# 1 photo: Tiffany Stained Glass Window
For Annie Kane 1926
One of tryptic:
Alpha: Angel of the Nativity
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# 2 photo: The small intimate chapel to the left of the main altar
inside St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church, Bar Harbor, ME
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Last week, I went to St. Saviours Episcopal Church in
Bar Harbor, primarily to hear Chimesmaster Ilia Karp play
St. Saviour’s bells church bells.
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I planned enough time to walk thru the church
and take time looking at the stained glass windows.
Joan, myself and often Ralph with us,
over the years spent many occasions at the church
for various programs.
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The window that I have here is the one that started me
down memory lane about the times at the church with Joan.
It is near the front door and amazing. Another particular
space was the small chapel where Joan and I had attended,
I believe it was Morning Prayer, during a workshop.
The feeling of intimacy and the Holy Spirit is what I recall now.
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Carillon bells
heard over the village
Amazing Grace
memories stirred
sentimental journey
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written June 13, 2018 // Joan died April 13, 2018
TPOS prompt: June 29 tanka prose
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TPOS prompt: February 4 2013 memory/experience
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# 1 photo: Tiffany Stained Glass Window
For Annie Kane 1926
One of tryptic:
Alpha: Angel of the Nativity
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# 2 photo: The small intimate chapel to the left of the main altar
inside St. Saviour’s Episcopal Church, Bar Harbor, ME
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prompt: Happy Hands ＼(^^)／
what you say to get a good photo
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think happy happy
together for always
smiles light the world
day spent in idyllic setting
smiles for life is wonderful
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Kathabella Wilson prompt
“happy hands” or whatever you say to get the picture…
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(Somehow I had the idea, one day, to say “happy hands”!
This is what happens!
All the different personalities,
exuberant and sweet,
humorous and jubilant…’
come into play.
This was a wonderful celebation
the Friday Poets themselves put together
at our home for Kathabela’s birthday…
this is the finale photo. I said –“happy hands”
and look what happened.
What do you say when you want tp take a photo
that shows the personalities and spirit of a group…
and what do YOU think of “happy hands”??)
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Kathabela Wilson wrote for the prompt:
We all know that life is challenging, changeable full of the unexpected and difficult.
How do we deal with this?
We’ve seen animals adapting to loss, and incapacity,
and we all have such examples in our own lives and those we love.
What are the ways of coping, confronting the natural and unnatural forces of life,
the mishaps and the tragedies?
What have you observed,
felt, what tangible examples
of dealing with life’s challenges
can you express in your tanka?
How have you done this yourself?
Sometimes we can help each other,
but ultimately it is our own task and
we are prey to the weaknesses of chemistry,
environment and life itself.
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MY RESPONSE: (I am 70 as I write this)
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my mind says
I’m in my twenties…
body says, “you wish’
mind says ok forty
body says get a walker
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I find it is true … what “elderly” people
told me when I worked in a nursing facility.
If they didn’t have what ever problem required
them to be in a nursing facility,
they felt usually in their 30’s mentally.
At 70, I find it difficult to believe that I cannot
do, have the stamina to do what I did when I was
in my twenties, thirties, even older.
Siggi
photo from the Peeps photo site
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Wednesday June 11, 2014 prompt: the details of celebration
(traditions made by you or others) from Takayama, Japan
(my response tanka at the end in blue)
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(Walking into the immense exhibition hall
of intricately carved wooden “floats”
in Takayama the variety and beauty
of human celebration gleamed
amidst glass reflections of amazing detail.
When they are in action,
twice a year the floats
are pulled across the red bridges of Takayama
and through the streets with traditional music
and is a great and beloved spectacle.
Many have large marionettes
as part of their carvings,
one float takes eight puppeteers
to enact the traditional gestures.
There are in all of our personal histories,
detailed traditions that are dear and intricate,
and many that we ourselves create,
and repeat,
more private, personal,
but with the same kind of powerful significance
that grows with repetition,
and becomes more intricate.
When we were in the giant glass exhibition hall
I was reminded of my tradition of saving broken things,
my clear jars filled with colorful wonders,
the collection growing more intricate
(and humorous- it even contains my two small red cameras
that stopped working with their lenses stuck out on our last trip to Japan! )
The clear glass viewing jars
seem opposite and miniature
and yet in tune with
the glorious spectacle before us.
Also the celebration of friends
about to happen tonight,
came happily to my imagination.
During the visit in Hakone,
where we travel today,
some traditional meeting details
will be enacted for sure.
Mariko Kitakuboand I
will one of the days where our “twin dresses”
(costumes of celebration)
we bought together on Catalina Island.
I have the kimono she gave me in my suitcase…
and there are other happy gestures
that are details of our play.
Kris Kondo will also join us,
and I will wear the fantastic earrings
she made as part of my costume.
All the details and objects of association
become like family treasures,
cherished and brought out
especially for the occasions of our meetings.
What detailed traditional objects and ceremonies
have you created yourself,
simple or elaborate,
that have strong associations,
meanings of the heart for you?
Also family traditions
that are unique to place and personal creation?
How do they open in meaning and power in your tanka?)
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visiting “the sisters”
peeps and chocolate sublime
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(One of the highlights of this trip happened already!
It was to meet with Yiwei Huang.
home from Singapore
where he was getting his Phd
was assigned 3 years ago
to show us his home city of Nanjing
and to lead us up Yellow Mountain.
Our glorious adventures
and our poetic collaborations
joined our hearts,
and he has translated hundreds
of your tanka written for Tong Zhang
and performed them a year ago
for her by visiting with a power point.
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Now he is beginnng more translations
of your newer tanka on her art.
He is here for the conference
and the joyous nature of the reunion is evident.
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What have been your reunions on your journey?
of reuniting with Johannes Siemons,
who was our host two years ago in Tuscany
where we lived with him for a week
in the 14th century stone house
he restored there in the small village in Caprio.
We have traveled many times with him,
our ideal traveling companion
and to be together is a joy and inspiration.
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How have reunions on your journey
been important to your life and art,
how do they sing in your tanka?)
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bright come hither signs
long ago on
“Hollywood Squares”
was asked
“how many calories
in a Snickers candy bar? ”
Dom: “none”…pause
“if you break it in half
and…
he pantomimed
and shook the invisible candy bar
“pouring” the calories out
photo (c) 2014 Saradunn
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My inspiration:
sign with display at the local
Middle School. I did not have
permission to photograph the
art work.
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written for facebook page.
NaHaiWriMo facebook site encourages
other than the standard 5-7-5 haiku forms.
It is a place to have fun, play creatively,
experiment, try something new, practice
writing haiku daily.
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Curling sheet
The sheet is an area of ice, carefully prepared to be as flat and level as possible, 146 to 150 feet in length.
by 14.5 to 16.5 feet in width. Multiple games may be played simultaneously.
A target, the house consists of three concentric rings formed by painting or laying colored vinyl sheets
under the ice and are usually distinguished by colour.
These rings are defined by their diameters as the four-foot, eight-foot and 12-foot rings.
The rings are merely a visual aid for aiming and judging which stone is closer to the centre;
they do not affect scoring but a stone must at least touch the outer ring or it does not score.
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Each house is centered on the intersection of the center line, drawn lengthwise down the center of the sheet and one of the tee lines, drawn 16 feet (4.9 m) from, and parallel to, each backboard.
These lines divide the houses into quarters.
The centre of each house, at the intersection of the centre line and the tee line, is known as the button.
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Two hog lines, are drawn 37 feet (11 m) from, and parallel to, each backboard.
The hacks are fixed 12 feet behind each button; a hack gives the thrower something to push against when making the throw. On indoor rinks, there are usually two fixed hacks, rubber-lined holes, one on each side of the centre line, with the inside edge no more than 3 inches (76 mm) from the centre line and the front edge on the hack line. A single moveable hack may also be used.
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A curling sheet, with dimensions – CL: Centreline • HOL: Hogline • TL: Teeline • BL: Backline • HA: Hackline with Hacks • FGZ: Free Guard Zone
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The ice may be natural but is usually frozen by a refrigeration plant.
Most curling clubs have an ice maker whose main job is to care for the ice. It is common for each sheet of ice to have multiple sensors embedded in order to monitor surface temperature.
process of sliding a stone down the sheet.
The skip, or the captain of the team, will usually determine the various tactics to be used such as
taking-out, blocking or tapping another stone.
- The weight of the stone is its velocity, which depends on the leg drive of the delivery rather than the arm.
- The turn, handle, or curl is the rotation of the stone, which gives it a curved trajectory.
- The line is the direction of the throw ignoring the effect of the turn.
The winner is the team having the highest number of accumulated points at the completion of ten ends.
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Points are scored at the conclusion of each of these ends as follows:
- when each team has thrown its eight stones,
- the team with the stone closest to the button wins that end;
- the winning team is then awarded one point for each of its own
stones lying closer to the button than the opponent’s
- Only stones that are in the house are considered in the scoring.
- A stone is in the house if it lies within the 12-foot (3.7 m) zone
- or any portion of its edge lies over the edge of the ring.
Since the bottom of the stone is rounded,
a stone just barely in the house will not have any actual contact with the ring,
which will pass under the rounded edge of the stone, but it still counts.
This type of stone is known as a biter.
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Salt Lake City 2002-Curling-A curling stone
The word curling first appears in print in 1620 in Perth,
Curling shoes are similar to ordinary athletic shoes except that they have dissimilar soles;
the slider shoe is designed for the off foot (or sliding foot) and the non-sliding shoe for the hack foot.
The slider shoe is designed to slide and typically has a Teflon sole.
It is worn by the thrower during delivery from the hack and by sweepers
or the skip to glide down the ice when sweeping or otherwise traveling down the sheet quickly
The non-sliding shoe, or hack foot shoe, is worn by the thrower on the hack foot
during delivery and is designed to grip.
It may have a normal athletic shoe sole or a special layer of rubbery material applied
to the sole of a thickness to match the sliding shoe.
The toe of the hack foot shoe may also have a rubberised coating on the top surface
or a flap that hangs over the toe to reduce wear on the top of the shoe
as it drags on the ice behind the thrower.
Other equipment include:
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- Curling pants, made to be stretchy to accommodate the curling delivery.
- A stopwatch to time the stones while sweeping to get a feel of the speed of the stone.
- Stopwatches can be attached either to clothing or the broom itself.
- Curling gloves and mittens, to keep the hands warm and improve grip on the broom.
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