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Thursday, August 5, 2010
Last Friday, my ex, the only man to whom I've ever been married, retired after working for the same pharmaceutical company for thirty-six years. On Saturday, I was lucky enough to be able to hear Joan Baez singing through my sunroom window. And then on Monday, I went back to work as my summer vacation ended. All of the above has gotten me thinking about work and how I feel about it.
The Big Kat seems pretty happy with his several-days-old retirement, as he was tired, not of the crux of the work: the calling on doctors he's called on for years to tell them about drugs he believes in, but, instead, the peripheral exercises: the meetings, the paperwork, the bottom line, the rah-rah. When I talked to him about it, he said he realized what he was going to miss was no longer there anyway – the old days, the old guys, the old stories.
What does listening to Joan Baez have to do with my world of work? Joan Baez is 69 years old. I know this because I looked it up. I'm always happy to see people older than I am who are still working at something they love – and to have done what she's done for over fifty years makes me think she must still love it. I can't imagine she's worried about surviving on her retirement funds, but you never know. Her 401K may have gone south like so many others.
And then there's my going back to work. Although, when school starts each fall, when I say "just one more year", deep down inside, I'm scared to death to retire. I'll change jobs in heartbeat, actually every five years or so, but staring into that abyss is a frightening thing for me personally. My problem is that I don't know who I am without work.
When you're young, you think, boy, won't it be great when I can retire. I didn't realize until I got older that retirement (real retirement, not early retirement because you made a fortune as a commodities broker and are now going to sail around the world in your catamaran) means to the world that you are no longer viable, no longer worthy of being paid.
It's got to be terrible when you're forced into retirement as lots of people have been recently. I think the best case has to be what my ex just did. He planned it carefully, taking into account his health, his money, and his interests. We'll just have to wait and see how he does with the change of routine because he is one routine-oriented man. He'll probably be on the golf course at the same time each day, from sunrise until the free beer-n-nachos buffet at five and then home in time for the Hill Street Blues re-run du jour.
I do have to say I enjoy work more now that I know I could retire. I remember back in the days when the years were yawning ahead of me, wondering if I could survive it all, the monotony, the drudgery, the getting up early in the morning. Now, I almost feel like it's a privilege to be on the payroll, with someone paying me to do something at my age and level of disrepair. And then there are the work friendships: the discussions about who did what to whom and who said what and don't tell anybody. I love the work culture, with us against them and did you hear about her.
I have friends who are retired and enjoying it. For some of them, it's because they are relatively well off financially. For others, it's because they have a partner in crime and travel, in most cases a spouse. For still others, it's because they've found something interesting to do, a hobby, a passion, a cause.
But, since there's little chance I'm going to come into big money any time sooner or later, and even less of a chance there's a former boyfriend who wants to be a future husband checking me out on my Facebook page, I'm just going to have to find my future in what I like to do and what I'm at least somewhat good at.
And since it doesn't look like Joan Baez is going to hire me as a back-up singer or a roadie, I guess I'll just stick with this writing stuff along with some sewing, reading, TV watching, and talking about my grandkids on the side. All of that, any way you promote and cipher it, pays little to nothing, but it's cheaper than golf, and so far, it's keeping me out of the singles' bars.
By the way, do they still even have singles' bars? If they do, are there any that cater to the over-sixty set, with Happy Hour from three to five? I wonder if they need a bartender with no experience, one who's slightly hard of hearing and needs to be in bed by eight.
18 comments:
- Kate said...
Hey, Marcia. Someone told me years ago that, physiologically speaking, fear and excitement feel the very same way in one's body. I don't know if it is true or not - and don't care. I hold to that theory because I can re-frame or rename that four-letter feeling, so it is no longer an excuse for not trying things.
This brand of writing that you do is wonderful. imagine where it can go when you have more time. But don't just stick to things you might be good at. Try any that interest. Who knows, you may just find something wonderful.
AND YES! There are places for those of us with earlier bedtimes. There is a public club here that starts a Karaoke night at 6pm on Thursdays, and a dance band on Fridays and Saturdays that starts at 7:00. We can have a ball and a couple of cocktails and still be home and in our nighties by 9. Very wonderful.
and besides all that...you're writing gives lie to the rumor that you're scared of anything. hahahaha... can't fool me.
Thanks for your comment over at my place...I've gotta get back there.
- August 5, 2010 at 6:54 PM
- Batya said...
Oh my god, Marcia. I'm stunned that this is your post today. Just a sec, I have to breathe. have been retired for a couple of years but I also was working. The company I worked for went out of business and I lost my job. So I piddled here, I piddled there, I volunteered in a senior home.... But pretty much there is a big void. My husband will be retiring at the end of the year. It's a forced retirement since the state is shutting down the state's PBS channel where he has worked for over 30 years. He's heartsick. FIrst of all he wanted one or two more years to keep working. Second of all, and by far the hardest is ending his long career this way.
We have floundering for the last few months about what this means for us. Financially, we are no wear near wealthy or even just plain rich (is that the same?),
You're right about thinking that when we retire and our time is our own, yay, it's finally our turn. And that is true, but what do you do?
I am going back to work and I really look forward to that. Not back to a fast paced, high falootin' job. Just something I enjoy and will be able to interact with people. It's a big change to retire and the concept is hard to grasp, especially the $$ part of it. But I still look forward to living a very different kind of life. I'm beginning to get excited by it.
Joan Baez is 69?
- August 5, 2010 at 7:09 PM
- Batya said...
I wrote the above comment in almost one breathe. The words just fell out of my mouth with no real thought process in place. No, I didn't have my finger in the electric socket. It's just that your post and your writing just hit me in such a NOW deep place my response was immediate. Blessings.
- August 5, 2010 at 7:18 PM
- marciamayo said...
Paula, your response brought tears to my eyes. Isn't it interesting how we, in our blogging community, help each other without even knowing it. I had just told Kate above that she'd done the same with me with her latest posting. So, you are going back to work? What will you be doing?
- August 5, 2010 at 7:33 PM
- Olga said...
I love(d) teaching. If my job involved just teaching, I'd still be working. As a special education teacher, I found I was doing less and less teaching, more and more case management and paperwork. I loved my work, but not my job. Now, my needs are pretty simple so we make it financially so far, and I do love retirement. I'm busy, but I follow my own schedule.
- August 5, 2010 at 8:54 PM
- Homerun Hatch Family News said...
O.K. Marcia on a happy note 60's are the new 40's and men now prefer women who have raised their children are out of the baby market. So I heard on some TV show.
As I am nowhere near retirement I say keep on working as long as your happy! I love my job but fussed all week about an unpaid workshop my principal e-mailed me about.
My husband said don't got. But the do gooder in me couldn't skip out.
- August 5, 2010 at 10:30 PM
Marcia - I don't know where to start. I retired from teaching at 55 years because of the reasons Olga mentioned. I have absolutely loved retirement - I started out worried about money and worked at about 10 different jobs until I found my place. I loved trying out different jobs, learning them and leaving them when I decided that wasn't what I wanted to do. After i realized that I wasn't going to starve to death, I began doing just the things I love. Now I do storytelling, writing, lead workshops and photography. I just follow the lead in any one of these and am having the most glorious time! If I'd known retirement was so much fun, I wouldn't have complained about work all those years. Find your passion and go for it. There is a whole new world to explore. You'll love it and find a 100 things to do. Thanks for the thought provoking post.
Mary B
- August 6, 2010 at 5:53 AM
- Arkansas Patti said...
I worked happily for 48 years. However, I believe the higher we climb the ladder, more annoying things come into our work life like redundant meetings,endless reports,etc. It seems like we are spending more time preparing to work than actually working.
Retirement is wonderful. It is the complete freedom to do what you can afford, when you want and not have to cram everything into a weekend. Don't fear it, embrace it. Wish I had done it earlier.
- August 6, 2010 at 7:57 AM
- Friko said...
Sorry, I don't know about singles bars either, but can't you just go to any bar to have ad drink? If you feel like it?
The thing I resent most about retirement is purely in my head: I resent having become irrelevant in the great scheme of things. Although the 'grey pound' is commerce's aim as much as a young person's pound, every ad is aimed at the 'workers'. They're after my vote, my money, my charitable support but not my wisdom or experience, damn them.
Living where I live I can settle down to tea and cakes, fund raiser coffee mornings, and gossip; and all the while go quietly insane.
Or I could rave and rant in a blog.
- August 6, 2010 at 2:45 PM
- Friko said...
I forgot to ask, you heard Joan Baez singing through your window? Live?
- August 6, 2010 at 2:46 PM
- marciamayo said...
Friko, yes I heard her live. However, she wasn't singing to me. She was singing to paying customers across the street at the Atlanta Botanical Garden where they have outdoor concerts in the summer. I could hear her when the wind was blowing the right way.
I loved what you said in: Living where I live I can settle down to tea and cakes, fund raiser coffee mornings, and gossip; and all the while go quietly insane.
That's what I'm afraid of, although I do have to admit I kind of like gossip.
- August 6, 2010 at 4:28 PM
- Wisewebwoman said...
Oh keep the banner of writing flying, you will be a star, in whatever form that takes. Attend workshops, give workshops, write, write, play Scrabble to keep sharp, adore the grandchildren. Life just fills up you know? I can't keep enough time open to cram it all in. And yes I work part time but I honestly don't worry about money anymore. There is very little but my needs are very simple now, we don't take that into account.
- August 7, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- Wisewebwoman said...
Joan, you heard OMG Joan????????
I'm sick positively SICK, I tell you!
- August 7, 2010 at 3:36 PM
- Cile said...
I share your fear of retirement, Marcia. Oddly it should be the money that worries me but it is the interaction that I have to have. I feel if I retired I would list away into space! My taking a cut in pay and a lower position was what I now refer to as my retirement. So I am retired - while still employed. I have to pay attention to not fall into the habit of being too "helpful". All of this is very contrary to my work ethic and I think it is a shame in some ways for me and my employer but, from where I sit, there has yet to be developed a place in the scheme of things for the older worker. It is sad but true. No amount of work I could do in that situation would alter that. What work I do, I try and to do with integrity and I'm thankful for the opportunity of it.
I am trying to channel that work ethic I have nurtured over the past 45 years into projects that would be of different value for my life than just making money. I'm getting nowhere faster than I thought possible for a woman my age!....I'm hoping this is an incubation period; that I'm in a cocoon and not a body bag!
Thanks for sharing so much of your thinking on this matter. I feel less alone in pondering these things.
- August 7, 2010 at 4:04 PM
- marciamayo said...
WWW and NM, thanks for your thoughts and support. NW, I like the idea of being retired while still working - baby steps.
- August 8, 2010 at 8:03 AM
- Jean said...
I've been happily, happily, oh, so happily retired for six years. And I, too, felt the fears you're now facing. I felt as if retirement meant the last step before death; I resented younger teachers asking me when I was going to retire; I worried I wouldn't be able to fill up my days; I knew I'd miss so many of my work colleagues...I'd pretty much devoted 36 years of my life, 9 months a year plus many summer weeks, preparing lesson plans, grading essays, trying to keep my classes interesting. I feared life would have no meaning without teaching. Wrong! I'm busy every day. I have plenty of hobbies (although keeping my house as clean as I did while working isn't one of them). The first year I retired, I felt left out when school started that September. By October I'd gotten over that feeling and haven't looked back. I don't know what I'd do if I were told I had to go back to teaching. Shoot myself, maybe. I loved it while I did it, but that's behind me now.
- August 8, 2010 at 2:58 PM
- ygbsmgc said...
Another post from the only guy who appears to read your blog, I define retirement as betting that you won't live long enough to run out of money. That is why I will be working part time forever. By the way I will be retired for one day on the first of October 2010.
- August 9, 2010 at 10:57 PM
- marciamayo said...
George, is that when you granddaughter is due to arrive?
- August 10, 2010 at 4:31 AM
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"Art of East Asia"
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The San Diego Museum of Art has been quietly acquiring pieces of Asian art and assessing the works in its extensive Asian collection for nearly a decade. ■ It took an initial step toward exhibiting that collection — which represents approximately half of the museum's entire holdings — in 2010 by devoting three small, main-floor galleries to the art of South Asia and Persia, featuring pieces from its renowned Edwin Binney 3rd Collection. ■ Now, the museum has completed an extensive remodel of the former "Asian Court" to house the balance of its Asian collection. It will open "Art of East Asia" on Feb. 9, just in time for Chinese New Year. ■ "The space is a glorious crown for the museum," said the institution's former Asian art curator, Sonya Quintanilla, who conceived the new, state-of-the-art spaces in collaboration with Staples & Charles, a
"It's one of the most exciting projects we've done in many, many years," said Roxana Velasquez, the museum's director. "And it reflects our commitment to the permanent collection. Of course, we believe in temporary shows, but the permanent collection is what gives us the right to be an art museum."
Unlike the South Asia collection, which is encyclopedic as a result of Binney's systematic collecting, the East Asia collection is erratic. But in some ways that's a strength, as the collection represents numerous individual donations and acquisitions dating back to the museum's inception in 1922 (and the immediate formation of an "Asian Arts Council" of collectors and patrons).
"What I think is really important about this collection is it reflects the place, the geography of this museum and its history, and it reflects our constituents," said Julia Marciari-Alexander, the museum's deputy director for curatorial affairs. "We have many, many objects because people who live in San Diego have had a deep relationship with Asia, many through the military, and they've brought us (the objects they obtained). So they are very personal to San Diegans."
The real thing
Reinstalling the Asian collection was one of Quintanilla's primary directives when the Harvard-educated curator joined the museum's staff in 2004. The Asian collection had been removed from exhibit in 2003 to make space for the "Treasures of the Vatican" traveling exhibition, so when the Vatican treasures vacated, the Asian art had to be reinstalled.
"We did a temporary arrangement in 2004," Quintanilla said. "And every year after that, we expected to do the real thing. Finally, this year we are doing the real thing," thanks in part to a $60,000 National Endowment for the Arts grant and individual donations.
As the collection has "areas of greatness and areas of lack" (in Quintanilla's words), she was understandably determined to emphasize the collection's strengths. Organizing the installation around themes (primarily philosophical and religious) rather than a strict chronology, Quintanilla was able to highlight what Marciari-Alexander calls the museum's "superstar objects" (which anchor each of the five areas) and place other objects in a way they related to each other and formed a bigger picture.
The exhibition includes nearly 300 objects, with a third of that number going on display for the first time.
"What's she's done is put together this thematic display that evokes the environments and the context in which these objects were used," Marciari-Alexander said. "So you aren't looking at an object purely for its museum standard."
In each of the five spaces, the lighting (controlled through new LED instruments), the wall colors and textures, placement of the art, and even background sounds, enhance that environment. The gallery with funerary objects, for example, evokes the dark, closed-in feeling of a tomb, while the Buddhist gallery has the bright and open atmosphere of a religious festival.
"In terms of museum practice, I think that's the way museums are really moving," Quintanilla said. "The emphasis is on experience more than just didactic art lessons."
Art and experience
Part of the experience in this installation is actually touching the art, or at least something akin to the art. While researching the collection, Quintanilla discovered several forgeries. But to the untrained eye, the forgeries are indistinguishable from the real thing. With the real thing safely behind glass, you'll be able to touch the forgery.
"Research has shown that people learn through various ways," Quintanilla said. "Not just through looking, but through hearing and especially through touch. People remember things and can internalize them better if they can touch the object."
In addition to the video monitors that have become commonplace in many museum exhibits (in this case one showing a Buddhist festival and another showing Korean craftsmen at work), at the end of the exhibition there's a calligraphy station where you can make your own. And several of the galleries have built-in seating (adjacent to display cases) that invites introspection and reflection.
"It's a place that's meditative and uplifting," said Quintanilla, who left the museum last year to become curator of Asian art at the Cleveland Art Museum. "It's where you can come if you want to understand different philosophical issues about Confucianism, Daoism, Shinto and Buddhism and see what the visual expressions are."
More than that, the museum hopes the new galleries will become a community "destination" where you might want to spend time even if you've experienced the exhibit multiple times.


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Signaling the start of another work day at Kayan, the restaurant she runs in the Vancouver suburbs, Lebanese divorcee Hanin (Hamadeh) steps out of her flat pumps into high heels. As she hobbles to and fro in obvious pain, dealing with one crisis after another, recurring shots of her stilt-like shoes make them a symbol of the precariousness of her job and life.
The bistro, whose name means "existence" in Lebanese Arabic, is perennially enveloped in smoke from the shisha, or hookahs; one can hardly tell the film is set in North America. The clientele is almost exclusively Middle Eastern, and outside, Vancouver is glimpsed only in indistinct night scenes of Hanin driving along the highway, underscoring the tight-knit, closed-off community she lives in.
The restaurant totally consumes Hanin, and as if to emphasize her lack of a settled family life, not a single scene is set in her home. Her teenage daughters, Hiam (Kayan Bennett) and Layal (Kiara Bennett), make do with the backroom office as their private quarters. Najafi structures mini-dramas of varying intensity around the confined spaces in which Hanin moves, revealing different sides to her character in each. Her day reps a long series of negotiations with everyone from her overworked kitchen staff and difficult customers to a Spanish flamenco band she wants to hire.
Her fiance, whom she hopes will become a shoulder to lean on and a surrogate father for her daughters, appears only as a disembodied voice (played by Mohsen Pejgaleh) on her mobile. On the other hand, Pejman (Alireza Taale), a customer and recent emigre from Iran, makes his presence felt by paying her more attention than she wants.
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Despite the character's absolute reticence about her past — why or how she left her homeland, what her previous and present relationships are like — the fatigue written all over her face speaks volumes. As Hanin, Hamadeh does more than play herself, ably handling abrupt mood changes and giving voice to the difficulties of single, middle-aged women who have to fend for themselves. The other actors are so convincing, one forgets they're non-professionals.
Tech credits are adequate. Farhad Saba's camera is always positioned to catch characters off guard, and Najafi's editing picks up speed toward the end, making a strong emotional impact with some bold crosscutting. The unusual move to alternate more standard Middle Eastern music with plangent flamenco tunes raises the otherwise subdued dramatic pitch.


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Bills are an inevitable part of our lives. We all have them, we all dread receiving and paying them, yet it is something that has to be done. The question is, how will you make sure that you pay all your bills and that they are paid on time?
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Putting a bill paying system to work for you can be so rewarding. I know you're wondering, "Just where do I begin?" The answer is by setting aside the time to create your "system." You will need to gather your bills, track your due dates, establish a home for your bills, as well as determine a time when you will devote to the practice of "paying" your bills, whether you sit down and manually write out checks for them or you hop on your computer and set up an online bill payment.
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What didn't make it into the latest Halo? According to the video above by TheHaloCouncil, which shows stuff found in the code of Halo 4, at least two armor abilities.
These would be the "hacker" and "teleport" abilities. The former can undo the armor ability of your targeted victim. Say you deploy your hardlight shield: if the other person activates hacker, then your shield is gone, just as an example.
Teleport, meanwhile, looks kind of similar to thruster pack only it vaults you farther. There's also the possibility that it goes through solid objects, but maybe not. It's hard to tell from the video. Either way, in its current form, it's glitchy as hell—your Spartan might die after doing it.
I kind of love the idea of just undoing someone else's armor ability. And if teleport does let you go through solid objects, then that's also majorly cool.
Reaching out to 343 Industries, a Microsoft spokesperson issued the following statement to me about these armor abilities:
There are many legacy items in any large code base—some that made it quite far in production before being cut for reasons of balance, scope or simple fun; others which were simply prototype ideas that didn't make it far at all. 343 Industries has no plans to add further armor abilities from that code base in any future "Halo 4" downloadable content.
It's too bad we didn't see these armor abilities implemented the game. I would have liked them, at least. Alas, my thruster pack will have to do.


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A Poet and His Apples
The trees of Robert Frost are alive and well—again—in South Shaftsbury (and who knows where else)
Written onApril 30 , 2013
At the Robert Frost Stone House Museum in South Shaftsbury—his Vermont residence from 1920 to 1928—an ancient and magisterially gnarled Snow apple tree presides over the grounds. Placed, probably by the poet's own hands, in a commanding spot directly behind the house, it was the only one of its kind among the hundreds of apple trees planted on the 80-acre farm during the 1920s. The rest of the orchard, which Frost envisioned as "a new Garden of Eden with a thousand apple trees of some unforbidden variety," was set behind the barn and populated with McIntosh, Northern Spy, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, and Red Astrachan trees.
Today, 90-odd years after the soil was first tamped down around its roots, the heritage tree, as the Snow apple is known, remains vigorous enough to produce a bountiful harvest of distinctively striped and tasty white-fleshed fruit every year around Labor Day. But the old orchard is a ruin. After the Frost family relinquished the farm, all but seven acres of the land was sold, including the orchard, which was subsequently neglected. Although the trees are still visible on neighboring lots and are occasionally reported to bloom, the majority are choked and dying.
If Frost were alive, the plight of his beloved trees might well elicit a poetic lament. Then again, he might be pleased. In "Unharvested" he wrote:
May something go always unharvested!
May much stay out of our stated plan,
Apples or something forgotten and left,
So smelling their sweetness would be no theft.
Whatever Frost's opinion might have been of the current seedy state of his orchard, he would surely approve of the path to rehabilitating the seven-acre farm that Carole Thompson, the museum's founder, curator, and chief apple detective, is now taking. She gets right to the point: "What's Robert Frost without apple trees on the place? It's like having Robert Frost without birch trees."
How this passionate and effervescent 68-year-old came to be the steward of the Shaftsbury farm and its Frostian legacy of apples is itself the stuff of epic poetry. After a 30-year career as a sales executive for the Reynolds Aluminum Company, she retired and moved in the early 1990s to Bennington, an area familiar to her from many ski trips to Mt. Snow. At the time, she had no idea that Frost had any history in the area, nor did she have a particular connection to him other than through his poetry, which she had loved since she first read it in high school.
But after settling into her new home, Carole learned, quite by chance, that Frost was buried in Bennington. That discovery led her to search locally for a Robert Frost society, similar to the Robert Burns societies prevalent in Scotland. "But," she says, "I found no one here who I could bond with over Frost. Finally, I posted a notice in the Bennington Banner for a Frost poetry group and 10 people showed up."
The group met regularly and at first stuck to the poetry. After a few years, they began to delve into Frost's biography and family history. Then, in 1999, the group curated an exhibition for the Bennington Museum to commemorate the poet's 125th birthday. That was the turning point for Carole. She immersed herself in the Frost collection at the Bennington Library, which led her to discover that Frost had lived in a stone cottage in Shaftsbury during the 1920s. After that, obstacles fell like dominoes before Carole's seemingly inexhaustible energy and enthusiasm. In November 1999, she contacted the owners of the Shaftsbury cottage and, to her great astonishment, learned they had been planning to move.
"I always felt that this was meant to be," she reflects, referring to the founding of the museum, "that it was just waiting to happen, just waiting for someone with arms and legs to come along." Within two months, Carole assembled a board of directors (starting with key members of the poetry group), established a nonprofit organization with bylaws, and began the years of negotiations that culminated, in October 2001, with the signing of a purchase contract. At that time, the Friends of Robert Frost nonprofit organization was awarded a $100,000 grant from the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, and fund-raising began in earnest. The sale was completed in May 2002, and the following September the Stone House Museum opened its doors.
However, it took a bit longer for the apple project to be launched. "Once we knew we had these apple trees on the property," Carole explains, "we looked for years to find somebody who would help us propagate them." Propagating apple trees is a complex, delicate, and exquisitely time-sensitive process. Orchardists skilled in the art were far too busy with their own orchards during propagation seasons to be able to help with the Frost trees. But in 2005, Carole found Russell Allen of Westminster Station, a retired expert on apple propagation and grafting. He was ready and able to help.
"The project had one goal," Carole says, "to make baby trees that could be planted." Some of the baby trees would be used to populate a planned display orchard—a new 20-tree orchard on the Stone House's seven acres—and the rest of the saplings would be sold to the public to raise funds to support the museum.
Ideally, all the saplings would have been produced using grafts taken from the old orchard, or at least from Frost-planted trees at his other homes. Unfortunately, after doggedly researching a slew of options, it became clear to Carole that she would have to settle for only partial success. "Of the historic trees in the Stone House orchard," she continues, "none could be propagated. They couldn't be relied on, because they'd gone wild."
But four original Frost trees from Shaftsbury could be grafted. "The Snow apple and the Transcendent crabapple [planted by Frost's daughter-in-law in 1935] were produced from the historic trees at the Stone House," Carole explains. "We used two other varieties from The Gully, which is the house in Shaftsbury where Frost lived after he gave the Stone House to his son for a wedding present. One of the Gully trees we were able to identify as a Rhode Island Greening. We never could identify the other Gully tree. Zeke Goodband, the orchardist at Scott Farm in Dummerston, thought it was a wild apple, so we called it Gully's Wild Patience."
The rest of the grafts that were propagated—Gravenstein, Red Astrachan, Sops-of-Wine, and Duchess of Oldenburg—were provided by Zeke Goodband. Zeke's grafts were not descendants of the historical trees, but did represent the species that Frost planted, at the age of 83, in a new orchard at his cabin in Ripton.
The first cuttings of the four historic trees from Shaftsbury were made in the third week of August 2006. Only during that brief period does sap production decline while new buds start to form. Carole then drove the precious budwood to the nursery in Aspers, Pennsylvania, that Russell Allen had recommended—"some people ship their budwood in coolers, but I didn't trust that because if it got caught on a hot day on a shipping dock somewhere then my budwood was cooked." In Aspers, the nursery professionals grafted the cuttings onto rootstock—a process called custom budding—and absolutely pampered the grafts for the next 18 months, until they were about six feet tall and sturdy enough to be transplanted. In the spring of 2008, the saplings were shipped to Shaftsbury, and the museum had its first sale of historic apple trees.
At that sale, the Snow apples sold out. The second sale, in 2010, included the Ripton species, but again, it was the Snow apples that sold out. Three of the 2010 trees were sold on eBay. The popularity of the Snow apples does not surprise Carole. "There's a great emotion about those trees," she says. "It's like having Robert Frost in your yard. How good the apples are is almost immaterial."
No sales have been held since 2010, and none are currently planned. The sales, Carole notes, are not the easiest way to raise funds. For one thing, the economy has not been cooperating and, at almost $100 per tree, the purchase price is substantial. In addition, the timing is difficult. The saplings must be shipped in early spring, when the museum is not yet open for the season. And they must be planted within three days of delivery, which limits prospective purchasers to those willing and able to collect their new trees during mud season, a time of year that is one of Vermont's less appealing.
Still, Carole will continue the propagation project. Her preferred option is to be able to graft the new trees herself, rather than deliver budwood to Pennsylvania and ship saplings. "I was never formally educated in literature or Robert Frost, nor in running a museum or raising apples; I simply know that if you love something, you can do anything." Her early experiments in grafting, not surprisingly, have already yielded some promising results. And there are a number of Vermont orchardists she could always turn to, including Zeke Goodband.
Carole hopes that the next sale at the museum, when there is one, will feature her own Shaftsbury-grown historical saplings. Maybe it will even raise some money, but if not, Carole will do it anyhow. "I like doing it for the fun of it," she comments, "and for the sharing of the Frost pleasure with people. That's really the point of it."
Ellen Williams is a freelance writer, literature buff, and dedicated
consumer of apples. She lives in Newfane.
Photo by Kevin Bubriski
Good-by, and Keep Cold
by Robert Frost
This saying good-by on the edge of the dark
And cold to an orchard so young in the bark
Reminds me of all that can happen to harm
An orchard away at the end of the farm
All winter, cut off by a hill from the house.
I don't want it girdled by rabbit and mouse,
I don't want it dreamily nibbled for browse
By deer, and I don't want it budded by grouse.
(If certain it wouldn't be idle to call
I'd summon grouse, rabbit, and deer to the wall
And warn them away with a stick for a gun.)
I don't want it stirred by the heat of the sun.
(We made it secure against being, I hope,
By setting it out on a northerly slope.)
No orchard's the worse for the wintriest storm;
But one thing about it, it mustn't get warm.
"How often already you've had to be told,
Keep cold, young orchard. Good-by and keep cold.
Dread fifty above more than fifty below."
I have to be gone for a season or so.
My business awhile is with different trees,
Less carefully nourished, less fruitful than these,
And such as is done to their wood with an axe—
Maples and birches and tamaracks.
I wish I could promise to lie in the night
And think of an orchard's arboreal plight
When slowly (and nobody comes with a light)
Its heart sinks lower under the sod.
But something has to be left to God.
"Good-by and Keep Cold" from the book, The Poetry of Robert Frost, edited by Edward Connery Lathem. Copyright ©1923, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company. Copyright ©1951 by Robert Frost. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC.


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With the recent passing of Ivan Blaine Neilson, I decided to prepare a history for his mother Edna Coley Neilson. Especially since I just recently came in possession of a number of new photographs of the family. Some day I will write a history of her parents, my Great Great Grandparents, but I am hoping some more photos of them will appear in the upcoming months.
Edna Coley was born 23 November 1900 in Lewiston, Cache, Utah. She was the second of ten children, my Great Grandmother Lillian being the oldest, born to Martha Christiansen and Herbert Coley.
I don't know much about Edna's personality. I have been told by numerous people that Edna was the preferred child of Martha and was often doted on to the the dismay of the siblings. I don't know that tells me much of her personality though.
Edna married Gerold Andrus (1903-1984) 17 April 1921 in Richmond, Cache, Utah. The next month, 15 March 1921, Harold Christian Andrus was born. Gerold and Edna were only married for a very short time, a shotgun wedding and a shotgun divorce.
Edna married Olof Alma Neilson (1891-1960) 23 July 1923 in Logan, Cache, Utah. They were sealed 30 July 1924 in the Logan LDS Temple. I don't know if Harold was adopted legally or not, but Harold went by Harold Christian Neilson the rest of his life. The only father he knew was Olof and Olof treated Harold as if he was his own son.
Olof and Edna would have what appears to be ten children together. The records certainly show ten children, but I believe one of them is a duplicate, or mistakes in names leading to a duplicate child. Nobody is alive to confirm either so I will list all ten but point out where I believe the duplication exists.
Alma Russell "Russell" Neilson born 23 Jun 1924 in Richmond. He married Gloria May Olson on 9 Oct 1946 in the Salt Lake City LDS Temple. He passed away 13 September 2017 in Washington Terrace, Weber, Utah and buried 19 September at Washington Heights.
Olga Helen "Helen" Neilson born 28 July 1926 in Richmond. She married LeRoy "Roy" Hulse Draper 25 May 1943. She passed away 4 March 2015 and was buried 9 March at West Point, Davis, Utah.
Martbamary Neilson born and died 2 July 1927 in Richmond. He does not have a tombstone if he is buried in Richmond.
Hebert Neilson born 25 November 1928 and died 26 November 1928 both in Richmond. He has a tombstone in Richmond.
Aenotta Neilson born and died 1 September 1929 in Richmond. This and the next child were either twins or just variations on a name. Only a documentation exists for the next child.
Jennetta Neilson was born 1 September 1929 and died 2 September 1929 in Richmond. Jennetta also has a tombstone where Aenotta does not, you would expect Aenotta would since they were supposedly twins.
Ole Neilson was born and died 19 October 1932 in Richmond. He was buried 20 October 1932 in the Richmond Cemetery and has a tombstone.
Ivan Blaine Neilson was born 26 April 1935 in Richmond. He died 16 January 2013 in Yuma, Yuma, Arizona. He was buried 25 January 2013 in Smithfield, Cache, Utah. He married Gloria Gilgen 8 June 1954 in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah. They were later divorced. He remarried to Rebecca Anne Pitcher 4 September 1981 in Smithfield.
Lastly, Martha Mary Neilson was born and died 6 July 1937 in Richmond. She is buried in Richmond.
I named the people in the reunion photo here.
Olof passed away of a heart attack at about 9:30 am 13 April 1960 at home in Richmond. He died almost instantly. He was buried in Richmond on 15 April 1960.
Edna's mother passed away 14 August 1961. The family gathered for the funeral 17 August 1961 for the funeral. The photo below was taken that day in the Richmond Cemetery.
Edna lived close to her sister, Lillian Jonas, now Bowcutt, and Lillian makes regular reference to Edna in her journals. The thing that stands out to me is how close they were in that Edna would regularly aid or stay with Lillian. Also, Lillian makes regular reference to Edna's attending the temple in Logan.
Harold took his own life 9 March 1966 in Phoenix, Maricopa, Arizona. His body was brought back to Richmond for burial.
Edna lived in Richmond until she passed away 6 April 1983 in Richmond. Her funeral was held 9 April 1983.


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We're a smart and dynamic company building a reputation through doing great work. Our market is implementing HR, Payroll and workforce management software for large companies, mainly in the UK. We have a 50:50 split in our staff between IT tech and those with more of a business focus. The majority of employees are in their 30's. A recurring mantra within the company is 'understated excellence' and the logo should represent this. We pride ourselves in understanding the needs of the customer rather than trying to sell them a product.
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Under the background of new era, Ci Hua Ci has recast the glory of ancient Silk Road by responding to the national call of "the Belt and Road", trying to inherit Chinese porcelain culture. It is determined to create a comprehensive commercial, financial and cultural pattern of "whole people sharing and common prosperity" based on Chinese cultural essence, to realize the great vision of industrialization, popularization and commonweal for the quintessence of Chinese culture, to establish the brand-new strategic idea of great virtue, big love, and highest good, and to make "Porcelain Birthplace China and Filial Obedience" a new business card of defining China! It aims to establish an industry maker and leader status of "crossing the border, following the era, integrating ancient and modern times, and continuing the civilization" for "Ci Hua Ci".
Under such tendency, by setting the core idea of "China Porcelain Painting, Benefiting Thousands of Families" as the theme of this conference, Ci Hua Ci has a dialogue with porcelain culture of one thousand years, closely follows the national strategy of "the Belt and Road" and the guiding thought of "public entrepreneurship and mass innovation", devotes itself to inheritance and recovery of Chinese traditional culture, keeps a foothold on whole people sharing for the quintessence of Chinese culture, and is determined to create a business mode of integrating finance and culture. Under the cultural concept of "great virtue, big love, and highest good", it has integrated enterprise operation and artistic culture, inheritance of Chinese culture and enterprise development, as well as historical mission of the era and Chinese people's cultural pursuit, presenting the corporate value of "harmony, morality and common prosperity" to the whole world.
The conference issued the book Ci Hua Ci, which covers China's classic culture of five thousand years and porcelain cultural quintessence of one thousand years. The author of this book is Mr. Tan Shaotang, who is the famous advisor of sinology, writer, poet, calligrapher, and Chief Cultural Consultant of Ci Hua Ci. Composed of more than 300 thousand characters, Ci Hua Ci was published by Xinhua Publishing House and collected by National Library of China. The book has integrated traditional cultures. Covering the source and generation of culture, every combination of different cultures, and rebirth of culture, this is a cultural masterpiece representing Ci Hua Ci. It not only wonderfully positions the enterprise culture of Ci Hua Ci, but also expounds three missions of the age assumed by Ci Hua Ci: to inherit Chinese culture and carry forward traditional virtues; to create a brand-new business mode, which benefits both the country and the people; to truly realize whole people sharing for China's quintessential artworks.
Important moment of the conference – The listing launching ceremony of Jingdezhen Ci Hua Ci Porcelain Culture Development Co., Ltd. is extremely eye-catching. Core leaders of Ci Hua Ci appeared on the stage at the same time, to support the launching ceremony. China's first listed company of porcelain culture has been produced since then. This is the official declaration of realizing internationalization of Ci Hua Ci and initiating the 3.0 era of Ci Hua Ci, the important turning point for Chinese culture to step toward the world and manifest the cultural strength, and the key step for Chinese brand to govern the international stage. It is bound to produce an overturning influence on Chinese culture industry. The brand of Ci Hua Ci will go to the world by rushing out from China. It read out the brand declaration of Ci Hua Ci to the whole world on the screen of Reuters in New York Times Square – the holy land chased after by international authoritative media where world top brands gather together. This is the glory of Ci Hua Ci brand, and a great victory of carrying forward quintessence culture.
After the conference was over, President of Ci Hua Ci, Chen Siying received a press interview. When the journalist asked him how Ci Hua Ci would inherit and carry forward Chinese traditional porcelain culture, President Chen said, "We are bound to talk about porcelain when mentioning China, and refer to Jingdezhen when discussing porcelain. If porcelain is the representative of China, then Jingdezhen is a window of exchanging with the world. Under the new historical background of the Belt and Road, opening up and going out, Ci Hua Ci will join hands with Jingdezhen, to embody the culture with porcelain, tell the story about China, establish cultural confidence, and make the world feel the charm of Chinese culture. Since the founding of the company, the undertaking of Ci Hua Ci has always responded to and implemented national policies; this is the most vivid portrayal of Ci Hua Ci. Ci Hua Ci embraces the reform ideas of the Belt and Road, mass innovation, and public entrepreneurship, trying to inherit and recover quintessence culture. Based on whole people sharing for the quintessence of Chinese culture, it tries to create a business mode, which benefits both the country and the people, and carry out continuous practice to become the leader in industrialization, popularization and commonweal for the quintessence of Chinese culture. It takes the lead in creating China's first listed company of porcelain culture by joining hands with the porcelain capital of one thousand years Jingdezhen, and cooperating with the national go-out strategy of the Belt and Road, so as to reproduce the glory of porcelain capital and contribute the force of Ci Hua Ci to the realization of the great Chinese dream."
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- Rachel Lynn said...
YUM! Can't wait to try those!!
- March 21, 2009 at 3:34 PM
- gfe--gluten free easily said...
The pics look great to me. I'd try one in a heartbeat. If you could hand us each one, you'd become the most popular blogger in history. ;-) I'm excited about all the new Betty Crocker mixes!! I'll be passing this info on to my support group on Tuesday. :-)
- March 22, 2009 at 1:40 PM
- Lauren said...
Mmm, that looks so good!
- March 22, 2009 at 2:34 PM
- The Maxwell Family said...
All of these look so good! Do you have permission to list the ingredients?
- March 25, 2009 at 11:09 AM
- Aimlesswriter said...
OMG! I'm drooling!
- March 30, 2009 at 2:29 PM
- Maureen "Hold The Gluten" said...
I am sooo excited! Actually excited and a bit scared - I see a gluten free Betty Crocker mega-binge in my future - ha ha :)
- March 31, 2009 at 4:45 PM
- Janel said...
any chance you could tell us the list of ingredents for those with other allergies besides gluten like does it have soy, corn and dairy in the dry mix?
- April 11, 2009 at 9:17 AM
- liz said...
As far as ingredients- I would prefer to not list them as I want to be respectful to the company for a number of reasons. 1) the recipes could change between now until they hit the shelves and 2)it's best to not let me be the one to leak such details that could be available to their competition.
so that's why i'm leaving that information out. but once they hit shelves I can certainly share what is out there for the public.
thanks for understanding! liz
- April 11, 2009 at 8:49 PM
- Rachel said...
Oooh, baby, this sounds great for keeping in the pantry. Thanks for the informative reviews.
- April 16, 2009 at 12:36 PM
- Unknown said...
This sounds outstanding. You are so lucky you got a preview. I cannot wait to try these mixes! How was the yellow cake? Do you have any insight about how much these might cost or how widely distributed they might be? LUCKY!!
Thanks and keep us posted.
- April 16, 2009 at 6:50 PM
- Theresa said...
This is so exciting, but I assume they contain dairy as well as I've yet to come across a BC product that doesn't. Bummer!
- April 26, 2009 at 1:21 PM
- Brit said...
You don't know me but I live in Houston. I was just diagnosed with Celiac disease a few weeks ago. I hope you don't mind but I have been trying some of your recipes. They are great! Your blog has made the switch to gluten free so much easier for me and I have learned a lot. Thank you so much and I hope you don't feel like I am a blog stalker:)
- May 11, 2009 at 11:54 AM
- McB's said...
Hey Liz. This is Lisa McBurney from your ward, we talked as we were discussing Mary Rae's baby shower...I hope you remember me. Mary was at my house and told me about your blog cuz both my daughter and I have Celiac and your story is exactly my story when we found out my daughter had it at 18 months! I'm so excited to read your blog and want to try your recipies. We need to get together one of these days, we have a big common thing between us :)
- May 27, 2009 at 8:45 PM
hello... hapi blogging... have a nice day! just visiting here....
- June 16, 2009 at 5:30 AM
- NimrodVern said...
I made both the yellow & devils food cakes for father's day:
I must say that the devils food cake was far superior. Most importantly, the texture was indistinguishable from wheat-flour cake. The yellow cake, on the other had had the tell-tale grittiness of rice flour.
I don't know why on earth they used two different combinations of gf flours for the cakes. Perhaps gauging consumer response? I contacted them through their website with my opinion.
In any case, it's awesome to have more options on the shelves!
- June 24, 2009 at 12:04 PM
- Farty Girl said...
I want to go to there.
- June 29, 2009 at 4:55 AM
- Current Chick said...
I absolutely LOVE these mixes! I'm pretty addicted to the yellow cake mix...I just make them into cup cakes...so good :)
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- September 11, 2009 at 2:02 AM
- Mindy said...
I was a bit disappointed in the cost, I thought that being betty crocker, it would be a little less expensive, but it wasn't...I might as well buy the organic brands.
- October 2, 2009 at 5:15 PM
- Abbie said...
That chocolate cupcake looks amazing! I've used the brownie mix and the chocolate chip cookie mix from Betty Crocker.... delish. They are a godsend.
- November 13, 2009 at 3:18 PM
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- November 28, 2009 at 8:41 AM
- Jillie said...
I love you blog! I've been gluten free for 4 months now and i am a dessert lover so I thought this diet would kill me. But, since i was diagnosed andI have found desserts that I LOVE. I would have to say that my favorite dessert that i have ever made is this cake mix as a almond poppy seed bundt cake-- all you do is take the yellow cake mix, add 1 package of vanilla pudding mix, 1 cup of Sour cream(or plain yogurt), 4 eggs, 1/2 cup oil, 1/2 cup orange juice, 1 tbsp almond extract, 2 tbsp of poppy seeds, then just make a simple glaze and pour it over the bundt cake. it is so delicious
- February 3, 2010 at 6:07 PM
Finally a blog with recipes I can actually do!! Thanks so much ladies for posting all of these recipes this is officially my go to site now. THANKS!!!!
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A smaller number of dentists believe establishing mid-level dental practitioners is the answer. They are joined by the Kansas Health Foundation, Oral Health Kansas, the Kansas Dental Project, Kansas Action for Children and other groups. Such a specialist would have more training than a hygienist but less than a dentist. Fort Hays State University has offered to establish a four-year degree program to provide the credentials necessary for a registered dental practitioner.
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Inadequate access to oral health care, in the meantime, continues. The Pew Research Center reported that in 2010 at least 17,500 emergency room visits in Kansas were caused by toothaches and other dental problems. In 2011, almost 55 percent of Kansas children who are covered by Medicaid received no dental care. With each passing year, western Kansas dentists who retire are not replaced immediately -- if at all -- and the dental deserts grow larger.
Something, or someone, has to give.
Given the nature of the Brownback administration and the current Legislature, we would offer it is the Kansas Dental Association that has little supporting its stance. State leaders had zero appetite for expanding Medicaid coverage in conjunction with the Affordable Care Act's rollout, even though the federal government was going to pay for most of it. Analysis from the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured shows that expansion would have provided insurance coverage to an additional 144,000 Kansans, and brought $5.3 billion in Medicaid funding over the next 10 years.
If elected leaders are willing to turn their backs on that many Kansans' general health care, we can't imagine dental care will sway them differently. Even if by some fluke it did, the vast majority of Kansas dentists don't accept Medicaid patients.
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What I am trying to get at moves past the final product of thesis research that is up on the walls in May or posted on blogs and facebook along the way. Instead I want to look at the process of developing a thesis through the materials, literature and organizational logics with which we chose to surround ourselves.
Things that really interest me personally are things like sketchbooks, reading materials, work space layout, internet bookmarks...just thinking out loud. There is a really diverse collection of thesis projects and people here at Taubman College and while this project will almost certainly uncover variety, singularities and peculiarities, it should also reveal areas of homogeneity. I hope that uncovering these areas of overlap and agreement will provide a greater understanding of the process of a thesis, and not just the final product.
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You hit the nail right on the head. I have been having the same fears recently, that I am spending more time cultivating research material rather than actually absorbing the work I am collecting. Thankfully my thesis advisor, Catie Newell, is making sure that we stay on track as much as possible.
Anyways, thanks for the advice... keep it coming!
It's fascinating to see what architecture students are reading nowadays. This is like a snap shot in time of the state of architectural education today, a historical record.
You have some great advice above. The only thing I could add is just start writting and drawing, even if your ideas aren't fully formed. I've found that clarity comes when one dives into the meat of the problem itself. If your idea begins to change shape as you proceed, don't fight it, rather let it take you where it goes. Good luck.
my 2-cents....Outline outline outline. start with a 1-2 sentence thesis statement. clear and to the point. outline all the paragraphs and points that you need to touch on. note in the supporting refs. under those points. this will help you narrow your research into specific areas.
it is important that you write first. then look for supporting refs.
It will change as you get into the research, but make sure you write something down even if you are not 100% sure about it.
also draw draw draw! start designing your thesis simultaniously as you write it. Don't be married to any idea, just get something on paper visually!
work back and forth....write, sketch, research..........once you have a good amount in each arena, refine it one area at a time.
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