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Chris leaves today

Posted on by Sharon

Three weeks went by too fast. Grandson Chris is heading back to basic training at Ft. Benning GA this morning We all loved having him home and will miss him terribly. Here’s his address:

Pvt Muise, Christopher D rn 130
E co. 1st BN 19th INF
9075 Holcomb drive
Ft benning GA 31905

Tell him you know his Nani.

Thanks   —Sharon

We love you,Chris!

First Sun Rise 2011 – Good Harbor Beach

Posted on by Manuel F. Simoes

Click on photo and enjoy the first sunrise of 2011 at Good Harbor Beach.

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Whoever is not living on the Edge is taking up too much room

Posted on by God's Morning
Mixed Media Painting by E.J. Lefavour

This poem was written by my dear friend, Bina Benestante. It epitomizes life on Cape Ann to me, so I wanted to share it with all of you. You have to read all the way to the end to catch the magic.

EDGE
(“Whoever is not living on the edge, is taking up too much room!”)
By Sabina Troger Benestante

Out on the edge again
One step away: a deep, steep abyss,
Yawning before my feet.
I’m standing on a towering cliff top,
High above the sea.

Gusts of cold wind whip my face
Spraying white foam on roaring waves
Forever breaking, breaking at the rough rock’s edge.
A carnivorous bird is shooting like an arrow
Down at some hapless creature of the sea
As suddenly the clouds rip open, like a ghoulish wound

A sunbeam crashes through, furrowing
A narrow band of fiery lava
Into the waves, stretching as far as the horizon
The wind is howling…

Other people exist in soft, lush valleys, I complain,
Above them clear blue skies, sweet air, a feathery cloud.
Completely cozy, they listen to the willows’ whispers,
Growing around a calm and shallow pond
Maybe next to a brook, sheltered by elms,
With flimsy butterflies, dancing above unruffled meadows
Of fragrant summer grass…

While I forever find myself just barely hanging in there
My nails like claws, clutching bare rock, and by my teeth’s skin merely holding on: Why me?
Yeah, God answered. But you have the view.

Thank You Guys

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

It was great to share such a great time with so many of you at the Rocky Neck Plunge Yesterday.

What a way to ring in the new year.

Remember for the rest of our lives we can always say we did it-together!

According to the Farmer’s Almanac,

Posted on by Sharon

January 2nd 2011 is best to….

Cut Hair to Retard Growth, Mow to Retard Growth, Castrate Farm Animals, Harvest, Pick Apples and Pears, Wean, Potty Train, Perform Demolition, Wash Wooden Floors, Wash Windows, Start Diet to Lose Weight, Advertise to Sell, Buy a Car

So if you are motivated, I hope this list helps you with your chores! 🙂

By the way, I’m starting the 365 Project where you post a photo everyday for 2011. If you took a picture yesterday, you can get started too! I was going to do this on my own, but I think doing the Project will keep me motivated. Here is yesterday’s post Chilly Jump on 365 Project

Click in the photo and it will take you to the project. Let me know if you are going to do it!  —Sharon

Rocky Neck Plunge and Art Rock Kindness

Posted on by God's Morning

photo collage of Rocky Neck Plunge New Years Day 2011Did you know?

That today was the annual New Year’s Day Rocky Neck Plunge sponsored by Imagine of Rocky Neck.  If you missed it, you can see a little of it here.  If you were there, now you can relive it (assuming you’ve warmed up enough to want to). Great fun was had by all.  You can click on the link below to see some video, since I haven’t figured out how to embed it into the post yet.

Also, when Paul Frontiero posted his last Art Rock location at Good Harbor Beach, for the first time, I knew where it was (along with at least 5,000 other people).  I wanted to go look for it, but the storm had started, so I let it go and went out shooting around Annisquam instead.  Today at the Rocky Neck Plunge, Ed Collard, who had gone and found the Good Harbor Beach Art Rock, presented it to me as a gift.  Ed and Paul, may your kindness be returned to you a hundredfold.  I have to say that the people of Cape Ann have proven in my short time here, to be the kindest people I have ever met.  Here is my precious Art Rock.

Paul Frontiero's Good Harbor Art Rock, gift to EJ from Ed Collard

Happy New Year

Posted on by God's Morning

Some Boston fireworks and New Year wishes for everyone here on Cape Ann (or wherever you are right now reading GMG).

Photo by E.J. Lefavour of Boston’s 375th Celebration fireworks

http://www.khanstudiointernational.com/

Kindness

Posted on by God's Morning
Babson Boulder Kindness
Photo by E.J. Lefavour

Did you know?

That millionaire philanthropist, and 10th generation Gloucester inhabitant, Roger Ward Babson (1875-1967), provided charitable assistance to unemployed stonecutters in Gloucester during the Great Depression, by commissioning them to carve inspirational inscriptions on approximately two dozen boulders in the area surrounding Dogtown Common. This boulder is the one I chose for January’s image in my 2011 Dogtown and Babson Boulders calendar because I think the message is the most important one to start out any new year with. If we all resolve to spend the New Year performing random acts of kindness, what an amazing year 2011 will be.

E.J. Lefavour

http://www.khanstudiointernational.com/gallery_dogtownandbabsonboulders.htm

Shield Your Eyes Or Be Blinded!

Posted on by Joey Ciaramitaro

For those of you attending today’s Rocky Neck Plunge you may want to consider either a welder’s mask or some serious sunglasses. Once Ed Collard Strips Down It Could Get Ugly!

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Rocky Neck Plunge

New Year’s Day

High Noon Gringo!