My View of Life on the Dock
Joey — Would appreciate some help spreading the word. It worked last month — we filled the place! Thanks. Tony
Last month’s Psychic Weekend was a big hit with with Blue Shutters friends from near and far, and this Saturday and Sunday the mediums will be back. All are invited to join Julie Ann Gadziala and Genevieve Hackett on April 14 & 15 for their Spirit Hour and other Psychic Weekend activities. Here are some photos from last month — and a poster for this weekend (and some upcoming dates).
Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer Free Libary Childrens Services Tuesday April 24, 2018 5:30-7pm
“Opening Doors, Opening Hearts: Grandparents raising Grandchildren Cape Ann: Guest speakers Deborah Doucette author of Raising our Children’s Children: Room in the Heart and Colleen Pritoni, Director of Commission on the Status of Grandparents Raising Grandchildren.”
This original & innovative event is hosted by Sawyer Free Library Childrens Services in collaboration with community partners like: Cape Ann Museum, Cape Ann YMCA, Senior Care, The Open Door, Healthy Gloucester Collaborative, WIC, Pathways, NS MVP, and Backyard Growers.
“April is National Poetry Month! Kids can celebrate by writing a poem & planting a tree! All supplies will be provided for this make & take program on April 20, 2018 from 2-3pm”
Always busy, busy fun programming through children’s services at Sawyer Free Library
Now in its 16th year (!) Sawyer Free’s annual poetry contest for all students who go to Gloucester schools or live in Gloucester is LIVE. Participants can submit up to 3 poems through April 30, 2018. Some of the previous winning poems are published on the library web site. 2015 2016 2017
Former Gloucester Poet Laureate, host of The Writers Block, and co-founder with Christy Russo of the dynamite Poetry without Paper contest, John Ronan, included this reminder plug along with his January column and poem in the Gloucester Daily Times:
“Students! Families! Grandparents, aunts and uncles! The annual Poetry Without Paper contest, sponsored by the Sawyer Free Library, will again open from March 1 to April 30. All students living in or attending school in Gloucester are eligible, from elementary to high school. This is the 16th year of the contest and hundreds of students participate each season, winners claiming prizes, a public reading, and a chance to be on TV. Spread the word! Watch for details at: www.sawyerfreelibrary.org.”
Mayor Romeo Theken broadcasts and celebrates National Poetry Month every April, Poetry without Paper, and Poem in Your Pocket Day which is April 26 in 2018. #pocketpoem
O’Maley Innovation Middle School has it posted in several spots and it’s been included in newsletters since the contest opened. Good luck to all the writers!
The one and only “Sax” Gordon Beadle wafts in to flit on your hippocampus with his remarkably well-endowed grasp of the blues. Just back from a tour of outer space, Gordie and his boys will destroy your wildest dreams! Featuring Risky “King” Russell on catarrh and “Mr.Ed” Scheer , on the skins. And me, too.
Dave Sag
Do you have a coating on your tongue or feeling tired all the time? Through the lens of Ayurveda – these are a few signs of Ama (toxins). Toxins clog the canals in our bodies.
Ayurveda offers ways to cleanse the body of Ama (toxins) but it’s always better to prevent if from forming in the first place.
Ask yourself when you eat the biggest meal of the day? If you answered “dinner” you are helping to create Ama. Eating a large, heavy meal in the evening is the single, target and most common mistake that the majority of us make, especially in the Western world…and if you are over 50 years of age this is even more problematic as your metabolism and digestion become slower.
So start today and make “lunch” (12-2pm) your biggest meal of the day.
Let us know how you do.
If you’d like…
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Information on the “The Gloucester Guide” website. Good Harbor Beach when it was a working harbor.
During editing this photo, I noticed someone watching me.
A Mona Lisa Smile on Main and Center Street
I have been pouring through photos from this year’s past late great Monarch migration to create the new “Beauty on the Wing” program that I am giving Thursday evening at Salem State.
My favorite thing to do photographing butterflies is to capture them mid-flight. Working on landscape design projects and film projects back to back I only had time to upload and didn’t have a chance to look through the film footage and photos daily. I discovered a bunch of photos that are worthy of adding to the presentation–a photographer’s idea of finding buried treasure–and these are two of my favorites.
April 27 – May 6, 2018
Presented by Highland Street Foundation and produced by the Boch Center, ArtWeek moves beyond Greater Boston this year. The calendar of (mostly free) events is now live.
The Gloucester skyline is ever changing and always beautiful.
Sam Palmer is an Electrical Engineer and Radio Astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. A member of the CfA’s Radio & Geoastronomy Group, Sam built the 1.2 m “Mini” radio telescope which has been hugely instrumental in increasing our understanding of the structure and chemistry of the Milky…
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Foggy Morning Plovers Courting
Papa creates a variety of nest scrapes by digging shallow miniature teacup-size craters in the sand.
He pipes his love call to Mama, inviting her to come inspect the potential nest site.
And adds some dried bits of seaweed to the nest to make it extra appealing to her.
With a flourish of her wings she says NO.
Nest inspecting is very tiring and Mama takes a nap in between inspections (even though Papa is doing all the work!)
Waiting patiently for kayaking season.
Hi kids:
Hope all are well and trying to keep warm. On Saturday I will be at the DPW for helping out with Hazardous Waste Day. The Rocky Neck Clean Up could use our help.
When: Saturday, April 14
Time: 10:00 – 1:00
Where: Rocky Neck Parking Lot
Please bring gloves, rakes, etc.
Thank you all
Donna
Dinner Specials Each Week!
Wednesday, April 11th – 7pm
My Musical Guest: LIZ FRAME!
One of the great ones, people. Bold, sassy lyrics. Exciting,
soulful music. Liz Frame is an honest and true artist… and
I can only hope the locals get what it is that happens all
around them, all the time in this amazing, one-of-a-kind
kinda place! ~ Fly
Dinner with great music!
*Each week features a special, invited musical guest
The Rhumb Line Kitchen……now features Janet Brown with some new and healthy ideas!
Plus a fine, affordable wine menu!
Upcoming…
4/18 – Strungout Playboys
4/25 – Lynn Taylor
5/2 – Tony Frontiero
Visit: http://www.therhumbline.com/
Looking forward……to seeing you there 🙂
I love when the horizon looks like this early in the morning. This was Pigeon Cove Harbor at about 7:30 this morning….a fine line. In contrast, he next photo shows Mill River just 10 minutes later….all fogged in.
Good Morning Gloucester 