John passed away on December 28, 2017. His funeral service and just about every photo ever taken of him is online on my Facebook page. I am directing you there if you want to seek it out. Let's just say I am thankful, so thankful that it was fast. I can't write anymore about it.
I'm going to do this in pictures. They are random...over the past several years. I will comment on them so you can see where they are from. Enjoy.
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| Beautiful photo of the Coleman Bridge in Gloucester . Heading there for our 50th Class of 1970 Reunion in May. |
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| A memory from 2006 when we celebrated Mardi Gras with about 75 TCW friends to help rebuild after Hurricane Katrina. |
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| The following photos are of my desk. It's the center of the universe for TCW. Yes, I know where EVERYTHING is! |
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| Olive rosary from Palestine. I have a whole cabinet shelf of gifts and precious things from the people I love there. N A B L U S, Palestine |
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| P.S. I made the bear with the MardiGras bead |
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| The daffodils bloomed WAY too soon this year. I brought some in from the yard. This is a beautiful photo from Gloucester, VA. I wrote a song about the DAFFODILS to have sung at our 50th reunion with Mike Ward. |
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| This is Brandon from Petersburg Public Schools. There was an incredible grassroots meeting held in a church basement last week pulling all the neighborhoods from the 1990s back into an association - PAN (Petersburg Assn of Neighborhoods) I was invited to participate and speak since TCW was so involved with them |
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| Me last weekend at the DRIFTING event organized by my son-in-law. Drifting is fast car driving on a very curvy track. It is an international sport...definitely NOT Nascar! I rode with BEN driving......WHOAAAAA!!!! |
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| This is Nancy Wein, founder of RPIP - Richmonders for Peace in Israel & Palestine We saw an incredible documentary last week taken in Hebron. This group meets once a month and are so supportive of our Palestinian campers |
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| Just a little sample of DRIFTING. |
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| My son-in-law Ben at the track. |
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| yea, drifting! |
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| The snow was so beautiful in February. This is the trip down our driveway one morning. |
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| An old friend I found when making phone calls to locate folks for our 50th reunion. Randall Beaver was my SCA advisor and very' instrumental in who I am now. Always encouraging...always saying yes I love him dearly. So glad I found him!! |
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| Our Palestinian teen team from NABLUS for Workcamp 2019. Beautiful people I love very much. |
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| VCU RAM basketball suspended along with many other activities around the world because of the CORONA VIRUS. |
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| Just a reminder of the empowering things that go on during workcamp..Power in PINK!! |
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| Al showed me how to take a selfie. The only way I could push the buttons was laying back. Oh boy. Didn't mean for it to be "come hither":) Funny! |
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| Just a photo of my vehicle after my accident about 4 years ago. I am thankful for airbags and the good ol' boy that pulled threw me his hunting knife so I could cut the seatbelt before he pulled me thru the windshield. |
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| My sweet sweet friend, Mohammed Ihsan. We walked into the class reunions the past few times. He passed away last year from pancreatic cancer. I have stones from the old GHS rubble to take to put on his footstone. I will be going soon. |
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| Yes, this is happening MARCH 28th. I have always wanted to jump from a plane and I'm excited. Photos and video will be posted here! |
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| New rubber ID bracelets arrived for this summer's camp! |
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| My favorite flower because it reminds me of so many good things. I will post the lyrics to the song DAFFODILS that I wrote. I guess this is the time to mention that I have begun writing songs for the first time in over 30 years. Also playing the piano. It's so therapeutic and feels so good! Just finish a song about a Pburg resident I met and a little girl from Allie's office. Allie now works at a non-profit in their Interpreter Services along with Refugees & Immigration. It is heartbreaking. The prompter for all this writing. My old friend, DAVID KING, who started my career in music in the 1990s. He says I have "risen from the dead" |
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| The hands of the youth and young adults are good hands to be in. |
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| The fireplace at Christmas time. |
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| My license plate |
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| What I really try to do in life. |
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| This and the following few photos are from Blandford Cemetary in Petersburg, VA. I took them after some genealogical digging for Randall Beaver on Ancestry and finding out that his gggrandfather is one of few that there is a record on as being buried in the crater there after the BATTLE OF THE CRATER |
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| Ahhhhhh Ranim. Oh how we wished we could have gone to her wedding in Jordan! So beautiful!!!! |
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| My babies :) |
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| Back of the house during winter. |
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| Ben's sister, ABBY was married this past December. They now live in southern California. Spencer is in the Navy. |
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| Edyth and I onstage MANY, MANY moons ago! Thank God we have both changed physically! |
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| My sweet Paul doing his thing in NYC. So proud of him and all the successes he is having! He sang so beautifully at John's service. |
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| BFF Lynn and her daughter Sid. Lynn beat kidney cancer and Sid was married this past fall! My precious friends. |
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| My brother Jon (on the left) receiving an award from NC schools. He is one of their main architects! |
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| Of course, I had to put in a photo on the plight of Palestine. This young woman was trying to cross at one of the checkpoints to see her family. She was shot in the back by the IDF (Israeli Defense Force) . There is video of them kicking her phone out of her reach as she tried to call for help as she died. It a daily activity of this regime. |
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| My beautiful daughter in her kafia scarf. So proud of her and the people she is assisting. She's fluent in French, speaks Arabic and is embedded in Spanish in her office. |
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| This group of people are my heart. This is part of the staff of TCW in the summer. Full of hugs, kisses and goofiness! |
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| My cousin Daniel in Woolwich, London, England. He is another part of my heart. His apartment has a beautiful view of the Thames and the ferries going by. I can't wait to go see him again. |
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| Al and I are heading to this little hideaway in Nags Head next weekend for 3 nights just to sit and look at the waves. I'm not a summer sun beach person, but LOVE sitting on the shore in the snuggly weather. It's right next to the fishing pier also! |
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| This last two photos are from summer camps. I only put two because there is a plethora of them at www.tworkcamps.org online |
Well, this is a good chunk of visually catching up. More in the next post.
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