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It is without question we are living in one of the most unique times in all of our lives. Who would have thought we'd experience living life during a global pandemic? Beyond staying safe, adjusting daily habits, and navigating a changing economy, I've kept a very close eye on the housing market. With Windermere's Chief Economist, Matthew Gardner as one of my guides, I am happy to report that housing has been a bright light in the economy during a very challenging time.
May unemployment numbers settled around 13%, an improvement over April, but still far from the 5% we started out with at the beginning of 2020. We are also embarking on our second quarter of retraction in GDP which is the textbook definition of a recession. Many experts are predicting a V-shaped recovery and I'd venture to say that we are currently at the bottom of the V.
With stay-at-home orders being lifted or eased depending on what part of the country you live in, we are starting to see jobs come back. Conversely, we are also seeing some industries thrive, but we will also witness some businesses be required to pivot to remain relevant or go away altogether. For example, tech is thriving and aerospace is not. The reorganization and re-prioritizing that is occurring will be impactful to many, some positive and some challenging.
In our region of the country, we entered into this pandemic with a thriving economy and a strong housing market. In January it was predicted that we would see a year-over-year price appreciation of around 5%. This health crisis will slow that level of appreciation, but we are not expecting losses.
Spring is typically our busiest time in the market with many sellers coming to market and buyers shopping in order to land in their new home by summer and the start of the fall school season. COVID-19 and the associated limitations in our daily activities along with employment disruption created a slowdown in our typical spring market. The largest impact has been the amount of available inventory to choose from. Amazingly, the housing market has continued to hum along with many buyers still eager to purchase. Inventory is down 40% year-over-year and buyer demand is strong, creating a frenzy in some price ranges and neighborhoods.
According to Joel Kan, Economist for the Mortgage Bankers Association mortgage applications are on the rise and up 5% from the same time last year. Summer is looking to be the re-invented spring market as our country starts to re-open. Interest rates are the lowest they have ever been, which is encouraging buyers to act and creating a good-sized audience for sellers.
Below is a video where Matthew speaks to his predicted trajectory for home prices as we travel through the second half of 2020 and beyond. Also, note below the latest statistic for both King and Snohomish Counties for the month of May.
It is always my goal to report real-time numbers from the front lines and do my best to explain what is happening. I choose to look at the numbers in tight snippets week-by-week and also dig deep on year-over-year numbers. Right now, we are reporting growth from March and starting to return to the same amount of activity that we saw at the same time last year. We must keep a close eye on unemployment figures and mortgage forbearance reporting, both of which are improving but still have a ways to go.
It is my goal to help keep my clients informed and empower strong decisions by studying the stats and reporting my day-to-day observations. Please reach out if you or someone you know has questions or concerns. These are unprecedented times and knowledge is one of your most powerful tools. I am honored to be your trusted advisor.
Congrats Class of 2020!
The class of 2020 deserves a huge congratulations! The milestone of finishing elementary school, junior high, high school or college is always worth noting, but this class is extra-special!! They have navigated distance learning and missed out on the proper celebrations, but they've shown resilience and finished strong. The world is proud of you and so am I!
A heartfelt thank you to all the teachers, administrators and staff that helped guide all the students this school year! Distance learning is not for the faint of heart and the teachers are amongst the heroes during this challenging time!


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Monday, May 28, 2012
1790s hair and turban tutorial
And as a postscript, here's a little more information that I didn't cover in the video:
- I bought the curly hairpieces from a local store called Sam Moon, but I've seen similar curly ponytails on ebay, at beauty supply stores, and even at drugstores. It gets a bit pricey to buy two of them, so you might be better off buying a cheap wig and just cutting it down to cover the back of your head only, or you could buy one longer hairpiece and pin the curls up more to add volume and fill in top.
- I forgot to mention that the clip-on ponytails also come with an elastic drawstring that goes around the edge to cinch it up around a bun if you want to wear it that way. I removed both the claw clip and the elastic and stretched them so they would sit flat on my head. The combs were already attached when I bought it.
- Here is a link to the setting lotion that I mentioned. That stuff is wonderful! I use a 50/50 mixture of Lottaboday and water and I keep it in a spray bottle so I can spritz my dry hair with the setting lotion before rolling.
- It is easy to make the extra decorations like a feather or a wheat spray go across your head, but it is harder to get them to stick straight up, which was a popular look in the 1790s. I recommend Lynn McMasters' fabulous wrapped turban tutorial for help with that one - look on the articles page of her website.
9 comments:
- Cynthia Griffith said...
I always appreciate clear, informative tips and videos are awesome for that, so thanks for sharing!
Also, thanks for posting the Lottaboday link -- I think you'd mentioned it to me before, and I'm trying to get my shopping list together for when I start playing with my hair to see what might work. :D - May 28, 2012 at 4:53 PM
- Lizzie Siddal said...
Fabulous, thanks a lot for the video!
- May 28, 2012 at 5:37 PM
- Trystan L. Bass said...
Wow, that's fantastic! Turbans have always looked so difficult to me, but dang, that's so simple & elegant. I have to try it :-)
- May 29, 2012 at 1:02 PM
- Lynn Brooks said...
awesome tutorial.
lynn brooks - May 31, 2012 at 9:37 AM
- Angela said...
I have bob length hair and I have used a half wig similar to your two pieces sewn together to cover most of my hair. I pull out a bit in front and curl it to blend in the front hair line. Then I added individual sausage curls that I pinned in with bobby pins around the base of the hair line at the nap of the neck. I get a similar look. So, those readers who don't have long beautiful hair like yours can still get the same look. Thanks for the awesome tutorial.
- May 31, 2012 at 1:38 PM
- Ali said...
The absurdity of it makes it look just all the more mindbogglingly amazing. Breathtaking! I love it! Can I just wear my hear like this all the time? With jeans? Please?
- August 15, 2012 at 12:12 AM
- elisa.b said...
This is fabulous! Looks so real and just fantastic. Do you recall the brand of the hair pieces you used? I have been looking and am not having much luck. Was it originally less curly and just more long (which is what I have been finding) and then you curled it? Thanks!
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I was looking back through my photos from the last couple weeks and this one just stuck out to me... I think it is so sweet how they take care of each other... Makes my heart smile!!
I don't know what was wrong with me these last few weeks but I just couldn't remember to take pictures of all the fun we have been having... Here is what I did manage to capture!! :)
We made Deanna Jump's Scarecrow and completed the book that goes on his belly! We have been working on labeling so we added labels to our scarecrow's body. :) oops- just noticed my toes... I soo need a pedi!! :)
Here is the Roll Say Keep (Stamp) game we did during small group - they really got into the stamping part. :)
We did the Haunted House Patterning activity - they loved using the foam halloween shapes I found at The Dollar Tree. :)
We made Frankie and ended up using his as our door decoration!!
We have been discussing positional words in Math and my kiddos loved the Halloween position word with a Twist activity by Sue eth Arnold and Robynn Drerup! I can't figure out how to link up to them on my phone so if you want the link - send me an email and I can send you in the right direction. :) for a follow up we made an entry in our Math Journal and I was really impressed with how cute their little drawings were!!
Deanna's Sticky Web Experiment was also big fun for my babies this week. This was one of those "forgotten camera" moments. Oops!! :)
I hope you all have a restful weekend! My daddy is here for a visit and my baby girl is excited beyond belief. She loves her grandpa!! :)
This was a few weeks ago at the airport on our way to visit friends in Florida!! :)


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Dear MUN Director, Advisor, Colleague,
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Gigi has finished knitting the Two Old Bags felted Christmas tree ornaments, but hasn't felted them yet. Gigi is working on Sam's Sharks scarf. Jasmin has cast on a Pogona scarf (in WestKnits Book 1 by Stephen West) out of the 70% Superwash Merino/ 30% Silk (Metamorphosis) from A Verb for Keeping Warm in "Indigo Blue Sky".
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More podcast suggestions!
Knit Naturally
Sticks and String
The Knits Wits
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Knit Knit Cafe
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Last February, I wrote a piece entitled, "License To Steal", concerning a certain legal loophole which allows members of Congress to trade stocks using "insider information":
On January 26, 2009, Congressman Brian Baird introduced H.R.682, the "Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act" (STOCK Act). The bill was intended to resolve the situation concerning one of the more sleazy "perks" of serving in Congress. As it presently stands, the law prohibiting "insider trading" (e.g. acting on confidential corporate information when making a transaction involving that company's publicly-traded stock) does not apply to members of Congress. Remember how Martha Stewart went to prison? Well, if she had been representing Connecticut in Congress, she might have been able to interpose the defense that she was inspired to sell her ImClone stock based on information she acquired in the exercise of her official duties. In that scenario, Ms. Stewart's sale of the ImClone stock would have been entirely legal. That's because the laws which apply to you and I do not apply to those in Congress. Needless to say, within six months of its introduction, H.R.682 was referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties where it died of neglect. Since that time, there have been no further efforts to propose similar legislation.
At a time when the public is finally beginning to understand how our elected officials are benefiting from a system of "legalized graft" in the form of campaign contributions, more attention is being focused on how the "real money" is made in Congress. A new book by Peter Schweizer – Throw Them All Out – deals with this very subject. The book's subtitle is reminiscent of the point I tried to make in my February posting: "How politicians and their friends get rich off insider stock tips, land deals and cronyism that would send the rest of us to prison".
Peter J. Boyer wrote an article for Newsweek, explaining how Peter Schweizer came about writing this book. Schweizer is the William J. Casey research fellow at the Hoover Institution and as Boyer pointed out, Schweizer is considered by liberal critics as a "right wing hit man". It's nice to see someone from the right provide us with an important treatise on crony capitalism. The book exposes insider trading by both Democrats and Republicans – hell-bent on profiteering from the laws they enact. Boyer's essay provided us with some examples of the sleazy trades made by Congress-cretins, as described in Throw Them All Out. Here are a few examples:
Indeed, Schweizer reports that, during the debate over Obama's health-care reform package, John Boehner, then the House minority leader, was investing "tens of thousands of dollars" in health-insurance-company stocks, which made sizable gains when the proposed public option in the reform deal was killed.
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One of the more dramatic episodes in the book recounts the trading activity of Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus, of Alabama, who, as the ranking member of the House Financial Services Committee, was privy to sensitive high-level meetings during the 2008 financial crisis and proceeded to make a series of profitable stock-option trades.
Bachus was known in the House as a guy who liked to play the market, and in fact he was pretty good at it; one year, he reported a capital gain in excess of $150,000 from his trading activities. More striking is that Bachus boldly carried forth his trading in the teeth of the impending financial collapse, the nightmarish dimensions of which he had learned about first-hand in confidential briefings from Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed chairman Ben Bernanke. On Sept. 19, 2008, after attending two such briefings, Bachus bought options in an index fund (ProShares UltraShort QQQ) that effectively amounted to a bet that the market would fall. That is indeed what happened, and, on Sept. 23, Bachus sold his "short" options, purchased for $7,846, for more than $13,000—nearly doubling his investment in four days.
Around the time Congress and the Bush administration worked out a TARP bailout, Bachus made another options buy and again nearly doubled his money.
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After the first briefing from Bernanke and Paulson, brokers for Democratic Congressman Jim Moran, of Virginia, and his wife sold their shares in 90 companies, dodging the losses that others who stayed in the market would soon face. Republican Rep. Shelley Capito, of West Virginia, sold between $100,000 and $250,000 of Citigroup stock the day after the first meeting, recording capital gains on Citigroup transactions in that rocky period.
Peter Schweizer's analysis of the bipartisan culture of corruption on Capitol Hill reinforces one of my favorite criticisms of American government: Our Sham Two-Party System. The Republi-Cratic Corporatist Party owes its allegiance to no population, no principle, no cause – other than pocketing as much money as possible. Just as there have been some recent "pushback" efforts by outraged citizens, Schweizer is now advocating a "Throw Them All Out" campaign. This could have a potentially significant impact on Congress, because the term of office in the House of Representatives lasts for only two years. Consider Schweizer's thought at the close of the Newsweek piece:
"I was troubled," he says, "by the fact that the political elite gets to play by a different set of rules than the rest of us. In the process of researching this book, I came to the conclusion that political party and political philosophy matter a lot less than we think. Washington is a company town, and politics is a business. People wonder why we don't get more change in Washington, and the reason is that the permanent political class is very comfortable. Business is good."
I concluded my February 28 posting with this point:
"Inside information" empowers the party in possession of that knowledge with something known as "information asymmetry", allowing that person to take advantage of (or steal from) the less-informed person on the other side of the trade. Because membership in Congress includes a license to steal, can we ever expect those same individuals to surrender those licenses? Well, if they were honest . . .
A successful "Throw Them All Out" campaign would obviate the necessity of attempting to convince this Congress to pass the "Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act" (STOCK Act). If the next Congress knows that its political survival is depending on its passage of the STOCK Act, we might see it become law.


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How much science can you fit into an hour-long television show? When you talk to Glen Whitman and Rob Chiappetta, executive story editors on the hit Fox series Fringe, it almost seems like the answer is "an unlimited amount." Science seems to be crammed into every nook and cranny of Fringe, so much, in fact, that Fox offers high school lesson plans that explore the science of specific episodes. Fringe doesn't hit viewers over the head with science though; it's not a documentary dressed up as fiction. Instead, it takes scientific twists and turns, imagining "what-if" by taking real science to the edge, also known as fringe science. Think parallel universes, mind control and wormholes through time.
It is fictional science, but still, Whitman and Chiappetta, who kept an archive of science concepts and ideas during the first season of Fringe for inspiration, feel a sense of duty to the scientific community. "We want to promote the idea that science is not just a bunch of facts and figures and experiments, but that it's people, it's passion and it's adventure," explains Whitman. "On our show, the heroes are scientists. The heroes are really smart people asking really smart questions."
Fringe, as Whitman and Chiappetta explain it, is about science as a means to deepen and explore storylines and characters, which is part of the exchange with The Exchange, says Chiappetta. "Our relationship with the program is not just about helping us accurately depict science; It's also to link promote a general feeling, a general respect, interest and wonder about science, about technology and what's coming next, and how can we infuse these ideas into storytelling."
Not that scientific accuracy doesn't count on Fringe. Whitman and Chiappetta are working to build story arches, develop characters and immerse viewers in a plausible world – all for the sake of telling the story. That's hard to do if the science comes off as, well, ridiculous. Whitman and Chiappetta are careful to craft plausible science scenarios for Fringe, which means a call or e-mail to one of The Exchange's consultants is sometimes needed.
In Fringe's third season finale, for instance, Whitman and Chiappetta contacted physicist (and Exchange consultant) Sean M. Carroll for a particularly puzzling wormhole/radiation conundrum. "In the finale, which is set in 2026, a wormhole is opened in the middle of Central Park," explains Whitman. "What we wanted the characters to realize, in a couple of lines of dialogue, is that the wormhole leads to a specific point in time, 250 million years ago. So the question was, what could they detect coming out of the wormhole that would allow for that conclusion?"
In the original script, the characters detected gamma radiation, which is real but not accurate. Whitman and Chiappetta also considered Hawking radiation, a type of radiation emitted by black holes, but again, the real science didn't fit. "The problem was that any wormhole or black hole would emit Hawking radiation. So, the characters could detect the radiation but it wouldn't tell them that it was coming from a different time," says Whitman. If he and Chiappetta wanted the characters to know the wormhole led to a point in time, not a point in space, they would need a different explanation. "We considered some other possibilities," he explains. "One is that they captured the airstream that was coming through the wormhole and tested it for its carbon content and nitrogen content. Then they would compare it to a profile of their estimates of atmospheric concentrations over many millennia. But ultimately, that was a big, long explanation for what was supposed to be more of an emotional scene between two characters."
Boiling it down to a few lines of dialogue was not an easy task, but with Carroll's help, the two story editors found a conceivable explanation. "We needed something that could make people go 'Aha! That's connected to another period of time!'" says Carroll. "We threw around a couple of ideas and [Whitman and Chiappetta] settled on an unknown form of radiation." Since the season finale is set in the future, it is possible that scientists could discover a new form of radiation. So, Whitman and Chiappetta "discovered" kappa radiation, which became the series' tell-tale sign that a wormhole goes through time, not space. "It's not something that exists in known physics," says Carroll, "but it is a plausible way that future scientists could tell something fishy was going on."
The end result of consultation? A few lines of dialogue between characters Walter Bishop and Peter Bishop:
Walter: I also hear there's been a massive increase in kappa radiation.
Peter: That one is true. A wormhole opened in Central Park, right in the center of Sheep's Meadow. Took us months but we were finally able to Amber it over.
Walter: A wormhole shouldn't emit that type of radiation. Not unless it's a wormhole through time.
Peter: Exactly right. The carbon levels were consistent with the late Paleozoic era, 250 million years ago.
It doesn't seem like much. In fact, blink and you'll miss it. But that's the point. The scene is a reunion between the two characters (father and son). Walter is behind bars, imprisoned for an action with dire consequences, and Peter is seeing him for the first time in years. When you watch the scene, the emotion is apparent, not the science – which helps the viewers get deeper into the story without an interruption from an implausible science scenario.
You might wonder why Whitman and Chiappetta bother with (theoretically) accurate science at all. It's a television show, so why not just make something up? Building Fringe's science from real science has its benefits, says Chiappetta. "Viewers are very, very smart. They demand a higher degree of accuracy and, at the least, plausibility." Plus, adhering to some sort of logic is integral for the cast. "John Noble, the actor who plays Walter, he's always reading about Einstein, about new revelations in physics. Many times he comes up to us to ask, 'Okay, explain this to me. Why would I be doing this? Why would I be saying this?'" explains Chiappetta. "If we can provide him with a real reason why this is what he's doing or why this is an actual scientific process, he feels more emboldened as a character, that his character is really this genius. The more we can provide [the cast] with real reasons, the more they feel emboldened to grab that and play that part even more deeply and richly."
Whitman agrees, referencing a scene where Walter needed to talk to another character about a complex mathematic calculation with 60 or so equations. "I got a call from John Noble and he literally wanted to know what was happening in each line of the mathematical calculation. He wanted to understand what the notations meant, what each line was proving and how the whole logic of what they were doing worked," says Whitman.
It also helps if the characters are able to speak like scientists. Sometimes, Whitman and Chiappetta need input from scientists and engineers on how to phrase dialogue and terminology. "It's helpful when you have someone in the field who can say 'This is how you would present this concept,'" says Chiappetta. "If we can use the terminology correctly, if we can have our [characters] talking the way that scientists talk, I think it sounds real."
As much as Whitman and Chiappetta are obligated to the storyline and the characters, Whitman also mentions a loyalty to the science. "The odd thing is that, especially after talking to a scientist who really knows what they're talking about and has an interest in educating the public, I suddenly feel a strange obligation," says Whitman. Story does come first though, reminds Whitman, but it would seem he and Chiappetta are keeping science and story in perfect harmony. "What we hear from Robert's father, who is a professor of science education at the University of Houston, is that people involved in science get excited about a show like this," says Whitman. "That he has colleagues on campus who come up to him and say, 'Hey, I watched Fringe last night and I noticed that they used this concept. That's awesome!' We love it when we hear stories like that."
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Dividenz worked on preparing a business plan for this startup project, and managed to implement it to life in a very short term.
Network Micro-Segmentation. Networks were originally designed to connect devices and users together. However, as more applications and services started to move to IP (think of CCTV cameras, building management systems, telephones, etc.), the need to separate those devices into separate zones became essential. Using one physical converged network makes sense from a cost and management perspective, but SDN would allow us splitting up this network into secure isolated zones. An attacker, whether an external hacker or even a disgruntled employee, will not be able to have access to any network services outside of their allocated zone. Micro-segmentation allows for even further granularity, separating individual servers, devices, or users into unique secure zones. Recent attacks on banks have relied on attacking one publicly exposed server, and then using it to access other internal servers. Micro-segmentation would contain attacks to specific servers and prevent wider exposure.
We are moving to a new age where attackers are constantly finding innovative ways to penetrate security layers. Organizations have a legal and ethical responsibility to their customers to keep their private information safe. Adopting new technologies like SDN to benefit from its security advantages is one of the ways of evolving through next generation technologies to stay one step ahead in the never-ending security race.


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When one is driving a car (or any other vehicle for that matter) there is a German term that describes the practice trying to predict situations that might occur. When attempting to translate it I can only come up with descriptions, not with a succinct term. The descriptions revolve around the following:
- situational awareness
- anticipating dangers
- safe driving practice
But none of them feel like the right term to me.
I've also found anticipatory driving being used. But here the context seems to usually be fuel efficiency. I also have the sneaky suspicion that it originated as a translation of the German term I am looking to translate (vorrausschauendes Fahren).


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Paul S. MacDonald
New Horizons: June 1998
Also in this issue
Orthodox Presbyterian Summer Camps
by Various Authors
Renewal for the Called-out Ones
by Timothy H. Gregson
by Roger A. Sproul
[Mr. MacDonald, an elder at Pilgrim OPC in Bangor, Maine, delivered this commencement address last year at a public high school, before retiring as an English teacher.Editor]
Let me encourage you graduates to enjoy the attention you are getting at this point in your life. I know it sometimes seems that if, for one more time, you have to explain to some remote relative who has come to gush over your achievements just what your plans are for next fall, you will croak. But be patient with them. As Garrison Keillor says, high school graduation is one of only two times in your life when people will gather to celebrate your achievementsand the other time you yourself are going to miss by about three days. So make the most of this occasion.
In the meantime, though, before that other occasion arises, let me talk for a few minutes about three things. My outline is quite simple. In fact, you graduates are the only ones who may have difficulty following it. That is not an insult. It is just that everybody else can see it on the backdrop behind you. Some of you seniors may also have seen it during your slow march into the hallunless you had to concentrate so hard on when and where to move your feet that you could not lift your eyes to your class motto: Live Today ... Treasure Yesterday ... Dream of Tomorrow.
I'm glad it does not say "Live for today." There's a difference. "Live for today" implies thoughtlessness and irresponsibility. It sounds like hedonismabandoning responsibility in pursuit of the pleasure of the moment. That is not a good philosophy. "Live for today" also implies that this physical, tangible, temporal world is all the world there is. "Live for today" ignores the eternal perspective which you neglect to your peril.
But do live today. Accomplish something. Don't fritter away your time. Remember that if you take a day off, you can never put it back on the calendar. It is gone forever. Do you recall reading Ben Franklin in your Survey of American Literature class?"Poor Richard" said, "Do you love life? Then don't waste time, because time is the stuff that life is made of." (That's a slightly modernized translation for the sake of clarity.)
As you apply yourself, pay attention to detail. Get things right the first time. Have you ever been tempted to do a slipshod job, to piece something together because you didn't have time to do it right? In literature class, you probably got away with copying the answers from someone else's paper instead of reading them in the book, but on the job it won't be so easy. Think about itare you really saving time by doing a halfhearted, patchwork job that will probably have to be done again to get it right? Just rememberif you don't have time now to do it right, where are you going to get the time to do it over? Make good use of your time. Pay attention to detail. The big project is just the accumulation of the little details. Get the details right, and the whole job will come out right.
Live today in another sense. Enjoy and appreciate the world that surrounds you. If I may indulge in a cliché, "Take time to smell the roses." Enjoy the pink and white of the apple blossoms and the fragrance of the lilacs. Appreciate the green and gold colors of the new leaves after the drab gray and brown landscape of the last six months. Store up in your memories the observations and expressions of the poetswhat "oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed." Look at the spring maple trees and remember Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay": "Nature's first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold; Her early leaf's a flower, but only so an hour." In the fall, as you come to a fork in the road beneath the autumn leaves, recall "The Road Not Taken": "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not take them both, I looked down one as far as I could to where it bent in the undergrowth." When the first snow-flakes of winter drift down and rattle the dead leaves, think of "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening": "Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though. He will not see me stopping here to watch his woods fill up with snow."
Live today. Don't just drift along unaware and unobservant. Look around you. Wake up. Come alive.
In order to treasure yesterday, you must know what yesterday was. Here is where I would say, "Abolish ignorance!" Many of you have heard me utter one of my favorite exasperations: "Ignorance is a curse." Ignorance on the part of a baggage handler at the airport who could not read the instructions on securing the cargo door permitted the door to open in flight and consigned two hundred passengers to their death. Ignorance of history, ignorance of meteorology, ignorance of literature, ignorance of botany, ignorance of grammar, ignorance of classical and biblical lore, ignorance of agriculture, ignorance of geography, ignorance of artistic and musical traditionsit is all frustration to the point of exasperation. If you aren't tuned in to your past, you are living under a curse.
Resolve now that you are going to abolish as much ignorance in your life as possible. I did what I could for you the past few years. Now it is up to you. Do crossword puzzles. (My wife and I do the puzzles every day now because someone told us doing crossword puzzles staves off what's-his-name's diseaseyou know, the one where you can't remember things!)
Read books. Attend concerts. Visit museums. Talk with old folks. Find out what life was like. Broaden your understanding of yesterday. Life goes on. One way to understand and appreciate the culture you are graduating into is to know what happened in the past to bring it about. Ignorance is a curse. Abolish all of it you can.
Treasure yesterday. I think you are supposed to treasure the memories. But how can you treasure the memories if you don't know what went on? Learn all you can. And keep on learning. Don't think you can stop learning just because you have graduated.
Again, be sure you read that right. "Dream of tomorrow" does not mean "daydream of tomorrow." Don't wish your life away. When I told my wife that you had asked me to speak here today, she said, "Tell them something practicalsomething they'll remember." Then she said she still remembered what her high school graduation speaker had said, "Don't wish your life away." She has remembered that ever since. And now I can pass it on to you. And I hope you will remember it and pass it on to the generations that follow you. Don't wish your life away.
Let me explain what I mean by "Don't wish your life away." Don't concentrate so much on some future milestone that you miss what is going on here and now. Maybe you were tempted to say sometime in the past four years, "Boy, I just can't wait until I graduate." Okay, now that you are graduating, what are you going to do? I hope eagerness to graduate did not blind you to or deprive you of opportunities for enjoyment and satisfaction along the way. If it did, if obsession with the destination kept you from enjoying the trip, don't let that impatience become a habit: "I just can't wait until I finish college! I just can't wait until I get married! I just can't wait to have a family! Then, I just can't wait until the kids grow up! I just can't wait until I can retire from my job."
There you have it! Your life is gone, and all you've done is wait impatiently for the next stage of your life to pass. Well, it passes all right. Don't wish it away. If you do, you may come to the end of it with a very short list of satisfying achievements and good memories.
I have some other advice as you dream of tomorrow, too. Maintain high standards of integrity and morality. Be truthful. Be honest. Be dependable. Be faithful. Honor your commitments. Keep the vows you make. Let your name and your word be worth something.
If your dream of tomorrow includes marriage and family, let me offer two suggestions in this connection. The first is to learn what love is. Love is not getting and having. Love is giving. The greatest example of love is the love of God. And God's love was demonstrated in the giving of his Son to redeem rebellious mankind. Let me offer a quick illustration. Do you know someone who really loves oranges? Now, does he have any concern for the orange? No, he "loves" it because he enjoys all the flavor and sweetness he can get from it. If you think he really loves the orange, check with the discarded pulp! That's not love. It's lustfulness. The good husband is the one who will give himselfeven his life, if need befor his wife. Learn what love is as you dream of tomorrow.
My other suggestion in this connection is that when you have children, love them enough to correct them. Correcting your children is not abuse. Real abuse is not teaching them the limits that every human soul needs to know in order to live with contentment. Permissiveness is easier, but it is not love. Children who are not corrected come to assume that they can have and do anything they want to. Then someday they get to high school and suffer the trauma of encountering the assistant principal and finding out that there is another authority in the world. It is better that they learn that at a younger age.
My final piece of advice as you dream of tomorrow is: don't overlook the manufacturer's handbook. You've all heard the joke, "As a last resort, read the instructions." We are all so proud. We assume that we can successfully assemble a table saw or operate a sewing machine or even take a final exam in Englishjust by looking at it and figuring it out. Instructions and directions are for the cerebrally undercapitalized! Similarly, we assume we can successfully live our lives just by figuring things out on our own. But let me tell you, sooner or later you will encounter a snag. And when you dowhether you possess enough wisdom to seek counsel early, or whether you are so stubborn that you wait until it is a last resortconsult the instructions.
Every manufacturer provides a handbook to describe the successful operation and maintenance of his product. And the manufacturer who created you is no different. I know that some of you regularly consult that handbook now. If you don't use it, keep it in mind. Even if you think you don't need it now, the time will come when it could be very helpful to you. When you experience broken relationships, when ill health strikes you or your family, when sorrow enters your life, when strains develop in your marriage, when your kids frustrate youturn to the operator's manual and seek the wisdom and help and strength you need to cope with all your tomorrows.
Live today. Treasure yesterday. Dream of tomorrow.
Reprinted from New Horizons, June 1998.
New Horizons: June 1998
Also in this issue
Orthodox Presbyterian Summer Camps
by Various Authors
Renewal for the Called-out Ones
by Timothy H. Gregson
by Roger A. Sproul
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November 9, 2011
Flower power: Plant sale offers more than 60 varieties of university-grown holiday poinsettias
Submitted by Communications and Marketing
Just in time for the holidays, poinsettia plants in peach, white, pink and speckled varieties will be offered to the public as a fundraiser for the Kansas State University Gardens between Nov. 18 and Dec. 7. Traditional red varieties also will be included.
The flowering plants will be on sale from 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, early flowering varieties only; 11 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 2; and 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 7, during the Poinsettia Open House. The location is the gardens' Quinlan Visitors Center, 1500 Denison Ave., Manhattan.
According to Scott McElwain, director of the gardens, horticulture students in the university's Greenhouse Operations Management class grew the poinsettias as a hands-on lab project. Domestic and international poinsettia breeding companies provided the cultivar trial plants, which the students have grown in the teaching space of the Throckmorton Plant Sciences Center greenhouses on campus.
Funds from the sale will support the university gardens, student workers and other operations, McElwain said.
Volunteers with the Friends of the Kansas State University Gardens organization will staff the three sale dates. Prices for the poinsettias are $10 for a 6.5-inch pot and $50 for six plants; and $15 for a 10-inch pot centerpiece.


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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
needing a guide
So as you all know I've been hard at work on my current wip and it has mystery and magic involved. Now not Harry Potter style however it does have a certain edge to it, My characters have an ability they are born with, they can't pick up extra magical skills unless they are the Head of House and there is one for each House, they are chosen upon their many talents. I only tell you this to better explain my post as a whole. I am needing a book or a guide to help me through their magical abilities.
There are so many unknowns in my MC's life. She of course has been kidnapped and left for dead however as the story evolves she comes to know she is given a gift at the cost of being very badly hurt. This is kind of where I was going with the super power post the other day, she had to pay a price and she isn't done paying them. The problem is the more my MC and my novel evolved the more I dove into this alternate universe, the Traveler's world. There are so many unknowns about this place which in order for my MC to actually find her way she is going to need to know the ins and outs of this place. So I began to brainstorm on what would help me better understand the world I had created. It hit me like a mack truck (okay well a bit overdramatic but you get my point... plus I've always wanted to say that!) It hit me I need to write the guide book that I give my MC on how the system works, it needs to be accessible to her and only her and since I'm the one solving the puzzle I should probably have all the pieces. So last night I began to write the Travelers Guide that will help my MC overcome the questions I couldn't answer.
So for your story does your MC need a guide book to move throughout a different world? Do they need a guide book of any sorts?
What helps you dig deeper and understand your MC's path or your MC better?
29 comments:
- Bish Denham said...
Interesting. Kind of like A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
- Wed Mar 31, 06:51:00 AM
- Christine Danek said...
Not yet. I do have a whole other world thing going but in the first book (I have enough material for two books on my current idea) I only have to talk about it vs. actually going there. Not sure where to get ideas though. That's a tough one. I just watch some favorite sci/fi movies for inspiration.
- Wed Mar 31, 06:59:00 AM
- Unknown said...
What a cool idea! And you're right, you have to solve the puzzle, work out all the high-level logic, before you can really write the story for the characters. Good luck with it!
I'm not working with a different world in my WiP, but I do need to figure out one last character's angle. It's just out of reach, you know what I mean? I'm so close to figuring out his true motivations, what he really wants, and I know when that piece falls into place it will unlock the end of the story.
I think about him all day, while doing dishes, while driving the car. That mack truck is revving its engine, and any minute now it's going to come careening at me... (fun metaphor!!) - Wed Mar 31, 06:59:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Bish - I suppose it would be! I haven't read that but I would assume it's the same!
Christine - Oooo that sounds fascinating!! I'm very intrigued already! I too have enough story for two novels, possibly even three as I continue to write! So much good stuff we you dive to other worlds!
Nicole - I'm so with you! I never stop thinking about my MC and the WIP in itself, they are always on my mind. It's amazing that I can still get any work done! - Wed Mar 31, 07:04:00 AM
- Summer Frey said...
I have a short guide, for-my-eyes-only that details the backstory and magic system for my novel. I sat down and figured it all our before I even started the revision, so I'd know exactly where I was heading this time, instead of running in the dark.
Only 10 pages into my revision, I've already had to refer to it a few times!
I'm sure once you finish your draft, your guide will change too, so you may not want to invest TOO much time making it perfect, only to be hit with brilliant inspiration that makes half of it worthless (sound like I'm speaking from experience? Yeah.)
Anyway, if you're interested, a really good urban fantasy series concerning magic and magical offload, as they call it, starts with Magic to the Bone by Devon Monk. - Wed Mar 31, 07:07:00 AM
- Unknown said...
DWM - I love being able to make my own world!!
Summer - That is exactly what I'm going for just a quick little run-down, a small guide that will give me all the info I need to progress a little further! I sure hope it isn't worthless but if it is at least I had fun doing it!!
Ooo I'm very interested! I'll google Devon Monk to check it out! - Wed Mar 31, 07:11:00 AM
- Matthew MacNish said...
Hi Jen. Really quickly blogspot was broken last night so when you tried to follow my blog it didn't work. It's not that big a deal but you are so popular I would love for some of your traffic to come my way!
Anyway regarding your post I definitely agree. Any kind of world like this has to have a set of rules, and your character has to understand them in order to survive/succeed.
In my own novel this is easy for me to deal with because the magic is based off of Buddhist Mysticism, Chinese Martial Arts like Qi-Gong, and Tantric Yogic mediatation ... so there are already some pre-existing notions.
For your world I think it's great that you're going to lay all those kinds of things out for your character. I'm guessing it's going to help a great deal. - Wed Mar 31, 07:32:00 AM
- Crystal Cook said...
That is such a great idea! My MC has something else going on in his life, but I haven't thought about writing a guide for him. But he does know the rules that he has to follow. Great post Jen! I'm so excited for you with all your writing greatness :)
- Wed Mar 31, 07:34:00 AM
- Unknown said...
Matthew - I'll attempt again! Yes I could see how having something already created would be nice to use as a guide, however I do find it quite fun to be able to create the whole story myself, no rules, nothing to go by... definitely challenging!
Crystal - You're too sweet! Glad to hear your character knows what he needs to be doing and maybe a guide isn't needed for your wip :) - Wed Mar 31, 07:40:00 AM
- Artemis Grey said...
Interesting! Hmmm, well the MC of my YA, the ms I'm currently peddling, lives in our world, but in a post-apocalyptic era. She's constantly learning how to make her way through this world, largely because she refuses to simply live the same way as other survivors.
I'd have to say though, that my MC's largest guide, is her own heart. The story follows her as she learns about the world around her and the troubles within it. But throughout, she follows her own instincts more than the established rules of society. - Wed Mar 31, 09:25:00 AM
- Carolyn V. said...
That is a good question Jen! I think my MC is mixed up with the choices she has to make, but somehow with each choice she is moving her forward. (I just hope it works out in the end!)
- Wed Mar 31, 10:49:00 AM
- Mel Chesley said...
You know, having the guide is great. For you. You may never need mention the existence of such a guide or you can just reference it by simply saying the book was required reading, she found it in a library or among someone's possessions.
Mind you, this has probably already been said. :D
We knew Harry learned stuff from books simply because he was at a magical school, but he didn't have a guidebook on how to defeat Voldemort. He listened to others.
If your MC requires that she have this guide on hand, then by all means you better have one prepared or be really good at throwing things out there off the top of your head. Mainly, I'd write the guide book for yourself so you can adjust and tweak it as you see fit.
I hope that helps. Otherwise, ignore this post. XD - Wed Mar 31, 10:57:00 AM
- Unknown said...
A. Grey - Following the heart is a must!!!
Carolyn V. - That's awesome! I love it when every situation makes the MC get her butt in gear and move forward more!
Caledonia - Great help!! I always love a different insight. She doesn't need to learn anything about her ability but about the house will be key, she is taking over a huge responsibility and only a few know the ins and outs so having a guide book, or a book of reference would be super helpful! Thank you for your wonderful comment! - Wed Mar 31, 11:05:00 AM
- Portia said...
I had a published science fiction friend who did something very similar. She would create her world and then write the story. She'd try to fill in all of the details she knew would come up, from the foods they ate and languages spoken to maps of the world and so on. It lent a feeling of plausibility to all of her work.
- Wed Mar 31, 11:08:00 AM
- Elana Johnson said...
When you're writing in another world, I think it's absolutely imperative that you as the author know everything about that world. EVERYTHING.
Now does the MC need to know everything? Not really. S/He just needs to learn and discover everything they need to overcome the problem. And it shouldn't come at the very end of the book. It should be hinted at throughout and the MC just learns/controls it when they need it most.
I'm glad you're writing the Travelers Guide. I'm sure it will help you along the way! - Wed Mar 31, 11:13:00 AM
- Shannon O'Donnell said...
I haven't created any new worlds, but when I'm struggling with the depth of my MC, my crit. partners are priceless. :-)
- Wed Mar 31, 11:45:00 AM
- its simple love said...
I just discovered your blog. It's quite fascinating! I would love to tag along in your journey of writing a book. I have always wanted to write a book (as 90% of the world has that desire).... so I will live vicariously thru you. Thanks.
Rachael - Wed Mar 31, 12:56:00 PM
- Nicole Settle said...
In my fantasy world, my mc has a handbook but he's rather naughty and doesn't really follow it. I've been thinking about actually writing the handbook myself just so I have it as a reference instead of just something in my head but that level of detail will have to come second to my actual writing of my WIP. Good luck with your guide!
- Wed Mar 31, 02:07:00 PM
- Abby. said...
Thank you Jen, I am feeling much better today!
Yes, most people do not appreciate their parents until they see what adulthood is actually like. That's why the "Reality Store" was good for us! :)
Good luck on your guide!
~Abby~ - Wed Mar 31, 02:45:00 PM
- Talli Roland said...
Interesting question! How great would it be to write a guide to an alternate world. I'm envious.
My character goes on a game show, so I had to make up all the rules to the show. It was so much fun! - Wed Mar 31, 02:56:00 PM
- Jai Joshi said...
When I wrote 'Follow the Cowherd Boy', my first novel, I had to draw a picture of the fort my lead character lived in. I also had to find a map of ancient India and draw in all the relevant historical details I wanted to highlight. I also had to write pages and pages of timelines so I knew I wasn't going to get my dates mixed up and make a historical blunder.
It was all very complicated but worth it. You're guidebook sounds fun and makes me think of 'Hogwarts: A History' from Harry Potter. That was his guide although it was always Hermoine who actually read the book.
Jai - Wed Mar 31, 03:43:00 PM
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Portia - Wow your friend did a lot of work! Sounds amazing!!
Elana - I couldn't agree with you more! More information the better off you are!
Shannon - I now have my own crit group so I'm sure I'll soon talk the world of them!!
Its simple love - Thank you, you're so sweet!!
Nicole - I love your MC, I'm intrigued and would love to know what bad things their up too!
Abby - It was a great tool to show children how it really works! How fun!
Talli - That sounds like so much fun! A Game Show!! I couldn't do that, but it sounds really neat!
Jai Joshi - Wow amazing research! I thought I would have to research things like you but I realized that my own world is something I have to create to research! Yes actually after I thought about it that's exactly what it felt like. Some of the Harry Potter books, if I could be an ounce like her it would be amazing! - Wed Mar 31, 03:49:00 PM
- Lydia Kang said...
World building like that intimidates me...but I look forward to it on my next WIP. Good luck!
- Wed Mar 31, 04:19:00 PM
- PJ Hoover said...
What a fun idea, Jen! I've never done it, but I bet it will work great!
- Wed Mar 31, 04:48:00 PM
- Melissa Hurst said...
This sounds like a wonderful idea! I didn't write a guide for my WIP, but I did list all of the things I would need to know about the world I had created. I still add stuff to the list as I'm writing because the story has evolved so much.
- Wed Mar 31, 05:12:00 PM
- Unknown said...
Lydia - Good Luck on your next WIP! I'm really enjoying it! Keeps me thinking outside the box!
PJ - I'm excited thanks!
Melissa - I know the feeling, it's amazing to think about where this idea originated from and where it's headed now! Compeletely different! - Wed Mar 31, 05:17:00 PM
- Kimberly Franklin said...
Shh... I'm ignoring that question, but not because I need to answer it for my WIP or anything. I'm totally on top of that in my WIP. Ha! You believe me, right?
- Wed Mar 31, 05:40:00 PM
- Susan Fields said...
What a great idea! All the more important the more "alternate" your universe is, I would think. My mc's don't need a guide book in my current wip, but I'd like to write a book like that at some point.
- Wed Mar 31, 08:29:00 PM
- Unknown said...
Kimberly - Hopefully your muse hasn't run away again!!
Susan - I'm really excited to start it, I think it will give me tremendous insight! Good look on yours when you start! - Thu Apr 01, 06:29:00 AM


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