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She thought she is lost, heartbroken, but she found the the waterfall among the nature, She realized that there is a sound, and it is a story, story of life, she listen to it, carefully,
Then, she understood,
Life is a waterfall,
When it faces more and more obstacles,
Sometimes, it becomes more beauty and stronger...
Set of tiny bacteria on the agar medium make this meaningful art.
Heartbroken: EVERY Monday night at Studio80 on the Rembrandtplein in Amsterdam! Party: Heartbroken Venue: Studio80 Coverage by: Waking up in Amsterdam!
The Red Thread of Fate comes from Asian myth. The story goes that the gods would tie a red thread around the ankle or little finger of individuals destined to fall in love or help each other sometime in their life.
I was first introduced to this waaaaaaay back in 8th grade while watching the anime Tenchi Muyo. I'm not sure why the idea popped into my head for this, but Natalie and I had a pretty good time making a mess with tons and tons of red thread. During our fun, Natalie struck this lovely pose and we ran with it! I figure there are many types of love and we are connected to many people through those types of love, thus oodles of red thread. However, I wanted a sad heartbroken feel (very unnatural for Natalie, lol).
While I like this image (and am pretty stoked at the Pre-Raphaelite-esque editing!!) I've been feeling some artists block lately. However, I feel like the best way to get out of a rut is to keep creating, so I'm creating and posting!!! :D
I'm heartbroken as I write this. Our beloved lab Emmet unexpectedly died tonight after 10 years of bringing joy to our lives.
We raised him from the time he was eight weeks old. He was a remarkable dog. The original plan was for him to be a service dog for Helping Paws, but after he completed the training, it was decided to not place him as a service dog for several reasons that I won't detail here right now. The good part of that decision was that he was permanently placed with us.
Emmet was one of the sweetest dogs you'd ever meet. He greeted everyone with a wagging tail. He was quick with his kisses and he overflowed with enthusiasm for everything. He brought more humor and joy to our lives than I can even coherently express right now. My wife and I will miss him greatly.
The only consolation about losing him tonight was that his last day on Earth was the kind of day that was his favorite. We spent the day at the farm and he got to play frisbee for hours, play in his kiddie pool (the one pictured here), play with other farm animals, and run around like a nut. We lost him to a relatively common problem in dogs, a malady called GDV (Gastric Dialation and Volvulus). In layman's terms, he twisted his stomach, cutting off vital blood flow to his stomach and probably his intestines and other internal organs. It all happened fast and we were too far from an emergency vet who could perform the surgery needed to be able to save him. We had another vet help us put him to sleep while we held him in our arms.
I put together a collage of photos from his life. It is incomplete right now, and I hope to put up more over the next few days. You can see the set by clicking here.
I'm trying to shake up my illustration work a little more, experimenting and such, which may just mean Photoshop files that have like fifteen layers.
Mended Heart - Burned, Stapled and Healed (2022). From the Guarded / Mended Heart Sculpture series. This one has now been sold off my my Etsy.
James Tarrington 7 - 82
Lillie Tarrington 17 - 3127
Pension to Widows of Fallen Soldiers
Family tale ended unhappily Widow was forced to give up children
Author: Patricia Orwen TORONTO STAR
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Abstract (Abstract): Photo SOLDIER'S WIDOW AND FAMILY WHO ARE PENSIONLESS A soldier's widow, Mrs. [Lily Tarrington], and eight of her nine children. Her husband, Pte. [James Tarrington], was gassed at the front, and died in Grace Hospital on April 20th, after a few days' illness. He was discharged in Oct., 1916, without a pension. Efforts are being made to obtain a pension for the heartbroken widow, and it is stated that his death is the result of being gassed. From left to right in the picture are: Mrs. Tarrington and baby, one year old, Jim 13 years, [Jim, Willie] 12, Ivy 9, Edward 8, Lily 6, [Edward, Lillian, Helen] 5, and Florence 4. Lydia, the eldest daughter, is 17 years of age.
Full text: Whatever happened to the widow Lily Tarrington and her nine children? Back in May, 1918, The Star ran a photo of the Tarringtons and told the story of how the fatherless family with eight children under 13 years of age was destitute. James Tarrington had died a month earlier of pneumonia, but had been in ill health since being gassed while fighting in the trenches overseas. The mother had applied for a government pension based on Tarrington's war service, but had been refused. What was to become of them now? As part of our 100th birthday celebration we recently reprinted that photo, adding that it wasn't known what happened to the family - Lydia, Jim, Willie, Ivy, Edward, Lillian, Helen, Florence and Fred. Two of the Tarrington children in the picture spotted the old photo and called us. "I don't even remember that picture being taken, but there I am with mother and the rest . . . it certainly brings back a lot of old feelings," recalls Lillian, who was 6 years old when the picture was taken in front of their rented house on Laughton Ave. "She was a very loving mother, took wonderful care of us," recalled Ted. "I remember she was always working, always doing something for us. We didn't have much, but we were always well dressed, always well cared for." The tale the family tells of what happened after this group picture was taken, however, is a sad one. Although The Star and the West Toronto branch of the Great War Veterans Association appealed to the government to reconsider a pension for the family, it was to no avail. The newspaper launched a public appeal to help pay the cost of her husband's funeral, but the family's day-to-day living expenses were another matter. The mother soon found she couldn't earn enough to keep the family together. In an interview with Lily Tarrington on Dec. 30, 1918, she explained her plight to a Star reporter. "Since my husband died in April last, I have worked in munitions. I took an afternoon shift, which enabled me to get up early and look after my house and prepare a good hot meal for the kiddies. During the summer and fall I did not have the fires or lights to worry about in case of fire as I was always back in time in the evening to get them supper and put them to bed. Then I made $24 a week, but since the signing of the armistice I have been forced to secure a position in a flour mill where I put in from 7:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. for $12 a week. This is not only insufficient for me to feed and dress a family of nine, but it is not safe to leave all those little ones in care of my little girl nine years of age for that length of time." The woman had little choice but to separate her large family. The Star story then went on to describe how the widow brought out a picture of her "happy little family of a year ago and gazed on it with hungry eyes," as she told how she had just returned from the country where she had taken the Star Santa Claus stocking to her little girls Lily, aged 7 and Helen, aged 5. "I have not signed any papers to give them away legally and I am hoping these people will keep them for me until I can bring them all together again. It is hard, though, as it changes the children, for my little girls looked so
hard at me when I left them. They don't understand it is for their own good." Sadly, Mrs. Tarrington was never able to reunite her family. Shortly after this interview, she sent Ivy, then 9, and the 1-year- old baby, Fred, to stay with other families. In the spring or summer of 1919, she began to grow weak. Then on the evening of Sept., 4, 1919, just 17 months after the death of her husband, Lily Tarrington died. She was 38. The Star's final story about her, which ran on Sept. 6, explained how "she gradually became worse and shortly before her death expressed the desire to see her children and the ladies who had befriended her by relieving her of the care of four of her younger little ones . . ." With her death, the remaining five children were separated, except for Isabel, then 4, and Willie, 12, who both lived with a family named Beggs in Paisley, near Walkerton. Lillian and Ted didn't meet again until January, 1933, when the birth of Ted's baby girl, Joyce, hit the front page of The Star as the New Year's baby. "We are deeply grateful to The Star for what it did for the family back when Mrs. Tarrington was alive and for getting us back together later on," says Ted's wife, Dorothy Tarrington, 80. "It was Lillian's adoptive mother, Mrs. Brown in Woodbridge, who saw The Star story about Joyce being the New Year's baby," Dorothy recalls. "She said to Lillian, 'That's your brother.' And they came right down to the hospital to meet us." After that, Mrs. Brown, Dorothy and the two siblings tracked down the rest of the family, except for the eldest girl, Lydia, who had married and left home around the time of her father's death. Mrs. Tarrington is buried in Prospect Cemetery on St. Clair Ave., near her husband, in an unmarked grave. The Star, Dorothy says, helped pay for her funeral, but the family couldn't afford a gravestone. "We're hoping to go out there in the spring, maybe get a headstone," Dorothy says. "She was a brave woman who loved her children . . . she deserves to be remembered." Illustration Caption: Photo SOLDIER'S WIDOW AND FAMILY WHO ARE PENSIONLESS A soldier's widow, Mrs. Lily Tarrington, and eight of her nine children. Her husband, Pte. James Tarrington, was gassed at the front, and died in Grace Hospital on April 20th, after a few days' illness. He was discharged in Oct., 1916, without a pension. Efforts are being made to obtain a pension for the heartbroken widow, and it is stated that his death is the result of being gassed. From left to right in the picture are: Mrs. Tarrington and baby, one year old, Jim 13 years, Willie 12, Ivy 9, Edward 8, Lily 6, Helen 5, and Florence 4. Lydia, the eldest daughter, is 17 years of age.
People: Tarrington, Lily Jim, Willie Edward, Lillian, Helen Tarrington, Dorothy
Publication title: Toronto Star
Pages: A2
Number of pages: 0
Publication year: 1992
Publication date: Mar 8, 1992
Year: 1992
Section: NEWS
Publisher: Torstar Syndication Services, a Division of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont.
Country of publication: Canada
Publication subject: General Interest Periodicals--Canada
ISSN: 03190781
Source type: Newspapers
Language of publication: English
Document type: NEWSPAPER
ProQuest document ID: 436582967
Document URL: search.proquest.com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/docvi...
Copyright: Copyright 1992 Toronto Star, All Rights Reserved.
Last updated: 2010-06-29
Database: Canadian Major Dailies
Reader offers gravestone for late widow
Author: Patricia Orwen Toronto Star
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Abstract (Abstract): The family was so destitute that Tarrington was forced, temporarily she hoped, to give up four of her offspring. She took a factory job working from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Before she could reunite the family, however, she became ill and died. As part of our 100th birthday celebration we recently retold this sad tale, adding interviews with two of the four Tarrington children who are still alive. Edward Tarrington, who was 8 years old when his mother died, and his wife [Dorothy Tarrington], told of [Lily Tarrington]'s courage and said they hoped to get together with the other remaining family members this spring and put a headstone on their mother's grave.
Full text: It's been 73 years since the widow Lily Tarrington succumbed to typhoid and was buried in an unmarked grave in Prospect Cemetery. It's too late to change the tragic events that led to her death, but thanks to a Star reader, Tarrington's resting place will finally be marked. In the year prior to her death, The Star ran numerous stories of this woman's struggle to raise her nine children, eight of whom were under 13 years of age. Their father, James Tarrington, died in April, 1918, of pneumonia, but had been ill since he was gassed while fighting in the trenches overseas during World War I. The mother applied for a government pension based on his war service, but was refused. The family was so destitute that Tarrington was forced, temporarily she hoped, to give up four of her offspring. She took a factory job working from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Before she could reunite the family, however, she became ill and died. As part of our 100th birthday celebration we recently retold this sad tale, adding interviews with two of the four Tarrington children who are still alive. Edward Tarrington, who was 8 years old when his mother died, and his wife Dorothy, told of Lily's courage and said they hoped to get together with the other remaining family members this spring and put a headstone on their mother's grave. After Stephen Wai, a 52-year-old Scarborough sales manager, read the story, he contacted The Star and offered to give the family a small black granite headstone which someone had given him two years ago. "We are just so grateful that someone would do this," said Dorothy Tarrington, who is 81. "We're just so grateful that we're speechless . . . it really is wonderful that after all these years her courage isn't forgotten." "I think she was a woman who had a lot of courage," said Wai, adding that he sympathizes with the family's plight because of his own family's difficulties when they lived in Hong Kong during World War II. "There were six kids in our family," he said. "But it was very hard . . . and we had both our parents." Tarrington, he said, should have been given a government pension.
People: Tarrington, Lily
Publication title: Toronto Star
Pages: A4
Number of pages: 0
Publication year: 1992
Publication date: Mar 10, 1992
Year: 1992
Section: NEWS
Publisher: Torstar Syndication Services, a Division of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont.
Country of publication: Canada
Publication subject: General Interest Periodicals--Canada
ISSN: 03190781
Source type: Newspapers
Language of publication: English
Document type: NEWSPAPER
ProQuest document ID: 436606571
Document URL: search.proquest.com.ezproxy.torontopubliclibrary.ca/docvi...
Copyright: Copyright 1992 Toronto Star, All Rights Reserved.
Last updated: 2010-06-29
Database: Canadian Major Dailies
"Ain't we all the stars playing the leading part in our own soap opera?" Brandy Clark belts out that question to kick off Big Day in a Small Town, positing the premise of not just the opening track ("Soap Opera"), but all 10 songs that follow it. The towns that anchor Clark's new album may be small enough to warrant only a single blinking light, but the lives lived in them are anything but... and neither are the hopes and dreams that rise from their backroads and bedrooms.
When you grow up in a small town, oftentimes, your dreams are all you have. Whether it's to become a football star or a father, a homecoming queen or a hairdresser, your dreams might be the only thing that keep you going. For Clark, the dream she harbored in her small hometown of Morton, Washington, was to be a country singer. Sure, once she moved to Nashville, she had successful cuts as a songwriter [The Band Perry's "Better Dig Two," Miranda Lambert's "Mama's Broken Heart," and Kacey Musgraves' "Follow Your Arrow" which won the CMA Song of the Year Award in 2014], but being an artist in her own right was a dream she had stopped dreaming until two years ago when her first album, the stunning 12 Stories, debuted.
At the time, it was a passion project, more than anything... a passion project that went on to become a Grammy- and CMA-nominated release that topped a myriad of "Best Albums of 2013" lists; earn her opening slots on tours with Eric Church, Jennifer Nettles, and Alan Jackson; land her performances onThe Ellen DeGeneres Show , Good Morning America, The Late Show with David Letterman, and a much-talked about collaboration with Dwight Yoakam on the 2015 GRAMMY Awards in recognition of her nomination in the all-genre Best New Artist category; and win her a Warner Bros. Records deal. Now, as she gears up for her sophomore set, the alternately feisty and poignant Big Day in a Small Town, Clark has much higher hopes.
"When I made 12 Stories, I think my dreams were a lot more realistic, in that I didn't expect a lot to happen... then it did," she says. "This time, my dreams are very much what they were when I was going to Vince Gill and Patty Loveless concerts and decided I was going to move to Nashville. Right now, my dreams are as big as when I was naïve enough to really dream them."
Produced by Jay Joyce [Little Big Town, Eric Church], Big Day in a Small Town tells the stories of the football star, the father, the homecoming queen, and the hairdresser because those are the stories and people that Clark grew up knowing. "All these songs, there's some little truth in them, somewhere, that resonates with me or that is about me," she confesses. Explaining the genesis of "Soap Opera," she offers. "When I would get worried about what people thought of me or what was going on with me, my mom would always say, 'You know, we're all the star of our daytime drama. We're just bit players in someone else's. Nobody cares that much about what's going on with you. They'll only care until there's something juicier going on with somebody else two weeks later.'"
But Clark cares enough about all of these characters to tell their stories: the aging beauty of "Homecoming Queen" who wonders what happened to the life she always wanted... the tempted exes of "You Can Come Over" who do all they can to not get burned by the flame that flickers between them... the heartbroken heroine of "Daughter" who wishes a bit of karmic justice on her ex in the form of a daughter who's "just as sweet as she is hot"... the defiant wild child of "Girl Next Door" who refuses to fit her lover's misguided notion of womanhood.
"'Homecoming Queen' is really real for me — I know that girl. 'You Can Come Over' is very real for me and 'Daughter' and 'Soap Opera'..." Clark's voice trails off as she thinks about the tales she tells. What about "Drinkin' Smokin' Cheatin'" with its pondering of ways to navigate the sometimes rocky waters of a relationship? Game plan? Wish list? "That's a total daydream," she says with a laugh. "I think we all have that daydream."
One of the most heartfelt moments on Big Day in a Small Townis the one that closes it, "Since You've Gone to Heaven." The song addresses the aftermath of losing someone close to you and it's one that Clark has wanted — and attempted — to write for years. "My dad was killed in a work accident the July before 9/11," she says. "When all that 9/11 stuff was going on and everyone was glued to the TV ... I thought right then, 'Since you've gone to heaven, the whole world has gone to hell.' But I sat on it for years and years because it seemed so bleak." As with all of Clark's compositions, there's some truth in it, just not necessarily the whole truth. "It's definitely not the story of my family in that song. I'll stress that," she says. "But I do think, a lot of times, when somebody dies, it blows things apart more than it brings things together."
While the lyrical themes echo those of 12 Stories, Clark pushed her vocal and musical boundaries on Big Day in a Small Town. Instead of building the songs from a simple guitar/vocal performance, Joyce brought the players in for five days of rehearsals before tracking live with the band. "A lot of those rehearsals became what the record was," Clark says, explaining that the recorded version of "You Can Come Over" includes her one-take, scratch vocal. "I wanted to fix a few things, but Jay wouldn't let me because he felt like it would lose emotion. He's about the heart of music. He's not about making it perfect."
"He is out to serve the artist and the song," she adds. Throughout the process, Joyce insisted that this be a "Brandy Clark record" not a "Jay Joyce record" because she was the one who would be performing it night-after-night even as he moved on to his next project. "If I didn't like something, he'd be the first person to change it. I think this project means nearly as much to him as it does to me."
Though Neil Young's Harvest was the only musical reference point the two discussed before heading into Neon Cross Studios, Clark and Joyce each brought their influences along — including Clark's long-standing love of classic country and Joyce's well-documented affinity for edgier rock. "He and I definitely come from different places, musically, which I think is probably good," she offers. "On 'Daughter,' he started to play an organ part and I said, 'That sounds like [Patsy Cline's] "Back in Baby's Arms."' He said, 'What's that?' He didn't know it."
Along with Sturgill Simpson, Ashley Monroe, Chris Stapleton, and Kacey Musgraves (who provides guest vocals on "Daughter"), Clark is part of a new vanguard in country music — one that tips a hat to tradition, while not eschewing its evolution. "I see what's happening right now and I feel this groundswell of people who love... I would say 'country' music, but I'll take it a step further and say 'real' music. I feel like there are people who are starved for that," she says. "The only music I've ever made is country music. The only music I've ever really listened to consistently is country music. And I want to keep that alive, so there's a responsibility in that, for me."
But, for Brandy Clark, that responsibility is a dream come true. 4/15/16
If you'll excuse me, I'm going to break down and cry in the shower because you broke my heart. So bye. I guess...
To the memory of my father
At Thurgarton Church the sun
burns the winter clouds over
the gaunt Danish stone
and thatched reeds that cover
the barest chapel I know.
I could compare it with
the Norse longboats that bore
burning the body forth
in honour from the shore
of great fjords long ago.
The sky is red and cold
overhead, and three small
sturdy trees keep a hold
on the world and the stone wall
that encloses the dead below.
I enter and find I stand
in a great barn, bleak and bare.
Like ice the winter ghosts and
the white walls gleam and flare
and flame as the sun drops low.
And I see, then, that slowly
the December day has gone.
I stand in the silence, not wholly
believing I am alone.
Somehow I cannot go.
Then a small wind rose, and the trees
began to crackle and stir
and I watched the moon by degrees
ascend in the window till her
light cut a wing in the shadow.
I thought: the House of the Dead.
The dead moon inherits it.
And I seem in a sense to have died
as I rise from where I sit
and out into darkness go.
I know as I leave I shall pass
where Thurgarton’s dead lie
at those old stones in the grass
under the cold moon’s eye.
I see the old bones glow.
No, they do not sleep here
in the long holy night of
the serene soul, but keep here
a dark tenancy and the right of
rising up to go.
Here the owl and soul shriek with
the voice of the dead as they turn
on the polar spit and burn
without hope and seek with
out hope the holy home below.
Yet to them the mole and
mouse bring a wreath and a breath
of the flowering leaves of the soul, and
it is from the Tree of Death
the leaves of life grow.
The rain, the sometime summer
rain on a memory of roses
will fall lightly and come a-
mong them as it erases
summers so long ago.
And the voices of those
once so much loved will flitter
over the nettled rows
of graves, and the holly tree twitter
like friends they used to know.
And not far away the
icy and paralysed stream
has found it also, that day the
flesh became glass and a dream
with no where to go.
Haunting the December
fields their bitter lives
entreat us to remember
the lost spirit that grieves
over these fields like a scarecrow.
That grieves over all it ever
did and all, all not
done, that grieves over
its crosspurposed lot:
to know and not to know.
The masterless dog sits
outside the church door
with dereliction haunting its
heart that hankers for
the hand that loved it so.
Not in a small grave
outside the stone wall
will the love that it gave
ever be returned, not for all
time or tracks in the snow.
More mourned the death of the dog
than our bones ever shall
receive from the hand of god
this bone again, or all
that high hand could bestow.
As I stand by the porch
I believe that no one has heard
here in Thurgarton Church
a single veritable word
save the unspoken No.
The godfathered negative
that responds to our mistaken
incredulous and heartbroken
desire above all to live
as though things were not so.
Desire to live as though the
two-footed clay stood up
proud never to know the
tempests that rage in the cup
under a rainbow.
Desire above all to live
as though the soul was stone,
believing we cannot give
or love since we are alone
and always will be so.
That heartbroken desire
to live as though no light
ever set the seas on fire
and no sun burned at night
or Mercy walked to and fro.
The proud flesh cries: I am not
caught up in the great cloud
of my unknowing. But that
proud flesh had endowed
us with the cloud we know.
To this the unspoken No
of the dead god responds
and then the whirlwinds blow
over all the things and beyond
and the dead mop and mow.
And there in the livid dust
and bones of death we search
until we find as we must
outside Thurgarton Church
only wild grasses blow.
I hear the old bone in me cry
and the dying spirit call:
I have forfeited all
and once and for all must die
and this is all that I know.
For now in a wild way we
know that justice is served
and that we die in the clay we
dread, desired, and deserved,
awaiting no Judgement Day.
by George Barker
My Darling Wife Louise RIP. on the 20th January 2015 we was told my Wife Louise had two days to live she fought a strong brave battle getting over meningitis in 2011 this devastated her body and her major organs she needed major support for her Heart Kidneys in ICU She spent weeks in ICU on full life support Then HDU she was classed as needing critical care for 52 days over the years her condition deteriorated including needing some amputation, January 2015 in hospital Doctors found her Kidneys had virtually stopped Working there was nothing they could do two days to live. i brought Louise home in the Evening of January 20th 2015. me and the family was with her when she passed away on the morning of January 22nd 2015, we've been together over 40 yrs since we was kids at school aged 11 my childhood sweetheart, im in pieces at losing Louise, she has left behind me 3 Daughters and 9 Grandchildren, RIP Sweetie all my Love. Chris
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This an older photo from my beach vacation!!! its one of my wonderful brother's and his name would be keegan...... Flickr people meet Keegan, Keegan meet Flickr people ;)
view on black
and i was tagged by the ridiculously amazingly awesome Sarah
Are you single/taken/heartbroken/confused?
single and proud to be
What if I told you that you were pretty?
i would say thank-yousss and maybe write you a card...... no just-kidding i wouldn't give you a card ;)
What are you looking forward to in the next week?
ART CAMP!!! HALLELUJIAH! im soo excited
Do you want to be single?
it would be nice to have a boyfriend but its not on the top of my priority list, plus I try to live my life DRAMA FREE
Have you pretended to like someone?
actually i did once..... and it was pointless
Is it hard for you to get over someone?
not really...
What would you name your future daughter?
margaret, grace, noa
one of those I just think they are really pretty names :)
Are you good at hiding your feelings?
yes, I'm like a mime. I can put on whatever expression even if im feeling something totally different....... sometimes it sucks to do that
Are you listening to music right now?
sadly no, my momma and i are watching the olympics so no music while its on
How is your heart lately?
pretty-darn good as I can tell
*goes and finds stethoscope*
yeah its fine
Are you wearing socks?
HAVE YOU EVER VISITED CHARLESTON?! you don't wear socks till the beginning of December!
What do people call you?
cars, cartman (not a favorite), cowgirl, carlos, carl
Will you talk to the person you like tonight?
no, but i would be nice if it happened
When was the last time a member of the opposite sex hugged you?
the other day..... i live with 5 males excluding the dog and guinea pig
Do you get stressed out easily?
yessss.... depending
hmmmm
Who do you go to when you need to talk to someone?
ma soccer buddies, and fb chat w/ one my best -friend
What is on your wrists right now?
freckles..... and skin cells
What do you like better: hot chocolate or hot apple cider?
HOT CHOCOLATE ALL THE WAY!
Are you a good artist?
not necessarily in photography but I like to think im not a bad painter
and I can draw a pretty mean hedgehog ;)
Do you miss the way things were six months ago?
it was cold and I had school work due..... no i don't miss it
Ever stayed up all night on the phone, with who?
no im terrified of talking on the phone...... im not sure if thats a real phobia but if it is I have it
Do you use chap stick?
who doesn't?
oh right those lucky people who always have perfectly moisturized lips
..... yeah thats not me
Do you have a little sister?
i have 4 brothers and none of them are feminine at all.... so no i don't
Have you hugged someone within the last week?
yes yes yes
What were you doing at midnight last night?
watching the olympics
GO USA
Have you ever regretted kissing someone?
what is this?!! ONLINE DATING..... haha yeahhh soo what was the question
Will next Friday be a good one?
hopefully, but only a fortune cookie will tell ;D
tagged a few people but if you read this consider yourself tagged! IF YOU READ ALL OF MY RANDOM BABBLING YOU ARE SERIOUSLY AMAZING!
Anyone who knows me knows how much Hoppity meant to me, she was the most loved & spolit rabbit ever. For unknown reasons Hoppity developed GI statis last weekend, she was admitted to the vets so they could monitor her but before she managed to make it home she died of shock. I have never been so heartbroken in all my life. It's been so hard these past days without you Hop.
Love you always my baby girl.
© by Naomi Warren. Please do not use without my express permission.
James Tarrington 7 - 82
Lillie Tarrington 17 - 3127
Pension to Widows of Fallen Soldiers
Family tale ended unhappily Widow was forced to give up children
Author: Patricia Orwen TORONTO STAR
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Abstract (Abstract): Photo SOLDIER'S WIDOW AND FAMILY WHO ARE PENSIONLESS A soldier's widow, Mrs. [Lily Tarrington], and eight of her nine children. Her husband, Pte. [James Tarrington], was gassed at the front, and died in Grace Hospital on April 20th, after a few days' illness. He was discharged in Oct., 1916, without a pension. Efforts are being made to obtain a pension for the heartbroken widow, and it is stated that his death is the result of being gassed. From left to right in the picture are: Mrs. Tarrington and baby, one year old, Jim 13 years, [Jim, Willie] 12, Ivy 9, Edward 8, Lily 6, [Edward, Lillian, Helen] 5, and Florence 4. Lydia, the eldest daughter, is 17 years of age.
Full text: Whatever happened to the widow Lily Tarrington and her nine children? Back in May, 1918, The Star ran a photo of the Tarringtons and told the story of how the fatherless family with eight children under 13 years of age was destitute. James Tarrington had died a month earlier of pneumonia, but had been in ill health since being gassed while fighting in the trenches overseas. The mother had applied for a government pension based on Tarrington's war service, but had been refused. What was to become of them now? As part of our 100th birthday celebration we recently reprinted that photo, adding that it wasn't known what happened to the family - Lydia, Jim, Willie, Ivy, Edward, Lillian, Helen, Florence and Fred. Two of the Tarrington children in the picture spotted the old photo and called us. "I don't even remember that picture being taken, but there I am with mother and the rest . . . it certainly brings back a lot of old feelings," recalls Lillian, who was 6 years old when the picture was taken in front of their rented house on Laughton Ave. "She was a very loving mother, took wonderful care of us," recalled Ted. "I remember she was always working, always doing something for us. We didn't have much, but we were always well dressed, always well cared for." The tale the family tells of what happened after this group picture was taken, however, is a sad one. Although The Star and the West Toronto branch of the Great War Veterans Association appealed to the government to reconsider a pension for the family, it was to no avail. The newspaper launched a public appeal to help pay the cost of her husband's funeral, but the family's day-to-day living expenses were another matter. The mother soon found she couldn't earn enough to keep the family together. In an interview with Lily Tarrington on Dec. 30, 1918, she explained her plight to a Star reporter. "Since my husband died in April last, I have worked in munitions. I took an afternoon shift, which enabled me to get up early and look after my house and prepare a good hot meal for the kiddies. During the summer and fall I did not have the fires or lights to worry about in case of fire as I was always back in time in the evening to get them supper and put them to bed. Then I made $24 a week, but since the signing of the armistice I have been forced to secure a position in a flour mill where I put in from 7:30 a.m. till 5:30 p.m. for $12 a week. This is not only insufficient for me to feed and dress a family of nine, but it is not safe to leave all those little ones in care of my little girl nine years of age for that length of time." The woman had little choice but to separate her large family. The Star story then went on to describe how the widow brought out a picture of her "happy little family of a year ago and gazed on it with hungry eyes," as she told how she had just returned from the country where she had taken the Star Santa Claus stocking to her little girls Lily, aged 7 and Helen, aged 5. "I have not signed any papers to give them away legally and I am hoping these people will keep them for me until I can bring them all together again. It is hard, though, as it changes the children, for my little girls looked so
hard at me when I left them. They don't understand it is for their own good." Sadly, Mrs. Tarrington was never able to reunite her family. Shortly after this interview, she sent Ivy, then 9, and the 1-year- old baby, Fred, to stay with other families. In the spring or summer of 1919, she began to grow weak. Then on the evening of Sept., 4, 1919, just 17 months after the death of her husband, Lily Tarrington died. She was 38. The Star's final story about her, which ran on Sept. 6, explained how "she gradually became worse and shortly before her death expressed the desire to see her children and the ladies who had befriended her by relieving her of the care of four of her younger little ones . . ." With her death, the remaining five children were separated, except for Isabel, then 4, and Willie, 12, who both lived with a family named Beggs in Paisley, near Walkerton. Lillian and Ted didn't meet again until January, 1933, when the birth of Ted's baby girl, Joyce, hit the front page of The Star as the New Year's baby. "We are deeply grateful to The Star for what it did for the family back when Mrs. Tarrington was alive and for getting us back together later on," says Ted's wife, Dorothy Tarrington, 80. "It was Lillian's adoptive mother, Mrs. Brown in Woodbridge, who saw The Star story about Joyce being the New Year's baby," Dorothy recalls. "She said to Lillian, 'That's your brother.' And they came right down to the hospital to meet us." After that, Mrs. Brown, Dorothy and the two siblings tracked down the rest of the family, except for the eldest girl, Lydia, who had married and left home around the time of her father's death. Mrs. Tarrington is buried in Prospect Cemetery on St. Clair Ave., near her husband, in an unmarked grave. The Star, Dorothy says, helped pay for her funeral, but the family couldn't afford a gravestone. "We're hoping to go out there in the spring, maybe get a headstone," Dorothy says. "She was a brave woman who loved her children . . . she deserves to be remembered." Illustration Caption: Photo SOLDIER'S WIDOW AND FAMILY WHO ARE PENSIONLESS A soldier's widow, Mrs. Lily Tarrington, and eight of her nine children. Her husband, Pte. James Tarrington, was gassed at the front, and died in Grace Hospital on April 20th, after a few days' illness. He was discharged in Oct., 1916, without a pension. Efforts are being made to obtain a pension for the heartbroken widow, and it is stated that his death is the result of being gassed. From left to right in the picture are: Mrs. Tarrington and baby, one year old, Jim 13 years, Willie 12, Ivy 9, Edward 8, Lily 6, Helen 5, and Florence 4. Lydia, the eldest daughter, is 17 years of age.
People: Tarrington, Lily Jim, Willie Edward, Lillian, Helen Tarrington, Dorothy
Publication title: Toronto Star
Pages: A2
Number of pages: 0
Publication year: 1992
Publication date: Mar 8, 1992
Year: 1992
Section: NEWS
Publisher: Torstar Syndication Services, a Division of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont.
Country of publication: Canada
Publication subject: General Interest Periodicals--Canada
ISSN: 03190781
Source type: Newspapers
Language of publication: English
Document type: NEWSPAPER
ProQuest document ID: 436582967
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Database: Canadian Major Dailies
Reader offers gravestone for late widow
Author: Patricia Orwen Toronto Star
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Abstract (Abstract): The family was so destitute that Tarrington was forced, temporarily she hoped, to give up four of her offspring. She took a factory job working from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Before she could reunite the family, however, she became ill and died. As part of our 100th birthday celebration we recently retold this sad tale, adding interviews with two of the four Tarrington children who are still alive. Edward Tarrington, who was 8 years old when his mother died, and his wife [Dorothy Tarrington], told of [Lily Tarrington]'s courage and said they hoped to get together with the other remaining family members this spring and put a headstone on their mother's grave.
Full text: It's been 73 years since the widow Lily Tarrington succumbed to typhoid and was buried in an unmarked grave in Prospect Cemetery. It's too late to change the tragic events that led to her death, but thanks to a Star reader, Tarrington's resting place will finally be marked. In the year prior to her death, The Star ran numerous stories of this woman's struggle to raise her nine children, eight of whom were under 13 years of age. Their father, James Tarrington, died in April, 1918, of pneumonia, but had been ill since he was gassed while fighting in the trenches overseas during World War I. The mother applied for a government pension based on his war service, but was refused. The family was so destitute that Tarrington was forced, temporarily she hoped, to give up four of her offspring. She took a factory job working from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Before she could reunite the family, however, she became ill and died. As part of our 100th birthday celebration we recently retold this sad tale, adding interviews with two of the four Tarrington children who are still alive. Edward Tarrington, who was 8 years old when his mother died, and his wife Dorothy, told of Lily's courage and said they hoped to get together with the other remaining family members this spring and put a headstone on their mother's grave. After Stephen Wai, a 52-year-old Scarborough sales manager, read the story, he contacted The Star and offered to give the family a small black granite headstone which someone had given him two years ago. "We are just so grateful that someone would do this," said Dorothy Tarrington, who is 81. "We're just so grateful that we're speechless . . . it really is wonderful that after all these years her courage isn't forgotten." "I think she was a woman who had a lot of courage," said Wai, adding that he sympathizes with the family's plight because of his own family's difficulties when they lived in Hong Kong during World War II. "There were six kids in our family," he said. "But it was very hard . . . and we had both our parents." Tarrington, he said, should have been given a government pension.
People: Tarrington, Lily
Publication title: Toronto Star
Pages: A4
Number of pages: 0
Publication year: 1992
Publication date: Mar 10, 1992
Year: 1992
Section: NEWS
Publisher: Torstar Syndication Services, a Division of Toronto Star Newspapers Limited
Place of publication: Toronto, Ont.
Country of publication: Canada
Publication subject: General Interest Periodicals--Canada
ISSN: 03190781
Source type: Newspapers
Language of publication: English
Document type: NEWSPAPER
ProQuest document ID: 436606571
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For the 30 day creativity challenge theme “Heartsick”. Sharpie on copy paper with Worcestershire sauce.
Street Fashion Shoot
Binondo, Manila
August 19, 2012
(With Mitzi Paniel, Ann Mateo, Roe Empleo and Mervin Manalo)
Haiti #Wecare
We’re heartbroken with the amount of devastation Mathew has left behind in Haiti and we want to pull all our efforts in to help as much as we can.
Please join us in an very Special Master Class with all the Zumba Star Instructors to help us raise as much funds as possible. All the proceeds will go to:
Prodev
Our talented team will come together on Sunday December 4th from 12:00-2:30 PM to deliver an exceptional experience with the single goal to help and give. Be ready to dance for 90min non stop with our all star Team.
Here are some the instructors that will be present:
Volha
Angelina
Bryan
Yxia
Rene
Josip
Celeste
Anna
Edmee
Will
Idania- She is flying back from Miami just for you!
Photography by Hiroshi Ishikawa
Okay, so I don't think you can see the heart on a normal chest x-ray and the x-ray itself isn't accurate. And also my facial expression is kinda funny. LOL
It's a pre-valentine's special, y'all. For the singles.
Oooh, so if anyone asks, I INTENTIONALLY DISLOCATED THE HEART.
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I flew down to Los Angeles for a few days to do some plane spotting. This was my first airplane trip since February, before the pandemic took off. I was nervous at first but Alaska Air did an awesome job. I decided to skip a rental car this time; instead I stayed at the Homewood Suites/H Hotel near the airport. It has an awesome open air terrace on the 12th floor that has great views of the north and south runways at LAX. Like an idiot, I wasn't paying attention to my camera settings; half the photos were not sharp so I zapped them I was heartbroken by this, however, I will be back.
I was surprised by the air traffic - it wasn't anywhere close to pre-pandemic levels but it was quite busy with many flights from Asia and Europe. Who was on these planes?
I took these photos in October 2020.
The very beautiful Satpara lake, situated near the city of Sakrdu. Located at the height of 2,636 meters (8,650 ft). Local people say that there is a gold mine at the bottom of the lake which makes it shine in the day!
Government is constructing a dam on this lake, I was very heartbroken to see the under construction dam, I am afraid that it might end up ruining this beautiful lake :(
I hope my fear does not become a reality.
(Info taken from Wikipedia, the dimensions and local legend). Captured by my friend Badr.
[Jemal Oumar] Mohamed Vall Ould Khalifa says he lost everything when he fled the violence in Libya.
محمد فال ولد الخليفة يقول إنه خسر كل شيء عندما فرّ من أعمال العنف في ليبيا.
[Jemal Oumar] Mohamed Vall Ould Khalifa explique avoir tout perdu lorsqu'il a fui les violences en Libye.
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A man who conspired with his brother to carry out a terror attack that killed 22 people at the Manchester Arena has been convicted
Hashem Abedi (08/04/1997), formerly of Fallowfield, has today (Tuesday 17 March 2020) been found guilty of 22 counts of murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to cause an explosion likely to endanger life.
During the course of a six week trial at the Central Criminal Court (Old Bailey) in London, the jury heard compelling evidence of Hashem's activities in the months leading up to the attack, which was carried out by his brother Salman on 22 May 2017.
These included persuading close acquaintances to purchase chemicals on his behalf that could be used to manufacture explosives, sourcing metal drums that were used to build bomb prototypes and buying a Nissan Micra that was used to store the bomb components back in Manchester whilst the brothers were in Libya.
Witnesses also gave evidence in court which suggested the brothers had developed an extremist mind-set. One witness stated in court that, in his opinion, Hashem 'believed in terrorism'.
Prior to the events at the Manchester Arena, the brothers used three key addresses to prepare for the attack. A property on Lindum Street in Rusholme was used as a delivery address for the chemicals. The chemicals were subsequently taken to a flat on Somerton Court in Blackley where they were manufactured into explosives. The final version of the bomb would be built at a flat in Granby House in Manchester City Centre in the days prior to the attack.
After gathering all the materials needed to construct the final version of the device, Hashem and Salman flew to Libya to see family in 15 April 2017, the month before the attack took place. Whilst the brothers were out of the country, the bomb components were stored in a Nissan Micra that was parked near Devell House in Rusholme.
Hashem remained in Libya when his brother returned to the UK on 18 May 2017. Salman would then collect the components from the car in a blue suitcase before taking them to Granby House to finish the construction of the bomb.
On 22 May 2017, Salman Abedi entered the Manchester Arena and detonated the device that he and Hashem had created, killing himself and 22 other people, and injuring almost 1,000 members of the public.
Hashem was arrested in Libya the following day and successfully extradited to the UK on 17 July 2019.
Assistant Chief Constable Russ Jackson of Greater Manchester Police said: "Almost three years ago, Greater Manchester Police had to announce to the world that Manchester had suffered one of the worst terrorist attacks this country has ever experienced.
“Twenty-two lives had been suddenly and brutally taken in a barbaric act, leaving behind heartbroken families and friends. Their loss is sorely felt and, for many, the pain of that loss will never ever heal.
“There were also almost 1,000 people injured, some incredibly seriously and many still suffer with deep physical or psychological injuries which will remain with them for years, if not forever.
“Salman Abedi exploded the bomb which caused this devastation, but people now know that this horrific attack was planned with his brother, Hashem Abedi, who we now see convicted of the 22 murders and the attempted murder of all those others who were injured.
“Although he was in Libya at the time of the attack, Hashem Abedi is every bit as guilty as his dead brother and this is reflected in the judgment we see today. He was his brother’s driver, the quartermaster sourcing deadly material and the munitions technician in those months running up to the attack.
“During his police interview, he professed not only his innocence but his desire to help police with their enquiries before then refusing to answer all further questions put to him. Then at his trial, he offered no testimony in his own defence.
“In the last few weeks Abedi absented himself from court, such was the contempt he showed for the proceedings and all those so deeply affected by this cowardly act.
“We are very pleased at this verdict and we thank the jury for their deliberations.
“And so this verdict marks the end of a very long investigation by police and the CPS and we know many will welcome it, but we also know that even this will do little to ease the pain caused to so many people.
“When this happened almost three years ago it shook Manchester deeply, there was an outpouring of grief which spread across the country and far afield abroad.
“Since that terrible day, our thoughts have always been with the families of those murdered and all those injured and our actions have sought to put them first.
“This will continue to be our priority as we move towards the public inquiry scheduled to take place in a few months.”
Meredith Ella Isabelle has been known alot of times and the jealous angry ex-girlfriend of Jasper Darsch for the known of pairing with Lucina; and the group of his harem.
Was originally created wayback July 2016 as I believe, a influence to a person name "Wendy Melvoin" of Prince & The Relvoution inspired by her. She is also a homage tribute to the 1980s female character as seen from the movies romantic-comedy/ romantic films and drama romantic of classic 80s film we known for..
Meredith Ella Isabelle is known off and hear off millions of time before and she was known of the ex girlfriend of Jasper Braken Darsch as ongoing, and though of originally she was originally the girlfriend of Jasper Darsch ever since... She was known of abit of disliking the pairing couple of Jasper Darsch x Lucina (Fire Emblem), to mark the first time of having a OCs who does not like the pairing of OC and Canon couple sharing time or pairing with each other - for first time;; she was created since July 2016 and she was influence and reference abit of Wendy, the band member of Prince & The Revolutions.. She does look like she is influence to a old school animated TV show 80s, 80s films, or a old school anime - probably one of those anime romantic comedy show of the 80s to present day ones..
Behind of the scene:
She is what inspired of a character reference of "Purple Rain" film star of Prince: member band of Wendy and she is base off a 1980s character of any anime show, movie, and a tv series. This is also the first time that a character would disapproved or dislike a couple "OC x Canon" of jealous like Jasper x Lucina (favorite otp couple) she does not like the pairing.
NOTE: This is the first OC that will not have the year birthday like 1990 or 1980s year number exact, not to have one - since Meredith is just a character; similar to Ash Ketchum is still 10 year old but never grow up old of Pokemon.
Influence, Reference, Inspirational:
Wendy Corduroy (Gravity Falls)
Makoto Kino/ Lita Kino (Sailor Moon)
Deborah (Just One of the Girls, 1985) (portrayed by Deborah Goodrich)
Taiga Aisaka
Wendy (Prince & The Revolutions, Puprle Rain Film)
Anime Female character of the 1980s/ 1990s
Tomboy-ish Girls characters
1980s clothes / fashion
1980s media TV & Movies clothes/ costume
Nickname: Merdia
Universe/ Orgins: Real World/ Modern Day
Birthplace: Midwest USA
Relationship: Single
Love Interest: Jasper Braken Darsch (Ex-Boyfriend), TBD Unknown?
Age: 15/ 16 - 23 year old
Birthday: June 6
Gender: Female
Friends: Chrom (Fire Emblem Awakening) // Heroes // Heroines characters
Eye: Purple, Pink
Hair: Brown/ Brunette
Favorite Song: Night Patrol - Debbiee Lyton (Tomboy, 1985 soundtrack AOR)
Background story #0:
Meredith Ella Isabelle is an american born well educated person that came from the Midwest USA; she is the family tree of "Ella Isabelle" part of american blood-line and behalf of descendant of Canadian / French (European) and Italian of the family // relative and and cousin, ancestry part of it. She was introduced to her favorite auntie "Michelleanna Ella Isabelle" the girlfriend of Brader Darsch from her college days on the 1980s. She was one sweetheart that she used to date with Jasper Braken Darsch when they knew each other since elementary school and they grew up together being close friends since middle school to the age of teenage hood era they began to love in together ever since that Meredith would care and hold dearly for Jasper that love means alot to it and it will never let go; Meredith has a aunt which commonly known that her aunt used to date "Brader Darsch" which is Jasper Uncle that they were commonly like each other back in the 1980s when they were rocking wildly.
She was born around by the sweetest family (who were born of the 1960s) and she has grandparents were the family of there the children (of the 1960s born) who raised there kids the grandparents who used to live in Mid-west around the 1950s-1960s.. Meredith was born around the corner of sometime late 80s or 1990s year birth, but it is unknown.. She originally grew up at her birthplace of the "Midwest" ever since; but she decied to move out for abit to see her favorite aunt at the East Coast every once 2 years sometime - her aunt Michelleanna became her favorite aunt of all time despite that she treat her niece like a own daughter, while Meredith think of her aunt like a mother. Over time as Meredith was a little girl she have meet the little "Jasper Darsch" that known of her childhood friend where little Jasper Darsch was with his uncle "Brader Darsch" for a reunion one time - while the two little kids interact that they did like to be best friends and considered as close friend one day - they went to elementary school together. She made good friends that she known of her childhood growing up ever since.. And she was good friend of Maggie Darsch, the cousin of Jasper Braken Darsch family and the families of the "Braken Darsch" tree too.
Background story#1
Jasper ex girlfriend. She's a tomboy girl; a sweet, kind, politeful, nice, polite, and kindful person about good/ kind things from people and positively stuff. She is the ex-girlfriend of Jasper, his original girlfriend Merida Ella Isabelle. Although she dislike bad thing, disrespectful, bad guys, and very mean stuff including Jasper behavior that she doesn't approve of. She's a friendly and very shy - but the things she doesn't like about bad things and more she wont accept can be serious and be annoying and get mad about it. Meredith was beautiful and loving girl she would get to know off; as the years goes by where Jasper uncle was death - she only hear off him and only knew him little bitter hear from aunt talking about the olden days with him that they had the time of there life and such - after the death of Brader Darsch when Jasper change of his hear to kind/ loved and became hated where he started to hate all kind of heroes/ male and gone out with several girls - till Meredith was heartbroken and upset of Jasper and where they complaining/ start fighting because of his opinion and reason and the death of his uncle because the heroes were responsibility that they were useless that they did not save him - where Meredith thought out of her opinions about "positive thought", good things always, never give up and such things and being encourage what people would what right/ best for them and heroes too - she is a hero/ good guy supporter person/ fan/ lover of the protagonist more difference of her ex-boyfriend and Jasper brother Anderan as hero haters - since they finished fighting-talk among each other they broke up and they never spoke anymore for awhile.. Uncommonly that Jasper has love interested of his favorite girlfriend that he dates, his respectful girlfriend and none other of his number #1 favorite girlfriend of all time Lucina (Fire Emblem Awakening, Lucina relationship is unofficial nor canon with Jasper Braken Darsch for however reason due to mixture); that she is jealous of Jasper going out with girls from many other characters from anime, movies, series such being call of "harem" that she is uncomfortably mad at him for some reason and bitter jealous unhappy of Jasper x Lucina (Fire Emblem) being together which she is extremely jealous and not pleased of them; she also respect heroines and Lucina too - but she does not like couple pairing of Jasper x Lucina for however and that of Jasper dating Lucina millions of time - being as his favorite girlfriend (it unofficial, not canon, not real). Meredith support one of the others, canon character of heroines/ male heroes whenever it come to there problem to be solved for many reason, she also befriend of her other friends specially confirmed "John" (Anime OC- supporting character) the nice guy who work at a snack bar; she dearly care for her family, friends, the loves one and her favorite aunt that she is into of retro/ old school stuff since Meredith is into the retro/ old school stuff of the 20th century. However over time that there relationship have broke up, she have hear about the gang group of "The Bad Darsh" at "New Jersey" state on the present day - she does not like the gang group "The Bad Darsh" while her ex-boyfriend is part of it gang.
Background story #2
Whatever she feel angry she is also will be teaming up with Lucina father "Chrom" when they have the right to get angry both Jasper Braken Darsch and Lucina for dating for alot of reason, it is not canon that Meredith has a partner with Chrom.
RIP Ted, sadly lost him to cancer on 23rd July 2019, just 4 days after losing my mum to the same desease. Heartbroken x