My View of Life on the Dock
Saturday, November 22, 2014 was very busy with the holiday fairs popping up all over the city. Went to Seacoast Fair, St. John’s Fair, The UU and went to Market Basket for the Open Door.
“OUT IN THE COLD”
A short film on Gloucester By David “Doc” Vincent
https://www.facebook.com/daviddoc.vincent
Perfumed Fragrant Flower rewards us indoors after a summer outside.
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JFK was murdered 51 years ago today. Not too much news in the media about it today. It’s sad.
No matter what you thought of JFK’s personal life we could use someone with his vision today.
Read more at http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/john_f_kennedy.html#OHL2WebfOuwXxu7Q.99
http://www.jfklibrary.org/JFK/JFK-in-History.aspx
We are stocking up for the winter. Will you let GMG readers know about The Open Door Thanksgiving Food Drive on Saturday, November 22, from 9 AM to 3 PM at Market Basket, Shaw’s on Eastern Avenue, and Stop & Shop in Gloucester? The items we need most are: peanut butter, tuna fish, cereal, 100% juice, soups, pasta and pasta sauce. All support is welcome, but PLEASE don’t bring items in glass because they WILL break and they WILL make a mess. Trust me!
Best,
Julie
Seacoast fair
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After a month of visits back and forth between Boston’s Childrens Hospital’s ER, ENT Specialists, and pediatrician, our daughter Amanda is finally home from the hospital recovering from a very painful double ear surgery, she had a few days ago. Barry, Amanda and I would like to thank our amazing family and friends for all their support, help, phone calls, text messages and prayers throughout this entire ordeal. It has been very comforting to feel everyones embrace. Thankfully we live a stones throw away from one of the best Childrens Hospitals in the world, and Amanda was under the care of an amazing team of doctors and surgeons. This morning brother Joey delivered Amanda’s favorite Italian pastry and bread from Sclafani’s Bakery and “TWO” of my favorite Sista Felicia’s Tea’s from from Lone Gull, after learning about the sleepless night we all had, trying to make Amanda as comfortable as possible. l Thank you God, for blessing me with an awesome brother and uncle to my kids …He knew exactly what we all needed this morning!❤️
FOBs Lesley Sloane (L) and Sharon St Clair (R), and warrior (M) represent on Cozumel, Mexico.
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Marine Forecast :
Today W winds 10 to 15 kt…becoming SW 15 to 20 kt this afternoon. Gusts up to 30 kt. Seas 2 to 4 ft.
Tonight SW winds 15 to 20 kt with gusts up to 30 kt. Seas 2 to 4 ft.
Sun SW winds 10 to 15 kt with gusts up to 25 kt…diminishing to 5 to 10 kt in the afternoon. Seas 2 to 3 ft.
Sun Night S winds 5 to 10 kt…increasing to 10 to 15 kt after midnight. Seas 2 to 3 ft. Rain likely.
Pod Cast Weather :
http://www.spreaker.com:80/episode/5239919
Hourly Forecast :
Share in 3 Holiday Events at BankGloucester
Saturday, December 6th Customer Appreciation Day & Photos With Santa
BankGloucester, 160 Main St., Gloucester
Photos with Santa 10:30 am -12 pm* *Please sign in by 11:30
Enjoy refreshments from 8:30 – 1 pm. Have photos taken with Santa from 10:30-12. Your child’s photo will be emailed to you or a 4×6 print will be mailed.
Monday, December 8thHospice Tree of Lights Ceremony
5 pm at BankGloucester, 160 Main St., Gloucester
Join BankGloucester for the grand illumination of the Hospice “Tree Of Lights”. The ceremony is a meaningful way to remember loved ones while supporting the mission of Care Dimensions. A reception will follow in the lobby.
To sponsor a light, or for more information visit http://www.CareDimensions.org.
November 28th – December 22nd Project Uplift Toy Drive
160 Main St., Gloucester & 15 Martin St., Essex
BankGloucester will be supporting Action, Inc.’s Project Uplift Toy and Clothing drive by collecting new, unwrapped toys and gift cards for youth 0-14 years old. Please drop off your donations in the collection boxes in the bank’s lobbies in Gloucester or Essex. Your donation will help alleviate the holiday stress for many local families and bring smiles to children’s faces.
Call BankGloucester at 978-283-8200 for more information
Dear GMG Friends,
I have been thinking about what Thanksgiving means, beyond turkey and football. I looked back through my four plus years of weekly quotes and was a little surprised to find so many that speak about the various facets of gratitude, but perhaps I shouldn’t have been. Wise people over the centuries have recognized the power of thankfulness to transform one’s life, and it certainly has changed mine.
“Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but also the parent of all the others.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC)
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
“Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.”
Henry Van Dyke (1852 – 1933)
“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.”
William Arthur Ward (1921-1994)
“By holding up a fancied golden era of yesteryear, we can devalue where we are and who we have become. Thanksgiving aims at gratitude not for what was, but for what is.”
James Carroll (1943- )
“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”
Melody Beattie (1948- )
“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”
Oprah Winfrey (1954- )
Last chance for Scrap Metal before winter hits.
The dumpster is behind the schoolhouse now, but it will be gone right after Thanksgiving. Anything at least 70% metal can go in the dumpster or close to it.
This is a great opportunity to get rid of your old grill, your washing machine, lawn mowers, bikes, pots and pans, etc, etc, etc…
100% goes to restoring the Blynman schoolhouse.
http://www.magnoliahistoricalsociety.com/
From TED TALKS:
When 27-year-old Pete Frates injured his wrist in a baseball game, he got an unexpected diagnosis: it wasn’t a broken bone, it was ALS. Better known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, ALS causes paralysis and death—there is no cure. And still, Pete saw an opportunity to drive awareness about the disease. In a brave talk, his mom Nancy Frates tells the story of how the family developed the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge and took great pleasure in seeing everyone from Justin Timberlake to Bill Gates take part. If you accepted the challenge, please take the next step: share this talk as you did your challenge video.
The following was in my inbox the very next morning after posting my short film A Flight of Monarchs:
Hey Kim,
I watched your Short Film “A Flight of Monarchs” & I loved it!
I think you should upload it and some of your other Short films on Tallenge. We have an ongoing Short Film contest with $500 prize. You can sign up & upload for free.
The Winner of this contest qualifies for the annual contest which has a cash prize of $10,000.
Tallenge Short Film Contest Link – (here they provide the link)
I would love to see you compete on Tallenge. Let me know if you need any more info and I’ll be glad to help.
Love & Regards
Britney
With their super slick website touting themselves as Earth’s Largest Talent Platform, I immediately began to dream of winning $10,000. to put towards completing several current film projects. Enter the contest and you only have to:
“…irrevocably grant Tallenge, its successors, subsidiaries, parent and related companies, licensees, assignees, and third parties acting on Tallenge’s behalf, an exclusive worldwide, royalty-free right to license to use, exhibit, license, sub-license, distribute, perform, post, display, copy, publish, promote, re-format, reproduce, prepare derivative works of, adapt, make available online or electronically transmit and exploit the Submission, for free, […] for a period of five (5) years from the date you entered the contest. After the term of the foregoing license expires, the license shall automatically convert into a non-exclusive license to Tallenge in perpetuity.”
“Any person uploading any media on Tallenge.com would hereinafter be known as a “Participant”, and any person consuming or voting on any content would hereinafter be known as a “Voter”. By uploading media on Tallenge.com, the Participant consents to the media being subject to Tallenge’s LICENSE, to being subject to Tallenge’s Rules Of The Competition, to being subject to Tallenge’s Privacy Policy, to having the media displayed on Tallenge.com, and to having it enter into any and all periodic contests for which it is eligible running on Tallenge.com, to be determined by the date and time of the media being uploaded. By voting, the Voter consents to having the vote counted for the determination of any and all periodic contests for which the media is eligible.”
Artists, beware!
Image courtesy Google image search
We certainly live in a beautiful place.
You can see these and more of Jane’s work during the Rocky Neck Holiday Art & Crafts Show at the Rocky Neck Cultural Center, noon to 4:00pm Friday through Sunday from 11/28-12/28.
Good Morning Gloucester 
