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Kansas Cosmosphere
You are now standing in one of the actual Apollo White Rooms, removed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was here- suspended more than 320 feet above the ground- that many historic and dramatic moments unfolded as astronaut crews prepared to be inserted into their Apollo spacecraft for launch. In this small, historic room, the "butterflies" were felt and final "goodbyes were made. For many, it was a room where reality set in as to what they were about to do, and the risk they were about to take.
The White Room was attached to a 60-foot long, cantilevered "swing arm" which was connected to the rocket gantry. About four hours before liftoff, the astronaut crews would walk across the swing arm and enter the White Room. The structure of the room partially wrapped around the entry hatch area of the spacecraft and sealed out the elements. After the astronauts were inserted into the Command Module, the main hatch was shut and locked. Just prior to launch, the White Room swung away from the spacecraft. The astronauts were now alone, sitting atop a 36-story skyscraper of a rocket with the explosive power of an atomic bomb.
This specific White Room was one of three used during the Apollo lunar program, and was later recycled for use during the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs. Historical records no longer exist to indicate which specific astronaut crews said their "goodbyes" in this White Room, but it is likely that at least a third of the 14 Apollo crews that departed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 began their journey here, and stood exactly where you are standing now. Only one other Apollo White Room from Pad 39 still exists, and it is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Center, Florida.
The Town of Bedlam: Scene 74
[Ulric] Sign up deadline is tomorrow. You gonna enter any of the tournament games?
[Wade] I always become more jublilant every year as the tournament approaches. Thinking about which events I'm gonna enter. Then a short time afterwards reality sets in. I don't have much of a chance at winning any of 'em. Luthor always takes the hammer-throwing contest. Robin Hood always does a clean sweep in the archery events. It's usually a knight that wins the sword combat and jousting crowns. I always end up feeling like a wind-sucker at the end.
[Ulric] True, it's unlikely we'll actually win any of the events. But you know, it's also about showing your patriotism. We're the supporting cast, and it's our duty of honor to sign up. Without us the champions won't have anyone to beat. We're the ones who make 'em great!
[Wade] I'll sign up and do my part. Say, you hear the Princess has been found?
[Ulric] Yeah, I heard. It's on the tongue of everyone I've come across in the last hour. Strange to think it's been about 10 years since she vanished.
[Wade] My last memory of Princess Fayre was of her pointing her finger at me.
[Ulric] Prithee elaborate for me.
[Wade] We were on a school field trip together. After lunch we were playing games and the next thing I knew the teacher yanked my arm and pulled me off to the side. Apparently someone had been pulling on the Princess's hair. She fingered me as the culprit and I got punished for it.
[Ulric] That's rough. Did you do it?
[Wade] Of course not! It doesn't matter anymore. It was a long time ago. Shortly after that incident is when she went missing.
[Ulric] You certainly hold a grudge with the best of 'em.
[Wade] I'm not holding a grudge.
[Ulric] If you say so.
[Leo] Down below, open the door! Sir Frederick has returned with the Princess.
After two days of packing the movers are just about done with prep work. Tomorrow they will come up with a truck and a 20ft. shipping container on a flatbed semi. The trailer would not be able to navigate our narrow roads so it will sit out on the main road while the men load up the truck and then transfer our belongings onto the trailer. They estimate six truckloads and most of the day to get it done.
The Town of Bedlam: Scene 74
[Ulric] Sign up deadline is tomorrow. You gonna enter any of the tournament games?
[Wade] I always become more jublilant every year as the tournament approaches. Thinking about which events I'm gonna enter. Then a short time afterwards reality sets in. I don't have much of a chance at winning any of 'em. Luthor always takes the hammer-throwing contest. Robin Hood always does a clean sweep in the archery events. It's usually a knight that wins the sword combat and jousting crowns. I always end up feeling like a wind-sucker at the end.
[Ulric] True, it's unlikely we'll actually win any of the events. But you know, it's also about showing your patriotism. We're the supporting cast, and it's our duty of honor to sign up. Without us the champions won't have anyone to beat. We're the ones who make 'em great!
[Wade] I'll sign up and do my part. Say, you hear the Princess has been found?
[Ulric] Yeah, I heard. It's on the tongue of everyone I've come across in the last hour. Strange to think it's been about 10 years since she vanished.
[Wade] My last memory of Princess Fayre was of her pointing her finger at me.
[Ulric] Prithee elaborate for me.
[Wade] We were on a school field trip together. After lunch we were playing games and the next thing I knew the teacher yanked my arm and pulled me off to the side. Apparently someone had been pulling on the Princess's hair. She fingered me as the culprit and I got punished for it.
[Ulric] That's rough. Did you do it?
[Wade] Of course not! It doesn't matter anymore. It was a long time ago. Shortly after that incident is when she went missing.
[Ulric] You certainly hold a grudge with the best of 'em.
[Wade] I'm not holding a grudge.
[Ulric] If you say so.
[Leo] Down below, open the door! Sir Frederick has returned with the Princess.
The giant, ancient spider sent by Golobulus has transferred its prisoners over to Heavy Water's unit and her team is on their way to a Cobra base, the location of which is completely unknown to the team of prisoners.
The giant spiders, the flying dragons, the pure madness of the beasts of Cobra-La; all of the surreal experiences that the team has gone through in the past forty-eight hours begins to fade during their transport and all that are held within the armored Cobra Parasite are silence as reality sets in. The team has been captured and the mission has failed.
As the sun descends the hearts of the team mates sinks as well. All the team can do is wait.
Miroslaw Balka's 68x(200x8x8)Heaven at Toronto's Scrap Metal, a hopeful piece re: the traumatic years between the systematization of the genocide of the Jewish people by the Nazis in 1942 and the piece’s commissioning in 2010 for the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme in Paris.*
The artist's work reflects the Polish "survivors" in and post-Nazi occupation.If I recall correctly, this installation was an interpretation of the showers...
On first encounter, it's a glittering forest, almost enchanting.. and then stark reality sets and it's haunting and rather morbid and upsetting (when the concept is revealed).
*according to ca.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/856903/west-end-micro-rev...
Update:
For a 3D look: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUXo1bWV1VU
Taken with my iPhone
Scrap Metal Gallery
11 Dublin Street, Unit E
The Town of Bedlam: Scene 74
[Ulric] Sign up deadline is tomorrow. You gonna enter any of the tournament games?
[Wade] I always become more jublilant every year as the tournament approaches. Thinking about which events I'm gonna enter. Then a short time afterwards reality sets in. I don't have much of a chance at winning any of 'em. Luthor always takes the hammer-throwing contest. Robin Hood always does a clean sweep in the archery events. It's usually a knight that wins the sword combat and jousting crowns. I always end up feeling like a wind-sucker at the end.
[Ulric] True, it's unlikely we'll actually win any of the events. But you know, it's also about showing your patriotism. We're the supporting cast, and it's our duty of honor to sign up. Without us the champions won't have anyone to beat. We're the ones who make 'em great!
[Wade] I'll sign up and do my part. Say, you hear the Princess has been found?
[Ulric] Yeah, I heard. It's on the tongue of everyone I've come across in the last hour. Strange to think it's been about 10 years since she vanished.
[Wade] My last memory of Princess Fayre was of her pointing her finger at me.
[Ulric] Prithee elaborate for me.
[Wade] We were on a school field trip together. After lunch we were playing games and the next thing I knew the teacher yanked my arm and pulled me off to the side. Apparently someone had been pulling on the Princess's hair. She fingered me as the culprit and I got punished for it.
[Ulric] That's rough. Did you do it?
[Wade] Of course not! It doesn't matter anymore. It was a long time ago. Shortly after that incident is when she went missing.
[Ulric] You certainly hold a grudge with the best of 'em.
[Wade] I'm not holding a grudge.
[Ulric] If you say so.
[Leo] Down below, open the door! Sir Frederick has returned with the Princess.
Kansas Cosmosphere
You are now standing in one of the actual Apollo White Rooms, removed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was here- suspended more than 320 feet above the ground- that many historic and dramatic moments unfolded as astronaut crews prepared to be inserted into their Apollo spacecraft for launch. In this small, historic room, the "butterflies" were felt and final "goodbyes were made. For many, it was a room where reality set in as to what they were about to do, and the risk they were about to take.
The White Room was attached to a 60-foot long, cantilevered "swing arm" which was connected to the rocket gantry. About four hours before liftoff, the astronaut crews would walk across the swing arm and enter the White Room. The structure of the room partially wrapped around the entry hatch area of the spacecraft and sealed out the elements. After the astronauts were inserted into the Command Module, the main hatch was shut and locked. Just prior to launch, the White Room swung away from the spacecraft. The astronauts were now alone, sitting atop a 36-story skyscraper of a rocket with the explosive power of an atomic bomb.
This specific White Room was one of three used during the Apollo lunar program, and was later recycled for use during the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs. Historical records no longer exist to indicate which specific astronaut crews said their "goodbyes" in this White Room, but it is likely that at least a third of the 14 Apollo crews that departed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 began their journey here, and stood exactly where you are standing now. Only one other Apollo White Room from Pad 39 still exists, and it is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Center, Florida.
Kansas Cosmosphere
You are now standing in one of the actual Apollo White Rooms, removed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was here- suspended more than 320 feet above the ground- that many historic and dramatic moments unfolded as astronaut crews prepared to be inserted into their Apollo spacecraft for launch. In this small, historic room, the "butterflies" were felt and final "goodbyes were made. For many, it was a room where reality set in as to what they were about to do, and the risk they were about to take.
The White Room was attached to a 60-foot long, cantilevered "swing arm" which was connected to the rocket gantry. About four hours before liftoff, the astronaut crews would walk across the swing arm and enter the White Room. The structure of the room partially wrapped around the entry hatch area of the spacecraft and sealed out the elements. After the astronauts were inserted into the Command Module, the main hatch was shut and locked. Just prior to launch, the White Room swung away from the spacecraft. The astronauts were now alone, sitting atop a 36-story skyscraper of a rocket with the explosive power of an atomic bomb.
This specific White Room was one of three used during the Apollo lunar program, and was later recycled for use during the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs. Historical records no longer exist to indicate which specific astronaut crews said their "goodbyes" in this White Room, but it is likely that at least a third of the 14 Apollo crews that departed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 began their journey here, and stood exactly where you are standing now. Only one other Apollo White Room from Pad 39 still exists, and it is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Center, Florida.
Kansas Cosmosphere
You are now standing in one of the actual Apollo White Rooms, removed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was here- suspended more than 320 feet above the ground- that many historic and dramatic moments unfolded as astronaut crews prepared to be inserted into their Apollo spacecraft for launch. In this small, historic room, the "butterflies" were felt and final "goodbyes were made. For many, it was a room where reality set in as to what they were about to do, and the risk they were about to take.
The White Room was attached to a 60-foot long, cantilevered "swing arm" which was connected to the rocket gantry. About four hours before liftoff, the astronaut crews would walk across the swing arm and enter the White Room. The structure of the room partially wrapped around the entry hatch area of the spacecraft and sealed out the elements. After the astronauts were inserted into the Command Module, the main hatch was shut and locked. Just prior to launch, the White Room swung away from the spacecraft. The astronauts were now alone, sitting atop a 36-story skyscraper of a rocket with the explosive power of an atomic bomb.
This specific White Room was one of three used during the Apollo lunar program, and was later recycled for use during the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs. Historical records no longer exist to indicate which specific astronaut crews said their "goodbyes" in this White Room, but it is likely that at least a third of the 14 Apollo crews that departed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 began their journey here, and stood exactly where you are standing now. Only one other Apollo White Room from Pad 39 still exists, and it is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Center, Florida.
the magic of the morning hours.
where for that one brief moment in time, everything seems so peaceful, and prefect.
....then reality sets in.
Kansas Cosmosphere
You are now standing in one of the actual Apollo White Rooms, removed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was here- suspended more than 320 feet above the ground- that many historic and dramatic moments unfolded as astronaut crews prepared to be inserted into their Apollo spacecraft for launch. In this small, historic room, the "butterflies" were felt and final "goodbyes were made. For many, it was a room where reality set in as to what they were about to do, and the risk they were about to take.
The White Room was attached to a 60-foot long, cantilevered "swing arm" which was connected to the rocket gantry. About four hours before liftoff, the astronaut crews would walk across the swing arm and enter the White Room. The structure of the room partially wrapped around the entry hatch area of the spacecraft and sealed out the elements. After the astronauts were inserted into the Command Module, the main hatch was shut and locked. Just prior to launch, the White Room swung away from the spacecraft. The astronauts were now alone, sitting atop a 36-story skyscraper of a rocket with the explosive power of an atomic bomb.
This specific White Room was one of three used during the Apollo lunar program, and was later recycled for use during the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs. Historical records no longer exist to indicate which specific astronaut crews said their "goodbyes" in this White Room, but it is likely that at least a third of the 14 Apollo crews that departed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 began their journey here, and stood exactly where you are standing now. Only one other Apollo White Room from Pad 39 still exists, and it is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Center, Florida.
help!!!
what's growing in our back yard???
add a note if you know. :o)
and if you have tips on how to maintain them, i'll be even more grateful. ;o)
you might need to see them larger:
farm3.static.flickr.com/2251/2451118092_9496430f1a_b.jpg
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when we moved to our house last summer, we were thrilled to become the proud new owners of one of the most beautiful, well-kept, lush, and diverse gardens we had ever seen.
then the reality set in:
i know NOTHING about flowers.
i don't even keep houseplants, because i manage to kill them all.
i was assured time and time again that these were all perennials (they come back year after year -- that's perennial, not annual, right??), and that only a small amount of weeding/pruning would be necessary to keep the garden alive. i sure as heck hope that's true.
so far -- fingers crossed -- things look pretty good. and it has been SO much fun watching the flowers come up this spring, because it's all new to us.
thing is... i have NO IDEA what the VAST majority of these lovely blooms are. the daffodils, yes, those i can recognize (although i never knew they came in so many shapes and sizes and colors). but the rest? not a prayer.
so. if you know anything about flowers, or even if you don't and want to throw in a guess for fun, i'd love to figure out what's blooming in our back yard.
and this is just the first batch -- there are a gazillion y more that will bloom over the summer, so i'm sure i'll have more of these lovely mystery collages. ;o)
thanks for any help you've got!
Kansas Cosmosphere
You are now standing in one of the actual Apollo White Rooms, removed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was here- suspended more than 320 feet above the ground- that many historic and dramatic moments unfolded as astronaut crews prepared to be inserted into their Apollo spacecraft for launch. In this small, historic room, the "butterflies" were felt and final "goodbyes were made. For many, it was a room where reality set in as to what they were about to do, and the risk they were about to take.
The White Room was attached to a 60-foot long, cantilevered "swing arm" which was connected to the rocket gantry. About four hours before liftoff, the astronaut crews would walk across the swing arm and enter the White Room. The structure of the room partially wrapped around the entry hatch area of the spacecraft and sealed out the elements. After the astronauts were inserted into the Command Module, the main hatch was shut and locked. Just prior to launch, the White Room swung away from the spacecraft. The astronauts were now alone, sitting atop a 36-story skyscraper of a rocket with the explosive power of an atomic bomb.
This specific White Room was one of three used during the Apollo lunar program, and was later recycled for use during the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs. Historical records no longer exist to indicate which specific astronaut crews said their "goodbyes" in this White Room, but it is likely that at least a third of the 14 Apollo crews that departed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 began their journey here, and stood exactly where you are standing now. Only one other Apollo White Room from Pad 39 still exists, and it is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Center, Florida.
Kansas Cosmosphere
You are now standing in one of the actual Apollo White Rooms, removed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was here- suspended more than 320 feet above the ground- that many historic and dramatic moments unfolded as astronaut crews prepared to be inserted into their Apollo spacecraft for launch. In this small, historic room, the "butterflies" were felt and final "goodbyes were made. For many, it was a room where reality set in as to what they were about to do, and the risk they were about to take.
The White Room was attached to a 60-foot long, cantilevered "swing arm" which was connected to the rocket gantry. About four hours before liftoff, the astronaut crews would walk across the swing arm and enter the White Room. The structure of the room partially wrapped around the entry hatch area of the spacecraft and sealed out the elements. After the astronauts were inserted into the Command Module, the main hatch was shut and locked. Just prior to launch, the White Room swung away from the spacecraft. The astronauts were now alone, sitting atop a 36-story skyscraper of a rocket with the explosive power of an atomic bomb.
This specific White Room was one of three used during the Apollo lunar program, and was later recycled for use during the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs. Historical records no longer exist to indicate which specific astronaut crews said their "goodbyes" in this White Room, but it is likely that at least a third of the 14 Apollo crews that departed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 began their journey here, and stood exactly where you are standing now. Only one other Apollo White Room from Pad 39 still exists, and it is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Center, Florida.
With his head down a bit as the reality sets in, Craig Biggio is taken out of the game and leaves the field for the last time; Houston Astros vs. Atlanta Braves at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Texas
September 30, 2007
Taken from the Crawford Boxes in left field.
(Best viewed in larger sizes)
I think this is from a section meet in Fairmont, Minn.
I started out the two-mile race in dead last and was getting pretty depressed about the situation. Our section (2AA) was always loaded with talented runners and I was doing my best to settle into a good pace without losing touch with the lead pack.
After a couple of laps, I started to wondered what would happen if I threw in a kick. And not just any kick, but an all-out sprint to take a sizable lead. Figuring I had nothing to lose, I started passing people on the next straight-away.
A murmur started in the crowd and when I started passing the lead pack, my teammates and coaches ran to the track, some laughing and others cheering me on - thinking I might pull the upset of the year.
I heard one runner yell to the others, "Let him go. He's gonna die."
It didn't matter to me. I was having fun and giving my team a reason to cheer.
I think I was able to hold the lead for a lap or two, before reality set in, the adrenaline wore off, and the pack overtook me. Still, it's one of my favorite memories from high school track, and someone took a great photo to boot.
Miroslaw Balka's 68x(200x8x8)Heaven at Toronto's Scrap Metal, a hopeful piece re: the traumatic years between the systematization of the genocide of the Jewish people by the Nazis in 1942 and the piece’s commissioning in 2010 for the Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme in Paris.*
The artist's work reflects the Polish "survivors" in and post-Nazi occupation.If I recall correctly, this installation was an interpretation of the showers...
On first encounter, it's a glittering forest, almost enchanting.. and then stark reality sets and it's haunting and rather morbid and upsetting (when the concept is revealed).
*according to ca.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/856903/west-end-micro-rev...
Update:
For a 3D look: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUXo1bWV1VU
Taken with my iPhone
Scrap Metal Gallery
11 Dublin Street, Unit E
I was impressed with how much and how fresh the greens were in everything we ate.
As westerners we were told not to eat anything that wasn't cooked, but reality set in that it would be incredibly rude to not eat greens that were integrated into so many dishes.
Kansas Cosmosphere
You are now standing in one of the actual Apollo White Rooms, removed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was here- suspended more than 320 feet above the ground- that many historic and dramatic moments unfolded as astronaut crews prepared to be inserted into their Apollo spacecraft for launch. In this small, historic room, the "butterflies" were felt and final "goodbyes were made. For many, it was a room where reality set in as to what they were about to do, and the risk they were about to take.
The White Room was attached to a 60-foot long, cantilevered "swing arm" which was connected to the rocket gantry. About four hours before liftoff, the astronaut crews would walk across the swing arm and enter the White Room. The structure of the room partially wrapped around the entry hatch area of the spacecraft and sealed out the elements. After the astronauts were inserted into the Command Module, the main hatch was shut and locked. Just prior to launch, the White Room swung away from the spacecraft. The astronauts were now alone, sitting atop a 36-story skyscraper of a rocket with the explosive power of an atomic bomb.
This specific White Room was one of three used during the Apollo lunar program, and was later recycled for use during the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs. Historical records no longer exist to indicate which specific astronaut crews said their "goodbyes" in this White Room, but it is likely that at least a third of the 14 Apollo crews that departed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 began their journey here, and stood exactly where you are standing now. Only one other Apollo White Room from Pad 39 still exists, and it is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Center, Florida.
Kansas Cosmosphere
You are now standing in one of the actual Apollo White Rooms, removed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was here- suspended more than 320 feet above the ground- that many historic and dramatic moments unfolded as astronaut crews prepared to be inserted into their Apollo spacecraft for launch. In this small, historic room, the "butterflies" were felt and final "goodbyes were made. For many, it was a room where reality set in as to what they were about to do, and the risk they were about to take.
The White Room was attached to a 60-foot long, cantilevered "swing arm" which was connected to the rocket gantry. About four hours before liftoff, the astronaut crews would walk across the swing arm and enter the White Room. The structure of the room partially wrapped around the entry hatch area of the spacecraft and sealed out the elements. After the astronauts were inserted into the Command Module, the main hatch was shut and locked. Just prior to launch, the White Room swung away from the spacecraft. The astronauts were now alone, sitting atop a 36-story skyscraper of a rocket with the explosive power of an atomic bomb.
This specific White Room was one of three used during the Apollo lunar program, and was later recycled for use during the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs. Historical records no longer exist to indicate which specific astronaut crews said their "goodbyes" in this White Room, but it is likely that at least a third of the 14 Apollo crews that departed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 began their journey here, and stood exactly where you are standing now. Only one other Apollo White Room from Pad 39 still exists, and it is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Center, Florida.
Kansas Cosmosphere
You are now standing in one of the actual Apollo White Rooms, removed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida. It was here- suspended more than 320 feet above the ground- that many historic and dramatic moments unfolded as astronaut crews prepared to be inserted into their Apollo spacecraft for launch. In this small, historic room, the "butterflies" were felt and final "goodbyes were made. For many, it was a room where reality set in as to what they were about to do, and the risk they were about to take.
The White Room was attached to a 60-foot long, cantilevered "swing arm" which was connected to the rocket gantry. About four hours before liftoff, the astronaut crews would walk across the swing arm and enter the White Room. The structure of the room partially wrapped around the entry hatch area of the spacecraft and sealed out the elements. After the astronauts were inserted into the Command Module, the main hatch was shut and locked. Just prior to launch, the White Room swung away from the spacecraft. The astronauts were now alone, sitting atop a 36-story skyscraper of a rocket with the explosive power of an atomic bomb.
This specific White Room was one of three used during the Apollo lunar program, and was later recycled for use during the Skylab and Apollo-Soyuz programs. Historical records no longer exist to indicate which specific astronaut crews said their "goodbyes" in this White Room, but it is likely that at least a third of the 14 Apollo crews that departed from Launch Pad-Complex 39 began their journey here, and stood exactly where you are standing now. Only one other Apollo White Room from Pad 39 still exists, and it is on display at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor's Center, Florida.
My husband lost his job again. Not just him, but all the employees that were under contract.
At first I was optimistic. At first I had hope. Then, as the reality set in, I got more and more afraid of what loomed.
Yes, he's put applications out EVERYWHERE and his job agent is working on getting him another contract. But I'm still terrified.
Footprints in the sand ...
Are meant to be Erased...
For they are like what the self desires, but cannot have,
The Waves of reality set right what should never have been.
It's back to the dentist for me today....they're gonna grind one of my teeth for a crown...guess I won't be eating real well for a while...(=P
OK, up until today this has all been conceptual in nature
But once the movers got going this morning it hit me: this is happening and it is happening now!
If I were to tell the University of Virginia Men’s Basketball team were going to win March Madness RIGHT AFTER their devastating loss to 16 seed UMBC… You would call me insane!
Well, whoever flippantly said it as a joke, or was actually predicting it or maybe even betting on those odds. Well let’s just say someone’s joke became reality and someone’s bet made them some cha ching!
However, even in defeat the head coach of the UVA Men’s Basketball game didn’t chew out his team. No, he did just the opposite! He encouraged them!
Fittingly enough he played the song by Tauren Wells: Hills and Valleys. Which essentially talks about in sports terms how in life we experience defeats (the hills) and the victories (the valleys).
I just wrote a song about my personal testimony and there is a section/chorus of it that goes like this:
Isn’t it funny?… How God works this way?… Waiting for the buzzer beater… TO TAKE THE LAST SHOT AND WIN YOUR SOUL’S GAME!!!
See the analogy? Because honestly even though we are not talking about souls being saved necessarily in this case, the idea still applies Jesus will always come through in the clutch, but I believe we need to be CONTENT even in the losses.
Pastor Josiah Graves just taught recently at the Exchange church of how he lost his dream job right after he got his dream job! I can relate to this at least four different times in my life.
I interned at Fox Sports didn’t get hired, interned at a local newspaper didn’t get hired, interned at ESPN West Palm and yes you guessed it… No hiring here.
Finally, last year I got hired with the new MLS Soccer team Inter Miami CF. Enter Covid-19. The week of the first game we had an event for season ticket holders only.
The experience was amazing! Even though it was remarkably like another job I had with another South Florida Sports team, it was like night and day!
There was a really cool band that went by our section, I saw someone I knew from my former church, all the managers that looked over our position were amazing… I could go on and on!
Well unfortunately Covid-19 impacted so many lives. Anywhere from losing a job, loved one, or their own life. For me I lost my boss to layoffs and the whole 2020 season was gone let alone one game that I only was at until half time.
Fast forward to 2021 I find The Exchange and like Pastor Josiah, I lost my job. At first, I wasn’t terribly angry about it. Then reality set in. What I thought could have become a dream job was gone. Livid is a nice word for how I felt.
Being a sports nut, working in the sports industry has always been a dream of mine. To think that something like Covid-19 something that hasn’t happened for multiple lifetimes let alone mine was beyond maddening, frustrating and beyond comprehension.
If you look at the life of Paul, the guy went through it. Sickness, imprisonment, shipwrecks, coming to dying often… But the guy was a little word we call CONTENT. Because amid calamity, chaos and confusion, I have found that maybe not during it, but through its Christ will always come through.
Through all of my struggles in life I have found that Christ always Comes through in the end. However, even though he is willing and WANTS to save us of course. I believe where we find the most comfort even in the chaos is being CONTENT in Christ despite what our circumstances might look like good or bad.
Do not take this as me saying, “Look at me, thou art holy,” But guys I am single, jobless, basically broke, just getting used to an old medicine after getting off one that was beyond awful, and I am CONTENT! Because like the UVA Basketball team, the head coach did not know the result…
What he knew was how to be CONTENT not in just the victory a year later, but the year prior as well. As they were not just the 1 seed but the number 1 OVERALL seed to lose to a 16 seed even before they won the whole thing! Guys we don’t know the outcome, only Jesus does. In this I put my hope, I know that He is faithful, forgiving, and a forever friend of everyone who claims HIM and even for those who don’t know HIM, HE LOVES!!!
Because at the end of the day, if we aren’t CONTENT with CHRIST. How will we be CONTENT in our career, in our marriages, etc.? Don’t get me wrong while all those things are GREAT, CHRIST IS GREATER AND HE IS THE GREATEST of ALL!!!
Ask yourself today are you CONTENT in CHRIST? Because while he will ALWAYS COMETHROUGH for you, being CONTENT in the journey while growing in CHRIST is what will bring comfort in the face of calamity and chaos or whatever circumstance you might find yourself to be in…
God bless,
Zach Evans
Cabaret, More details on Wcities.com. An undeniable classic, this wrenching, spectacular, and riveting musical follows the events surrounding an underground night club in Berlin during the dawn of the Third Reich. The show glimpses behind the scenes at petulant diva Sally Bowles, as she flirts, fights and dreams her way through life as a struggling performer. The grim historical backdrop is reflected through the seedy Kit Kat Klub, as its emcee and Sally bombard the audience with delicious musical numbers done in classically bawdy cabaret-style. Intense political pressures mount over the course of the show as tragic and somber realities set in. As memorable and stirring today as it was in its premiere in 1966, with music by the incomparable John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, it is an unmissable show for devotees of the stage.
Is it in the perception of the soul, or perception in the mind that creates the battling reality of the shot. Or is there nothing, just the constant continuing on of the reality the perspective is in? There is something that grabs me with this one, though. I believe a calm should be set about through mankind and when the reality sets in of this shot, I don't feel calm. I feel enraged, regardless of circumstances.
So as I headed up north the fog lifted but the gloomy clouds remained-but that sets the stage for spooky scenes. So
I did do research marking the spots of intrests---but as I did so certain places on sat seemed really interesting--and as always only when u get there reality sets in -and as I snaked down the curvy grassy lane -the monster came into view.
went to see coraline in 3D thursday. what a great film. and the 3D effects were pretty darn cool too. as are the absurdly stylish 3D glasses. i plan to wear these everyday. not only do i look so amazing, but can you imagine how cool the world will look in 3D?!? 3D everyday will so rock!
My Photoshop stitch-job doesn't quite do it justice, but three images compose the entire picture of the work. Tunnel Vision, a diptych, runs with the class-wide theme for the project at hand concerning "place and childhood".
One of my favorite places to go as a kid was a particular park with my grandfather. While in the classroom, I envisioned countless images of the playthings I held dear-- everything from a wooden stagecoach, multi-piece train, and jail building, to horses in a corral. Upon arriving on-site, however, a grim (and somewhat bitter) reality set in: Everything of my dreams had been wiped clear only to be replaced by "safe", generic products. Upon speaking with a mother there, she said I had only missed the good stuff by about a few weeks.
The new direction of my piece turned into a lament and a search, branching out from the spot of my memory out into the lands I was never allowed to explore as a young child, yet completing the scene altogether.
Inadvertently, the piece was able to fall right into my lifetime artistic themes of urban politics...
(Though it still doesn't make up for the choo-choo of my childhood's loss...)
Cabaret, More details on Wcities.com. An undeniable classic, this wrenching, spectacular, and riveting musical follows the events surrounding an underground night club in Berlin during the dawn of the Third Reich. The show glimpses behind the scenes at petulant diva Sally Bowles, as she flirts, fights and dreams her way through life as a struggling performer. The grim historical backdrop is reflected through the seedy Kit Kat Klub, as its emcee and Sally bombard the audience with delicious musical numbers done in classically bawdy cabaret-style. Intense political pressures mount over the course of the show as tragic and somber realities set in. As memorable and stirring today as it was in its premiere in 1966, with music by the incomparable John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, it is an unmissable show for devotees of the stage.
Bumper cars are fun until the reality sets in: someone will trap you against the wall until time runs out.
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Homework for "A Year With My Camera" - Workbook 1 Part 2 Project - Turning vision into reality
-- Set in stone
While I would have liked to have gone to an older cemetery and found a handsome headstone (apparently the origin of the expression) this will have to do.
(I think it's for the water meter)
At least until I’m done with my shots.
Funny how on Flickr the world feels so closer. I feel like Texas is like right down the street from Minnesota. But only then reality sets in, it really isn't that close. But the people who live there are close in my heart regardless. I love the way you can connect with people and a place with photographs over the internet. I love you all for being people who give me the chance for enjoying that!
Today is my Flickr Ma's birthday. Explore her world, her Flickr, right here.
Happy Friday.
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The old mining town of Leadfield is a classic story of boom, bust, and swindle. The story goes that the original claim was promoted by C.C. Julian in 1925, who claimed to have found abundant veins of lead and other minerals in the desert mountains. Promotional posters showed steamboats making their way up the Armagosa River, which is, in reality, usually dry and flows nowhere near Leadfield. A road was built into the site, and for a time, the town swelled to 300 people and a post office. Within a year, reality set in and everyone left, leaving the town as empty of people as it was of marketable ore. Julian disappeared with his profits. Today the site is reached by a fifteen mile trek up a 4-wheel-drive road. To me, it seemed a beautiful site, with wide sky, great views, and abundant solitude, broken only by the sounds of desert birds, a larger-than-life landscape perfect for a panoramic image stitched together from five regular-sized shots.
This image is featured on my photo blog, thelightisall.blogspot.com, on March 28, 2011.
Among the 337 shots that day, this is by far my favorite. Love the contrast of the messy kitchen and dressed up (and somewhat messed up) wedding couple.
through a nightmare that never ends
And when I try to face it when I wake up, I hate the way reality sets in,
God I wish you could hold me, through the seven days of lonely.
Cabaret, More details on Wcities.com. An undeniable classic, this wrenching, spectacular, and riveting musical follows the events surrounding an underground night club in Berlin during the dawn of the Third Reich. The show glimpses behind the scenes at petulant diva Sally Bowles, as she flirts, fights and dreams her way through life as a struggling performer. The grim historical backdrop is reflected through the seedy Kit Kat Klub, as its emcee and Sally bombard the audience with delicious musical numbers done in classically bawdy cabaret-style. Intense political pressures mount over the course of the show as tragic and somber realities set in. As memorable and stirring today as it was in its premiere in 1966, with music by the incomparable John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb, it is an unmissable show for devotees of the stage.