I recently started participating in the
100 Strangers Project., an online learning
group for people who want to improve their
social and technical skills needed for taking
portraits of strangers and telling their
stories. The method is learning by doing.
My assignment is to take a photograph on
100 people I don't know and post it along
with a brief story about the person on the
flickr
100 Strangers group. You can also see
my work at strangers.lauher.org.
Check it out!
Soul in the City!
On
Sunday, October 25, 2009, several of our
Sun City Carolina Lakes neighbors gathered
for another fellowship. We met at the
Lake House pavilion for a pot-luck and
dancing. The group formerly know as "The
Group" is now know
as "Soul
in the City!"
During the week of October
18 - 24, 2009, we traveled to Hilton Head
Island where we were joined by our good friends,
Milton and Gail Slade. It was a week of relaxation
and reminiscing. We walked on the beach, played
miniature golf and just took it easy. A great
time was had by all. Click here
for more!
A Walk in
the Park
On
a small wooden bridge in the heart of the
forest, I stopped and listened to the sounds
around me. The rat-tat-tatting of a woodpecker,
the calls of a common crow, the drone of
wind in upper branches of the trees and
an occasional crack of a branch, all contribute
to a feeling of awe. A feeling reinforced
by the lushness of the greens and browns
that surround me. I am in the Congaree
National Park, near Columbia,
South Carolina.
On Saturday, October 10, I
went for a walk (actually, it felt like a
hike) sponsored by the Asheville Amblers Walking
Club through the only National Park in South
Carolina. It was a case of everything coming
together. I had been walking for exercise
since we moved from Maryland, but wasn't’t
doing it on a regular basis. On July 3, I
decided I would walk every day for 100 days.
As it turned out, the one-hundredth day was
the day for the big walk/hike. The week before
I had watched the Ken Burns National Parks
documentary on PBS and I had just started
reading a biography of John Muir and here
I was. Read
more and pictures here.
"Going to the gym is becoming
routine. I leave the house by 8:30 am,
stop and buy a newspaper for later,
and check in at the Lake House. My regimen
is this. I walk a little over a mile
on the treadmill and then move on to
the weight machines. The final third
of my workout is walking the indoor
track
While walking on the track, I was having
trouble keeping count of my laps. I
would finish a lap and think "was
that 4 or 5?" Therefore, I decided
that I needed a better way of measuring
how far I had gone. Since 24 laps made
a mile, I decided walk 26 and give each
one a name using an alphabetical list
of special words. The special words
I chose are attributes or attitudes
that need improvement in my life. At
the start of each lap, I say the word
to myself and then ponder it as I walk.
As prompts for better motivation, I
have decided to begin a series of postings
highlighting each word. I am not sure
how often I will write, but my goal
is to be finished by my sixty-fifth
birthday on June 1."The
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On
Sunday, October 25, 2009, several of our
Sun City Carolina Lakes neighbors gathered
for another fellowship. We met at the
Lake House pavilion for a pot-luck and
dancing. The group formerly know as "The
Group" is now know
as "Soul
in the City!"
On
a small wooden bridge in the heart of the
forest, I stopped and listened to the sounds
around me. The rat-tat-tatting of a woodpecker,
the calls of a common crow, the drone of
wind in upper branches of the trees and
an occasional crack of a branch, all contribute
to a feeling of awe. A feeling reinforced
by the lushness of the greens and browns
that surround me. I am in the 