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A summer night in October arrived last Tuesday night, unexpected and without the bugs.
It was like summer had never left with a temperature of 27.3 degrees on October 9thand as the day passed slowly into evening the balmy air wooed us to go for an evening ride on the Triumph.
I think summer was teasing or maybe October was just playing a game of masquerade but no matter who was creating the night magic we weren't about to miss it.
There was no plan, we just escaped into the night.
Riding along the Rideau River up to Merrickville was like life had passed into a dream and I joked with Stan how the night ride made me think for a moment I was riding with Micheal Knight, The Knight Rider. Earlier in the day Stan had gotten another needle in the eye so I didn't think he was up for a ride but I was wrong and we took a shot in the dark ride with one headlight and one good eye : ) Without question the ride turned out to be the best ever taken on the Triumph, for both of us! The night was filled with magic, mystery and haunting intrigue.
But all good things eventually come to an end and when I thought the ride was over when Stan turned off hwy 43 and was heading back home he completely and unexpectedly caught me off guard, slowed down, veered off the darkened Burritts Rapids' road and turned up Cemetery Hill.
He turned the engine off and in the quiet and still cemetery he asked me to pick three tombstones.The shadowy granite, almost lost in the total darkness of the quiet grounds enclosed around me making it hard to distinguish the cold stone from the dark black veil of the evening. I found myself a little scared but so elevated in my curiosity in continuing to seek and find some lovely tombs hoping they would reveal some hidden secret. The game was on, the two old folks were having fun.
Stan followed me around the graveyard ,the breeze among the branches of the encircling wood sighed but I heard nothin more but the snapping of a few pics and then he spoke: “Ok, I think this should do it. Let's go home and see what we got”
But what I discovered I noticed even before I got home , actually it was the only stone of the four I picked that I was able to read the words.
On the tall spire shaped monument the inscription read “An Officer and a Gentleman” , very strange and spooky I thought because what I read was related to the night's events. Us playing a game like two juveniles with no restraints, young again. We were the perfect age tonight to enjoy a summer's night in October hopefully will never forget. The perfect age like Richard Gere had said in a quote I read on Instagram . Oh and by the way if you don't get the connection, Richard Gere was the officer in An Officer and a Gentleman” : ) and below is his quote........
“I am old but I am forever young at heart.We are always the same age inside. Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, you can only live it once. Do not regret growing older, it's a privilege denied to many!”
I know this story really sounds made up but I never set foot in that cemetery before October,9th/2018.
Wow, should I dare say someone from beyond reached out and left this for me to ponder on?
“The lovers have grown old and grey” but forever young at heart, they'll stay.
Well, taking that ride with Knight Rider on an October summer night was a thrill; I forgot just how old I was!
Happy to be here with you Stan!
Canadian Women's Hockey League - Clarkson Cup
7 March 2015 - Markham, ON Canada
by hockeyMedia
Boston Blades : Hilary Knight
"Freedom Burning" Artwork and Statement from Exhibition Catalog by Andrew Kong Knight
More info: andrewkongknight.com/
Freedom Burning
Acrylic on stretched canvas backed with wood
24" x 48"
Framed size: 35.25" by 60"
Frame: Black, matt lacquer, shadow box under glass
“Freedom Burning” illustrates the erosion of American freedom in the Nuclear Age. The base of the mushroom cloud represents the destruction of the Native American dream to live peacefully on their own land, the land the white Europeans took away from them.
The Iwo Jima soldiers at the top of the cloud are contemporary icons, representing the need to fight to preserve our freedom. Juxtaposed against the mushroom cloud, their purpose in the painting becomes ironic, since post-World War II wars have been more often about protecting America’s position as a superpower—at the expense of both American and non-American lives.
“Patriotism,” in the words of Bertrand Russell, “is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.”
As in George Orwell’s prophetic novel, “1985,” Americans are told by today’s politicians that nuclear weapons are a necessary evil because “war is peace.” “Freedom Burning” unveils the hypocrisy of this myth.
The flag burns just as the American dream of freedom burns each time an unjust war is fought in the name of politics.
History:
“Freedom Burning” was originally created for an exhibition in protest of the 1990 Flag Amendment at the San Francisco Art Institute.
Exhibited:
1993
“American Dream” San Francisco State University, SF, CA
“Local Energy” at the Sun Gallery, Hayward, California
1994
"Airbrush II," South Bay Contemporary Museum of Art, Long Beach, California
"The American Dream," Central Arts Collective, Tucson Arizona
"Andrew Kong Knight - Mixed Media Paintings of Social
Content," Truckee Meadows Community College, Reno, Nevada
Awards
Silver Award, Mixed media category, Art of California Magazine's, Discovery Awards Competition 1993
Publications
CrossRoads Magazine July/August 1993, No.33 (artwork illustrated with artist's quote)
"Andrew Kong Knight - Airbrush Painter from Hayward," by Jolene Thym (artwork illustrated) June, 22, 1993 The Oakland Tribune, Tri-Valley Herald, The Daily Review, Alameda Times-Star, and The Argus
41st International Knight Tournament in Golub Castle, Poland. Knights from Ukraine, Italy, Sweden, France and Poland did their best to win several competitions, including riding a horse and shooting.
Natalie Knight, a 2013 Vanier Scholar in English at Simon Fraser University, is rewriting North America's colonial histories from the perspective of First Nations and Native American people.
The Blue Knights Little League Team presented Trooper Werner Forrester’s niece, Josie Manfre-Morey with a signed baseball from the team before playing at North Wall Little League in Wall, N.J. on Sunday, May 22, 2022. The Blue Knights represent fallen NJSP Troopers who have fallen in the line of duty by wearing the troopers badge numbers on their sleeves. On May 2, 1973, Trooper James M. Harper, stopped a Vermont registered vehicle and Trooper Foerster, backed up Trooper Harper. Shots were fired from within the vehicle at the troopers. There was an exchange of gunfire. In the exchange, Trooper Harper was wounded in the left shoulder and arm. Trooper Foerster was found near his patrol car, deceased. (New Jersey State Police / Tim Larsen)
OIA GIRLS VOLLEYBALL RED EASTERN DIVISION
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Kaiser High School Gymnasium
Junior Varsity
Kaiser Cougars vs Castle Knights
Taken at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival on 10/8/11.
We happened to sit on the side that cheers for the "bad" knight. He was called Judas and he wore the colors of chaos. It was actually fun sitting on this side because we got to be bad sports and jeer when the good knight would talk.
A late 15th century alabaster effigy of an unknown knight on the north side of the chancel at Wootton Wawen.
St Peter's at Wootton Wawen is one of Warwickshire's oldest churches, the lower half of the tower being a fairly complete structure from the 9th century.
Beyond the Saxon core much of the present building owes it's present appearance to 14th and 15th century Perpendicular enlargement and remodellibng.
Inside the east end of the nave comes as a bit of a shock as the Saxon arches beneath the tower are tiny, leaving an almost blank wall with barely a glimpse of the chancel beyond as the focal point.
There are fiagments of medieval glass, 15th century parclose screens and several fine monuments of various dates amongst the antiquities of this church.
Part of the complete sequence of seven early 14th century windows preserving most of their original glass in the choir clerestorey.
The attractive town of Tewkesbury has been dominated by its superb abbey church since the beginning of the 12th century, and we can be forever grateful to its townspeople for purchasing the monastic church in 1540 for £453 for use as their parish church, saving it from the fate that befell countless similar great churches across the land during the turmoil of the Dissolution. It reminds us both how lucky we are to still marvel at it today, yet also how great a loss to our heritage the period wrought when many more such buildings were so utterly plundered as to have gone without trace (the fate of the monastic buildings here and even the lady chapel of the church whose footings are laid out in the grass at the east end).
Tewkesbury Abbey is thus rightly celebrated as one of our greatest non-cathedral churches, and remarkably much of the original Norman church remains substantially intact, most apparently in the great central tower, a fine example of Romanesque architecture adorned with rows of blind-arcading. The west front is dominated by a massive Norman-arched recess (enclosing the somewhat later west window) and the nave and transepts remain largely as originally built, though this is less clear externally owing to the changes made to the windows, nearly all of which were enlarged in the 14th century in the Decorated Gothic style. This century also saw the complete rebuilding of the eastern limb of the church, of a form less common in England with radiating chapels surrounding the eastern apse of the choir (the central lady chapel sadly missing since 1540).
The interior reveals far more of the Romanesque structure with mighty columns supporting the round Norman arches of the nave arcades giving the building a great sense of solidity. The space is further enlivened by the changes made during the 14th century by the stunning vault over the nave (adorned with a rewarding series of figurative bosses) which sits surprisingly well with the Norman work below. Beyond the apsidal choir beckons, and both this and the space below the tower are enriched with stunningly complex vaulted ceilings (replete with further bosses and gilded metal stars), all ablaze with colour and gilding.
There is much to enjoy in glass here, most remarkably a complete set of 14th century glazing in the clerestorey of the choir, seven windows filled with saints and prophets (and most memorably two groups of knights in the westernmost windows on each side). A few of the figures have fared less well over the centuries but on the whole this is a wonderfully rare and well preserved scheme. There is much glass from the 19th century too, with an extensive scheme in the nave of good quality work by Hardman's, and more recently a pair of rich windows by Tom Denny were added in one of the polygonal chapels around the east end.
Some of the most memorable features are the monuments with many medieval tombs of note, primarily the effigies and chantry chapels of members of the Despenser family around the choir (two of the chantries being miniature architectural gems in their own right with exquisite fan-vaulting). In one of the apsidal chapels is the unusual cenotaph to Abbot Wakeman with his grisly cadaver effigy, a late medieval reminder of earthly mortality.
Tewkesbury Abbey is not to be missed and is every bit as rewarding as many of our cathedrals (superior in fact to all but the best). It is normally kept open and welcoming to visitors on a daily basis. I have also had the privilege of working on this great building several times over the years (as part of the team at the studio I once worked for), and have left my mark in glass in a few discreet places.
As part of the Bolton Festival, These guys were putting on a display of "Knights in Battle" Much action and clashing of metal.
Held at Doncaster Racecourse on 6 Sept 2014, Knight-Con showcased cosplay, stars and cars and was an awesome day out. I got to meet Virginia Hey, Chase Masterson, Femi Taylor, Pam Rose, Kenny Baker, David Prowse, Ken Coombs and Sarah Douglas and catch up with good friends and make new ones as well.