Our Hearts Remember

Today, this 911 we come together to remember our World's Family members...may we always reflect on our challenge as the survivors...


As individuals and as churches, we have need to determine if our mission is to light candles and to keep candles lit, or to blow candles out. I still believe that one candle and that candles united in purpose create the World’s path of creation and life, or can be used to ignite the fire of destruction. If we seek Peace, whether the War is between Nations or the War is between peoples, our own stone and our own flame is really all that any of us have control over.

- Jane Marla VerDow



Dear Daisy, 2004

As the story begins, the author caught in a personal struggle of survival under conditions felt oppressive, writes to Daisy. As the reflective search for self and path unfolds, the 9-11-01 story strikes as a Holy War between extremists of Nations. Before the dust settles, 10-28-01 brings world chaos personal. Living the aftermath, the author struggles to forgive and declares through writing an Epistle as part of her emancipation pathway that violence as a rightful expression and worship of God is not the God of her faith.

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Some Pictures are Perfect As They Are

Old Photos

The advantage of being a small press author-publisher is being able to select the project and to create the book in the image most desired, from the picture lay-out to storytelling. Next, how will that image be recreated? A book. An image print. A single picture or a grouping. A story told by words or through pictures that somehow when assembled and connected recreate or even create a moment in time.

I'm not an artist by paint or chalk. A single line I can't place on paper so it appears to be a line, least not straight nor of value or recognizable as object or subject. My penmanship...most laugh, those that is not struggling to read, for it flows for me when I create it, not much more can be said than that.

To take a picture, poor exposure or best of the time and create from that something new or improved...

A group shot gathering of kids with Grandpa/Grandma could become an improved photo with wear marks to be removed

or cropped to become just a special couple...










With color/lighting, somehow the characters come to life...




A family-friends photo becomes just family...





















Or maybe an old scrapbook photo could pull into a closer view...










Hey, That's me!!!!















Many hours I could and do spend on a single photo just to see what is hidden there, you know telling a story, or at least one I love to tell... of some story I remember and others...only the picture could tell...

These are examples of what I am currently working on...

What was...

Becomes...

What is now this...

Author: Jane Marla VerDow, Dear Daisy copyright ©2004; Independent Publishing: Rising Sparrow Press, est. 2003.
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Winter Nights Waiting For Spring

So what does one do in a place like Pultneyville?

After one has done the Spring ahead an hour?
Before Spring flowers and buds pop?

On a night after work?
Or after all the seed books have been looked through in Winter?
At a time when all the fruit trees have been ordered?

Well...dream about play I suppose.

May is coming once we get passed the rains of April.
It will soon be time for the Apple Blossom Festival,
Williamson, NY
and the Lilac Festival in nearby Rochester, NY

So what else can we do for fun this year?

Here's a great find. Enjoy.

http://www.festivals.com/



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Appleboom Point

Pettiness in Paradise
and
Other Tales of Appleboom Point

author: John E. Connors

Backcover:

What appears to be nothing more than a sleepy side note on the Seaway Trail along the south shore of Lake Ontario comes to life in these vivid tales. They are written by a beloved teacher and a keen observer of human nature who adopted the tiny town of Pultneyville, New York as his home. Originally known as Appleboom Point, the community is shown in its heydey as a bustling harbor town filled with lively characters busily making history. The author, using accounts from local newspapers, diaries, and other historical sources, builds a richly imagined world of days gone by. The stories, while fictional, paint a vibrant picture of a town's history. They are complete with accounts of local militiamen resisting the British assault during the War of 1812 and conductors guiding others to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Then, too, there are patrons carousing in the Pig's Ear Saloon, returning heroes haunted by the Civil War, and ghostly entities inhabiting elegant homes fully equipped with witch bottles in the ceiling. Spanning the decades when sleek and majestic schooners plied the treacherous waters of the Great Lakes, the stories tell how it must have been when the high and mighty were brought to this crossroad of commerce. Pettiness in Paradise: And Other Tales of Appleboom Point takes the reader on a fascinating journey back to upstate New York as it was when the captain was king, and the way of life was the way of adventure.

John Connors was a graduate of Alfred University with a Master's Degree in English. He taught English at Williamson Central School in Williamson, New York and at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He loved poetry and wrote many poems, some of which have been published in various poetry collections. He also wrote a collection of his own titled Conjure Man. This book is his only published prose and is his last. John died in June of 2005.

(John E. Connors lived)
In a Place called Pultneyville...Appleboom Point

ISBN #: 978-1-4251-1448-0
Trafford Publishing
Printed in Victoria, BC, Canada

Thank you Mr Connors for believing in me and my writings. Love Always.

One student,

WCS, Class of '77

Jane Marla VerDow