception. I wish I'd called somehow. I wish I'd given you your present. You liked slow cookers, so I thought one of those Wonderbags that were so popular would be a good gift. I almost gave it to your daughter after I found out you died, but we ended up never meeting, and now the sentimentality of it is probably gone. I think I may give it to charity in your memory--for families who don't have everything they need. Methinks you'd like that.

I'd still like to help people who are alone. Maybe one day I'll be able to work--I don't know--stupid depression. For now, I think I'll try my hand at Meals on Wheels. They helped you fairly often. Anyway, I guess it's a little hokey to do this, but I wanted to say hi. And we miss you. And even though you might think you were just a housebound woman, you had an impact on us that we're not likely to forget our whole lives long. Chris and I love you.

Love,
ChandlerChandlerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-66399067607630650312015-12-25T00:00:00.000-06:002015-12-25T00:00:02.464-06:00Happy, Happy Christmas!

Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-40199702923111856162015-12-23T12:08:00.001-06:002015-12-23T12:08:08.946-06:00Why We Take Presents to the NeighborsI'm sure I could find the specifics of this story if I searched the blog thoroughly, but, frankly, I don't feel like it. I can tell the story just as well without using specific names and specific towns anyway.

It was at the second Christmas in our current house, I believe, that we decided to start giving presents to our neighbors. Our neighbor to the south has lived here longer than we have, and we're friends with her now (food presents are always an icebreaker). Our neighbors to the north have come and gone; we've have really great neighbors and really terrible neighbors in that house. When students lived next door, they would play music so loud that we once even had to call the police. When we showed up that Christmas with a cookie mix from Women's Bean Project and talked to them for a good while, we got along swimmingly ... and the loud music stopped.

We dropped off some sweet bread (not to be confused with sweetbreads), coffee, and peppermint cocoa for the kids at our northern neighbors' house last night, then sat on the porch and reminisced.

And that reminiscing wasn't necessarily pleasant.

All this started when I found a news story about a woman in southern Texas who took hostages in a welfare office and concluded this by killing her two children and then herself. She had been turned down for food stamps because she falsified how much she made. More details came out over the week: She lived in a broken down trailer (possibly rent-free, thanks to a generous landlady--Lord, give the world more of those!) that had a tarp where the roof should be. The landlady checked in on her a lot. Another neighbor brought her food occasionally. No, these people didn't stop the tragedy, but they helped a woman in need. And I realized, I don't even know my neighbors.

If you hear what neighborhood I live in, you think it's one of the more stable, well-off neighborhoods in my town. And it is ... until you get to my street. Remember my last blog post? Neighbors who came by without costumes for Halloween? It's a safe neighborhood, but it's not the well-off section of it. The people west of us complain about the university being too close to them and demand the streets be closed off so no one can park near their houses on game day. My section? Well, the cheapest grocery store in town was nearby, and it was closed down by the I-35E expansion. I know I miss it--I miss the fresh tamales that would show up there occasionally. But the truth is, we're now in a food desert.

After reading about that woman, we began giving presents. Started with homemade cookies. Moved on to soup mixes from Women's Bean Project. Now, I surprise my neighbors with bread every now and then. We use my bread machine's big loaf pan for the northern neighbor because they have a big family; we use a divided pan that makes two mini-loaves and give one to our neighbor who lives alone and keep one for ourselves. (Chris and I have discovered the hard way that, if we don't eat the bread right away, it'll go bad. Less is more here.) I was inspired by the stupid red cup debacle (kill me) by several pastors to get both my neighbors and a homeless person a cup of coffee. Still have to find a homeless man, but both our neighbors have been coffee'd, and this afternoon we'll give the southern neighbor nut butter that Chris made (thank you, honey) and bread that I made (thank you, bread machine). And then we'll take her out to dinner on Christmas Day because her S.O. is visiting daughters in Boston (thanks for being open 365 days a year, Bagheri's).

Sorry to end on a dark note, but remembering that woman certainly dampened our mood as we sat there on the porch and hugged. I don't want anything like that to happen again. Not on my watch.Chandlerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-66070862248629730262015-11-07T13:45:00.001-06:002015-11-07T13:45:52.794-06:00Halloween 2015I'm a really sensitive person, which is why I should never read the comments on articles. Especially articles about couples without children. Because invariably there's someone who wants to talk about how marriage was made for having children and how children (in large herds, preferably) are a blessing from God. I guess that's the only way God can bless you--screw me, I'm cursed!

I began my marriage childless-not-by-choice and have ended up, after 11 years blissfully wed, childless-by-choice. And I'm not cursed, unless you count the severe depression that would've made me a terrible mother. I don't even consider that a curse, really--it's just a thing I have to deal with. Now that I'm out of the Church of Fecundity, I'm starting to see what God really expects of me. There are two psalms (that drive me mad whenever they come up) about how having lots of kids is great ... and serving the marginalized appears in the Psalter about a billion more times than that. And if that means turning on slightly scary music, sitting on the front porch, and giving children a pair of fun-sized Butterfingers each, then we're your couple!

I loved Halloween this year. We've lived in our house five years and only done it twice. The first time, we had a pumpkin carving party for all the single adults at church, and whoever was nearest the door handed out candy when the doorbell rang. This year it was just us because I'd grown tired of being the neighborhood recluse. I put on my shirt with an MRI of a brain on it (which was covered up all night by my cardigan because it was cold), freaked out when kids showed up while it was still light out, and actually managed to do things occasionally without the help of my husband. He was there--I love his company--but I didn't need him to do everything for me.

I actually think the cutest kids were the ones I dealt with alone. First to show up was a family of four with one extremely excited little girl, who kept telling me that, "WE CAME FROM ALL THE WAY DOWN THERE!" while pointing down the block. (We live on a long street.) No costumes, but we don't live in the ritziest part of town, so it surprised me more when kids showed up in costume than when they showed up without. A lone girl came after that with no costume but with a sparkly candy bag, and she was so sweet. Later on, after dark, Chris was wrestling with a frozen pizza while I sat on our welcome bench, and a family of five rolled up: one I don't remember, 2 Elsas, 1 Anna, and at the end, helped by the smallest Elsa, a Spider Man who couldn't have been more than 2 years old. I remember saying, "Oh, Spider Man!" sympathetically because he was clearly shy and I understood that feeling. I wish I'd commented on the old school coolness of the kid who dressed up as Chucky, but I failed to. We had our fair share of teenagers. One group came using backpacks to hold their candy (whatever), but one in that group didn't even have that: He held out his hands like he was receiving communion from me. "Receive these Butterfingers ..."

We were surprised when it all wrapped up around 8:30 and we still had candy. So the next day, we went to church and cried over the All Saints Day readings, and then before heading to brunch we left the rest of the candy (well, we held back just a few for ourselves) on the neighbor's doorknob. And that was Halloween. And I loved it. And I want to do more to make our neighborhood a community.

Next year, Instax pictures (these kids have probably never seen instant film before) and the option of a musical instrument instead of candy. This is mostly for kids with allergies, but secretly I hope to have sheer cacophony going up and down the street and some annoyed parents. ;)Chandlerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-73354445846307878852015-09-27T00:29:00.000-05:002015-09-27T00:29:00.530-05:00But I Don't Want to be an Advocate!All the sudden, I became an anti-death penalty advocate.

Twitter is basically my connection to the world (thanks, agoraphobia), so I began to take meaning in petitioning government officials about inmates on death row. I also petitioned my representatives about hunger policy both in the US and worldwide.

It all has a very hopeless feel. The bajillions of people I'm watching on the death penalty list seem to be the victims of state governments who value death over mercy. As for hunger advocacy, my reps seem more interested in cutting spending. Sigh.

I curl up on the couch every day and snuggle in with a book, but I can't stop thinking. Three different people have told me I think too much, but I can't seem to turn that off. I'd do anything to be able to change the world, but various illnesses keep me down. Writing letters and emails is easy (well, comparatively--you handwrite three letters begging for clemency in a row and you're going to get drained). It's the hard work of love that I really want to do though, and I have a back and several mental conditions that say otherwise.

What do I care about? I want to care about my own little society--just this little corner of Texas. (I also care about West Texas--it's hard to leave behind.) I joined a Facebook group that looks out for Denton's homeless and transients. I care about my lower-middle class neighborhood and how the only grocery store within walking distance has shut down. I worry about my neighbors because they have a slumlord for a landlord. I care about setting up a Little Free Library in the front yard filled with English, Spanish, and bilingual children's books (I need to do a post just on the little library). I care about Columbia, MO, and its homeless and the grad students at Mizzou. That's when things start getting too huge for me. I've been depressed lately, and I think I'm doing it to myself.

I just wanted to be kind.

I'm well known for self-important blog posts, so I apologize if I come across as the "poor me" version of that girl who penned the article about being too sexy to live a normal life (look that one up if you want to really despair for humanity). In the meantime, I should probably go back to bed.

(Apologies also for being rusty. My eyes bugged out when I realized I hadn't blogged since July.)Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-76011174938664390802015-07-21T12:15:00.002-05:002015-07-21T12:15:33.136-05:00Haven't blogged in a while ...... so here are some flowers.

Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-69248894839245409722015-06-22T03:14:00.001-05:002015-06-22T03:14:55.338-05:00Sabbath ReduxYou will be surprised, I'm sure, to learn that someone as lazy as myself has had to scale back my Sabbath ambitions tremendously. Possibly too far--I still think we should live without at least some screens for a day. But yeah, we don't completely disconnect anymore. Shame. Chris really liked just sitting around and reading all day (a tradition that was even growing on me), but sometimes homework for RN prerequisites takes priority.

So what do we do? Something wonderful. We say the Daily Office: Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline. It's a great way to spend a Saturday, moving with the rhythms of the Church. And it's nice to just sit together and throw out the things we're thankful for and the people who need prayers in the designated spots. Gives us something to do besides our usual morning and evening prayers.

Sabbath is great. Just don't ask about Friday fasting. Eek.Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-37967886381032744492015-05-22T13:49:00.002-05:002015-05-22T13:49:22.180-05:00Do YOU Know Where My Coptic Orphans Packet Went?Because I think the only person who knows is asleep, and he worked a 12-hour shift last night and I don't want to disturb him. It's not like I can think of anything to say to my sponsored child anyway.

Oh, update? Eyes are much improved. It was not Cogentin causing the problem, but good, ol' Trilafon. It was doubled on the same day I was put on Cogentin, so I guess it's easy to see how we could all become confused. But I'm back on the dose of Trilafon I was on before, so all is well. Sort of. I still have to put steroid drops in my right eye, but my vision is becoming clearer all the time. My appointment next month is for new glasses instead of just seeing what kinds of junk is floating around my eye!

Hold on, I see a blue folder ... dammit, it's just our tax return. I'll never find this packet.Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-53062708073085703842015-04-19T13:22:00.000-05:002015-04-19T13:22:05.115-05:00Working on ItWell, this week I have an ophthalmologist appointment to deal with my terribly screwed-up eyes. I usually don't have medicine problems, but a 1 mg dose of Cogentin has ruined my vision! I got it because I was shaking so badly thanks to Trilafon, and the shaking did stop. But it's been a while before I could see what I was reading and writing. So things are getting a little better ... except for the excruciating pain in my eyeballs whenever I wake up. I'd really like to keep my eyes, so pray this is a minor fix.

Our weekly traditions continue on, and at Friday dinner, Chris said, "This is my favorite meal of the week." I was surprised and happy that an idea I'd commandeered was worth it! Sabbath still continues, but I'm get lax about my phone. I woke up Saturday with 18 emails. (Something must be done!) I ended up just sitting on the couch for a while and listening to Johnny Cash read the New Testament. Doesn't suck to just sit and listen.

All our meals seem to end with tangerines. Not a bad way, but I'm ready to branch out and eat fruit at more times than just Friday and Sabbath dinners.

Okay, I've really got nothing to write about except that my eyes have gotten less cloudy and I can sort of see again. Left eye's okay, but right eye seems to have lost some acuity. I may also need bifocals (colonoscopy at age 30, bifocals at 31--am I prematurely aging?).Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-32720769008493113862015-04-05T00:00:00.000-05:002015-04-04T14:58:05.965-05:00Joyous Easter!

Chandlerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-65086377610349695632015-03-27T12:56:00.000-05:002015-03-27T12:56:46.174-05:00Hungry Friday #3Chris is asleep, so it's my job to bake this week's bread. Soon enough, the sweet smell of the brown sugar cinnamon mix I got will be wafting through the house, making everyone happy. Today I'm using our double loaf pan in the bread machine, and we'll give one of the two loaves away to a neighbor. After all, this is the prayer we pray every Friday and Saturday night:

Bless, O Lord,
this food we are about to eat,
and we pray you, O God,
that it may be good for our body and soul
and if there is any poor creature
hungry or thirsty walking the road
may God send them in to us
so that we can share the food with them,
just as Christ shares His gifts with all of us.
(H/T to Celtic Daily Prayer.)

But until fruit and bread is served, we fast. Not too hard for Chris today, since he got off work at 7AM and is now getting his hard-earned sleep.

Chris likes the rituals we've created for our itsy-bitsy family. He feels that fasting is necessary for us simply because Jesus said it was. As for me, with my plethora of illnesses, I feel like this is a fast I can do. I admit to drinking Starbucks this morning, but my pills create such an acidic environment in my gut that I have to eat or drink just a little bit of something substantial to keep from getting wildly sick. Chris also likes Sabbath because he doesn't think about work, he doesn't think about school, and all he has to do is to catch up with the books he doesn't have time for any other day of the week.

I like these rituals too. Every other Friday, I have to become coherent enough to put a bread mix in the machine and set it to work. That's a big deal for someone who's frequently too tired to move. It does make me feel a touch valuable when I don't do too much in the house (the Roomba does all the heavy work). When I'm done here, I'll probably pick up some stuff strewn about the living room. In the evening, I'll light the candles, say the Shabbat prayer above (since I'm the lady of the house), and Chris and I will talk. There's something about just having bread and fruit and cheese that makes you want to linger at the table--a fancier dish would require more attention on the food.

I wonder if I'm doing Sabbath in the spirit for which it was created. Yes, it was created for a sort of holy rest, but I'm setting up so many rules around it that I wonder if I've missed the point entirely. I like that we do the whole daily office together on Saturdays when Chris doesn't work and at least part of it when he does work. I still think laundry and dishwashing should be avoided. My ideal Sabbath is enjoying simple meals together while chatting and sitting on the couch reading books. Oh, and the blessed Sabbath nap. Can't forget that. Then Sunday comes (and I hopefully won't have pinkeye) so we can go to church and break Sabbath.

Does all this seem weird? Even I'm not 100% sure why we're doing this. But it's working, somehow. Anyway, gut Shabbos and Hungry Friday to all!Chandlerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-73197039894423571722015-03-13T01:08:00.000-05:002015-03-13T01:08:49.278-05:00Still Testing the WatersBefore he departed for work, Chris said to me, "I like Sabbath, but I like this idea better." The mysterious this idea is Hungry Friday, which I stole from the Episcopal Relief & Development daily Lenten meditations. In fact, you can read it word-for-word in the last post. So, like many things we've recently added to our lives, it's not original. There's no harm though, I think, in taking inspiration from someone else's clever ideas.

I think Chris's first Sabbath was a little overwhelming for him. What can I say? It's hard to disconnect from the world for a day. I don't think I helped him, sadly. I hope that this week will be different: Less sitting around studying heavy tomes, more board games. We have boatloads of board games that have never been played. We polished off Sabbath the last time with a game of checkers, and I wish there had been more of that: more laughing, more talking, more telling the dog he couldn't play because this was a two-person only game (the downside of sitting on the floor).

But this is not the story of Sabbaths future and past--this is about the new thing we're trying. I stopped eating after our Thursday night meal, much like the guy who introduced the notion to us did. Chris works tonight, and since his work is strenuous he'll have a meal over the course of his shift. Together, we shan't eat until Friday's meal of fruit and bread. The bread-making is a little upside-down: When Chris works weekends and has to be there Friday night, he makes a Mark Bittman sandwich loaf which is SO GOOD. On the Fridays he comes home from work and crashes until afternoon, I take a box of King Arthur Flour bread mix (golden brioche this week--just one stick of butter!), put it in the bread machine, and let the magic happen. All that to say that Chris works harder than I do on most things. ;)

So why do this? Chris and I both agree that fasting is important--it's a post-Orthodox thing. Problem is, we just haven't been doing it. So this Friday is our feeble attempt to right that. I also have motives. When it was at its coldest, I'd take my Anglican rosary and sit in the garage, praying to the Virgin. I didn't wear shoes or socks or a coat, and I began to get a feel for what the homeless experience on cold days with no warmth. Hungry Friday is akin to that, and yet it terrifies me. I always excused myself from fasting because my insulin levels are twice what they should be, but it occurred to me that there are people on the streets who have diabetes and no food plus no place to store their insulin. Do I want to know what suffering is? Try that on for size. I know that fasting one day a week won't give me great insight into what it's like to be hungry--I don't pretend it will. Choosing to be without one day and living without every day are two different things entirely. I hope I can get something out of this besides an inflated head.

Don't worry--we won't be turning off our phones or computers--that's Sabbath stuff. It'll be a normal day, except only water and tea are allowed. Anyway, wish us luck!Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-70906328817372131182015-03-08T06:22:00.000-05:002015-03-08T13:32:41.852-05:00Eine Gute Woche! "A guten voch!" is what Mirka's sister Devory shouts after Mirka and Rochel when they leave her apartment after spending Shabbos there in Barry Deutsch's Hereville: How Mirka Met a Meteorite. (Seriously, you gotta read these books! They're so great!) It basically means "have a good week", and I say it to you after celebrating a ... well ... okay Sabbath here in Tejas.

My vision of Sabbath conceivably lasts too long: It's supposed to take up all of Saturday and end after church Sunday morning. If you couldn't tell from the picture I posted Friday night, it sort of starts Friday night (or afternoon if Chris is working) with the bread, fruit, and cheese meal I showed you. However, I'm still free to get the Facebook out of my system until midnight.

But sometimes the best laid plans go awry. My sore throat continues to worsen, and Chris had a day at work that was downright disturbing (and no, I can't go into details), so I ended up on the phone with my mom last night, effectively ending Sabbath. And here I am now, on the computer before I've said Morning Prayer or gone to church, which I wouldn't do anyway because of my blasted throat. Insomnia's just a hoot. Where would I be without it? Not up at 4AM writing blog posts, that's for certain!

We're still sorting this out, but the last two weeks of Sabbath were substantially better than this one. I don't know why. I still prayed and read and ate simple meals and rested, but it lacked the revolutionary feel of that first week. I still maintain that the best part of Sabbath is getting away from Facebook for one measly day, so that was a success. But rather than bore you with the details of why I don't think it worked (my med change? lack of desire to read? I don't know), here's something that caught my attention last week:

Fridays are hungry days. Most weeks I fast after dinner on Thursday until
dinner on Friday. I fast because I practice a rule of life that requires it. I've
found no better practice to remind me of the suffering of the hungry and
my need to live within the limits of simplicity. Fasting is a way of making room--room for God, space to help us understand the cravings that driveus to want more than enough. When time allows it, I bake bread on my hungry Fridays. I use a recipe
that will require my time and attention for the whole day and yields
two loaves. With one loaf I break my fast, savoring the flavors of this
sacramental food. I give the second loaf away to a neighbor, a friend
or to someone in need. This practice serves as a reminder that there is
always enough if we live within our limits. By going hungry for one
day each week, I can make room in my life to answer Isaiah's call to fast.
In hungering in solidarity and sharing bread with the hungry, I feel
a partnership in God's work of loosening the bonds of injustice.
- Ragan Sutterfield

That's from the Episcopal Relief & Development's Lenten meditations. They've been a joyful read, and I really liked the idea behind "hungry Fridays". That said, I've been reluctant to fast recently because of my crazy insulin levels. But reading this meditation, it occurred to me that there are people who don't regularly get a meal who have diabetes. If I feel discomfort over having nothing just because my insulin's high ... what's worse? So I'll at least try hungry Fridays, adding it to the whole calendar of the Sabbath weekend. And maybe one day I'll make it to church, too!Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-26271550172185690882015-03-06T16:03:00.000-06:002015-03-06T16:03:36.391-06:00Friday Night Fruit and Bread!... and cheese!

I'm beginning to feel like I should rename this thing "Chandler's Sabbath Blog" and give up the Loquacious Loquat nonsense. So do forgive me--I swear I'll have something interesting to write about later (unless you want me to sit down right now and tell you about my throat infection).

Before I've turned off the computer, I want to show you what my ideal Sabbath meal looks like. I won't go into details about it now (probably will on Sunday), but here's a nice picture of our dining table.

Note that the Sabbath candles are lit (even though it's not sundown yet--you do what you can when your husband has to report to work by 6:30). Fruit, bread, and cheese: A nice, simple way to welcome the Sabbath rest. And big kudos to Chris, who took time out of his busy schedule today to make his awesome sandwich bread.

Shabbat Shalom to everyone, and don't forget to set your clocks forward Saturday night!Chandlerhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-7405373570952041410.post-18468631617225408082015-02-22T13:38:00.000-06:002015-02-22T13:38:42.832-06:00First SabbathOne of my favorite prayer books is Celtic Daily Prayer. Flipping through it one day, I found a section on Shabbat and some information on how the early Celtic Christians observed it. Apparently, Celtic Christians observed the Sabbath on Saturday, broke it after the Eucharist, and worked the rest of the day Sunday. So moved was I by this that I gobbled up books on Christian Sabbath-keeping, and I worked my way mightily through one yesterday as I observed the Sabbath for the first time.

I sort of got used to the notion when I was Orthodox. We were advised to keep the Lord's Day (Sunday, of course) differently than the other days of the week. We still observed the Sabbath on Saturday (or at least said we did), but the Lord's Day took precedence. And guess what? I sucked at it. I got very restless on Sundays, feeling that the hard part (church itself) had been done, and that the afternoon would be best spent unwinding with Super Paper Mario. But the Celtic way made sense: Rest up and pray and read before the Eucharist, then do light work afterwards. Light work: like blogging. So I gave it a shot.

I'd say Sabbath was atypical, but really it's sort of half-typical: I was on my own for most of the day. Chris got home from work; handed me a croissant, a soy white chocolate mocha, and my pills; and passed out until 3:00PM. So I was on my own. Next week he won't be working, although we'll be having my bebe niece's first birthday party, so we'll see how things go. Here were the ground rules:

ALLOWED: Kindle, iPod, HVAC, lights
NOT ALLOWED: Phone (except for the weather and the Electronic Common Prayer app), TV, WiiU, computer, email, Facebook--oh my gosh, especially Facebook!--knitting, exercise

Doesn't taking away knitting sound cruel? I figured that making hats for the homeless was pretty much my job, and I knew I'd knit all damn day if given the chance. I needed quality time with the books on my Kindle.

Time has never moved more slowly. Amazing how time works when you're not staring at a computer all morning. I read my Bible, said morning prayers, prayed the Catholic rosary for the first time, prayed the Anglican rosary for the billionth time, and devoured books. Around noon, I had a simple lunch and returned to my Sabbath-y endeavors.

Then things turned bad.

I had been informed by the adorable graphic novels called Hereville that naps on Shabbos/Shabbat/Sabbath are more restful than regular naps, so I laid down on the sofa ... and couldn't even keep my eyes shut. Too many homemade chocolate chai's, I'm guessing. So I went back to reading, which was beginning to feel like work (remember what's not allowed on the Sabbath?) until 2:00PM, when I'd promised myself a treat. The Roomba started up (no Sabbath for the robot vacuum), and I put on my headphones and turned on my iPod (now a collector's item!), which was filled to the brim with hymns.

By the time Chris got up, I was a mess. Ideally the Roomba would do its job and then dock at its charging station, and then we'd empty out the day's collection of dog and cat hair. However, it decided to spend a good half-hour under the couch, getting tangled in wires and making terrible noises. So Chris found his lovely wife on the couch in a complete state of enflustermalation (I said it, so it's a real word now). He picked up the Roomba and docked it himself.

(Now might be a good time to mention that the Roomba is so adverse to docking that it's been running today for 2-1/2 hours. I may have to go save it from itself.)

Then Chris and I had our usual early dinner since he had to work again, and I ate too much, and everything ended on a low note. But I must say--one day without Facebook? PURE HEAVEN. So the cycle shall continue, hopefully with better results as time goes on.

Despite the Roomba totally harshing my mellow, I'd say the first Sabbath was a success. There was a little desire to be on the computer, and I might have stared longingly at my knitting, but it was a lovely, lovely day. So yes, more on the experiment as we read more and experience more.Chandlerhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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Mom2Mom is a place for moms with children of all ages to come to develop relationships with other Mom's and to study God's Word. As we do life together our hope is that you will be filled with God's love and truth through biblically based teachings, and that we would come alongside one another in the crazy beautiful life of motherhood. This group meets every-other Thursday morning (8 times in 16 weeks).
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ACKY BREAKY RULES! Copyright, Performance & Recording Licenses Presented by: JD Crowe, Membership Coordinator Region 16 Leadership School (Syracuse NY) June 10, 2007 Excerpts from a presentation by Judith Galloway, CTC, Region 24
Copyright Laws United States: Section 106 of the 1976 Copyright Act generally gives the owner of the copyright exclusive right to do and to authorize others to do the following: Reproduce the work in copies or recordings Prepare derivative works based upon the work Distribute copies and/or recordings of the work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership or by rental, lease or lending Perform the work publicly Perform the work publicly by means of a digital audio transmission (in the case of sound recordings) Canadian Copyright Act recognizes three main rights: Right to produce or copy the musical work Right to reproduce the musical work, including mechanical rights and synchronization rights Performing rights: perform a work in public and communicate to the public by telecommunication
Definitions: Copyright Terms Copyright The exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish and sell the matter and form of a literary, musical or artistic work. Note: No international copyright law currently exists that will protect a work in every country of the world. Copyright Holder One who has the legal right or exclusive title to something: owner Copyright Fees Under copyright law, the owner may grant permission to reproduce, sell, publish, distribute or perform the copyrighted material. The owner may charge a fee for that permission. A royalty or copyright fee is payment to the owner of the copyright.
Definitions: Public Domain Public Domain Consists of any kind of inspired work. It can be used by anybody for any purpose and it may be changed, rewritten. Canada Under Canadian law, a musical work is copyright protected if its author is still living or if the author is less than 50 years ago. If more than 50 years have elapsed, the work is said to be "in the public domain". United States The 1986 rulings extended the duration of American copyright to the author's life plus 75 years. If a song was written before 1923, its copyright has expired and the song is considered to be public domain.
Definitions: Performance Licensing Each time a song is performed in public, the songwriter is entitled to receive royalty income for that public performance. To eliminate the need to negotiate separate licenses, songwriters or their music publishers affiliate with performing rights societies: ASCAP : American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (1914) www.ascap.com www.ascap.com BMI: Broadcast Music Inc. (1939) www.bmi.comwww.bmi.com SESAC – Society of European Stage Authors and Composers (1930) www.sesac.com www.sesac.com SOCAN : Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (1925/1990) www.socan.cawww.socan.ca
Definitions: Mechanical Licensing A mechanical license grants the right to reproduce and distribute copyrighted musical compositions (songs), including uses on phonorecords (ie. CDs, records, tapes and certain digital configurations). Harry Fox Agency (1927) www.harryfox.comwww.harryfox.com Represents music publishers for their mechanical and digital licensing needs Issues licenses and collects and distributes royalties. This includes licensing for the recording and reproduction of CDs, ringtones and internet downloads. CMRRA – Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (1975) www.cmrra.ca www.cmrra.ca Represents the vast majority of music copyright owners (usually called music publishers) doing business in Canada. Distributes proceeds to publishers who then are to distribute the songwriter portion to the songwriter.
Definition: Synchronization Licensing Songwriters can authorize someone to use their song with visual images. The song is synchorized with the visual images. A synchronization license gives you permission to use a song (lyrics and music) on a video project Like a mechanical license, you must obtain one for each song in the project from the songs ' owners Y ou may be required to pay a royalty for each song use Synchronization fees are subject to negotiation and vary according to the popularity of the song and the importance of the song in the visual piece.
Legal Sheet Music Don't try to get around the rules! Be supportive of the rights and privileges of the song writers and publishers. This is our hobby – it is their business!
Purchasing Music Purchase enough legal copies of the music for everyone (including guest and new member books) Keep written documentation as proof of purchase Barbershop Harmony Society (BHS) www.barbershop.org www.barbershop.org Own the rights on many public domain songs arranged for men, women and mixed voices Published arrangements have been fully licensed by BHS for printing and distribution to its members for $1.65 per copy and $2.20 to non-members Some BHS arrangements are FREE of any copyright. These "Free,n Easy" songs are on the BHS website Sweet Adelines International (SAI) www.sweetadelineintl.orgwww.sweetadelineintl.org Music copyrighted and sold through SAI to its members is now $1.20 per copy and $1.80 to non-members. There is no such thing as FREE music from SAI. New copies of Harmonize The World and How We Sang Today are no longer FREE
Documenting Legal Music When the music was purchased How many copies were paid for How many copies are available for guests (still has to fit within the per copy count that the group paid for) Names of those with working copy When the working copies are returned and destroyed If the music was originally, legally purchased and documented, then the purchaser can legally re-use the music
Individual Copies of Music Sheet music given to you at a school or workshop should look legal and should be announced that it is your copy (you don't have an invoice for the music!) If you receive music that doesn't look legal, don't keep it! You can purchase legal single copies of sheet music Mark YOUR copy with: Received/purchased _____(date)_____ Where What for Your name The piece of music is a legal copy for YOU and you ONLY and you want/need to remember where it came from It is NOT legal to make copies of this music for your friends, quartet or chorus
Purchasing from an Arranger Arrangers work with the copyright owners to get permission to write arrangements The fees we pay to an arranger include the copyright fees (flat fee and a per copy fee) which will be passed on to the copyright holder (often a publisher) of the song, based on the agreement that the arranger has with the copyright holder. In most cases, the arrangement belongs to the copyright holder not the arranger
Protecting the Original Music Most of us write on our music as we learn a song It is legal to make one working/learning copy for each singer (and guest or new member book) based on the number of copies the chorus or quartet originally paid for You can't make more copies than the number you paid for Make working copies on colored paper, and clearlymark it with a label or stamp that says "Property of XYZ Chorus. Working copy for ____name ____, _____date distributed_____. Store the clean, original music safely away When the chorus or quartet is finished with this song, all working copies should be returned and destroyed.
Making Changes to the Music Any changes should be approved by the copyright holder (this could be a slow or impossible process since copyright holders don't have to respond to such requests!) Arrangers can not give permission for you to tweak an arrangement, ultimately that right belongs solely to the copyright holder When writing parodies, be respectful of the rights of the copyright holder. If it is to be widely performed or used on a contest stage get permission from the copyright holder to write and use the parody. "Common sense should be used for minor adjustments … we should be prudent in changes, respectful of the music." Carol Schwarts (SAI) "It's my understanding that small changes like re-voicing a chord or two and changing an intro or tag is not a critical issue. The copyright owners don't like for the words and basic melody to be changed, however." Joe Liles (BHS)
Posting on a Webpage Choruses and quartets can post music on their website for their members to use as a working/learning copy, however The chorus must do everything possible to protect the music The music must be posted in a members only section of the website with password protection Records must be kept to insure that the number of downloads is less than or equal to the number of original copies that were paid for by the chorus or quartet.
Educational Audio Copy It is legal for your chorus or quartet to record just one educational copy for the chorus or quartet without paying for a Mechanical License It is NOT LEGAL to make one recorded copy for each member without paying for a Mechanical License
Tracks Received for Workshops Learning CDs or tapes that you receive before or in conjunction with workshops are legally ONLY yours The Mechanical License has been paid for by the organization that recorded the CD or tape Mark YOUR copy with: Received/purchased _____(date)_____ Where What for Your name It is not legal to make copies of the CD or tape for your friends, quartet or chorus
Duplicating Learning Trax It is popular to provide our members with learning trax (CD or tape) for learning new music If you purchase only one CD, you cannot duplicate it for distribution to your members unless you have paid for making copies Members can make an audio working copy for educational purposes for learning the music Recording parts of a rehearsal or making their own personal recording of the learning CD for the purpose of learning the music is OK when done on a personal/individual basis The chorus/quartet is encouraged to keep appropriate written records for learning tracks that they order and/or duplicate for the group (ie. Who has then, how many, dates, etc) The maker of the learning tracks can not give permission to duplicate the published song
Learning Trax on Website When you apply/pay for the Mechanical License for recording/duplicating a song you will be able to explain how you are planning to use the number of recordings that you paid for Once purchased, choruses and quartets can post the learning trax on their website for their members to access as a learning tool As with sheet music, chorus must ensure that the learning trax are protected (members only, password protected, etc) Written records must be kept to count the number of downloads that occur in order to stay below the number of duplications that were licensed.
Suggestions 1. Develop a simple record-keeping system for documenting all music. 2. Do not keep copies of music which you can not prove ownership. 3. For new arrangements, purchase more than enough for current members, guest and new member books. 4. Make a working copy for each member and store the clean originals. 5. When you are finished with the working copies, collect and destroy them. 6. If you want the chorus responsible for making copies of learning tracks for all of your members and guests, make arrangements with the Harry Fox Agency, CMRRA, BHS or SAI to pay for the necessary Mechanical Licenses. 7. YES – to avoid paying the Mechanical License fee, you can ask your members to record their own educational copy of the learning trax. 8. If you bring an old song back into your repertoire, make sure it is legal. 9. Keep all written records up to date – stay on top of the project. 10. If you are not sure, ask! Barbershop Harmony Society and at SAI can help. www.barbershop.org and www.Sweetadelineintl.comwww.barbershop.orgwww.Sweetadelineintl.com
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Abner is tall with large muscles from his athletic lifestyle and regular exercise. He enjoys playing a variety of sports and engaging in just about any outdoor activity. Abner has thick, wavy, dark brown hair and big green/brown eyes. He has an equally dark beard that he keeps short and neatly trimmed, hiding his small dimples. Abner has masculine features that make him a very handsome individual.
Abner is very athletic, intelligent and outgoing. He played sports at the Division I collegiate level but also has an artistic side, enjoying painting and ceramics. He has exceptional interpersonal skills and is quick to laugh and make those around him laugh and feel completely at ease. Abner is an amazing father and we love how family oriented he is. When asked why he wants to be a donor, Abner answered, "It's a special thing to be a part of – science can be a wonderful thing." Abner is a patriotic, strong, athletic and good-humored donor.
Genetic Testing
Over the years, we have expanded our genetic testing of donors as genetic knowledge and technology have advanced. As a result, not all donors have been tested for the same conditions or with the same methods. All donors have undergone genetic testing for Cystic Fibrosis, Spinal Muscular Atrophy and Karyotyping. However, many donors have had more extensive testing performed.
This donor has been evaluated for carrier status of the listed conditions. A negative result reduces, but does not eliminate, the likelihood of the donor being a carrier. If you are a known carrier of a genetic condition please contact us, and we will provide a copy of the donor's test reports to your physician and/or genetic counselor.


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This section demonstrates you to get the absolute path in jsp.
This section demonstrates you to get the absolute path in jsp. The absolute path is the full path that contains the root directory instead of a few directories contained within the absolute path. The absolute path always begin with a / (slash). You can see in the given example, in order to get the absolute path of jsp file, we have used the method getServletContext().getRealPath("/").
Understand with Example
The Tutorial illustrate an example from 'JSP Absolute Path'. To understand JSP Absolute Path example we create a a html tag that embeded the java expression. The HTML can be turned into jsp by changing the extension of .html into absolute .jsp. The following text code is put in a file called AbsoluePath.jsp. Place the Absolute.jsp into your JSP directory and able to view in browser.
<%= getServletContext().getRealPath("/")> : The <%=> is used to embed Java expression in JSP pages The getServletContext().getRealPath("/") method is used to get the absolute path of jsp file. The absolute path is the full path that gives you the information about the root directory in which jsp file is placed.
Here is the code of AbsolutePath.jsp
<head><title>Absolute Path</title></head>
Absolute Path is:<%= getServletContext().getRealPath("/") %>
Following output will be displayed on the browser:
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