My View of Life on the Dock
Naturally Love is the theme for February, the first month for Bread Poets Society Monthly Poetry and High Tea gatherings @SandpiperBakery by Eastern Point Lit House. Philip Storey set up shop last week to spread the word.
February 2018 – What’s Your Favorite Love Poem? Lit House Philip Storey will lead. Specialty French pastries, tea, coffee and themed poetry. 3pm Sunday, February 11, 2018. Sandpiper Bakery, 65 Middle Street, Gloucester, MA. $25
Gloucester Elks Lodge #892 was recognized for the community work they do for Cape Ann’s returning veterans, receiving the Edward Spry trophy for being the #1 Lodge in the Commonwealth for veterans activities. Jayne Morse won the Elk’s Volunteer of the Year Award. The Cape Ann Veterans Service office gives guidance and helps with information for the returning veterans. ‘Welcome Home to Cape Ann- We Left the Light on For You’ outreach for Returning Veterans is such an inspiring national model. It couldn’t happen without leadership, support and volunteers. Lots of good eggs here!
all photos are from Elks Lodge #892 and Adam Curcuru
photos from last years Welcome Home To Cape Ann – welcome home family event hosted by elks, free for all returning veterans and their families, lots of nice donors and We Left the Light on for You local & generously filled swag bag
Recorded 2/8/18 (stay tuned for a HILARIOUS revelation about the 20 minute mark).
We have a stranger in the house! We talk with one of Alicia’s twitter friends (of 2 years) courtesy of Bossman Joey. Actually we have been talking about her for since episode 10. Funny, her name is not actually pronounced “Alicia”. We finally get to the reason why Bossman had pushed to meet with her (it’s Bossman’s Favorite Subject……Dating). We go through her tweets!
We are going to try and find our new friend A MAN! Please be the following: Respectful, Mature, Sense a humor, kids are not a deal breaker, also helps if you talk on your first date 😉 Also do not be allergic to cats.
As much as we don’t want to talk about it…..SUPERBOWL happened….WTF HAPPENED?! We discuss all things including Halftime, Defense, Commercials. BYE PATRICIA! Mcdaniels clearly wants the rest of the country to hate the Patriots forever. Garoppolo now the highest paid NFL Player in NFL history.
Check out the Chickering baby grand (pre 1900) piano Mac Bell gifted to Sound Harbor! Sound Harbor offers music lessons and special musical experiences:
Sound Harbor music lessons headquarters is downtown Gloucester, Massachusetts, 45R Pleasant Street (within Browns Mall)
SeniorCare Inc. will hold its annual Celebrate Spring Breakfast to benefit Meals on Wheels on Friday, March 16, 2018, from 7:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at The Gloucester House, located 63 Rogers Street in downtown Gloucester. Tickets are $12 per person and include a buffet breakfast. Placemat sponsorships are still available.
Formerly the SeniorCare Valentines Breakfast, proceeds from the breakfast will benefit SeniorCare’s Meals on Wheels program.
Well it’s definitely one of mine,, sometimes I️ wake up early enough to see and capture the beautiful colors just before the sun comes up.. Wednesday mornings sunrise was a beauty. Crazy to think this happened only a few hours before that snow/rain storm passed through.
Good Harbor’s Footbridge 
I pulled into the Friendly’s parking lot because I saw a hawk in a tree. Trying to channel my inner Kim Smith, I tried to sneak up and capture a photo. Armed only with my iPhone I knew it wouldn’t be wonderful, but thought it would look pretty against the sunset sky. Alas the hawk saw me coming and took to flight. The sunset over the ducks in the water was all that remained.
We visited Crane Beach this week on a very windy day. The parking lot looked like a fishing pond as it was covered in water still. But it was sunny and quiet. We enjoyed the quiet beauty.
Choppy water
Sand blowing across the shell
It looked a bit like a seashell graveyard, shells strewn for several yards.
CB joined us but didn’t appreciate the blowing sand.
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LAST DAY TO ORDER SIGNED, LIMITED EDITION OF “Super Blue Blood Moon Over Gloucester”
Dear Friends,
If you would like an 8 x12 print of the “Super Blue Blood Moon Over Gloucester’s UU Church” photo, please place your order by emailing me at kimsmithdesigns@hotmail.com, commenting in the comment section of this post, or facebook messaging me. We are printing a limited edition at 95.00 each, which includes shipping and tax. The image will be a giclee print on fine art hot press paper.
We will accept checks or cash. Place your order by February 8th and payment must be received by February 15th. The limited edition images will be printed that week and mailed immediately. Your order is not placed until you have received a confirmation of payment.
If this system works smoothly, I think we’ll do the “We Love You Too Snowy Owl” or Piping Plovers “OctoPop” next 🙂
Thank you all so much for your interest ❤
From our Friend Charles Nazarian:
This Sunday, February 11th, three children’s choirs will combine to present a festival concert at the Gloucester UU Church at 4:00pm, hosted by the Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation. We are late getting out the publicity but hoping that our partners will be able to help using their email, blogs and social media.
More info is available on the GMF web site.
Thanks for your help in getting the word out for this family-friendly event!
C
Charles L. Nazarian, president
Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation
10 Church Street
Gloucester, MA 01930
www.gloucestermeetinghouse.org
978-821-5291
Many traditions mark the rising of spring in mid-February when a thrumming begins deep in the earth. Feminine archetypes speak of “the Return.” What was buried through the winter now begins to wake and rise up. Shoots of green return, sparks of revelation appear. In this workshop we’ll listen to what is rising in us and how we might engage with this part of the creative cycle. There will be space for writing and voice; poetry and image; and sharing in a supportive circle of women.
Words live in the body, rise up from the marrow. Writing is full of physicality, the hand moves across paper with each breath and our voice carries an aliveness whether written or spoken. This is a writing series to foster the unbridled and embodied voice. Through prompts and poetry, silence and sound, we’ll discover what is cooking in the body’s imagination turning toward Spring.
Individual coaching for those seeking support in defining a project or moving forward an existing project, such as art or writing. Support as well for those desiring to move beyond stuck places in their life. Life as collage, bringing resolution and harmony to the pieces we endlessly shuffle. Practical, playful, grounded, transformational.
Poetry reading with Nadine Boughton, Mary Cole and Patrick Doud, Sunday, March 25, 3pm. Rocky Neck Cultural Center, 6 Wonson St., Gloucester
Nadine Boughton, M.A., is a collage artist, writer/poet, coach and teacher. Her art is represented by the Trident Gallery in Gloucester and is exhibited, collected and published internationally. Her writing has been published in literary journals and trade books. As a creativity coach Nadine’s work draws from her twenty-five plus years as a psychotherapist, birth doula, and her long study of spiritual traditions and the iconography of the Feminine. Nadine holds an M.A. in Expressive Therapy from Lesley University, Cambridge, MA.
Thursday at the Rhummmmie: We ride the big wave with Johnny Carwash! That’s Bobby Davis with the tan and pineapples on his shorts, whanging away at all your favorite beach toons. Plus he’s dragging in his hand-picked surfer dudes to help out waxing your pineal gland. That’s Dave “Chip” Brown, Dave “Cubby” Mattacks, and Dave “Dave” Sag. Special guest appearance by Josh Davis on the tonsilphonium. Surf’s up!
Dave Sag
40 Railroad Avenue
Gloucester, MA 01930
(978) 283-9732
http://www.therhumbline.com/calendar/
Good Morning Gloucester 