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Davis: Cultivating a love for gardening in kids Original
My parents were missionaries, and a large part of my childhood was spent in a boarding school on the side of a mountain bordering the Great Rift Valley. One year, our student club, similar to Girl Scouts, planted a garden. We were each given a packet of seeds and mine were carrot seeds! I was so fascinated watching those seeds germinate and grow.
Mobile Pokies Advice
Forum Diskusi dan Komunitas Online / Area Bebas / Artikel Bebas / Mobile Pokies Advice Thread Rating: 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average 1 2 3 4 5 Mobile Pokies Advice Lately I’ve been spending more time trying different pokies platforms because a couple of friends kept telling me that there are much better options available for players in Australia now compared to a few years ago. The problem is that every time I register somewhere, I end up running into the same issues over and over again.
Simple casino recommendations
Forum Diskusi dan Komunitas Online / international zone / Article / Simple casino recommendations Thread Rating: 0 Vote(s) - 0 Average 1 2 3 4 5 Simple casino recommendations Hi, can anyone recommend a casino that’s simple and doesn’t feel overly complicated? Lately I’ve been trying out a few different sites just to see what’s available, but most of them honestly feel a bit overwhelming.
Bell captures state for USC
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Photographer Travis Bell of Columbia spent two months last summer photographing the entire Palmetto State for the University of South Carolina. Bell traveled to nearly every county, creating photographs that illustrated the impact of education in communities and unique, iconic scenes from each area. He was commissioned for the project by USC's School of Education and SC Teacher. SC Teacher is a statewide group that plays a role in recruiting educators.
Another Way: Afternoon delight: Let’s hear it for naps
Oh what a pleasure is the afternoon nap. I think it may be the best part of retirement. Not that I take one every day, but at least four to five days out of seven I succumb to stealing away for the sweet guilty pleasure of sleeping sometime in the middle of the day. If you promise not to tell anyone, I even stole some “power” naps when I worked pretty much full time at the office.
Another Way: The amazing Daniel Bowman
My friend Dan Bowman, blind since the age of 13, has never left that stop him. Now 80 years old, on a snowy afternoon I emailed him about his recent book and asked about how he and wife were doing. “I shoveled a little snow this morning and ‘a little’ is quite enough,” he emailed back. Shoveling snow is bad enough when you’re older and perpetually worried about falling. But getting out in it and doing actual shoveling when you’re blind is astonishing.
Another Way: Guns into plows
Recently I took time to examine a sculpture speaking to the tragic gun deaths we hear of all too often. It has a fascinating backstory. The sculpture is stunning no matter where you examine it — whether on the streets of Washington, D.C. — where many of the guns were once in the hands of both good citizens and would-be killers, or at its current home at Eastern Mennonite University. Created by artist Esther Augsburger and her son Mike, both were college classmates of mine in the 70s.
Melody Davis column about birth order in children and grandchildren
It’s not every day that your 3-year-old grandson writes your column for you. First of all, I identify with him as the third child in my family — of the same gender: I was the third girl. He was the third boy in his family. We also had three daughters, so our youngest daughter also knows a little about disappointing parents just a smidge by not coming through as a child of a differing gender. We loved our family of three little ones but a parent has only two sides to their body.
Melody Davis column about watching Frozen movie
Did you get to catch up with any movie, film or TV viewing over the recent holidays? I’m so far behind with unseen movies that I have no hopes of catching up (I spend a lot of time reading instead). About the only things I sit down and watch on TV are news, Jeopardy, and an occasional ancient Andy Griffith episode. (We don’t do any streaming.) So I hardly keep up with pop culture these days. Oh, we did watch The Voice because I felt like I “knew” the Girl Named Tom group.
Melody Davis column about coming to grips with changes life can take
Is anyone else’s head muddled like mine? I have trouble sorting out what things happened or didn’t happen in 2021 and 2020 — mainly because of the whirlwind the loathsome pandemic has sent us through. I’m glad I keep a journal on my laptop as sort of a calendar of the things we did or were thinking or worrying about — it helps keep me straight.
Melody Davis column about the birth of Jesus
Last week I wrote about Marjorie Holmes’ famous and prolific fiction books. She wrote about Mary and Joseph in the Bible and how the birth of Jesus might have went. How do we know the facts about Jesus’ birth? I imagine that Mary and Joseph told and shared his birth story with him as he was growing up, and later with the friends and disciples of Jesus. So what is written down in the gospels of Matthew and Luke is likely very close to accurate.
Melody Davis column about the love story of Mary and Joseph
I love the backstory which renowned author Marjorie Holmes provided for one of her first novels based on Biblical characters, Mary and Joseph. Perhaps you will find how this book came to be interesting too. “One Christmas Eve … a woman (she’s writing about herself on the book’s dust jacket) sat in a darkened church. The greens, the carols, the beauty of the night, all contributed to the expectant stillness that filled the church.
Another Way: I’ll take dependable, thank you
I wasn’t sure if I could do it, but I argued my husband into letting me buy and put together a small toddler bed for a grandson to use at our house. The grandson had outgrown the crib and even Pack ‘n Play type beds. And we were short a bed when they all visited. My husband is very busy at this time of year, cutting wood, splitting it, stacking it.
Another Way: Unexpected: Rearrange some rugs
“Unexpected” is the theme the worship planning team at church chose for Advent this year. When so many of us have had our plans and worlds turned upside down in a matter of seconds or hours … yes, we have to expect the unexpected. This November, our youngest grandson had not been in our house for a year and a half, due to COVID and very careful parents. He is a little over 3 now and still not old enough to get his vaccine. So the little fellow is the only one in the family who is not vaccinated.
Melody Davis column about enriching your prayer life
One of the treasures I found in Mother’s things was a list of suggestions to use in one’s prayer life. Many of us have ups and downs in how faithful we are in praying and we slide away from a focused time. God certainly knows our habits — and understands. But no matter where you stand regarding a regular quiet time sharing what’s on your heart, we can foster a closer relationship with God by talking with the Almighty consistently.
Another Way: Lessons in Generosity
Melodie Davis Would you give up much of your free time to help a woman who can no longer do errands like groceries and other shopping, or take care of things in her own home because of complications with dialysis? Lucinda is a writer friend who did just that for about two years. She was single at the time and I’m guessing in her late twenties — a time many of us would not get so involved. Lucinda is a conservative Mennonite and an amazing writer.
Melody Davis column about generosity
Would you give up much of your free time to help a woman who can no longer do errands like groceries and other shopping, or take care of things in her own home because of complications with dialysis? Lucinda is a writer friend who did just that for about two years. She was single at the time and I’m guessing in her late twenties — a time many of us would not get so involved. Lucinda is a conservative Mennonite and an amazing writer.
Another Way: Make this a month of gratefulness
We are in a season where our hearts are primed to turn toward gratitude. Or at least I hope that is the case. There’s Thanksgiving of course, there’s Veterans Day, and I must say, there’s gratitude that localized campaigning for governor, state delegates, town councils, school board (or whatever your local elections were this year) are, halleluiah, over! I don’t mind the actual voting so much as the incessant ads on TV and the direct mail cards that filled our wastebasket to overflowing this year.
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The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock. National Portrait Gallery, London http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/ Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention Frederick Scott Archer
Trump is abusing America with a simple word or tweet
I was sickened by the video showing Trump battering a man with "CNN" over his face. This could not be humor, for it was not funny. Befitting a barroom brawl, this uncouth tweet came not from just any lout, but from the president of the United States. Though constructed in Photoshop, the violence it authorizes is real. Base instincts towards the press have already appeared on the campaign trail in Montana. Who will be next?
Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day - The Alt
Saturday, April 29, marks the fourth anniversary of Independent Bookstore Day (IBD), a “one-day national party” at indie bookstores across the country. Inspired by the hugely popular Record Store Day, which has celebrated “the unique culture surrounding nearly 1,400 independently owned record stores in the US” for ten years now, IBD shines a light on indie bookstores and the communities that support them. What began as California Bookstore Day in 2014 spread nationwide in 2015.
Collar Works: Solid future, new exhibit - The Alt
Founded in 2009 as an artist collective, Collar Works was created to give voice to the contemporary arts in the Capital Region. From the start, its mission was to “support emerging artists and underrepresented artists working in any media, exhibiting challenging and culturally relevant contemporary artworks.” At first, their exhibitions were presented in various vacant spaces throughout downtown Troy.
Friday: Kate White, author of The Secrets You Keep, at Northshire Bookstore - The Alt
Kate White – Glens Falls native, New York Times bestselling novelist, and former editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine – will visit Northshire Bookstore in Saratoga Springs on Friday, March 31, and read from her latest book. The reading begins at 7 PM. White’s new psychological thriller, The Secrets You Keep, was released last week by Harper Paperbacks.
David Salle: Bogus art, or a bogus view of art? - The Alt
David Salle’s March 23 talk at University at Albany, hosted by Joe Donahue and recorded by WAMC radio, was a promotional vehicle for Salle’s How to See: Looking, Talking and Thinking About Art, a new book of art criticism published by W. W. Norton. Beginning in the 1980s, Salle skyrocketed to fame as a painter, and his artistic reputation faithfully drew a crowd to UAlbany that allowed him to plug his art criticism, for which he has also been more quietly recognized.
#SaveTheNEA: Freedom of Thought, Imagination, and Inquiry (for 46 cents/year) - The Alt
By now you’ve heard that the Trump administration’s “skinny budget” calls for the elimination of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the Institute of Museum and Library Series (IMLS), and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Together, these programs represent 0.02 percent of federal spending.
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