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A week and a half ago I commented on this picture of Janelle's, drooling over the gorgeous handmade notebook her friend Amy sent her and not-so-subtly expressing my desire to own such a beautiful object too.
Today I got home from work to find a blue envelope sitting on the kitchen table, addressed in an unfamiliar hand, two doodled daisies next to my name. Inside it were the goodies pictured above -- not one, but two notebooks (gorgeous paper inside, too), a button (cute-as-a), a bookmark, and a sweet note from Amy. Why? Clearly because
a) she's an awesome person
b) she wants me to make more lists!
Thank you so much, Amy. You rock my world. And the next list I make will be dedicated to you. :-)
St Michael, Copford, Essex
The first day of the summer holidays, and I made a dash for freedom. It was much too hot to plan anything significant, and in any case the trains are still unreliable, it is now almost two months since the timetables changed and they are still not running to time. And it didn't help that the Norwich to London train hit a fallen tree near Diss. But still I wanted to go out. I wanted a bike ride in nice country, with some of my favourite churches, churches that would be open, a bit hilly but not too hilly, and not too far away. So the obvious answer was the Suffolk/Essex borderlands.
I caught the 0930 to Marks Tey, which eventually left at 0940, arriving Marks Tey just after 1000. We're out in outer Colchester suburbia here, but it is less than a mile over the A12 and out into lonely lanes which took me past Copford Hall school where a cricket match was taking place beside the church. It was probably a summer school rather than a public school match, but even so the atmosphere was very much PG Wodehouse meets Agatha Christie. And then there is the church. This is my third favourite Essex church after Thaxted and Mundon. It is actually a better church than Mundon, but Mundon wins for it being so lost and lonely, the atmosphere and the setting. But Copford never disappoints, it has one of the biggest wow factors of any church of its size, those wonderful wall paintings and the way the nave climbs high into the air. If it was in Norfolk or Suffolk it would be much better known. This was my fifth visit I think, and I still see things I hadn't spotted before, like the woodland creatures on the 1950s stalls, which include the expected hedgehog, squirrel, rabbit, etc, but also a koala bear!
I eventually dragged myself away, cut through Colchester's grimly anonymous suburbia of Stanway and Lexden (noting with some pleasure that term had not yet finished at the Stanway schools) back over the A12 and then climbing steeply up into West Bergholt.
Docman generously grabbed a scan of the original of this photo (somewhere down the photostream) and did some restoration work on it, and sent it back to me. I greatly appreciate that---as you can see, many of the South Carolina Album photos are in rather poor condition.
Meet our Senior Program Officer Jim Huizenga (with Generosity.) Jim works with our Cultural Vibrancy grants. This week we're celebrating our Cultural Vibrancy nonprofits.
Generosity is our 50th Anniversary mascot. Follow his journey at www.gcfdn.org/at50.
Generous support from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs enabled the Armory to partner with Proyecto Pastoral, Public Works, and the Art for Incarcerated Youth Network to present art making classes for kids and teens throughout the Los Angeles. City Council District 14 neighborhoods of Lincoln Heights and Boyle Heights. From summer 2018 through spring 2019, nearly 450 young people developed their creative voices in 18 Armory Teaching Artist-led art courses. Thank you, Department of Cultural Affairs, for helping make this great program happen! Please enjoy these highlights from the 2018-19 program.
Benjamin Franklin Branch Library
The more we give, the more we have. And in that state of generosity, willing spiritual sharing, we ourselves are healed. For when are generous, we can see the vast abundance that is also there for us. This is true generosity because no one is excluded. We are drawn together, united by it. Through it we have a taste of union. It grants us ease and gives us the grace of knowing that life is more than an endless struggle. Indeed it is gracious, generous, and kind"
Daphne Rose Kingma
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here: At my mother´s house, orchids are flowering, thanks to my brother´s cares and the kind attention of my mom. She is not strong enough to watering them, but everytime she passes by their side, she stops and look at them. I think this thoughtful gaze acts as fertilizer...
Annotation: I´m developing a 365 project which includes not only a daily photo, but also a daily post in my blog. This is the number 162. If you want to see all the photos: www.flickr.com/photos/healingmoments/sets/72157627759889118/
Thank you to all participants of and generous donors at the ESCP Europe Bicentenary Fundraising Gala. A fabulous €200,000 was raised in the 200th year of ESCP Europe, contributing to the School's Scholarship Programme.
100 guests gathered this year at the Four Seasons Park Lane for a wonderful evening sponsored by 17Capital and Accuracy. A cocktail reception with champagne premier cru Frerejean Freres was followed by an absolutely delicious dinner.
Adrian Biddell hosted the live auction of impressive lots, kindly donated by Pierre Guénant (Class of 72), Erwan Faiveley (Class of 03), Cartier, Claudie Haignere and W. Salamoon & Sons.
After an address by Christian Mouillon, President of the ESCP Europe Foundation, and testimonials from two Bachelor in Management (BSc) scholarship students, Julia Fladrich and Maya Caroti, around 20 alumni pledged their support to the ESCP Europe Scholarship Programme for close to €100k.
On behalf of the scholarship students and all the ESCP Europe community, THANK YOU!
In his December letter to the Diocese in the Diocesan Magazine, as Christmas 2020 approaches, the Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, Dr Paul Colton, has thanked the clergy and people for their generosity.
Referring to the Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland on 1st January 1871, 150 years ago, he noted that, from then, the ‘Church of Ireland would depend on the voluntary generosity and subscriptions of the people of the Church.’
Bishop Colton’s Letter:
Dear Friends,
In December 1870, 150 years ago this month, the people of this Diocese, and indeed of the whole Church of Ireland, were counting down the days to the unknown. The thought of what lay ahead on 1st January 1871 had preoccupied Church members for nearly ten years. What was about to happen had been the subject of public discourse and political argument. In July 1869 Queen Victoria gave the Royal Assent to the Bill that had been passed in Parliament: the Irish Church Act 1869. From 1st January 1871 the Church of Ireland would be disestablished: no longer the State Church. That was arguably the single greatest moment that has shaped much of our life since. Alongside disestablishment came disendowment and from then on the entire work of the Church of Ireland would depend on the voluntary generosity and subscriptions of the people of the Church.
All our ministry, all our work in God’s name, everything that we have, are and do, is down to the generosity of the ordinary members of the Church of Ireland in the years since then; as it is today. And so, I want to thank you all for your generosity. Year after year the people of this Diocese generously and selflessly support the work that God calls us to do for him in this place.
That does not mean that it is always easy: far from it. A huge change came about in the period one hundred years ago when the population in the Diocese fell by 13,000 people between 1911 and 1926. That 13,000 includes the military; if the military are excluded, the population drop was 9,000 – still a massive number. Like us in our time, our forebears have had to keep pace with these realities and to cut our cloth according to what we can afford. That’s why we keep praying about and discussing our priorities in programmes such as Charting a Future with Confidence and skiing ourselves what sort of Church does God want us to be now?
There’s no doubt that 2020 has been a demanding year; that’s an understatement. Some have been affected more than others. We live in times of contagion, illness, grief, great uncertainty and anguish. Brexit lies ahead and that is the unknown too. But with God’s help we will face it as we have faced challenges before now.
In spite of all that and in its midst, you have all been hugely generous in your support for the work of the Church in Cork, Cloyne and Ross. As your Bishop I thank you sincerely and, while Christmas will be very different this year too, I wish you and yours, wherever they may be, God’s blessing, for this is the season when we recall that God came to share our human experience.
Jesus, as St John puts it, is the light: ‘the light shines in the darkness and the darkness has never overcome it’.
+ Paul Cork:
If this doesn't get me on some government watch list, I'll have to stop trying.
(Kidding. About the trying part. Who doesn't love the Patriot Act?)
Este cara é uma figura interessantissima, toca percusão como ninguem, é um verdadeiro GUERREIRO, em sua performance.
SHOW DE BOLA O CARA
Cemin's generosity of spirit is best exemplified by the fountain he designed for the town of Reston, Virginia, in 1990. It is a real fountain, 26 feet high and built of white Carrara marble, not some concrete monolith with a leak. It takes up the historicist themes of the surrounding post-Modern architecture, but it does not do so slavishly, and it is no more of a pastiche than Stravinsky's neoclassical ballets are. A great bowl rises from a pool and a column rises from the bowl, swelling and contracting, twisting and turning in homage to Gaudi. Attached to the various protuberances of this column are bronze forms that are half sea horses, half horns of plenty, from which water gushes in extravagant quantities. The whole ensemble is topped with the statue of a lithe and youthful Mercury, which would be entirely classical in style if this Mercury didn't seem to be having some difficulty maintaining his balance.
A generous serving of snow crab legs, scallops, shrimp with corn and potatoes. Comes with a garden salad.
United Way's first-ever Emerging Leaders Bash, generously sponsored by The Laclede Group and Major Brands, capped off a night of victory celebration for the 2015 United Way of Greater St. Louis campaign. The Bash drew hundreds of young professionals and emerging leaders from across the region to join together for a night of food, fun and fireworks at Busch II Infield at Ballpark Village. DJ Suga Ray from New York's Club Slane kept the party going throughout the night while guests munched and sipped on treats from Ballpark Village. 2015 Campaign Co-Chairs Suzanne Sitherwood, CEO of The Laclede Group, Inc., and Sue McCollum, CEO of Major Brands, came out to celebrate with guests and announced the total amount raised for the 2015 campaign – $74,352,108.
Historical marker for Cornelius Heeney on St. Paul's Catholic Church in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. Heeney, who was a business partner of John Jacob Astor, donated the land for the church and is buried in its back yard.
There is a big error in this plaque. I shall leave that to the curious viewer to figure out on their own.
Letter on reverse (below) generously translated by xiphophilos: authored in Gescho, 21 February 1916 and addressed to the sender's sister, he writes that the fellow depicted above is his unit's field-chaplain. No postmarks.
After the autumn of 1914, the divisional chaplains were assisted by voluntary field chaplains. In Bavaria there were also chaplains in the field hospitals who took care of the wounded. Several volunteer rabbis were also employed for the Jewish soldiers.
The field uniform laid down for field chaplains in 1913 had purple as its distinguishing colour. They wore the officers' field cap with a purple band and a special white, enamelled cross between the cockades. They also had a large, Feldgrau, felt hat with a purple hatband worn with the brim turned up on the right (above). This also had the cross and cockades mounted in front.
The field uniforms were the same for both confessions, so they wore different crosses to differentiate. These were worn on a chain around the neck for all religious services. The Protestant cross was smooth and decorated with the letters "XP" (Chi-Rho), while the Catholic cross was a crucifix with the body of Christ and silver edging.
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Notes:
Eastern Front?
This CreativeMornings/Moscow event was generously hosted by DI Telegraph,Yaroslav Rassadin was our speaker. The event was sponsored by Uchinovoe, iCookery and Theory and Practice.All photos by Elijah Delwig(500px.com/el-i-jah)
Freely adapted from this picture
www.flickr.com/photos/lookatmyphotos/3124152037/
with permission, and destined to be gifts to teachers, who have given me so much, a veritable orgy of circular generosity...
This CreativeMornings/Raleigh event was generously hosted by Durham’s Motorco Music Hall.
Pan II Creative’s Founder Napoleon Wright II was our speaker.
The event was sponsored by Counter Culture Coffee, Hamilton Hill Jewelry, CompostNow, Rise, and North Carolina Modernist Houses.
All photos by Phillip "King Phill" Loken.
Hey, I'm back for real this time, I swear. My parents generously gave me the wonderful Canon 10-22 lens for Christmas, and now I'm out shooting photos continuously. It's good how much a nice new lens forces you outside, and I can actually frame all these sexy old European buildings now.
In other news, I finally got myself a little teaching job at an English school here. It's only a few hours a week, but hey, more to come. I was called, interviewed, and taught my first class (basic, basic English to a group of 6) all in the same afternoon. It's fun, it pays me some money, and all I had to do was 6 years of English at University to get it.
I spent a couple days in Rome and met several Americans teaching English there, many of whom mentioned that I could make about 3x the cash I could ever make here in Perugia by giving private lessons to the sons of very rich Romans. Let's get a train pass.
In another comedic turn of events, I was filmed for a documentary film about living in Perugia. Today I answered questions, in Italian, for an hour and a half. Never was so much said with so many words signifying so few actual ideas. Several weeks from now it'll be online, and a permanent record of my stuttering Italian will be forever retained for posterity.
And finally... this is the old Perugia train station on a foggy day, of which there are thousands here. And a million thanks to everyone for showing Pam the time of her life in Canada, she loved everyone and everything. And look for new photos about twice a week from now on. Really. A dopo.
Name: Fionntan "danger" O Donnell Email:
Comment: "Never was so much said with so many words signifying so few actual ideas."
I spent ten months hanging around with you and I beg to differ on this point.
It's heartening to see this blog back up and running. The subject matter here not as heartening admittedly. Most beautiful country in the world and all we get to see is a dirty, abandoned, train station.
Cheer up Jordo.
Name: Steve Email:
Comment: Welcome back Jordan. We missed you!
The pano of Perugia you posted just recently is absolutely beautiful. Thank you!
I know what you mean about how a new lens can inspire you. I'm off to the canal to capture some Winterlude images this afternoon.
Cheers!
The theme of this year’s event was the stunning GREAT British Week, held in January under the generous patronage of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the aim of which was to celebrate the close friendship between Britain and Bahrain and all that is best about Britain, as well as launching preparations for the bicentenary of bilateral relations. A film of the highlights of GREAT British Week was played.
The Embassy was proud to receive His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Khalifa, as Guest of Honour, representing His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa. The Ambassador, Iain Lindsay OBE, invited guests to join in loyal toasts to Her Majesty The Queen and to His Majesty.
Speaking at the event, the Ambassador said: “Over the last year, an already close relationship has become even stronger. The warmth of the friendship between our countries was clear throughout the 50 plus events of GREAT British Week. I am delighted that His Highness Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Khalifa, who supported a number of events during the Week, has been able to join us this evening to celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s birthday.”
The Ambassador expressed his gratitude to British Airways, EuroMotors and Standard Chartered for their generous sponsorship of the event. He also thanked the Kanoo Group and Wrightbus for providing an iconic London red double-decker bus; BMMI; the British School of Bahrain Choir and Frankie and Friends Jazz Band for performing during the evening; the Captain and ship’s company of HMS Ramsey for the Sunset Ceremonial; and the bugler and pipers of the Ministry of Interior Band.
Organised by the local Co-op store, their customers have donated all that money to Friends of Cathja, an immensely worthwhile charity. I only found out about them recently and am now redoing their website, live from 11 Dec 18 (www.cathja.org), doing some photography etc. The lady is an NHS anaesthetist and trustee of Cathja.
Generous queen sized quilt for our bedroom. It is adapted from Julie Popa's pattern in Fons and Porter, March/April 2008.
In generously sponsering me (see link at end) Bitrots use of the term 'tub of lard' reminded me of this gem I saw in the local Polish shop. The shopkeep has always been a bit funny with me taking shots of tinned goods since I zoomed in too closeback in 2006 and set a rather impressive display of Campbells Tinned Soups tumbling to to floor, therefore I had to buy it.
Crumpets anyone?
Thanks to a generous donation from Reached out to Asia (ROTA), ANERA successfully distributed over 1,400 sets of sports gear and uniforms to Palestinian, Syrian, and Lebanese sports teams in different regions and camps across the country.
More than 2000 children are beneficiaries of the new sports gear, allowing them to create a sense of community and bonding among their teammates. “A sports jersey may not mean much to others,” explains Coach Khalil Mansour, the head of the Wahdeh Sports Club, ANERA’s local partner in Nahr el Bared Camp, “but for these children, who come from fragmented communities and are constantly faced with challenges, it helps them create a sense of belonging and community.”
Many young boys and girls living in refugee camps and tented settlements seek out sports opportunities as a temporary safe-haven from their challenging daily lives. As such, ANERA provides its local partners with more than just the resources to create sports teams. Rather, its assistance provides youth with the tools to create collaborative healthy and professional sports communities.
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