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On May 5th, 2009, Chancellor Linda Brady will be installed at UNCG. For her installation, I decided to make her a necklace and earring set that I named "Spartan Dream". The necklace is made of white rice pearls, blue lapis, and amber seed beads.
I made the pendant out of a mother of pearl flat bead. I put on the bead the UNCG logo!
The earrings are so pretty! [At least I think so!]
Welcome to UNCG Chancellor Brady! We look forward to serving with you in the years to come!!!
Chapter one takes place in both Battleground Park [Revolutionary War site] and Country park, a park located beside the battleground park. These parks are not far from my home. Rule #1: Write what you know! Keeping House had three false starts. The first draft had chapter one in Disney World, of all places! I threw that one away. So, I came home to Greensboro and set the stage there.Today I took a Sunday morning stroll in Country park, where Chapter One takes place.
As you walk along, you can see in the distance Shelter #7. It sits on top of a green grassy hill that overlooks the lake. Originally, this is the shelter that I choose for Gary and his friends to have their picnic lunch. In the end, I moved the scene to the shelter near the Science Center, that overlooks the Paddle Boats. But if I were making a movie of chapter one, scene one, this is it..
Here is the paddle boat dock. When you read my book, you'll know how important this location is...
In Chapter One, it is October, and the lake and trees will be burnished yellow, orange, and gold. But today the willow tree was green, signaling the end of winter at long last...
As I walked to Shelter #7, I crossed this humble bridge...
I climbed the hill to the shelter and found the dogwood trees beginning to bloom and a secret stairway...
On my walk, I stumbled onto an amazing tree with roots spread out like a spider's web...
And everywhere, in the trees and on the ground, the first signs of spring were flowering brightly.
"My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring."` Anne Bronte.
"The Sense of Sight" by Anne Swynnerton
One of my favorite scriptures is Joel 2: 25-26
"And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you. And ye shall eat in plenty, and be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD your God, that hath dealt wondrously with you: and my people shall never be ashamed."
What promise! All that you have lost, all that seems dead, the lost years, the lost loves, can be restored to you. Just be faithful and WAIT...
A new friend Patricia handed me a bag of broken necklaces, lovely pieces that had fallen or had been torn apart.
And this week I sat down and restrung them.
And I thought, God can do the same thing with my life...
Here are Patricia's lovely beads, whole again!
As always, Abigail supervised the restoration process!
