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The biggest problem that this author sees, in the US today, when it comes to what foods are optimal for weight loss and health, is the confusion over the subject. One expert says one thing, while another expert completely contradicts the first one and says something totally different.
I feel that a little bit of thinking and common sense goes a long way towards solving the dilemma of what foods are beneficial for weight loss and our declining health statistics.
If we lose the weight, but in the process, ruin our health, it is all for nothing as we will soon gain it all back plus some and our health will be closer to the brink of serious, possibly debilitating disease. This is the situation I was faced with about 2 years ago, and it caused me to get really serious about my health. I did a lot of research on the subject.
What I found when I started looking at the data and the conclusions I reached were really common sense, and I think if you will do the same, you will most likely come to the same commonsensical conclusion.
When you look at the graphs of escalating levels of obesity, diabetes, heart disease, celiac disease, cancer, autism, ADD, IBS and many other "modern" diseases that are far too numerous to mention here with the increasing consumption of refined foods, High Fructose Corn Syrup, sugar, genetically modified crops, feedlot animal products, dairy where the cattle are injected with growth hormones for increased production, meat that is treated with antibiotics to offset the diseases caused by unnatural grain diets and vegetables that are treated with pesticides the graphs are almost identical in their rise from 100 years ago to today.
What is going on here?
Medical Science has progressed by millennia with the advent of super computers that can do in minutes now, what used to take years. So why, with all of this "progress" are we regressing when it comes to our health as a whole?
Why is obesity and diabetes increasing, why is heart disease progressing, why are cancers more commonplace? Why are ADD, Celiac Disease, autism and countless other maladies going through the roof, when only 50 years ago many were almost unheard of or at least extremely rare?
What is different? When you do a little research, it is overwhelmingly obvious. Our food is different. What we eat on a regular basis as normal American food has undergone monumental changes for the worse in the past 50 years.
We are a society that values and embraces progress. I propose to you that we are regressing, not progressing as far as weight gain and health matters are concerned.
So, what do you do about it and how does this concern weight loss?
The answer is, you rewind the clock about two hundred years when it comes to making food choices. It really is as simple as that. The wheat we eat today is far different from the wheat our grandparents ate and that applies to soy products, corn products and many others. It also applies to mass production feedlot animal and their products, refined oils that are touted as "good for you" because they are easy and cheap to produce, and vegetables that have pesticides sprayed on them to increase production.
Many, extensively researched books could be written concerning this subject, but that is beyond the scope of this article and my only goal here is to bring to your attention, what I have found to be the worst offenders of abnormal weight gain and worse, diseases caused by diet in the western world.
When I changed my diet to line up with this, the weight fell off and all of my biomarkers of health improved drastically. It is up to you to further research what I am proposing as a fit and healthy lifestyle. A lifestyle change that has done wonders for me, my family and many friends.
The Worst Offenders
1) Wheat, Corn and Soy Products.
2) Sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup and the many products where these are hidden.
3) Refined Foods
4) Processed Foods
5) Feedlot Produced Animals and their Products.
I encourage you to research what I propose as a fit and healthy lifestyle. If you do, I'm sure it will all start to make sense to you too, and hopefully spare you the agony of unnecessary diseases brought on by our diet in today's world.
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Saturday, June 15, 2013
Semi-Completed Hallway and some NEWS!
Here they are installed! The first floor:
Here is the hallway on the second floor. Instead of a window I wanted an inset place where I could hang a family portrait. The shelves below will hold some more books and family momentos.
The door you see off to the right leads to Gomez and Morticia's bedroom. Because of the renovations I did to the addition they now have a lot more space!
Thanks for looking! And now for the news: Bella is going to be a BIG SISTER!! That's right we are now expecting baby #2! Praying that I am not as sick as I was with Bella and can continue working even if its at a slower pace! I want to get a lot done before I have two kids and no mini-time at all! lol!!
As always, thanks for reading along my blogging buddies! Hugs, Ara
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Congratulations, Ara!!ReplyDelete
Thanks Marsha!!! hugs!Delete
I love the wood paneling! You did a great job.ReplyDelete
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This looks spoooky!ReplyDelete
Great work :)
I'm looking Forward to see more of your house!
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Thanks Lina! I am wanting to take some professional pictures of the progress! Hopefully I will get those done soon! -AraDelete
CONGRATZ!!!!!!!!! My dear Ara, I am sooooo happy for you :):):)! And for Bella who will be the big sister :).
Thank you for sharing the news, my dear :).
And now for that house, the aging is so perfect, I can already feel the spookiness. Love the box seat and yes, that "sickly seagrass green" that is so perfect for the room.
It is so wonderful, seeing the development of your wonderful Addams Mansion and the growing of your own family. I feel like we have been friends for a long time :):)Replies
Thank you Sans!!! We are very excited!! I think Bella would be too if she understood what was going on!Delete
Thank you - I think I am getting better at aging. I am still no match for the great Sans though! - you have mastered it!
I feel we have too! How fun it is to find great friends who are so far away physically but as close as a keyboard and screen! hugs, Ara
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I am very glad for you and may be it will be a baby boy and you'll have a lovely little couple.
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Thank you Rosanna! We are hoping for a boy because it would be a whole new adventure. But another girl would be fun too! hugs, AraDelete
OMG Congrats to you and I love the room, will you have time to create the bedroom furniture?ReplyDelete
Marisa :)Replies
Marisa... I hope so!!! lol. As long as I don't get as sick as I did last time I think I will be able to get a few things done! hugs, AraDelete
Congratulations Ara on your Baby news. Wishing you well throughout your pregnancy . xxxxReplyDeleteReplies
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Ara! The hallways look fabulous- I really love the inset on the second floor-----but more importantly....Congratulations!!!! I am very excited for you and I really hope that you are not as sick this time- I'll be crossing my fingers for you. sending you hugs!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you Kim - I like the inset too... I just have to find the perfect picture for it! And thank you for the well wishes! I will take all the well wishes I can get! hugs, AraDelete
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Love the new additions, although had to laugh about u changing the furniture for the third time. I think as miniaturist we are always learning new things and therefore think the things we've done before aren't up to standard, but they are. I love your work.. Can't wait to see what comes next..Replies
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A Quaker Freedom Memorial
By Avis Wanda McClinton, Upper Dublin, PA Monthly Meeting
I am the first African American member of Upper Dublin Monthly Meeting. I would like to tell about the leading that I have had to protect the earthly remains of the fugitives from slavery that have been buried in my Meeting's graveyard since before the Civil War. When you deal with slavery it always leads to talk of racism, and nobody wants to hear it. But we must be stewards of our Quaker history of anti-slavery activities. "Love one another as I have loved you" said Jesus. It is a little-known reality that the abolition movement was the first time in our history that White and Black people worked together for the common good.
My vision has been create another opportunity for White and Black to work together in my Meeting to hold a memorial service in the Quaker manner to commemorate the lives and deeds of these fugitives from slavery. We joyfully held two Friends memorial services during Black History Month. We came together in reverent silence as a multi-racial multi-generational gathering to share what was in our hearts. We spoke. We cried. We sang. You could tell that the minds and hearts of everyone present were one with God. People are still telling me now, weeks later, that this spirit still resonates in their hearts. I was most astonished when a descendant of the Underground Railroad station masters, Hannah and Thomas Atkinson, came to me and got on her knees and asked my forgiveness for the atrocities of slavery. I forgave her. God made a way for us to talk about race.
I am so grateful to announce that a company has donated a memorial stone to commemorate these fugitives who have never before had a memorial grave marker. Please come out to the dedication of this marker when it is installed soon.
The Meeting has also filed an application to the Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission for an historical marker to honor these people.
After each memorial service, we quietly filed out of the Meeting House and walked to the graveyard where the fugitives are buried and just stood there in silent prayer.
Related publications:
The Slaves' War: The Civil War in the Words of Former Slaves
by Andrew Ward
Fleeing for Freedom: Stories of the Underground Railroad as Told by Levi Coffin and William Still
Willene Hendrick (Editor), George Hendrick (Editor)
Slavery and the Making of America
James Oliver Horton, Lois E. Horton
by Kitty Taylor Mizuno
Haddonfield Monthly Meeting
I have been deeply moved and changed by working on this project with Avis Wanda McClinton and others. It has made me more aware of the need for White people to listen to people of color in this country when they are able to share with us honestly about the realities of their history and their daily lives in our racially unjust society.
I was not able to be at either of the memorial services, but I did see the video footage of the second service. I was most impressed by the way participants appeared so deeply moved by the occasion. Avis told me that as a Black person, she, her family and other Black people she knows have learned the survival skill of treading carefully and saying what they think White people with power over them want to hear. But at this memorial service all participants seemed to feel safe and able to say what they wanted to say. Some spoke tearfully of never having known that such a hallowed site was right here in their township. Some spoke of feeling the spirits of their ancestors when they walked in the graveyard.
As a White person, I do not feel it to be the spirits of my own ancestors buried in the graveyard. As is the case for many White people, my family can document its history back several hundred years, since before my ancestors immigrated from Europe. I was humbled to be made aware of what a privilege it is to be able to take this knowledge for granted, when I heard Black participants in the memorial service speak of the people buried there as their own ancestors. The brutality of slavery has denied most of them the luxury of being able to trace their roots as I can.
It is incumbent upon us in our privileged position as Whites in this country to listen humbly and work with others to make our society a place where all people have equal opportunity to grow and flourish. We can't just talk about it. The color line is real in our world. Quakers have been abolitionists, but we have also been slaveholders. We need to take action to eliminate racial injustice in our world in our time.


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Samuel and Nathaniel Buck were brothers who were born in Yorkshire, England at around the turn of the 18th century. After spending their formative years in the north, they moved south to the great bustling metropolis that was London, as so many rural people did in those days, seeking their possible fame and fortune. As young men, around 1724, they set out and began an ambitious work to traverse each and every county within England and Wales. They began to engrave and prepare the particular countys antiquities be they free standing or semi ruinous castles, stately homes, or religious and monastic buildings of importance and consequence although many were in an extremely poor state of neglect and abject disrepair after the first King Henry VIII in the 16th century, and then Oliver Cromwell later in the 17th century had their respective religious purges. It was during the preparation of these collections of county antiquities that the Buck brothers struck on the novel idea to also engrave some of the more important cities and towns. So, in my opinion, what resulted was the most wondrous, most influential and most important topographical undertaking that was ever done of England and Wales, not only of the 18th century but also for many years afterward. Prior to Bucks magnificent copper plate panoramas, virtually nothing had been done to depict views of significant English cities and towns. Only a handful were included in the atlas by Braun and Hogenberg in their Civitates Orbis Terrurum published in Cologne in 1581. I honestly feel that there is nothing at all to compare with these exquisite panoramas, in terms of technical skill, engraved detail and sheer scale and size. I also feel that a huge debt of gratitude is owed to these two enterprising and ambitious brothers, who have left us not only with a wonderful and enduring legacy, but also a truly unique glimpse and brief insight into an English way of life that can never be replicated nor indeed pass our way ever again. Although Haverford-West is the principle town in the westerly Welsh county of Pembrokeshire, it has always had a reputation for being essentially very English. The town gradually sprung up around the Norman castle, and the church of St.Martins. The town traded vigorously by land and sea throughout the middle ages. Wool and cloth manufacturing were among its prize assets. In 1348, the Black Death came upon the town, and succeeded in wiping out almost half the entire population. It took until Tudor times for the town to recover. What do you see when you gaze upon Samuel and Nathaniel Bucks copperplate panorama of 1748? Firstly, a busy and active river scene, with fisherman preparing to leave, boats at anchor, ferry man etc. In the town itself, you can identify the ruinous castle, the high street, and a number of churches and the priory. This is a lovely depiction of a thriving, rural Welsh town. This is a rare and significant opportunity to acquire one of these much sort after panoramas by Englands premier topographical engravers, and is entirely in keeping with Arader Galleries fine and long standing tradition of only offering items of the highest quality for forty years. Description prepared for Arader Galleries by Ian Williams.


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Shares of GVK Power and Infrastructure, which operates the Mumbai airport, were up over 6% today in early trade on BSE. The share price soared on the back of an announcement by the company that its board has approved the sale of its remaining 10% stake in Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) to Fairfax India Holdings Corporation for Rs 1290 crore. At 1:15 pm however, the stock was down 1.18% at Rs 5.87.
The company had made the announcement after market hours on Friday, 2 June 2017. The move will help it reduce the debt burden and focus on Mumbai and Navi Mumbai airports, it said. The transaction is slated to be completed in July, after which GVK co-chairman GVK Reddy and managing director Sanjay Reddy will reportedly resign from the airport's board and management.
On March 24, GVK had sold 33% in the airport to Toronto-listed Fairfax, the Indian unit of billionaire Prem Watsa's investment company, for Rs 2,202 crore. Fairfax had also bought another 5% in the airport company from Flughafen Zurich AG, taking its holding to 38%. The latest deal takes its total ownership in India's third-busiest airport to 48%.
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"Notwithstanding this sale, the airports sector will continue to be a core focus area for GVK. We had entered BIAL in 2010 when the airport was going through a tough phase as the capacity was severely constrained. Over the last seven years we have worked very hard to transform BIAL into a world-class airport. The airport is now ready for another phase of expansion with a new runway and a new terminal to be constructed. However, we have decided to part ways with BIAL as deleveraging is top priority," GVK Reddy, Founder Chairman and MD, GVK, said in a statement.
The Navi Mumbai airport for which the group won the contract this year will now be a priority. "Our immediate focus will now be on Mumbai and Navi Mumbai airports, and on selectively evaluating privatisation opportunities. The reduced debt burden gives us flexibility and releases management bandwidth to focus on these projects; capacity optimisation and real estate development will be the key focus areas for the existing Mumbai airport. The government's focus on developing the aviation sector also presents attractive growth opportunities and we are evaluating these," Reddy said.


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FA Cup fifth round: Sutton v Arsenal & Fulham v Tottenham ties live on BBC TV
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Non-league Sutton United's FA Cup fifth-round tie at home to Arsenal will be broadcast live on BBC One.
Sutton, the lowest-ranked team left in the competition, beat Championship side Leeds United in round four.
The game with Arsenal will take place at Gander Green Lane on Monday, 20 February, with kick-off at 19:55 GMT.
BBC One will also have live coverage of the London derby between Fulham and Tottenham at Craven Cottage on Sunday, 19 February (kick-off 14:00).
South London side Sutton are 16th in the National League and have played seven games to get this far in the competition, including wins over league sides Cheltenham Town, AFC Wimbledon and Leeds.
Arsenal, 12-time FA Cup winners and currently third in the Premier League, are 104 places above them in the English football pyramid.
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|Televised fifth-round ties - all times GMT
|Saturday 18 February: Burnley v Lincoln City - 12.30, BT Sport; Wolves v Chelsea - 17.30, BT Sport
|Sunday 19 February: Fulham v Tottenham - 14.00, BBC One; Blackburn Rovers v Manchester United - 16.15, BT Sport (followed by sixth-round draw)
|Monday 20 February: Sutton United v Arsenal - 19:55, BBC One
Other BBC coverage across the weekend includes Football Focus on the road, FA Cup Final Score, fifth-round highlights programmes on Saturday and Sunday night, and the sixth-round draw on Sunday evening.
There will also be comprehensive coverage of all the weekend's fixtures across BBC Radio 5 live and the BBC Sport website.
BBC TV coverage of the FA Cup this season has so far reached 22 million viewers, with a peak of 5.3 million tuning in to watch Manchester United beat Wigan in round four.


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Monday, 9 June 2014
Melanie Tells Her Story
For most of my life I avoided risk and danger. I liked safety, I liked to feel in control. We don't really have much control in life though and the sooner we figure that out the better off we are. Sometimes we just need to let go and go for the ride. I can pinpoint the day I figured it out. It was the day I came home from work and found Chris in bed with another man.
I'd better back up a bit. I met Chris when we were both at university and we dated for a couple of years after that. I'd done a degree in psychology, not really knowing where I wanted to go with it and Chris was studying history, planning to go to law school. He took a job selling insurance so that he could save up to pay for law school and I found work in an office, newly built with a trendy colour scheme that would make it look so dated in ten years. The chemical smell of the paint, glues and new carpet burned in my nostrils and lungs for a full year. Eventually Chris went to law school and we planned our wedding. I went to work wearing pencil skirts and white button down blouses and mid-heeled shoes. I was anxious to look professional, to look old enough to know what I was doing. I hurried home at the end of each work day to make dinner and we would curl up on the sofa together and watch television afterwards. We were both aways exhausted.
Time went by as time does. Chris finished law school and was taken on with a local law firm. He was lucky. It was hard to get on. We saved up enough money to make a downpayment on a house eventually and I was so happy. I hoped to start a family. I wanted to grow a garden and I imagined teaching my future children how to plant seeds and pick the beans and the peas and to make pumpkin pies in the autumn with the pumpkins they would grow. I was thirty. Then I was thirty-two. Then thirty-five. I got three gray hairs, a promotion at work and a lost cat kept coming to the kitchen door and eventually moved in with us.
It was a Thursday. I remember because I usually worked a bit late on Thursdays and this day I didn't. Usually there was a staff meeting and it would run overtime and then I would water the plants in the office because for some reason staff meetings always made me think of the plants. The meeting was postponed so I watered the plants and went home. I thought maybe I should stop and pick up something for dinner instead of cooking, maybe Chinese food or pizza, but I was tired and I couldn't decide so I just drove straight home. I want to say now that I knew something was different but I don't think I did. I think that's just hindsight and maybe some superstition. I don't think I knew. I parked in the driveway and went into the house through the kitchen door and dumped my heavy purse on the chair in the kitchen. I dropped my keys on the counter. I remember these things not only because it's what I always did, how I always came in the door, but because I was not being particularly quiet. You could not say I came quietly into the house, that I sneaked in silently and caught him by surprise. No, he must have heard me.
You'd expect that a person would see that sort of thing coming. I have asked myself over and over why I didn't. Other people have asked me too. I guess that's the special skill of hindsight though; it's so clear when you look back on things. How could I not know my husband was gay? Well he isn't gay he told me, he's bisexual. So, he could just as easily have cheated on me with another woman. That's comforting.
I didn't leave right away but I started sleeping in the spare bedroom. We talked and he poured his heart out to me about the double life he had been living and how it was such a relief to come clean. He talked of his misery, he spoke of his confusion, he said that he loved me. He didn't say he was sorry but thanked me for being so forgiving and understanding. We didn't make any plans. I took a month's leave from work.
"Melanie," he said, Saturday morning a week later, as I poured my coffee and stirred in the milk, " do you want to go to counselling?"
"Me or we?"
"I mean both of us. To figure out where we go from here. To talk about what our options are and get some guidance."
I leaned down to slurp my coffee without picking up the mug. I always fill it too full and my hands are often shaky. I don't dare pick it up when they are like that. I remember thinking that this couldn't be my own life. All I could think about was who might know and be laughing at me behind my back. Poor old Melanie hasn't got a clue. I buttered my toast vigorously, slathering on the butter. It hardly mattered now if I got fat. I wasn't required to be sexy in the bedroom. Or anywhere. Maybe I never had been sexy to Chris. Why had he married me? Why had he taken up so much of my life if I wasn't what he really wanted? Why had he fooled me into thinking this was love? Had he fooled me or had I fooled myself. I was angry. So angry I made a hole in my toast.
"You look like you could be dangerous with that butter knife," he said, apparently thinking an attempt at humour was a good idea. He sat with his black coffee, unfolding the newspaper on the table and beginning to read. How was it that he was able to behave like this. He appeared so calm. He claimed to love me and yet surely he knew he might possibly lose me. I had not said I would stay. But he also claimed to love Mike too. That was it. He couldn't lose. He was just waiting for me to make the choice for him, that spineless weasely bastard! Which choice was he hoping I'd make? I almost wanted to stay just to spite him but I'm not that stupid. I almost forgot that I deserved a better life than this. Almost. I stared at the butter knife. I looked at my complacent cheating, lying husband who was not the man I thought he was, not the man I had thought I loved.
"I had a dream last night" I said slowly, concocting the lie as I spoke. "This butter knife reminds me of it."
"I had you tied up in the garden shed", I continued, "tied by your balls"
He looked up, alarm on his face. I continued.
"I had a butter knife in my hand. A rusty old one. Obviously not stainless steel" I added needlessly. "Not sharp. You were frightened and you asked me if I was going to cut off your balls. I said I was thinking of it and you begged me not to. I said, 'no, I won't do it' and you sighed with relief. 'You are going to do it yourself', I said. I lit a match, dropped it into a pile of old, dry newspapers and handed you the knife as I walked out of the shed."
Chris stared at me for a moment with his mouth open and then he said, "You can't tie up a man by his balls."
I left that day. I packed a suitcase and went to a motel. There were lots of rental vacancies then. It wasn't hard to secure an apartment that would be available in a couple of weeks. I arranged to stay with a friend in the meantime and I told Chris that I would be coming on a Sunday with boxes and a friend with a truck and that I would be taking some things. I hoped he would chose not to be there that day and he did. He left me a note telling me which things he thought it would be fair for me to take and which things not. He's a lawyer. He knew I was legally entitled to half of our possessions and half our assets. Assets are easy to calculate, but possessions are not. I didn't want too many reminders of our life together. I packed up my clothes and books and various things that had been given to me by people I still loved, people not Chris. I went through the kitchen and that's where I paused. Should I take half of the flatware, half of the dishes, half of the drinking glasses, or should I take all of the flatware and leave the dishes? See what I mean? It's not so easy to calculate halves with all the little mundane things that make up your home. I should have taken more than I did. At the time I just wanted to erase him from my life. Later I thought about how really taking my half would have saved me some money. Later, that is, when the pain had subsided and I could even begin to think that way.
I set myself up in my new home with very little furniture, knowing it would be temporary. I got myself a bed. I bought a double. "Hardly anyone buys a double bed these days", the salesman told me. You would be better off with a queen size. Guests appreciate that."
"It's not for guests" I said tersely. I didn't want to talk about my life. I didn't want to make small talk. I just wanted to buy a bed. The bed was delivered by the store on the day I took possession of the apartment.
"Where do you want it set up, ma'am?"
"In the bedroom."
"No, I mean which wall? Under the window, not under the window, that sort of thing."
I waved them towards the non-window wall and apologised for the boxes of books piled up there.
I'd brought a sofa from the house I'd shared with Chris. It was brown leather and he had put it on his list of things it would not be fair for me to take. I covered it with shawls and blankets in various colours. I put floral throw pillows on it. I had also brought a brass reading lamp from the house. My friend Michelle and her husband Dave, who owned a truck, were the ones who helped me move. Michelle unpacked my kitchen items and I sat on the sofa staring at the floor.
"I brought shelf liner paper." Michelle called out to me. I didn't know what state this kitchen would be in but it's pretty good. I'm going to line the shelves anyway. I hope you are okay with blue flowers."
"Thanks, Michelle. You are so thoughtful. That's a great idea to line the shelves. Yeah, I do like blue flowers." I was tired, and it felt like I had to force out each sentence. I was really grateful for Michelle, for how organised and practical she was. I was grateful for Dave and all his heavy lifting and for how he came into the living room with a box of my books and said,
"why don't you unpack these? I know there's no shelf but you can stack them against this wall opposite the sofa."
Dave and I didn't have much in common but we did share a love of books. He knew I needed them, like old friends, needed to be surrounded by them and comforted by them and that sorting and organising them would help to divert me. Dave and I had nothing else in common but we both loved books. I opened the box he'd brought me and began to remove and stack books.
Michelle called out from the kitchen again. "What would you think of pizza tonight?" I hesitated. I was so grateful for their help but I was beginning to long for solitude. "Dave just thought he'd pick up a pizza for you when he goes to get the girls from piano lessons. Then he can bring the pizza back and pick me up. I should be finished by then."
I immediately felt guilty for my desire to get rid of them and my relief that they weren't intending to stay for dinner. "Oh that sounds great. I would really appreciate that! Shall I call and order it now then?"
About an hour later I was alone, with CBC on the radio and my pizza in its box, I sat on the floor and continued to unpack books. When I went into the kitchen to get a drink, I saw the list Michelle had made for me. On it she had written every kitchen item she had noticed I didn't have and which she thought I would need. Beside was a suggested grocery list. Because of Michelle's thoughtfulness, my fridge had some basics in it. Milk,eggs and cheese, cream for my coffee and a lasagna Michelle had made. On the counter was a bowl with apples and bananas. In the pantry cupboard there was a box of cereal, a box of crackers, tea, coffee and some cans of soup. The cat brushed against my legs and meowed. There was a bag of cat food somewhere.
Time passed as time does. I slept a lot more than I used to. I baked cookies and went down the hall, knocking on neighbours' doors, offering cookies and introducing myself. This produced confused looking faces, mumbles of thank you followed by hesitation.
"Aren't most of them elderly?" my mother asked me over the phone. "They are probably diabetic and can't eat the cookies. You are probably torturing them."
"Okay, so should I have brought them meatballs instead?"
"Don't be so defensive, sweetheart."
"I'm not defensive."
"I was just joking."
"Oh. Ha ha, very funny. All my elderly neighbours in diabetic coma is quite a joke."
"If we can't laugh at death we may as well be dead already."
"There's not much I can say to that, mum."
"I've got to go now; your dad wants his dinner. I'll call again next week, sweetheart"
"Bye mum. I love you. Tell dad I love him too."
"We love you too, sweetie."
I poured my second glass of wine and got back to sorting my books. Each night I sorted them differently. First I put paper backs and hardcovers in separate piles. Another night I separated fiction from non-fiction and then put them in alphabetical order by author it actually took me a couple of nights to do that. I saw a picture in a magazine where the books were all organised by colour so I tried that. I didn't like it. So I went back to sorting them as they were before.
I was only just starting to sleep in the middle of the bed. At first I instinctively slept on the right side. the it was a smaller bed than what I was used to sharing, I had it all to myself. All to myself if you don't count the cat, which I suppose I really should. The cat was named Bob. Bob Cat. I liked to tell the people who asked how I was doing that things were great and I was sleeping with Bob who tends to hog the bed. Bob snores. They usually laughed and would then say something like, "well just like a husband. He probably leaves hairs in the sink too."
I wanted a divorce. I went to see a lawyer and the process of paper work and writing cheques began. I wandered through shops selecting things, household things that suited my taste only. No compromises were required. I could buy any vacuum cleaner I wanted. I could pick any colour towels. For awhile these small things kept me occupied. For awhile.
I met Michelle at The Corner Cafe. That's its actual name and it isn't even on a corner. It was on a corner once, but the opportunity for a better location came up and the owners jumped at it. Now it's ironic and according to Michelle this makes it a hipster cafe. It was noisy with coffee grinding machines and frappe mixers and people shouting over these sounds. I think there was music too, though I'm not sure. Sometimes I hear music in my head. We sat in a corner because I got there first and chose the table. I like corners. I like to sit in the corner facing out, watching the world knowing there is nobody behind me, just the wall and the floor to ceiling shelf full of coffee and mugs and various items for sale like World Music cds. I wondered who buys those. I wanted to buy one but I was too embarrassed. Michelle came in the door about five minutes after I had settled myself in the corner, waving at me, with some sort of brochure.
"Hi! I couldn't find a place to park so I had to circle round a few times. Finally some guy came out of the insurance place and got into his car so I sat there signalling, waiting for his spot but he didn't move and he didn't move and after a few minutes I gave up. As soon as I pulled forward to drive on he backed out and some guy who was just pulling into the parking lot got the spot. So I had to go round again a few times. How are you doing?"
"I'm great" I said with my perkiest voice. I try to always reply to people that way. I believe that if you say it often enough it will eventually be true. "How about you? Besides the parking woes" I added.
"Oh I'm good, I'm good, but I'm just trying to figure out which of these programmes to put Jenna in over Spring Break." She waved the brochure again and I saw that it was a Community Activities brochure. "You are so lucky you don't have to worry about that" she sighed. "I worry about my kids so much! It's hard being a mother."
One of the barristas had brought the latte I ordered by this time and I sipped it to keep from letting Michelle see my expression as she said this. She had forgotten that I'd wanted children, had tried to get pregnant. There had been a miscarriage. "You don't know how lucky you are, Mel."
"I can't imagine" I say, wiping the foam off my lip with the back of my hand.
"But I love my kids. I just love them so much, you know?" As she says this I see it. I see her remember and a flicker of embarrassment crosses her face. Michelle and I met in high school. Our lives had become so different and we had a friendship based on once having been close friends. We met for coffee once in awhile. We had a few dinners together as couples, Michelle and Dave, Chris and myself. "I'm thinking of putting Jenna in soccer" she said as she got up to order her coffee, leaving the brochure on the table. She was back in a few minutes, and I was still inside my own head when I heard her say "I'm so worried about Jenna. She's such an introvert. I think maybe a team sport will help bring her out of her shell."
Poor Jenna, I think. I'm sure she likes her shell just fine. I know I like mine. Jenna would probably rather spend her spring break working her way through a few library books rather than kicking a ball around. Michelle was looking at me in that way that makes you think there is something on your face.
"Have you been out with anyone lately? Got any good stories to dish on?" I think she tried to sound nonchalant saying that. I think she knew it was unlikely I'd been out but still I felt like I was a disappointment when I said no. She wanted me to try e-dating. A friend of a friend of a neighbour's cousin met her husband that way.
"Not lately. There was that blind date I told you about last time..." I let my voice trail off. There is nothing more to say.
"You should just sign up for one of those dating sites. You've got to put yourself out there. You know you could get some highlights and you'd totally look like Jennifer Anniston's younger sister. Sort of. Maybe use a bit of that self tanning stuff. It's better than it used to be. You could totally get that California girl look going for you."
" I don't think that would really be me. Not the tanning. Maybe I could do the highlights. Would I have to shave my legs if I started dating? You know, I haven't had to bother for several months." I was not serious but I deadpanned this, to see how she reacted and I was not disappointed. I saw the look on her face as she tried to figure out what to say to that. I bit the insides of my cheeks.
"You have to get out more and do more things to meet some guys." She continued to lecture me.
"Who says I want to meet some guys?" I wondered if she was going to tell me that my experience with Chris shouldn't put me off men or relationships. There is an awkward silence so I grab the brochure and say, "Besides, I'm going to take a pottery class. Maybe I'll meet a sexy artsy sort of guy there. With a beard. Who wears baggy purple pants and no underwear."
She rolled her eyes. "You'll meet other single women there."
So then I had to sign up for a pottery class but it was okay because I really kind of wanted to anyhow. It started the Wednesday night after we had coffee. I was excited but nervous and my hands twitched and twiddled all day. I spilled everything. I dribbled toothpaste on my shirt before going out to the class and changed into a clean one despite knowing I would be getting it messy. But messy with art materials looks sexier than messy with coffee and toothpaste and remnants of dinner on your shirt. Unless you actually create art with those things. Hah! I laughed to myself at my own joke and then thought, don't say anything stupid like that tonight. Don't just say the first thing that comes into your head because it will be stupid as usual.
I went to the pottery class and enjoyed it very much and Michelle was right; it was all women and when I got home I saw in the mirror that I might possibly have spent much of the night with clay stuck to my eyebrows so I guess it's a good thing there were no men I wanted to impress there. It wasn't the actual pottery class that changed my life. It was something I saw there. It was a sign. A real one, not like that woo woo stuff; not a sign from God or the universe. It was a sign on a notice board outside the pottery class. Models needed: Life Drawing class needs models. Must be willing to pose naked. No previous experience or attractiveness required. Small fee will be negotiated.
My pulse sped up and I felt the warmth spread through my body, my face flushed and hands began to sweat, like I was doing something shameful. I wanted to do this. I knew right then that I wanted to do this so I tore off one of the attached bits of paper with the phone number. It was the local college. I feared that at any moment someone would appear in the hallway and see me reading the sign, tearing off the phone number. What would my friends think, if they caught me at that moment? Would they be disgusted and think it was degrading or worse, would they think my body wasn't good enough to display, to be art? What if someone hangs a painting of my naked body on his living room wall? What if it hangs in a local cafe? What if my mother sees it?
My mother phoned me the next night. I told her about the pottery class and how the instructor sort of looked like Aunt Shirley did in the eighties, with asymmetrical hair and purple eyeshadow. "Is that in again?" She asked incredulously. "It was bad enough the first time with those, what were they balloon pants?"
I laughed. "That was parachute pants, mum. It was balloon valences on the window and parachute pants on the people."
"Well both were ugly" she said. "Too much fabric." Then there was a bit of a pause while I could hear her not asking the question she was dying to ask. I considered ringing off at that point, telling her I've got to go because......because....but there was no because that I could come up with. So I put her out of her misery and said, "The class is all women, of course. Most are about mid fifties, empty-nesters seeking a new hobby now that they don't have kids to keep them busy."
"Are they hippies?" She asked. "You know, with sensible shoes and weird baggy clothes made of hemp and jewelry made of badger teeth? There was a programme on PBS about jewlery made of strange animal bits."
"I don't think we have any badgers here, mum."
"Raccoons then."
I had to laugh. I really wanted to tell her that I'd met and was dating a hippie man with dreadlocks and a long beard who wears hemp clothing and has a necklace of teeth but it was too late. I'd already said there were no men in the class.
"Mum, I'd better go. I have to pee."
"Oh," she said, "your Aunt Shirley always just takes the phone with her and keeps talking to me."
"I am not going to do that! Bye mum. Thanks for calling. Love you."
"I love you too, honey". She said.
I made the phone call and arranged to go around and meet the art teacher. I was nervous as hell but wouldn't anyone be? I must have changed my clothes at least three times and that was after spending half an hour the night before trying to put together an outfit. I had no idea how a nude model dressed. Brian, the art teacher, assured me that I didn't have to undress at the interview. He just wanted to meet me but I would be keeping my clothes on. I went out on my lunch break to meet him. I had tried to look less officey and more artsy that day without attracting the attention of my colleagues. In my car I had boots and a leather jacket which I traded the pumps and blazer for. I took my hair out of the french braid and fluffed it up with my fingers, leaving it hanging loose over my shoulders.
Following Brian's directions, I found the art class room easily. It was a bright room, painted white and with lots of windows high up on the wall, allowing for lots of light but no spectators. Brian was waiting for me there. I strode in hoping to look more confident than I felt. Holding out my hand I said,
"Hi, I'm Melanie. We spoke on the phone about the modelling." He shook my hand and said the usual, pleased to meet you sort of thing. I felt he was looking me up and down and I wondered if it had been a lie about looks not mattering.
"Have you got any questions?" He asked, seeming to indicate that I'd already gotten the job.
" Yes. Have many other people applied? How many students are there?"
Brian pulled out a chair for me and one for himself. I sat primly and crossed my legs then immediately tried to look more relaxed than that and propped my ankle up on my knee the way a man sits. I remembered that leaning backwards could potentially make me look more confident and leaning towards him could make me look more interested. Not knowing which to chose I ended up sitting stiffly upright. I had noticed the minute I walked into the room that Brian was an attractive man. I'm not sure whether I had been hoping for that or not. I am a terrible judge of age and thought that he could have been five years younger than I am or five years older. He wore no wedding ring. I thought that this attractive man approximately my own age was going to see me naked. And following that thought I realised that perhaps several men were going to see me naked and men of all ages, some barely out of high school. What was I thinking? So I asked, "Are there, will there be, umm, are there more males or females in this class?"
"You've never done this before," Brian said, stating it as the fact he knew it to be.
"Of course not!" I said it indignantly realising as I said it that I was implying there was something shameful about it.
He crossed his ankle over his knee exactly the same way I had mine, ran his hand through his sandy coloured hair and said, "Well there were a few other applicants but they were very young. I mean, not that they were under age but I wasn't sure about their motivations and I was uncomfortable with it so I felt you would be a more suitable candidate, being older, and...." He trailed off. I think he may have realised that it wasn't coming out quite right, that bit about my being older. I decided he must be younger. I stared at his elevated black sneaker that was spattered with paint.
"And the students?" I prompted.
"Oh yes, well it's not a day class, it's an evening class so we get more older students in this one. There are about twelve of them registered and I think it's about fifty-fifty, maybe sixty-forty females to males." Then he showed me the area where I would change out of my clothes, told me I should bring my own robe and slippers, which I would wear going from the change area over to the posing area, which was a wooden box really, a platform with a foam on it, all draped with a white sheet and piled with pillows. It would be really helpful, Brian said, if I could take them with me after class and wash them and bring them back next time. Behind the platform was a metal frame from which a white curtain was draped, making a backdrop. He explained to me that we would make sure the poses were comfortable for me and good for the students to draw. The more he talked the more I began to feel I could do this. So I asked how and what I was to be paid. He said it would be twenty five dollars an hour and I would be there two hours every Tuesday and Thursday night. So I was going to make a hundred dollars a week for taking my clothes off. This wouldn't be turning into a career, I thought wryly. I took the job.
On Tuesday the following week I didn't eat for hours before the class and my tummy was growling loudly but I was so afraid I would fart or need to use the toilet while lying there naked on a platform with twelve people staring at me. What was I thinking? What was I doing? But I drove there, I walked into the building, I walked into the room where there were already people of various ages gathering around talking to each other, introducing themselves, and claiming a place with one of the drawing boards arranged around the platform on which I was soon to recline naked. Brian approached me beaming. "Melanie. There you are. Come in. Put your coat here." Then he whispered, "Are you nervous?"
"Yeah. But I'll be okay. It's quite warm in here."
"Well we can't have our model getting goose bumps" he said and I thought about those jokes Chris used to make about headlights and high beams in the cold. I shivered in my clothes and felt my nipples get hard. I crossed my arms to both cover and warm them. "I'm going to introduce you to everyone and then you can decide how much or how little you want to tell them about yourself. Then you can get changed over there." He gestured at the little office at the back of the classroom. He made the introduction, I said an awkward hello and indicated that we should just get on with it then. I took my large tote bag with my robe and slippers and went to the office to change.
When I came out the students were all arranged at their drawing boards and nobody met my eyes as I sat on the platform and waited for some direction from Brian. He gave a little talk on how this was their first chance to just jump right in and draw what they see, that they should be fearless and draw quickly without thinking about it too much. There would be time to analyse it and learn from it later. The pose he wanted me to do was actually fairly modest. It felt really strange to just slip my robe off in front of all those people and yet in some ways it didn't. I was directed to lie down on my side and in a way that only one breast was fully exposed. My top leg was bent and angled forward over the other leg so that the pubic area didn't show. In my mind I became another person, Melanie the artist's model. I had something they wanted and needed.
"Tonight," Brian said to his students, "you will be concentrating on the overall shape of the curves." I liked the sound of that. The curves. My curves.
I lay in bed later that night running my hands over my own flannel pyjama clad body and smiled to myself. Dangerous curves ahead.
21 comments:
This is fantastic ... I actually enjoyed Melanie's perspective even more ... it seemed more "real" somehow ... but both were great, really great. I think Gary became Mike ... or Mike became Gary somewhere along the way ;0)ReplyDelete
Keep it up ... I'd love to read more.
Oops ... I meant Greg :0)ReplyDelete
You know how to keep me wanting more...you tease! I had to do a double take to remember I was reading something you'd written rather than a published book. It reads very fluidly, and the story has interesting characters and plot twists :-) more please! I'm not greedy! XOReplyDelete
So, I've read both parts of the story… and I took time to think before I responded…..ReplyDelete
First off the story is quite interesting. Honestly, I care more about Melanie's perspective than the guys. Right now they aren't very sympathetic, so it is hard for me to invest in them (does that make sense?)
But I think you've created characters that are the jumping off point for a story (perhaps not the story itself---- just your own exposition for sake. That is, except for the portion about Melanie's trip to the art class--- from that point in I can really see this being a portion of a greater story.
Hopefully my feedback is valuable! I really appreciate you sharing something that you have been working on and is close to you- that is such a vulnerable action!
(OH--- and thank you for the suggestion of creating a post about a clean eating pantry--- I am definitely going to work on it!)
Melanie's story! I'm saving this for later when I have finished work! aren't I restrained? x x xReplyDelete
This was really good Shawna! Heart-breaking, but very strong. I love it!ReplyDelete
you are sooo talented!ReplyDelete
your stories have all what a great novel need - from my (not being able to write more than a postcard, but reading a lot of novels and other books) point of view.
like to say more but the translator is to bad for a discussion about literature.....
so only that: keep on writing, dont fear to put it in the great wide open!!!
Dear Shawna, this post was an extra challenge for my translator but I've done it! I have read every word! And I have understood everything very well. whether in English or German. It's so touching, so heartbreaking, so exciting that I would be very glad to read quite very much longer.ReplyDelete
Keep on writing Shawna.. waiting for the continuation :)
send you a hug from very far-away
Dana :)
It's a flaming great piece of work! I am delighted for Melanie (I care about her! she's written so well) I like her, she has got bottle, she is a character we all probably can relate to as well - I thoroughly enjoyed this piece, I really enjoy your writing x x xReplyDelete
Kept my attention...which is crazy considering I NEVER read anything that long online! LOLReplyDelete
Then I shall consider that a great compliment. Thank you!Delete
- Anonymous10 June 2014 at 23:34
I am commenting on your blog (finally had the patience to figure it out). I like Melanie a lot. Who can't relate to her starting her new life as a newborn "naked" in all her glory! Not that I didn't like Chris, but what a slut for being caught the way he did (and planning it that way!). Hope there is more coming...
Diana, it's good to see you! Well not actually "see" you but you know what I mean. ;-) Thanks so much for reading and commenting! Chris has some issues, I think. LOL He is not easy to like.Delete
Wow!!! This is super writing!!! I really enjoyed her story xReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, Kezzie. I'm glad you enjoyed it!Delete
Shawna, this is great! It really rings true, Melanie's thoughts and fears, and even the little things like talking on the phone while peeing. I can't wait to read more!ReplyDelete
I noticed that Melanie refers to Chris's boyfriend as Mike, but it was Greg, wasn't it?Replies
Yes, you are right. I kept meaning to fix that error and then would forget and lose track of it. I had better go look for it now! LOLDelete
I've read both pieces and had to think for a bit before I was ready to comment. I am interested in the story and the characters. Unlike several of your readers, I don't really identify or like Melanie more than Chris; the point for me is to read and understand, and I can enjoy characters who behave "badly" as much as those who are "good".ReplyDelete
The fact that I was interested and the writing held my attention is good, and testament to your writing skills. But, I would say that I found the structure a little too descriptive of what the characters have done and thought, rather than showing us through the action/plot and dialogue. If this is back story, ready for the main action to happen, then that's OK; but if the story of their meeting, marriage, Chris' new relationship, etc, is part of the story, I would like it fleshed out and more dialogue, so it feels like NOW, not a recounting of their history. Does that make sense?
But I so admire your writing, and your bravery in sharing it with us. Thank you, Shawna - and keep going! xxxxReplies
Thank you Curtise, for reading and taking the time to give me well considered feedback. I really think that the story of Chris and Greg is a backstory, either simply to help me understand my characters better or as a very small portion of a larger piece. I think that when I launched into it I had some ideas but I did not say to myself okay I'm going to write a novel so I dipped my toes in.Delete
I doubt I could stop if I wanted to so I will indeed keep going,
Shawna, I first was confused with the sudden change of the form you've chosen here - I for some reason expected it to be in a similar form as your previous (well actually your second) story. But I understand if the previous story was sort of a character study for you. I think if you decide to use that study in your bigger piece (let's call it a novel, ok? I think that is where you are going), then the forms of the two stories should correspond better with each other.ReplyDelete
I see how much you care for your character here - you know so much of her inner world. I would be very interested learning what she discovers about herself at the end. Why she picked Chris to marry? To marry a bisexual guy is not so common/"low risk" thing to do, and she says in the beginning that she was always a safe kind of person. I am intrigued.
I would probably make the pieces shorter (divide into chapters) because there are just so many topics here in one long piece - I think it is easier to comprehend if it's divided, and it would give a more solid feeling to each point you make. But it's only one possibility of many, of course.
The main thing is that you definitely care a lot for your character - there is much heart in this story, and the form will follow I believe. I see it as a novel - a beginning of something bigger. It's a great start!
Much love and good writings! xxxxxxx
Thank you for your wonderful feed back and encouragement. I see it as wanting to be a novel too. At first it was just something that I needed to write, a story that wanted to come out. But I liked it. I wanted to know more about who Chris was so I wrote the other one, not knowing if it would ever make an appearance in a novel or if it was just for my own benefit. I didn't want Chris to be flat.ReplyDelete
I do feel like Melanie wants to be bigger. She does want to be a novel and that is what I am working towards now. It's fun to dip my toes in and then see if I want to swim or not. I'm going to swim!
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