Day 9 of Mornings with Mary and Friday Shoot Out

Mornings with Mary sponsored by the talented Rebecca has been a joyous meme for me.

I feel I am very devoted to Mary and did not know I did have so many Mary's in my life story.

This meme has not been about Mary as a religious figure only but about the very womanhood and motherhood of a very famous woman named Mary.

Probably the most painted, sculptured, portrayed and sung about of any person in history.
Statues of Earth mother go back even before the story of Mary began.

Now I have seen many candles in the shape of Mary but this one is a little different.

 Several years ago while shopping one of my granddaughters helped me select this.

"Now QMM you know that candle is not for burning. How could anyone burn Mary?

Now you just put it in a candle stick and leave it alone."

Well I did and every time she comes to visit she always checks to make sure I have not lit that Mary candle.

I would say I have had it about 10 years.

My gd is 18 now and every time I look at my Mary candle I will remember the tender, loving child that helped me find her.

Haiku my heart


 Light of my heart
glowing, inspiring, uplifting
Madonna of the Light.

It will be hers when I don't need it any more.

Abby I love you so.

A closer look.

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 Friday Shoot Out.

 The theme this week is wheels.

Wheels of color

Vintage wheels

Wheels on the sewing machine go round and round.

Wheels for tracing patterns.

Second from right.

Wheels of skating

Wheels of music.

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Mosaic Monday, Unveiling the U.S. Postal Service Christmas Stamp

Although I posted about the stamp unveiling that I attended Friday, I wanted to use some additional photos in a mosaic today.

Music

Treats

Suspense

The Official U.S. Postal Service Christmas Stamp

Well there were speeches too but there was such a large crowd I could not get any photos of that.

 On Friday Nov. 18, 2011 the U.S. Postal Service

unveiled the 2011 Christmas Stamp.

The officials from the U.S. Postal Service were present at the ceremony and explained why it was held at Nazareth, Kentucky.

The representative for the USPS is from Kentucky and she stated that her job has become a series of PR activities to get out and get with the people to try to stir up concern for the possibility of the USPS being discontinued in some areas.

Post Offices are closing in a lot of areas.

She knew that the community of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth were beginning a year long celebration of their Bicentennial Year in 2012 and 

how more appropriate to increase interest around this area than to have the unveiling at Nazareth.

Each piece of mail cancelled at the Nazareth Post Office will have the official hand cancel designed by the current Postmistress at the post office.

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Sepia Saturday #99-Theme-Musical, music

Sepia Saturday
and
Gratitude challenge day #5

Alan has a photo of a band up this week and there are several items in this photo that could be used as the theme but I choose music.

Now this photo is not 100 years old but it is 56 years old.

St. Catharine Academy

Orchestra

1954-55

Yours truly is the 4th from the left in the 1st violin section.

I studied the violin the four years I was in this school.

I continued to take piano lessons after high school and had not played the violin for years.

In 1990 A Suzuki program came to our town and I joined and took up the violin again.

I was one of only two adults in the program.

Some of the students were are young as 6 years old.
There tiny little violins were so cute.
I found it a little intimidating play with those little tots.

Wow some of them where amazing.

They were required to have a parent or adult take the lessons with them so as to help them practice at home.

I did not have a partner, I taped the lessons and that helped me.

The only thing I remembered about playing the violin,

after a 30 year hiatus, was how to hold the violin, the bow and how to stand.

Of course I could read music but keeping that perfect stance and position to play was hard as could be. 

I thoroughly enjoyed playing the violin again and did so with one of our grands accompanying me on the piano.

We would play at Christmas and holiday times.

About 3 years ago I left my violin in my car in the heat and it melted the glue holding my violin together, so I am violinless again.

Probably won't buy another now.

My shoulders could not stand the strain these days.

I am grateful for my experience with music and surely enjoy the very best of all kinds of music daily.

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