WHASSUP HOMIE

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Testing out a new long lens for my still camera and I think I love it!

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Can’t Touch Your Toes? Bend Your Knees! : ) At Cape Ann Power Yoga

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Have you seen our posts, flyers, or happy students walking out onto Main Street? You haven’t taken the leap and come up the stairs to Cape Ann Power Yoga?

Here is YOUR chance.

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People have been asking and we’ve been listening. We are offering a four part series to introduce you to our strengthening and rejuvenating practice.

Cape Ann Power Yoga

Four Saturdays – February 20, 27, March 5, 12

11:00am-12:30pm

$50 per person

Click Here for More Information and to Sign up

A limited class size and focus on basics allows you to be in the company of other newer or brand new students, ask questions and get answers, and take the first step on a life changing journey.

HOW TO

This isn’t the “cool kids club”. There is no secret handshake, you don’t need fancy pants, or a $100 mat. Come as you are. After the first class you can go to Marshall’s or…

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Ann and Mike Lafferty Represent! In Arkansas

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Another exotic spot for GoodMorning Gloucester to be represented. Ann and Mike Lafferty in Arkansas for the winter

rode the Indian motorcycle to dine in Paris. 

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Ocean Effect Snow

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The same morning earlier this week that everyone was out photographing gorgeous images of sea smoke, I took this photo.  While we didn’t receive new snow fall during the night, the homes and landscape at the end of our street were covered with ocean effect snow early the next morning.  It was kind of cool to see.

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KURT VONNEGUT NIGHT AT DUCKWORTH’S LIT HOUSE DINNER BOOK CLUB EVENT THIS COMING SUNDAY!

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CONGRATULATIONS GLOUCESTER SEA CADETS!!!

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The Gloucester Sea Cadets were the winners at the most recent Awesome Gloucester Pitch Night, receiving $1000 from the local micro grant foundation to support the leadership training they offer to local youth interested in naval careers.

Each month the Gloucester chapter of the Awesome Foundation solicits proposals from the community and chooses the top three to attend a public Pitch Night on the evening of the thirdMonday. Submitters make their case before the 20 local trustees who have each donated $50 toward the monthly award. The top vote getters walk away with $1000 in cash. Proposals to make Gloucester more awesome can be made at Awesome Gloucester.

HOODED MERGANSER

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This charming little diving duck was spotted several days ago in Rockport Harbor with a group of Mallards. About two thirds the size of the male Mallards, the striking pattern of the male Hooded Merganser made it easily spotted in the flock. A fun fact about Hooded Mergansers is that they can find their prey underwater by changing the refractive properties of their eyes. Additionally, they have an extra pair of eyelids that are both transparent and protective, functioning like a pair of goggles.

I hope to see you at the “Beautiful Birds of Cape Ann” program on Thursday night at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center!

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GLOUCESTER STAGE ANNOUNCES 2016 SEASON LINEUP

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Gloucester Stage Company: The 2016 Season

 One World Premiere, Two New England Premieres

A Tony Nominee & Elliot Norton Award Winners

Set For 37th Gloucester Stage Season

Gloucester Stage Company Artistic Director, Robert Walsh, recently announced the six-play lineup for Gloucester Stage’s 37th Season of professional theater in Gloucester, Massachusetts. “We are thrilled to announce our 2016 season: every story is a journey and in each of these six journeys you will find adventure, delight, surprise, intrigue and joy,” explains Walsh. The 2016 season features an Israel Horovitz world premiere, two New England premieres, the return of Academy Award-nominated actress, and Gloucester resident, Lindsay Crouse, Managing Director Jeff Zinn’s GSC directorial debut, the re-teaming of last season’s hit, Out of Sterno director Paula Plum and playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer, and the Gloucester Stage debut of Elliot Norton Award winner Benjamin Evett and Tony nominee Barbara Walsh.

Gloucester Stage kicks off the 37th season on May 19 with Gloucester Stage favorite Lindsay Crouse in Peter Shaffer’s, Lettice and Lovage, directed by Benny Sato Ambush; followed by Matthew Spangler and Benjamin Evett’s,Albatross, on June 16, featuring Benjamin Evett and directed by Rick Lombardo; Deborah Zoe Laufer’s, The Last Schwartz, directed by Paula Plum opens on July 7. Then Jason Robert Brown’s, Songs For A New World, opens on August 4, directed by GSC Artistic Director, Robert Walsh, and featuring Barbara Walsh in her Gloucester Stage debut; September 1st, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb’s The Totalitarians opens, directed by Managing Director Jeff Zinn, followed by the world premiere of Israel Horovitz’s newest work, Man In Snow, opening on September 29.

Special Note for Cape Ann Residents:

PAY WHAT YOU WISH: Pay What You Wish tickets are available for the second matinee of each production. Tickets can only be purchased day of show at the door.

CAPE ANN NIGHT: The reduced ticket price for the first Preview Performance of each production is $25 for residents of Gloucester, Rockport, Essex and Manchester. Proof of residency required. Limit: 2 Cape Ann Night tickets per household per production. Limited amount of tickets available per performance.

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READ THE COMPLETE LINEUP HERE

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Remember Yesterday, When It Was Winter?

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Video: Niles Pond Afternoon
by Marty Luster

Music by Kevin MacLeod

George Street Shuffle by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
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My Winter Creative Project

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Since getting my mother safely and happily ensconced in an assisted care facility in her home town, near her friends and church family, I have been inspired to embark on a creative project of some magnitude. I am painting an overview of the Bible, starting with Genesis, the beginning, and going through Revelation, the final book.  Since we are in the Easter season, I wanted to share some of the paintings that correspond with this season celebrated by Christian churches around the world.  These will be familiar to the Catholic and other churchgoing readers, and may be enlightening to those not familiar with the Bible.

The style of all the paintings in this series is a modified medieval/iconic style, which at first seemed totally new for me, but I soon realized was a culmination of the varied bodies of work I have done over the past 25 years.

This painting is of the beheading of John the Baptist at the order of King Herod. In this painting, Salome, Herod’s stepdaughter, is handing the head of John over to her wicked, adulterous, bloodthirsty mother, Herodias. Herodias was married to King Herod, while at the same time being married to his brother, Philip, which John criticized, thereby making an enemy of Herodias.  While Judas is the most despised character in the Bible, I put Herodias at a close second. Bad enough she is so wicked, but to enlist her young daughter’s help in such a gruesome plot is unimaginable.

Scriptural reference: Mark 6:17-29

For Herod himself had given orders to have John arrested, and he had him bound and put in prison. He did this because of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, whom he had married. For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.” So Herodias nursed a grudge against John and wanted to kill him. But she was not able to, because Herod feared John and protected him, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man. When Herod heard John, he was greatly puzzled; yet he liked to listen to him.

Finally the opportune time came. On his birthday Herod gave a banquet for his high officials and military commanders and the leading men of Galilee. When the daughter of Herodias (Salome) came in and danced, she pleased Herod and his dinner guests.

The king said to the girl, “Ask me for anything you want, and I’ll give it to you.” And he promised her with an oath, “Whatever you ask I will give you, up to half my kingdom.”

She went out and said to her mother, “What shall I ask for?”

“The head of John the Baptist,” she answered.

At once the girl hurried in to the king with the request: “I want you to give me right now the head of John the Baptist on a platter.”

The king was greatly distressed, but because of his oaths and his dinner guests, he did not want to refuse her. So he immediately sent an executioner with orders to bring John’s head. The man went, beheaded John in the prison, and brought back his head on a platter. He presented it to the girl, and she gave it to her mother. On hearing of this, John’s disciples came and took his body and laid it in a tomb.

E.J. Lefavour
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Shout out to FOB Ray Cahill @seaportvet

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@TheBevLowDown: Harry had a great visit this morning @seaportvet! Thanks Dr. Cahill, for the care & insight on his diet. #bigfeline