tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5380149841851190492024-03-11T21:52:01.551-07:00Louise-R-ShawUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger330125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538014984185119049.post-21020519127024777272023-07-15T20:57:00.002-07:002023-07-15T20:57:25.175-07:00What you learn when you keep trying<p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">One of these days it might be necessary to admit to myself that it is becoming ever more likely that I will never be entirely fluent in French.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">Despite the workshops, the workbooks, the CDs, the story books, the tapes, the emails, the classes and the trips I've dabbled in here and there over the years, I might not ever make it to conversant.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">In my defense, this is not because I'm totally inept, though I may have lost a few connections in the brain - synapses or something - that younger language learners still have.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">This is not because I haven't been motivated, though I'm equally motivated in about five other areas and spend equal dabbles of time on perhaps too large an array of projects.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">This is simply because there are just too many French words and too many ways to string them together, some of which require too many ways of conjugating. And that's not even to mention that every noun is either male of female (car is feminine, taxi is masculine) and every adjective must be either mine to match.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">It may also be time to admit to myself that all those books in my basement that I printed thinking people would want to read them, may remain in my basement.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">This is not because I haven't tried to find people to love them through bookstores and galleries and websites.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">This is because ... I don't know why this is because. Or I don't want to admit I know why.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">But not learning French and not selling books is not failing.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">And that is because of all I've seen and done, all I've learned and felt, everyone I've met and every way I've grown in the process of trying.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">I loved meeting the French people (all six of them), whose English was worse than my French so they listened long enough to try and figure out what I was saying.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">I've loved opening my mind to a second language and developing a greater appreciation for another culture.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">I'm glad I could learn more about my own language by studying another.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">It's good to have a greater understanding of what others go through as they try to learn English (which not only has more words but has more exceptions to rules).</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">And just maybe I'm keeping a few more synapses in the brain functioning by continued studying and memorizing.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">As for publishing a book, I loved when someone wrote to tell me the thoughts in my book had meaning to them or inspired them to do something or helped them recognize something meaningful they would otherwise have missed in their own lives.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">And reading again the words penned in a different phase of life has kept the memories of that phase, and all its richness and all its challenges, alive.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">Sometimes trying has its own reward.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">Admitting that my dreams may be a bit out of reach, sometimes because of my own limits and sometimes because of things over which I have no control, will not make me quit trying.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">I'm made of sterner, stubborner, more irrational stuff.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">Not making it to the end of a journey doesn't make the sights you pass along the way any less worthwhile.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">There is still a chance and only quitting would take that chance away.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;">No matter if it's likely or a stretch, I'm going for that chance.</p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><i>First published in the Davis Clipper on March 14, 2013</i></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538014984185119049.post-70807953819164166042023-01-10T15:11:00.006-08:002023-01-10T15:12:04.814-08:00Making it work with another try<p>By Louise R. Shaw<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I’d
been there with my family some years earlier and was anxious to share it with
my new husband, even if it meant spending part of the day on a long drive up a
winding road when we could be sitting on a beach.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There
are just some things worth driving long distances for and the overlook of the
Na Pali Coast on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is one of them.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">The Kalalau Lookout is 4,000-feet
above sea level and the view into the ridges and peaks and valley below is nothing
short of spectacular. The drive along Waimea Canyon, what has become known as
“the Grand Canyon of the Pacific,” is also pretty breathtakingly amazing.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We
ascended, stopping at all lookouts, as is my want, and noticing as we did that
more and more clouds were filling the sky. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Four-thousand
feet is pretty high up there. Even clouds are comfortable at 4,000 feet and
sure enough, as we drove the last few hundred feet to the very end of the
drive, we were enveloped in a cloud.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And in
that particular cloud, there were no views past the end of our arms, much less along
the rugged cliffs of the Na Pali and down the Kalalau Valley to the ocean and
beyond.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It was
a disappointment, but at least it wasn’t snowing like the time a few days earlier
when we’d gotten up in the wee hours of the morning and driven up 10,000 feet
to see the sunrise over Haleakala crater on Maui, just like everybody said you
should. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Turns out you only should if you
check the weather report first.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Sometimes you’re better off just sleeping
in. And then sitting on a beach.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">But we sighed and shrugged and
tried not to be angry or disappointed and our nine-month-old marriage survived.
And later we laughed and told the story and others laughed with us. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">And now we are approaching our 42<sup>nd</sup>
year together and there have been all kinds of sighs and shrugs and trying not
to be angry or disappointed and laughing and sharing and learning along the way.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Sometimes the views have been
clouded in. Sometimes they have been spectacular. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">We kept at it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">It was a full 35 years later when
we next attempted the 18-mile drive from sea level on the south shore of Kauai
to the overlook on the north. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">This time we knew better. This time
we checked the weather report (easier now with internet) and got up early and
drove straight to the top, where the views were … true to expectation …
spectacular.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">And we hiked around in warm
sunshine and I took pictures from every possible angle – twice. Or maybe four
times.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">As we finished our hike the clouds
started to fill in, at first dancing around the trees and cliffs, then filling
them all in.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">On the way back to our car, we
passed a young couple who’d just pulled in.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">By now, there was nothing but cloud
to see.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">We greeted them but said nothing at
all about the conditions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Until they asked.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Was it clear this morning? she
said.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Yes, we answered, watching them smile
and shrug and try not to be disappointed. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">We were you 35 years ago, we said. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">We missed the view then too, but we
came back.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">I hope they will too.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Because after that first time you
know better when to come. You know to wait for the right conditions. To start
early. Not to be distracted. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">And it works.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">And when it doesn’t work the first
time, it’s even better the second.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;">Just don’t give up.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: 0.5in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538014984185119049.post-83448133439488058232022-12-26T09:00:00.001-08:002022-12-26T09:00:38.588-08:00Being there for the news<p> By Louise R. Shaw</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I no
longer fall for it when anybody within 10 feet of me says something like, “It’s
impossible to find news that’s fair.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now that
I think about it, I never really fell for it. But I used to let it go.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I no
longer let it go.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You can
find news that’s fair. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And you
need to.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You’ll
find it in the news section of a newspaper or on a news broadcast of any network
channel and most streaming channels.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And
you’ll be better off for finding it. For finding just a straight up news
broadcast or newspaper with straight up news.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Because
you’ll know what’s happening in the world, in the nation, in your community,
depending on the scope of your media.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And then,
if you want some color, some righteous indignation, some reinforcement of your
own opinions, you can read the opinion sections or watch the cable pundits or
scroll Facebook according to your tastes. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">As long as you note the difference.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">There is news and there are views
and they might be just a page or a channel apart, but the way you read or hear them should
be miles different.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Thanks to the day and time we
live in, if you still aren’t sure you’re getting it straight, there’s another
option.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Now that
we all have Internet and now that Google can find anything we want to know and
YouTube can show us anything we want to see, we can get our news unfiltered.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We often
can go right to the source and see the event for ourselves.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>City
council meetings. Presidential speeches. Awards ceremonies. U.N. talks. Press
conferences.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It’s one
of the amazing positives of the time we live in and one we can take advantage of
when we want to make sure we are getting things straight.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>You can’t
watch everything, even on delay. That’s why news in newspapers and on
broadcasts is so valuable. But only so much fits in a headline.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">And only so much even fits in an
article and it’s what the writer deems most important.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I can say
that because I used to write headlines and I used to write articles and I
couldn’t include everything all the time.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">There is so much that comes from observing
the body language and hearing the words first-hand, much of it that can’t fit
in a story.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Pres.
Biden’s speech about the nation’s efforts to thwart the newest strain of
coronavirus is an example. The headline read, “President says it’s not like
March 2020,” but I wanted to know more than that and more than what was
included in the article that followed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A quick
search on YouTube took me to the 22-minute speech, where I could hear the
pleading in Pres. Biden’s voice one minute and the anger another, and feel the passion
in his conclusion:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">“I want to sincerely thank you for
your perseverance, your courage, your countless acts of kindness, love and
sacrifice during these last two years,” he said, after acknowledging we were
tired and frustrated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">“Throughout our history we’ve been
tested as a people and as a nation,” he said. “Through war and turmoil, when
asked whether we’d be safe, whether it would be OK, whether we’d get back to
who we are, we’ve always endured because remember there’s no challenge too big
for America. I mean this -- from the bottom of my heart – no challenge. We’ve
come through better and stronger because we stay together as the United States
of America. That’s what we have to keep doing today. We can do this together, I
guarantee you.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Maybe the place you get your news
didn’t include that. Maybe it wasn’t as important as the parts of the speech
that outlined the latest steps being taken. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">But it was important to me to hear
that.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Yes, we
have news. Lots of it. And when it comes from the right source it is fair. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we need it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">And then, when we choose, we can get
every last word and every small nuance by going to the source. We can read it,
watch it, relive it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">Because news matters. Learning for
ourselves matters. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent: .5in;">And getting it straight matters. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"><i>First published in the Davis Journal, December 2021</i></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538014984185119049.post-69676604964555820542021-04-21T08:42:00.001-07:002021-04-21T08:44:25.497-07:00What you learn when you keep trying<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>By Louise R. Shaw<div>First published on March 14, 2013 in the Davis Clipper</div><div><br /></div><div>One of these days it might be necessary to admit to myself that it is becoming ever more likely that I will never be entirely fluent in French.</div><div><br /></div><div>Despite the workshops, the workbooks, the CDs, the story books, the tapes, the emails, the classes and the trips I've dabbled in here and there over the years, I might not ever make it to conversant.</div><div><br /></div><div>In my defense, this is not because I'm totally inept, though I may have lost a few connections in the brain - synapses or something - that younger language students still have.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is not because I haven't been motivated, though I'm equally motivated in about five other areas and spend equal dabbles of time on perhaps too large an array of projects.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is simply because there are just too many French words and too many ways to string them together, some of which require too many ways of conjugating. And that's not even to mention that every noun is either male or female (car is feminine, taxi is masculine) and every adjective must be either masculine or feminine to match.</div><div><br /></div><div>It may also be time to admit to myself that all those books in my basement that I printed thinking people would want to read them, may remain in my basement.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is not because I haven't tried to find people to love them through bookstores and galleries and websites.</div><div><br /></div><div>This is because ... I don't know why this is because. Or I don't want to admit I know why.</div><div><br /></div><div>But not learning French and not selling books is not failing.</div><div><br /></div><div>And that is because of all I've seen and done, all I've learned and felt, everyone I've met and every way I've grown in the process of trying.</div><div><br /></div><div>I loved meeting the French people (all six of them), whose English was worse than my French so they listened long enough to try and figure out what I was saying.</div><div><br /></div><div>I've loved opening my mind to a second language and developing a greater appreciation for another culture.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm glad I could learn more about my own language by studying another.</div><div><br /></div><div>It's good to have a greater understanding of what others go through as they try to learn English (which not only has more words but has more exceptions to rules).</div><div><br /></div><div>And just maybe I'm keeping a few more synapses in the brain functioning by continued studying and memorizing.</div><div><br /></div><div>As for publishing a book, I loved when someone wrote to tell me the thoughts in my book had meaning to them or inspired them to do something or helped them recognize something meaningful they would otherwise have missed in their own lives.</div><div><br /></div><div>And reading again the words penned in a different phase of life has kept the memories of that phase, and all its richness and all its challenges, alive.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sometimes trying has its own reward.</div><div><br /></div><div>Admitting that my dreams may be a bit out of reach, sometimes because of my own limits and sometimes because of things over which I have no control, will not make me quit trying.</div><div><br /></div><div>I'm made of sterner, stubboner, more irrational stuff.</div><div><br /></div><div>Not making it to the end of a journey doesn't make the sights you pass along the way any less worthwhile.</div><div><br /></div><div>There is still a chance and only quitting would take that chance away.</div><div><br /></div><div>No matter if it's likely or a stretch, I'm going for that chance.</div><div> </div><div> <p></p></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538014984185119049.post-44088231704524520592021-04-14T10:56:00.003-07:002021-04-21T08:18:53.469-07:00When it hits you<p><span color="inherit" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's been three years!! It is time to share again. </span></span></p><p><span color="inherit" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This column first appeared in the Davis Journal in January, 2021. I hope it gave the Davis County readers something to think about, and now I am sharing it with you. </span></span></p><p><span color="inherit" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have been publishing a column in Davis County's newspaper for more than 10 years. My messages cover everything from politics to people, gifts to gratitude. I hope to share a few more with you, some current, some past.</span></span></p><p><span color="inherit" style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Please enjoy ... </span></span></p><div class="row py-3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px; padding-bottom: 1rem; padding-top: 1rem;"><div class="col-12" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 730px;"><h1 class="py-0" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 2.5rem; font-weight: 500; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0.5rem; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">In This Together: When it hits you</h1><span class="small text-muted" color="rgb(108, 117, 125) !important" face="-apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "segoe ui", Roboto, "helvetica neue", Arial, sans-serif, "apple color emoji", "segoe ui emoji", "segoe ui symbol"" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 12.8px;">Jan 21, 2021 11:09AM ● By Louise R. Shaw</span></div></div><div class="row py-3" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; display: flex; flex-wrap: wrap; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "segoe ui", Roboto, "helvetica neue", Arial, sans-serif, "apple color emoji", "segoe ui emoji", "segoe ui symbol"; font-size: 16px; margin-left: -15px; margin-right: -15px; padding-bottom: 1rem; padding-top: 1rem;"><div class="col-12" style="-webkit-box-flex: 0; box-sizing: border-box; flex: 0 0 100%; max-width: 100%; min-height: 1px; padding-left: 15px; padding-right: 15px; position: relative; width: 730px;"><div class="clearfix images-contain images-thumbnails" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><div class="image-medium image-align-left" style="box-sizing: border-box; float: left; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; max-width: 33.33%; padding: 4px;"><img alt="" src="https://cdn3.locable.com/uploads/resource/file/793271/fill/300x0/In_20This_20Together_20Louise_20Shaw.jpg?timestamp=1611252526" style="border-radius: 0px; border: none; box-sizing: border-box; display: block; margin: 0px; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" /></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Every once in a while, it hits you, how much things have changed.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">It hits you when you see the photo of your granddaughter waiting in line for her kindergarten class to start, standing six feet away from the other students. Each with a mask on.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">It hits when you have to push the “unmute” button before anyone will hear what you’re saying.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">It hits you when you’re sitting at your computer watching a ballet, dancers having been taped performing on the street instead of in a theater, their faces covered by masks that match their costumes, accompanied by a chorus singing from little squares on your monitor.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">It hits you when you need to decide what to do at home another night because the restaurants aren’t safe and your friends have been exposed to someone who’s been sick.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">And then you kind of get a twinge inside. A twinge because your granddaughter isn’t hugging and smiling with her little friends. And because those dancers can’t smile at their audience or hear their applause. And because you don’t have a grandchild on your lap or a friend across the table.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">There has been a lot of twinging going on lately.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">But those twinges over those little sacrifices are nothing compared to the punch in the gut you get when you hear of a group that picketed the home of a government official who was trying to keep them healthy by establishing safety protocols.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Or when you hear of someone getting a sickness that could kill them because someone else refused to wear a mask.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Or when you see someone walking around the grocery store without a mask, knowing they wore it to get in and their defiance is nothing short of dishonest.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">There is a lot that we’ve had to adjust to, and some of us have done better than others.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">Kindergarteners don’t seem to mind at all. But too many grown-ups have shown us their “doesn’t play well with others” side.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">More disheartening than the response to the battle to contain the coronavirus, is the battle to restore civility in our country.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">When you see a woman harass a United States Senator in an airport, for example, you get a twinge.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">That kind of behavior didn’t used to be acceptable, much less something one would be so proud of they’d broadcast it online.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 1rem; margin-top: 0px;">And when you see angry protestors attack the U.S. Capitol after being whipped to a frenzy by the president of the United States, you get a punch in the gut. 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While two of my granddaughters stayed with us last week, we tried to keep busy every minute.<br />
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One of the activities was to listen to a song by Lee Ann Womack, "I hope you dance."<br />
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I have a children's book in my office with pictures that accompany the song -- the only children's book in that room -- so after the colored pencils and the magnets have been played with, the globe has been twirled and the easy chair has been jumped on and spun around, the book comes out. And when I can't exactly remember the melody, I find the old CD player and we hear it sung right.<br />
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The words were written by Mark Sanders and Tia Sillers and so perfectly capture the feelings I have as I watch these little spirits take on the world.<br />
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Here are a few:<br />
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"I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean.<br />
Whenever one door closes, I hope one door opens.<br />
Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance.<br />
And when you get the choicer to sit it our or dance ..<br />
<br />"I hope you dance."<br />
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That has been my wish for all my children, and now my grandchildren. It is something I have always tried to do.<br />
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And it is a great blessing to see them embrace the world and its beauties and opportunities.<br />
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And stand beside the ocean.<br />
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And dance.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538014984185119049.post-84200587702308123762017-12-10T20:53:00.002-08:002017-12-10T20:53:23.480-08:00Nothin' like a good protest<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I wasn't sure I'd be the one to cover it this year, but was glad to be at the Antelope Island Bison Roundup one more time. It's always fun to see the training -- and warnings -- the riders get, to see them head out, to be at the Mulberry Grove when the bison pass, to watch the finely tuned ballet as 300 riders drive 700 bison to corrals for testing and immunizations. Like so many I spoke with said, it's a rare chance to see the action of the Wild West so close to home. I was glad for yet another chance.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538014984185119049.post-44893525862488747672017-10-18T11:01:00.000-07:002017-10-18T11:03:53.989-07:00It was worth itWe didn't know when we got up at 5 a.m. and drove for an hour and hiked with flashlights for half-a-mile more that we would run into 20 people already set up for the sunrise at Mesa Arch in Canyonlands.<br />
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And we didn't know that it would be a space so small that only the early few would get the prime shots as the sun would light the underside of the arch and the canyons and rock formations in the valley below.<br />
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Or that people from Norway and Japan, India and Texas would be vying for the shots past rows of photographers who'd set up tripods already an hour before and that by sunrise there would be more than dozens, there would be hundreds.<br />
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But we had our muffins and orange juice and could last all the way until the others had gotten their shots.<br />
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It was all about the sun that day, starting with first light over the mountains as we headed north from Utah to Idaho.</div>
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Despite what we'd feared after hearing months of build-up preceding the Great American Eclipse, traffic was clear along the back roads through Preston, Star Valley and Swan Valley.</div>
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Before the action started, we could look at sunspots visible through my brother-in-law's telescope.</div>
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The sun was too much -- even when partially covered by the moon -- for my lens to make sense of. Covering it with my eclipse glasses didn't help, but looking at shadows did.</div>
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I heard in some places it was really quiet during totality. We couldn't help exclaim -- and loudly -- at the beautiful aura that was visible when the moon fully blocked the sun. Different exposures show different things -- what was closest to what our eyes saw is the third one.</div>
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It was the drive home when we learned that, yes, people really did turn out for the celestial show. What should have been a four-hour drive took nine.</div>
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And again the sun made an impression at the end of the day.</div>
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Tall
ceilings, big windows, inspiring photos and motivational quotes bring many
forms of light into the new Missionary Training Center facilities built by The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.</div>
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<span style="text-indent: 0.5in;"> But what is even more impressive than
the buildings are the young people who come here.</span></div>
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On the self-guided tour, young men
and young women stood at every corner, guiding visitors along the marked path.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Their smiles welcomed us, and they
were anxious and willing to share where they were from and where they were
going.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They were from Ogden, from Idaho
Falls, from Seattle, to name a few. They were going to Las Vegas, southern
California, South Korea, and places beyond.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They would be gone from their
families and friends, their schooling and jobs, for 18 months to two years.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They would be representing their
church all over the world, even places where people didn’t have the time or the
interest to hear their message.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We saw them at work in classrooms,
in lobbies practicing questions and answers, in courtyards studying
individually.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And they seemed genuinely happy.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The tour went through the old
facility, built in the mid-70s, and still an important part of the campus.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Visitors saw the cafeteria, the
dorm rooms, a large meeting room and an entry lobby with its first-edition Book
of Mormon. They saw the halls that featured the map where it is traditional for
missionaries to be photographed pointing to their assigned area, photos of
mission presidents, and art featuring scripture stories and thoughtful messages.<o:p></o:p></div>
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They then were guided between more
buildings and past more tree- and message-lined walkways and an open courtyard,
to the new facilities, two six-story buildings.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Informational plaques, such as one
indicating the campus can now train 3,700 missionaries, were dotted along the
route.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The tour took visitors past large
classrooms, a gymnasium, a meeting room and halls lined with photographs with
messages of encouragement and faith. Large windows brought more light to the
space.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And so did the faces of the young
people studying there.<o:p></o:p></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538014984185119049.post-77099621324920246432017-07-24T20:21:00.000-07:002017-07-24T20:21:08.235-07:00Through another's eyesSometimes he's a little bit hard to understand.<br />
<br />Though he is speaking English, it is heavily accented and sometimes you have to listen very hard.<br />
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But it's worth it.<br />
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Because he always has something interesting to say.<br />
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This time especially.<br />
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This time he was telling me about his trip to Europe and his visit to the museum in Amsterdam and the chance to see the work of Peter Paul Rubens.<br />
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Ben is an artist. He sketches and paints, mostly portraits.<br />
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So he knows good art when he sees it.<br />
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And he, more than the rest of us perhaps, appreciates it.<br />
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He told about one painting that was as big as the wall, and he went over to a wall and showed me with his arms making large motions, just how big that painting as big as a wall was.<br />
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And then he told about some of the things he saw when he looked at it, and how he could have looked at it all day long.<br />
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And he positively glowed when talking about that painting and that day.<br />
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And then he talked of how impressive it was that those artists could paint small figures in their paintings with amazing detail. And he picked up a pen and showed me how small with his fingers at the end of the pen, and talked about how difficult it is to do small details with paint on canvas even with a small brush because the paint -- and he couldn't think of the word so he showed me with his fingers what the paint does -- and the only word I could think of was smushes.<br />
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But I believed him about how hard it is to paint small figures on canvas because he is an artist.<br />
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He was all smiles as he recounted his time at the museum, because he had seen something so amazing done by someone with such talent, and because he of all people know how amazing the art and how talented the artist.<br />
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And I was all smiles because I am quite sure that when I go to museums I miss most everything that he was telling me about but all of the sudden I wasn't missing it anymore. Even from a distance.<br />
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And it was not just a Thursday afternoon conversation at the gallery that day Ben came to tell me about his trip.<br />
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It was a gift.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538014984185119049.post-796039438285586092017-06-22T12:26:00.001-07:002017-06-22T12:26:25.685-07:00June sunsetsFrom my office window, I watch the sun progress north from spring to summer, then move south again into fall, when it passes a hill nearby and goes out of view in the evenings.<br />
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This week, it is in its northernmost position, if I understand the system correctly. It will start moving south again now. One thing's for sure: I will keep watching.<br />
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In these views, the sun is setting behind Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538014984185119049.post-80247912624379178462017-05-28T09:15:00.002-07:002017-05-28T09:15:25.109-07:00Looking up<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Most moments come unexpectedly. You're looking down and around and then you hear something that makes you look up. </div>
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Beaches and palms, sunsets and sea life, sailboats and blossoms, warm Aloha and crashing waves ... nothing like a getaway to Hawaii. With help from my Pacific-islands-loving parents, it has come to feel like home.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538014984185119049.post-75342070695468335022017-03-10T15:54:00.001-08:002017-03-10T15:54:30.571-08:00Window seat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Longest sunset ever -- on the way to Seattle -- Feb. 27, 2017<br />
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Rain to snow to sunshine -- on the way home to Salt Lake City -- March 9, 2017<br />
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Twice a week for four years I went to Fatuma's home to help her in the transition to America.</div>
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Fatuma was from Somalia, though she'd lived in refugee camps in Kenya for a good portion of her life.</div>
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Her husband was already good at English and had a job at the airport when I first started to their home.</div>
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Her older children were in school and a second language seemed to come easily to them.</div>
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Fatuma was home with babies and toddlers so getting to a class was difficult. Going to the store was intimidating. Dealing with American traditions was overwhelming.</div>
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So after some training, I got signed up to help.</div>
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I don't know if she learned anything over those four years of pictures and letters and flashcards and props and stories and explanations and sharing and trying and trying again.</div>
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I learned about the price of opportunity. The price of freedom.</div>
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She had loved her home in Africa.</div>
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Her father had land and hundreds of animals. Life was simple. Children were home. Families were together.</div>
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But unrest made their home unsafe.</div>
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"Everybody wants to be the government," her husband told me when I asked about the government in Somalia. "Everybody fights. Everybody dies."</div>
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So they brought their family to America.</div>
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It wasn't easy.</div>
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Not to get here and not to adjust to here.</div>
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I taught Fatuma about our money, about our holidays (Halloween was especially unfathomable for her), about our schools.</div>
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I taught her husband, Ali, and his sister, Zeinab, about our government and our history and our geography to help them prepare to take their citizenship tests.</div>
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I saw the love in their home. Young children helped younger children. Multiple generations lived together and took care of each other's needs.</div>
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I saw a deep religiosity in their home. Even young girls wore headscarves when they went to school or if I wanted to take a picture of them. They had a special room for worship and prayer. They fasted from sunrise to sundown for the month of Ramadan, even when it meant headaches and weakness.</div>
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During one visit, they were upset for a sister who had been resettled to Alaska. She was alone with children, had been sent their in the randomness of refugee resettlement decisions made by someone they would never be able to reach or reason with, and had no one to talk to or to understand her.</div>
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They wanted to drive there. Or fly her to Utah. Or find some way to help.</div>
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But we were all helpless.</div>
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Resettling to America isn't for the faint of heart.</div>
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<br />It is for the brave. For those willing to risk all they know and understand for something new and frighteningly different.</div>
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They do it because there is safety here.</div>
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And one would help they would find support and understanding and acceptance as well.</div>
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Fatuma and Ali and their family moved to Minnesota some years ago so our weekly visits have ended.</div>
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<br />They went for new opportunities and a larger community from their homeland to support and relate to them.</div>
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<br />While I no longer spend time with them, I continue to have hope for them and the children they brought to America to provide a future of opportunity and security.</div>
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<br />They are all American citizens now.</div>
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They know about the balance of powers, the first president, the longest river, the countries at our borders, the rights and responsibilities of citizenship.</div>
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And when they took the naturalization oath to become citizens, they renounced allegiance to any other country and pledged to support ours in any way that might be asked of them.</div>
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They are free from the fear and oppression of the homeland of their birth.</div>
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"Give me your tired, your poor," reads the poem inside the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty, "your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door."<br />
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Just when I think I've seen it all. There's more.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-538014984185119049.post-48846244905031563372016-10-08T09:53:00.001-07:002016-10-08T09:53:22.534-07:00A couple of favorites from the last couple of months<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Standing guard over an Edsel at a recent car show, this pooch made me very glad he was inside the car and I was outside.</div>
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Always a meaningful moment - when something is planted. It is a combination of foresight and hope. And for a child to do it in a desert spot is all the more sweet. </div>
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Too short to see the action, but tall enough to stand in respect at a recent ceremony at Hill Air Force Base. Yeah for kids and the parents who bring them to events that have significance.</div>
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Better than a pie contest. These kids won't suffer too much if they eat enough watermelon to win at the county fair.</div>
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And if nobility seems an odd word to use these days, let me explain that I've just returned from two days of plays in Cedar City, including Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Dumas' adapted Three Musketeers, so nobility is on my mind. (Plays were great, by the way.)<br />
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What I mean by being noble is having class, or having dignity and class put together, or just generally acting better than the normal every day way people generally act.<br />
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It's doing something extraordinary in an ordinary situation. Or something surprising when surprising isn't necessarily called for.<br />
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You don't often see nobility at city council meetings.<br />
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City council meetings are where people go to complain about the snow plows coming too late or insist that the traffic on their street should be slower than it is or that the new development down the street would do irreparable damage to their schools and their roads and their peace of mind.<br />
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City council meetings are where people get mad if their taxes are going to be raised or their police station is going to be built too big or their new neighbors will drive in front of their houses instead of the people's houses two streets over.<br />
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Don't ask me how I know.<br />
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But because I am so intimately aware of what happens at city council meetings, I was so unexpectedly surprised when something out of the ordinary happened.<br />
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In his last meeting as a city employee, Vance Garfield stood at the mic (something he is normally loath to do), and said he had made a mistake and would make amends, when he very well could have defended his involvements or justified his decisions or passed the blame to anyone and everyone else, as had been happening throughout the rest of the meeting.<br />
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A bright spot that was so unexpected it brought a burst of applause.<br />
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You don't always see nobility at breakfast.<br />
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But this breakfast was to kickoff a major fundraising campaign for breast cancer research and support.<br />
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I had been introduced to several who had survived their battles with breast cancer and heard their stories. Then I sat at a table and introduced myself to two young women and their father.<br />
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They were there, they said, in memory of their mother and wife. She died just 18 months ago and they were supporting every fundraiser, volunteering for every event, purchasing every fundraising item, in her honor.<br />
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They didn't have to get up for a 7:30 a.m. breakfast. They didn't have to round up people and ask for donations. They didn't have to do a Saturday-morning walk or spend money in support of the cause.<br />
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They did it out of love. Even though it was too late to save their loved one, they wanted to help save others'. It was noble.<br />
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You see nobility quite often as a reporter.<br />
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The church group gathering supplies for refugees, the military wife waiting to introduce her new baby to a husband just getting back from a deployment, the teacher dedicating her ideas and energies to her young students despite the criticisms and changes in law and lack of respect she and others in her profession regularly receive.<br />
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Anybody can be noble. If not always, then maybe here or there.<br />
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It just takes admitting when something went wrong, standing up for what is right, thinking of others besides yourself.<br />
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It's impressive to see.<br />
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Watch for it.<br />
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Be it.<br />
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Events I've covered for the Davis Clipper include Summerfest, the Tour of Utah, the Davis County Fair, an opening at Bountiful Davis Art Center, a yard show, more fair, the ribbon cuttings at two new elementary schools, the unveiling of a new painting in the Kaysville Police Station, the announcement that the F-35As are now operational, a flag retirement ceremony and more fair. Not necessarily in that order.<br />
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The weekend of the Fourth of July brought many freedom festivals to Davis County communities, where I shoot photos and write stories for the Davis Clipper. It was fun to see something of each celebration, starting with the annual car show in North Salt Lake (above). <br />
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Even Mother Nature turned things red, white and blue during the sunset on the evening of July 1 (below).<br />
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West Bountiful held their annual parade Saturday morning, July 2, with flags all around. <br />
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Saturday night -- again in North Salt Lake -- the traditional fireworks lit the night sky, a tradition carried on by many other communities the next Monday.<br />
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July 4 was filled with parades and festivals in Kaysville, Centerville and Layton (below).</div>
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Farmington held their festival days to honor Freedom, Faith and Families (below) a week later, on July 9.<br />
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No matter your age, you have something to celebrate on the Fourth of July in America, as shown by this parade participant (above) and the man who led us in the Pledge of Allegiance (below). <br />
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Jay Hess was a Prisoner of War in Vietnam. He knows what that pledge means.<br />
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Yea for celebrations, and but a bigger yea for the people who have given their all over the last 240 years so that we continue to have a land of freedom and opportunity and a reason to celebrate.<br />
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Every morning during my four-day stay in San Francisco last week, the fog rolled in to the bay through the Golden Gate. Sometimes it would envelope the base of the bridge, sometimes the top. Sometimes it would fill the bay, sometimes it would work its way up the hillside and envelope us there. What an incredible way to start the day! Views from every angle, all interesting.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0