This is my first entry on my blog for this year. I have been working, since my return from Hobart in early January, on a commissioned work that I am at the moment unable to publicise or advertise. However I can show you all the studio with one piece on the loom. This commission has a fairly tight time frame so I have employed Diane Ammar to work with me on this project. It is going well and we are keeping up to the required schedule. I rather overdid it in the first two or three weeks as I wasn't sure how fast we could work and a consequence of this was that my neck ended up with a touch of bursitis. However, I have now eased up on the amount I am doing each day and my neck has improved immensely.
Here is a view of the studio, taken yesterday morning, showing one piece on the loom and all the yarns surrounding us. The studio space is rather small, so we are stepping over yarns all the time. However, they look lovely and are very inspirational to our work. It looks rather chaotic but it is very easy to find the colours that we want with them tipped all over the floor like this. Diane and I are making colour choices all the time, mixing and blending the colours on the bobbins. Luckily we do not have to do hatching in the weaving, so the work is progressing faster. We are aiming to weave 1 sq ft each week and have almost kept up to that. The design is a mixture of complex and simple areas, so a good balance is kept there.
This image shows my hands at work.
And here is Diane sewing slits on her piece. She is weaving very well, as previously she has only worked on miniature tapestries. It is a huge change for her to work on a larger piece.
Here is what is going on outside the studio. The Observatory Tower in the Arts Centre was very badly damaged in the earthquake in September last year, and every aftershock increases the damage. A couple of days ago workmen started to put scaffolding up around the tower, so it looks as if work might start on trying to repair some of the damage.
Here is the James Chu tapestry as it was nearing completion. His wife Julia, who commissioned the tapestry in memory of her husband James, came into the studio last Saturday and cut the tapestry from the loom.
And here we are after the tapestry was released from the loom. Julia is so happy with the tapestry and it will be given to her son one day to pass down through his family.
And here it is after all the finishings had been completed. It took me two days to tidy up the back threads and have it ready for hanging. Julia is coming into the studio this morning to pick up the tapestry and take it home.
Today has been rather quiet in the studio. I took Sharon to the bus depot yesterday morning so she is now doing the tourist thing down near Queenstown and visiting Milford and Doubtful Sounds, Te Anau, Wanaka and seeing the south of the South for two weeks before she heads north to Hamilton to spend a week with Nynke Piebanga in her studio under Pirongia Mountain.
I have been in the studio on my own today, as Anne is teaching spinning down at Ashfords for two days. Quite a few people came in including this family whom I photographed weaving on the small table loom which is always set up for people to try their hand at weaving. Here are Luca, Nico and Isabella with their Mum looking on.
I have been working on the commissioned tapestry and it is coming near to completion with about three more weeks work to finish it.
Sharon Left Christchurch this Morning.
Yesterdy was the last day of Sharon's weaving tapestry in the studio and she completed her tapestry and even managed to do a small sample learning pick and pick, diagonals and half a circle. So she worked very hard during the two weeks she was here and was very happy with what she had learnt and the achievement of a completed small tapestry. she experienced two rather good earthquakes while she was here and a couple of small ones which we hardly noticed. But last night she was in the shower when we had a good 4.9 quake. Quite an experience and a shaky goodbye to Christchurch. She left on the bus for Queenstown early this morning.
This has been a very busy week for me as I have my third student Sharon who hails from near Boise in Idaho. She is spending two weeks with me, sharing my home and studio and learning to weave her first tapestry. We are having lots of fun and Sharon is thoroughly enjoying weaving the small work which features a native New Zealand flower.
Sharon has been progressing well with her first tapestry. She is picking up and understanding the underlying principles behind the techniques and that enables her to weave more quickly each day. I think she will complete the tapestry within another three days so that will give her time to learn some other techniques that do not come into this tapestry. Pick and pick, soumak,ghiorde knots and other textural techiques, some more practice with hatching etc will all be good for her to learn.
Last week I attended the opening of the Canterbury Spinners and Weavers Area Exhibition. I had submitted 'Lace 2' the tapestry of my daughter in to this exhibition and I got a lovely surprise when the work was awarded a special award called The President's Award. Here is a photo of the tapestry as it was shown in the exhibition.
Here are some more photo's of the exhibition in which the quality of the work was superb.
I am progressing well with the portrait commission. Yesterday I worked on the first eye and I think I have got it okay. I was hoping that I would not have to unweave it and do it again, and, looking at it, I don't think I will have to do that. This first photograph was taken a few days ago when I had been working on the numbers to the left of the face. These numbers relate to James' life and his wife Julia wrote them out for me. i have tried to weave them in as near to her handwriting as I can get it.
The photo below shows the design concept on paper.
And this next one shows the work with the first eye woven.
Today I will start working on the second eye. It is amazing how the essence of a person comes in once the eyes have been completed. I find they are the hardest part to weave on any tapestry portrait, and it is so important to get it right. I also had to do quite a bit of unweaving when I was first working out the tonal values of the grey/blues in the face. This work comes to life when it is viewed from a distance. Close-up it looks like a whole lot of shapes and colours. The face can be seen alright then, but it really is designed to be seen at a distance.
Since the earthquake we have had a bit of a change around in the studio, trying to make a little more room for visitors to wander about in without knocking into plinths or suchlike. I have also filled up the walls by hanging the tapestries on the back wall instead of having them hanging from the cupboards and the looms.
Here I am with my camera standing by Wilson's loom photographing my space (just imagine I'm there as you can't see me, but I am behind the camera). You can see some of his jackets and scarves to the right and the tapestries 'Lace 2' and the two 'Underfoot' pieces on the back wall. It was a bit of a mission getting them hung up there as I had to get the big ladder and prop it up against the wall to hang the pieces there. The small tapestries are on the wall to the left and we shifted Anne's blankets so that they could hang on the racks below them. The tapestry 'Gianna - Portrait of a Grandchild' hides the yarns on the shelving unit. The door to the studio opens on to the stairwell landing.
Here is another view. You can see the collaborative tapestry 'Do not Stare' hanging across the top beam of the empty loom. This tapestry was designed by Paul Johns, a Christchurch artist. This tapestry was also the most difficult one I have ever woven, two large circles for the faces and smaller circles for the eyes - very difficult to weave perfect circles in tapestry. Lots of unweaving went into this work.
Here is Wilson's spot in the studio. You can see his 8shaft Mecchia jack loom with a warp waiting to be wound on to the back beam. His rack of jackets, vests and wraps is to the left of the loom and his scarves hang on poles from the ceiling.
I am progressing quite well on this commissioned tapestry. The sett is 11epi so it is reasonably fine to weave. I really like working with these greyed down blues.
Yesterday was a different day in the studio because the guys were drilling the broken chimney above the studio. They were drilling 4 metres down into the stone to be able to put steel rods in to stabilize the chimney. There is no fireplace in the studio or in the basement below us but the chimney goes right down into the basement so there must have been some fireplaces in this building at some stage. The drill made a terrible noise and I felt it all in my teeth!!! Sounded like a very bad dentists drill. Ha ha!
Here is the tapestry commission that I have been working on for a wee while now. The tapestry is a memorial for the man featured in it. His wife has commissioned me to weave the tapestry which will pass on down to her son one day.
I have done about three weeks work on it now and yesterday i decided that the tonal value of the mouth was wrong, too dark, so I took it out and needle wove it back in, with a lighter value. I think it looks much better. i have actually done quite a bit of 'unweaving' in this work so far, as the tonal values are so important to get right.
Here you can see how I have lifted the woven section above the mouth and taken the weft threads out, leaving the warps bare.
It is always a bit of a pain to have to unweave a section but it is worth the effort in the end, and if it is done as soon as possible then it is not too hard. It would be really difficult to do after the weaving was completed. I learnt this the hard way many years ago when I agonized over a tapestry that I wasn't happy with and thought that it might be okay. However, I ended up undoing almost half the tapestry and reweaving it. A big lesson, and now I always say, 'If in doubt, take it out!!"
What a shaky few days we have had after our major earthquake early on Saturday morning. Today was the first day we were allowed into our studio and I was quite surprised to find that it was mostly alright - no damage to any work or to the looms either, so all good. However my corner of the studio has quite a good crack in it and my light box table, computer and printer were covered in concrete dust, small stones, rusty nails and dust and more dust. It took me a good couple of hours to clean it up. You can see the dust sitting on top of the small tapestry 'Do not Stare' which is a collaborative work with Paul Johns.
Yarns were thrown all over the floor, but the shelves did not fall down and it did not take too long to get them back up in place again.
And here is another view of the yarns on the floor, also showing my latest commissioned tapestry on the loom. Luckily this had no damage either. I have been working for about two weeks on this tapestry and it is going along nicely.
One of the saddest sights I have seen today is the cutting down of the old gingko tree in the South Quad. I can see this tree from the window of my studio. Unfortunately it has had to come down because it is very close to the Observatory Tower, which also has to come down, little bit by little bit. I do hope that it will be able to be rebuilt, but am not sure yet whether that will be the case. Below is the view from my window showing the Observatory Tower and the gingko tree in the process of losing its life. I think it was one of the first trees to be planted in the Arts Centre, so a very sad day to lose it. I can't imagine the Arts Centre without the Observatory Tower and am just going to hate watching that come down too.


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Whare Ra differed from the other Golden Dawn groups because of a little ritual called the Etheric Link. The ritual was given out after the 7=4 and was supposed to provide a direct connection to the Rosicrucian current.
The Link ritual was obtained by Robert Felkin from Rudolf Steiner when the latter was still a Rosicrucian. There are several theories as to where Steiner obtained the ritual, which are historically interesting, but not the subject of this article. I am more interested in what the Link does and what it represented at Whare Ra. Please note that these are my ideas, and are not official and are up for debate.
The Golden Dawn writer Pat Zalewski once said that the Etheric Link ritual represented the end of a process which started in the 0=0. There the candidate is linked to the current as part of the rite. It is strengthened at each initiation and always as part of the egregore of the order. Finally, in the 7=4, the candidate gets their own version of the link which is independent of the Order.
In theory, this means that the candidate can form their own order, or go off and do their own thing. Note this does not mean that they are allowed to go off and form another Whare Ra temple. That required a note from the chief of the order, a note from their parents, and at least three forms of ID and a utility bill. Golden Dawn researcher Tony Fuller has said that in different periods of Whare Ra history the Link was given only to chiefs or those who might one day become chiefs. However, the link later was given to others normally after the 7=4. In fact we have evidence of this in the form of the two great initiators of the post-Whare Ra adepts Frank Salt and Jack Taylor who were not order chiefs (however senior they were in Whare Ra) but had the link and did pass it on to their students.
Tony Fuller has found evidence that the Felkin used to give the link out at any point in the second order where the candidate needed it. (Often at 5=6) although he did give it to Westcott at 6=5 (he also gave him the 5=6 and the 7=4) . At some point it was bumped up to 7=4 with Jack Taylor referring to it as a capping off process. This could suggest that either the later chiefs felt it too powerful for a 5=6 and/or discovered something new about it which Felkin either did not know or had not spotted.
So the question is what IS the link and what did it do?
Felkin believed that the ritual gave the candidate an etheric link to Christian Rosensenkreutz so that the person became his "son" and "spiritual heir." This is a spiritual leadership role within the Rosicrucian movement. CRC was the initiator and the creator of the Rosicrucian Order. So in many ways it was the right to initiate into the Second Order of the Golden Dawn.
This provided Felkin's order with a Rosicrucian connection which gave it legitimacy.
In this context, it was important for Felkin who needed to establish a Rosicrucian link which was better than whatever it was that Mathers was offering. While it is possible it is unlikely that the link was written by Steiner and may have some connections with earlier masonic/Rosicrucian bodies, what the physical link ritual did became irrelevant.
It is the nature of magic that something which appears as one thing can be transmuted over time into something else. New Zealand was disconnected from the European occult scene and here was a ritual that patched its adepts into the Hermetic and Rosicrucian current – the Western Mystery Tradition. To the adepts who accepted the link it became something else.
It was not going to provide them with the authority of lineage, at least not in the sense that a mason would understand it. But then, they did not need it – they had Whare Ra and that was not really going anywhere.
Firstly, it gave them the power to initiate into the second order. When you perform a second order initiation you have to make several connections at the same time. You have to connect to the egregore of the second order and also the divine. The Godform of CRC acts as an intermediary between these two forces, forging a chain between god, the order and the candidate.
The connection with CRC represents the Rosicrucian tradition and the position as a son of CRC enables the initiation to take place.
This chain though is connected through history and not just Rosicrucianism, but all those orders and magicians which gave birth to that particular movement.
One initiate's experience of the link ceremony was that it opened up a vortex in front of him, like a time tunnel.
Another person told me that they felt the link was like a long huge Akashic library in which all occult knowledge was written. A book was each adept's contribution to the Great Work.
Another who was less impressed with his experience said he had the impression of the age of an ancient tomb and a person who was old was watching him.
One thing you notice is that the experience of the link is subjective but the symbols are similar – ideas of profound knowledge spanning back over time.
Another thing about the link is, like many initiations, sometimes it "takes" and sometimes it does not. If it does not there is nothing bad. The person's occult work is always focused in service within the order which gives them the link. They do not need to draw on information, or energies which do not come from that.
When the link takes there is a desire to research and to create your own contribution to the tradition. To be your own link in the chain. It might be to be a leader, or it might simply be a desire to share your slant on the mysteries with your students. You will train your students until they are ready for you to pass the link onto them so that the Chain of Hermes is never broken.
I find it interesting that you refer to Tony Fuller as simply being a Golden Dawn researcher, wherein fact Tony is a senior Adept and has the link handed down From Frank Salt…I think we should refer to you as merely a hobbyist writer on The Golden Dawn then.
I have known Tony since I was 17 and we were in the same order together (twice). I have complete and total respect for him. I call him a Golden Dawn Researcher because that is the hat he is wearing when I am quoting him. It is also polite. Whare Ra people, and those who took initiations from them do not talk publicly about their lineage, initiators, name of temple etc they regard it as poor taste. So you can be talking to someone who has a Whare Ra connection and they will not mention to you how they got what. Never trust someone who say they have Whare Ra "lineage" the concept is an absurdity. I have met several people who claimed Whare Ra lineage and they are usually the frauds. Over the years I have "picked up" Tony's history but he never officially told it to me. That is how those with a real Whare Ra connection work.


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Dirty Promises (Dirty Angels #3) by Karina Halle
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Title: Dirty Promises
Series: Dirty Angels Series #3
Author: Karina Halle
Genre: Fiction, Dark Romance, Erotic Romance
Release Date: September 15th 2015
Dirty Promises is the final book in The Dirty Angels Trilogy. While the first two books can be read as standalones, Dirty Promises can not. Reading Dirty Angels and Dirty Deeds beforehand is HIGHLY recommended.
Also, people sensitive to violence and immoral characters who make questionable decisions should refrain from reading this book. The real cartel life is not pretty, not easy and certainly NOT romantic and that is more than reflected in Dirty Promises.
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'Dirty Promises' is the third and final installment in Karina Halle's series entitled 'Dirty Angeles' and features the couple for the first installment in the series Javier Bernal and his wife, Luisa. This installment was without a doubt my favorite installment in the series. It was darker, more brutal, more disturbing and I devoured it in one sitting.
"An anti-hero was still a hero in the end, but I would never be more than a villain."
Since one of his younger sister, Alana, died several months ago Javier is a shell of a man. He is destroyed, not knowing very well how to deal with his grief. He blames himself for her death, feeling lost and lonely even if his wife is trying to help him as much as she can. Even if he's grieving he takes care of his business, becoming more dangerous and unpredictable. He pushes Luisa away, convinced he is best for both of them for him to stay away from her. He is a horrible husband. He is cold, cruel and also unfaithful.
"It takes a monster to know a monster.
He was the worst of us all."
Luisa is hurt. She wants her husband back. Ever since she became his wife she has been Javier's confidante helping him with the businesses. Javier's behavior pushes Luisa into the waiting arms of Esteban Mendoza, Javier's right-hand man. Esteban is an evil man who plans to use everyone in his way to become 'The Patron'.
"I didn't think I had it in me anymore. To feel. To bleed. More than that, I deserved this hurt. I knew I did. But it didn't change a thing. It didn't stop my heart from plummeting to its death."
What a thrilling read this turned out to be! Karina Halle delivered a very dark, gritty and gory conclusion to Javier and Luisa' s story. Don't expect rainbows and unicorns reading this installment/or the first. Expect the unexpected and a very unconventional love story. This installment like the first, where these two characters' story begins was addictive. It was written in multiple POV and for one reason or another it kept me glued to the pages.
I loved these two characters, individually and together. Javier's portrayal was once again fantastically done. I loved his character – his personality, his humor, everything really. Luisa was the perfect match for Javier in every-damn-way. My heart broke for her at some point and I have to say he was an admirable main female character. I simply loved her strength!
"When Javier was cruel he was brutal, but when he was tender, it was almost more disarming."
Javier and Luisa's conclusion was intense, suspenseful and like the other installments in the series fast-paced.
Overall, a fantastic read!
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Find Your Joy. Feel Your Peace.
No I'm not referring to Christian Grey for all you 50 Shades fans out there. I'm talking about gray. As in the uncertain, limbo, scary, gray.
For years I lived in black or white. Definitions. Things either were or they weren't. I defined myself by as many definitions as I could to put myself into black or white. There was no in-between that felt comfortable, and if there was an in-between, I tried to find a "right" answer or a "right" solution to get out of the gray as soon as I could. Many of us live this way. We find definitions for everything. We want so badly as a society to define dating, friendships, parenting, who we are. Well, what if you just let things flow? What if you allowed yourself to live in the gray? Scary, huh? That's because as humans we are conditioned to know where we stand on the ladder of life. This is especially true when it comes to relationships. We want to know what rung of the ladder we are on. Are we dating? Kind of dating? Are we friends? Best friends? Sorta friends? kinda friends? Enemies? UGH! It can be exhausting trying to place ourselves and others in the "right" place.
But what if there is no "right" place? What if we just are?
Sometimes the Universe gives us people and situations to teach us to just be. Be in the gray. Be in the unknown. Be in the murky. We feel so connected to someone or something and it doesn't seem to be progressing, but it doesn't seem be going away either. We try to walk away (black), but the nagging on our heart strings stays. We then try to push the relationship or situation forward (white) because the heart tug must mean it's meant to be, right? We try and try but it stays the same. Not progressing, but not going away. We do the dance all over again. Black, white, black, white. It's exhausting, and puts us in a place far from happy. Sometimes we just need to accept that things are gray. Just because there is no clear answer doesn't mean that one won't come, that things won't change, or just maybe the answer is that the relationship or situation is here to make us comfortable living in the gray.
Ok Sara, I get it, but what is the point of being in this gray limbo?
Growth! Getting out of our comfort zone is the place in which growth happens. If we stay comfortable it creates stagnancy, and our contract as a soul on this planet is to grow. To progress forward and push ourselves through all those hurdles staring us in the face. One of the most important ways to grow is to be comfortable with the uncomfortable place of limbo. Knowing that you are not in control of everything in your life (Boo hiss) and accepting it. So many of us want to white knuckle ourselves to our life's steering wheel. Is there free will? Yes, but there is also a greater force at work which desperately wants to connect with us and help us grow so we can get over our hurdles and have some peace in our lives. To do that you have to allow yourself to surrender to the process of being comfortable in the uncomfortable, and to the higher force that is guiding your beautiful life. It can be very scary, but I promise that living in the gray is liberating and grounding.
The next time you are faced with a decision try surrendering and allow the gray to dictate if it is more black or more white. The answer will come in the right and divine time.
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Vol. 82, Have You Been Seen?
On a television show I was recently watching, there was a curvy girl trying out for a ballet summer program. She got cut almost immediately. Her ballet teacher gave her a wig and told her to go audition again under another name. She got cut quickly again. Her ballet teacher sent her in again under a third name. Someone who was watching the repeated interchange said, "This is madness. They saw her, and she got cut." The ballet teacher said, "They didn't see her. She's going in to audition with all these skinny girls and they see that she has the biggest thighs and the biggest hips and they cut her. They aren't actually seeing her. Eventually, she'll go in with a group of girls and someone else will have big thighs, then they will see her."
Wow, what a thought. How many times have we been rejected from something, not based on talent but on some external prejudice beyond our control? And how many times have we taken that judgment to be a ruling on our talent (or lack thereof) rather than a prejudice against our being. It happens when you go out for writing fellowships–who knows what others are writing and how your work screams something different (not necessarily something less than). Who knows who is reviewing the work and what their personal opinions biases and preferences are.
The ballet teacher wasn't pushing to have her student selected, she was pushing to have her student be seen. And isn't that what we are all looking for?
At the same time, being seen can be an intensely uncomfortable sensation. As I age, I become more comfortable with being seen and with being seen as myself, not some mythologized version of myself.
As a younger writer, the idea of seeing my work–my raw, unpolished, quickly rendered work–was excruciating. I wouldn't dare show the raggedness of my initial thoughts. I remember eleven years ago when a magazine a editor asked me to write an article on a specific topic. I told her I would be happy to, but I didn't know where to begin. She told me to just write what I could off the top of my head and send it to her unedited. I looked at her like she was crazy. She, a writer and editor with many years under her belt said, "I know sharing your work at such a raw stage feels strange, but I think the first draft holds a power and I think if you gave that to me, I could tell you what I'm looking for." It was painful for me to even consider turning over a first draft of anything. I did it, with MASSIVE reluctance, and it unfolded just as the editor said it would. She guided me as I completed the piece.
Fast forward to 2012. An editor has asked me to write a piece. I'm willing but busy. I told her I'd write it with no hesitation, though I thought to myself, "I have NO idea how this will turn out. I sat down and banged out a draft in two hours. I sent her the draft without reading over it even once. "I need to edit this piece," I wrote, "but please review it and let me know if this is what you're looking for." I trusted that she could see the essence of what I was doing, she could read the bones and I could fill out the flesh later. She reviewed it and let me know that it was just what she was looking for. She gave me a deadline to turn in edits and it's done.
I find it intriguing that when I was less developed as a writer I was more rigid and more controlling. Now, I'm happy to hear critique and feedback, to gain insight and suggestions, and I don't mind sending out a raggedy first draft for feedback.
It occurs to me that more experience = more confidence. More confidence = less need for every single thing I do and say to be perfect (because I know my worth and if I turn in something that's less than my worth it doesn't devalue my entire self). Less need for perfection = more acceptance of myself. Acceptance means I can be imperfect and I'm still perfect to me. I accept my mistakes, I accept not crossing every "t" and dotting ever "i." More self-acceptance = more willingness to try. The need for perfection stops people from just giving it a go, if you're okay with making a mistake, you'll learn the rhythm of the thing you're attempting a lot easier. So more willingness to try = more progress. And more progress gives me what? More experience.
The question of writing a novel is now pushing me further in this conversation of being seen. At last night's reading, in conversation with Moira Crone we came to the topic of novels. I had just finished talking about how much I enjoy following an idea into the unknown as I write short stories and discovering what the idea wants to be. The next second I was explaining that I think I'm afraid to venture into the unknown of novel writing. What I have seen of myself as a novel writer is a confused lost self. I have soldiered through, slogging through drafts, but still not succeeded at carrying through the thread of a novel-length tale.
Moira said she thinks short stories are part of the natural scope of how people think and feel and ingest information. They can spill out of a writer in a very natural way, whereas novels are like a set of instructions or directions. The writer has to follow a set of proscribed actions/structures/strictures for it to be complete.
Which is an interesting point b/c I don't do restrictions and have-tos very well. I remember when I was getting my MFA and we had to write a paper in our second to last semester. I was annoyed because I had finally gotten flow with my novel. "I'm deep in my novel," I told my adviser, "can't I just write this paper later?" The program director got wind of it and told me I wouldn't be able to proceed without writing the paper. My adviser, Chris Abani, referred me to the book 39 Microlectures: In Proximity of Performance. A poet and a novelist, I suppose Abani had an idea of what I was struggling with and knew exactly what to suggest for me to move through it. The author, Matthew Goulish, felt that presenting lectures was impossible until he decided to do them the length he was comfortable with. Working on that principle, I wrote my paper by doing a series of micro chapters which made it possible for me to produce the required length in short sections.
Process is so important to success. And success is gained by not being stopped by "I can't." If I can't do something—for whatever reason—the only way I know of to succeed is to ask myself what I can do and go from there. I think the same goes with being seen. I think we don't want to be seen because we think we don't measure up, at the same time we want to be seen—we want the value and validation of being noticed, accepted and approved of. We have many distorted ideas about what people should see when they look at us. True power comes from accepting who and what we are and being willing and open to receiving the gaze of others.
It comes back to surrender, as it always seems to. And being able to see ourselves clearly and honestly. Regarding novels, I am still working on my "self-gaze." In other areas as a writer, it feels great to be fully open to being seen.
Kiini Ibura Salaam


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'Complete stranger' replaces Pueblo woman's stolen electric wheelchair
Anthony A. Mestas @mestas3517
She couldn't wait to give it a spin. Her "life" came back.
Andrea Quintana's broken heart was cured Thursday by a stranger.
"I can't believe she helped me out. My faith in strangers was out the window because of the way they stole my chair. They didn't even think of the disabled lady," Quintana said, piloting her new electric wheelchair down a city street.
"But now this one restored (my) faith in people again," she added, fighting tears.
On Sunday in daylight, a thief stole her $2,000 electric wheelchair, a tool she used for just about everything.
After reading an article about the theft published in The Pueblo Chieftain on Tuesday, a woman, who asked to remain anonymous, decided to take action.
"I am not a stranger anymore," she said to Quintana, who was on her third trip up the block. With each lap, she wore a huge smile on her face.
After learning a few tricks and tips about the chair, Quintana walked slowly down the steps with a cane and sat in the chair.
"This feels great. Let's go for a spin. I go fast because I am a daredevil," she said with a laugh through her raspy voice.
The good Samaritan gave Quintana her deceased mother's chair — something that overwhelmed the disabled woman with joy and happiness.
"I had been waiting. I thought maybe my sister-in-law who was real sick. I thought maybe she could use it, then she recovered so quickly that she didn't get a chance," the woman said.
"And it's just sitting out there getting dusty and I thought that somebody would show up in my life that needs it and when I read the article it was like — Oh, there she is."
"She looks right at home there," she added as Quintana continued to test out her new chair.
Quintana, 62, had owned the chair that was stolen for more than a year. Another chair was damaged in an accident on Northern Avenue a few years back.
She suffers from degenerative joint disease. She has three ruptured disks in her back. Quintana also has had knee replacements and shoulder surgery. She suffers from diabetes and kidney failure.
She said the chair was her only means of transportation.
"Now I can go to the store and get me a cold drink," she said, wiping sweat from her forehead.
"This makes me feel so happy," the generous donor said. "I am so glad … And my mother would be so tickled. She would be so tickled. It would be so perfect."
Quintana's new chair was nicknamed "Sassy" by the mother of the good Samaritan.
"When you try to put it in reverse or you accidentally hit the wrong button, man, she goes, 'Beep. Beep.' She's real sassy," the woman said.
The two women embraced as Quintana gave thanks. Quintana's eyes filled with tears.
"I know that you will take it and use it like my mom did," the new friend said.
"It will go everywhere. Downtown or to the stores," Quintana chimed in with a laugh.
Several people reached out to the Chieftain after reading about the theft, asking how they could help.
Some wanted to buy her a new chair while others wanted to help pay for one. Another person wanted to offer a reward if information leads police to find the stolen chair.
"It's amazing how people want to help and you don't even know them," Quintana said.
The chair donor suggested that others can help by getting a ramp installed at Quintana's home.
"I think that would really help. She struggles to get down these steps. With a ramp, she can ride the chair right into her home," the woman said.
Quintana could not stop thanking the woman.
"God sent her to me ... This one restored faith in people again, yep, a complete stranger," Quintana said.
amestas@chieftain.com
Twitter: @3517


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Ms. Baker leads PCG's child welfare and youth services practice, helping state, county, and community based agencies invest in programs, people and technologies that improve the lives of children and families. She leads a team of individuals with vast experience in delivering and managing child and family services and programs. She has worked with a variety of states since joining PCG in 2003, providing expertise, technical assistance, and recommendations for projects in provider performance management, program evaluation, financial management, service management, information technology, and early childhood development. Prior to joining PCG, Ms. Baker worked at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Executive Office of Administration and Finance, Fiscal Affairs Division.
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Nathan Grossman
Nathan Grossman, a Manager within our Human Services practice, has over the past 20+ years worked with health and human services agencies in more than two dozen states to provide consulting on early childhood, child welfare, income maintenance and disability programs, including information technology, program administration, training and technical assistance, and financial and program analysis. Mr. Grossman has expertise in information technology system planning and implementation for public agencies and in federal revenue maximization and management in multiple areas of federal funding (Titles II, IV-D, IV-E, XIX, XXI and IDEA Parts B & C, SSI/SSA, CCDF, TANF and SNAP).
Recent examples of relevant contracts that Mr. Grossman has managed include currently supporting the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources to implement a new integrated eligibility system by supporting Optum in a subcontractor role, providing project management, training and organizational change management expertise. Also, since 2012, he has supported the Pennsylvania Department of Human Services plan and enhance its technology support early intervention, early childhood, and home and community based services by managing a project team of about 25 staff. Mr. Grossman has also led various programmatic, financial and technology evaluations for early intervention, developmental disability, aging, foster care, child care, behavioral health, and nutrition programs in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Mr. Grossman received Prosci Organizational Change Management Practitioner certification in 2018 and Project Management Professional (PMP) certification in 2008.
Brian Howells
Mr. Howells has been working in government and public sector consulting for more than 11 years. Focused on employment and public assistance programs, Mr. Howells has led a number of engagements to improve state Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Work Participation Rates, enhance Maintenance of Effort (MOE) claiming, and provide employment supports to public assistance recipients. In addition, he works with a number of states to improve and integrate their eligibility and program services to provide a better customer experience and lower costs for states. His work has also included projects related to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Medicaid, and Cost Allocation. Mr. Howells has presented at conferences sponsored by the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP), the National Association for Welfare Statistics and Research (NAWRS), the Center for Economic Inclusion (UK), and the National Association of Human Services Financial Officers (HSFO). Prior to joining PCG, he worked for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as a senior fiscal policy analyst at the Executive Office of Administration & Finance (ANF) and as Deputy Budget Director of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services.
Deborah Joffe, PMP, is an Associate Manager at PCG. Ms. Joffe has extensive experience leading consulting jobs for human services agencies around the country, including engagements providing policy analysis, business diagnosis, program design, and expenditure analysis for TANF and other federally funded programs. She manages PCG's executive function related work, including training based on PCG's Human Services Coaching Framework and other program design decisions. Her background includes project management of TANF MOE identification projects in 13 states, including Missouri, Massachusetts and Michigan over the past nine years. She has personally been involved in nearly $2 billion of TANF MOE claims. In addition to her MOE work, Ms. Joffe has overseen work participation improvement projects in Maine, Missouri, Rhode Island, and Ohio, and TANF consulting engagements in Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Georgia. She has worked in more than 20 states and has served as project or engagement manager for numerous projects over the past eight years. Her experience includes standing up a large-scale operation providing TANF employment case management services in San Diego County, California, a project that employs 130 people and serves 5,000 families receiving public assistance. The operation also includes child care subsidy services, including eligibility determination and payment processing. Ms. Joffe is a certified Project Management Professional and a member of the Project Management Institute. She has a Master of Science in Public Affairs from the University of Massachusetts Boston and a BA from Brandeis University.
Jamie Kilpatrick
Jamie Kilpatrick, an Associate Manager in PCG's human services division, currently leads the New York State Bureau of Early Intervention State Fiscal Agent project, overseeing the fiscal management and payment of claims for New York's Early Intervention (EI) program. The largest EI program in the country, PCG manages more than $600 million dollars in EI claims annually for the state. Mr. Kilpatrick also serves as a subcontractor to the Center for IDEA Early Childhood Data Systems (DaSY). In this role, he co-authored, "Understanding and Using Fiscal Data: A Guide for Part C Staff." DaSY widely distributes this best practices white paper, not only to guide state EI leaders in their collection and use of important fiscal management data, but also to answer strategic fiscal policy questions. Mr. Kilpatrick brings more than 15 years of experience working with early childhood systems across the country, including Colorado, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Tennessee, New York and the OSEP-funded Mid-South Regional Resource Center. Prior to joining PCG, Mr. Kilpatrick most recently worked for the State of Tennessee specializing in EI and early childhood governance for the state as the Director of Early Childhood Special Education Programs within the Department of Education. Mr. Kilpatrick earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee (UT), his Master's degree in Education from UT Martin, and has completed doctoral coursework in Public Administration from Tennessee State University's Institute for Public Service.
Jennifer MacBlane
Jennifer MacBlane, Associate Manager, with PCG, has over 20 years of experience in human services, government, and government consulting. She has been employed by PCG for more than 11 years and she specializes in child welfare and human services purchase of service management, including payment reform. Ms. MacBlane manages a project in the state of Michigan to transition child welfare financing from the current per diem model to a performance based model and assisted the State of California to reform their foster care rates. She recently assisted the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to improve oversight of residential schools by identifying programmatic factors that are most closely associated with safety and positive outcomes for children and making recommendations for improved data collection and sharing between seven oversight agencies. She performed a comprehensive assessment of violence prevention services and developed a strategic plan that identified short- and long-term strategies for service delivery, program outcomes, and program administration for the State of Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. MacBlane worked with child welfare agencies in Massachusetts and Maine to develop child welfare demonstration projects to achieve better outcomes for children and families under Title IV-E waivers.
Before PCG, Ms. MacBlane worked as the Budget Manager for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Department of Children and Families, where she forecasted and tracked expenditures of approximately $750 million across administrative and program accounts. She also served as an Assistant Budget Director at the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance where she oversaw spending in the areas of public safety, corrections, healthcare, housing, and the environment.
Business Development Manager / Human Services
Mr. Ong is helping PCG lead the way to developing next-generation human service programs nationally, notably with publicly funded employment services and workforce development programs. Mr. Ong focuses on engaging public administrators in new idea generation, identifying and piloting innovative yet practical solutions, and managing large project implementations for PCG. Mr. Ong joined the firm in 1999 after several years working in the Massachusetts legislature. Since then, he has implemented and executed more than two dozen performance improvement projects across the array of health and human service agencies in the areas of government operations, revenue generation, program designs, application of fiscal/policy analysis, business processes, and multi-agency collaborations involving nearly all federal health and human services funding sources, including TANF, Titles II (SSA), III (OAA), IV-D (Child Support), IV-E (Foster Care), XVI (SSI), XIX (Medicaid), CCDF (Child Care), SNAP (Food Stamps), and WIA (Workforce Investment Act). Mr. Ong has an in-depth understanding of state and federal regulations, business functions, and processes that enable improved public agency performance. He led a successful start-up and on-going operation of Welfare to Work employment services operations in the County of San Diego, California that employs more than 115 staff and serves more than 5,000 clients.
Beth Osborne
Beth Osborne, an Associate Manager in the Boston office, has worked with child welfare and juvenile justice agencies across the country to implement fiscal and policy solutions to help improve outcomes of the children, youth and families for over thirteen years. Ms. Osborne has worked with a variety of states to deliver financial consulting, project management, and program effectiveness services. Ms. Osborne worked with Massachusetts, New York City, and Arizona to transform their child welfare system through a Title IV-E demonstration waivers. These waivers are helping states address the needs of families struggling with complex issues with the goal of preventing out of home placement, increasing permanency, reducing reliance on congregate care and improving well-being outcomes. Ms. Osborne has also worked with several jurisdictions to assess system improvements and service delivery. She worked with Mesa County, Colorado to review the county's foster care system and identified strategies to strengthen the foster parent network. She also served as contract manager for the statewide evaluation of child protective services in North Carolina to identified opportunities to strengthen the CPS system through legislative, administrative, programmatic, and/or practice changes and presented findings to the General Assembly. Ms. Osborne is also currently managing work in Dutchess County, New York to complete an assessment of youth services to develop a "Path to Promise" strategic action plan, that enhances county-wide delivery systems by improving the networks and assets to promote positive and productive values.
Prior to her work at PCG, Ms. Osborne was a staff assistant in the office of the Governor in Massachusetts. Ms. Osborne earned her Masters of Public Administration and Masters of Political Science from Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts.
Jill Reynolds
Associate Practice Area Director / Human Services
Ms. Reynolds leads PCG's Aging and Disability Services Center of Excellence. She provides strategic leadership and support for human services projects involving Home and Community Services, Vocational Rehabilitation, disability services, employment support programs, and other programs serving elders and people with disabilities. Throughout her career, Ms. Reynolds has been committed to helping state and local clients achieve improved outcomes and fiscal performance in their human services programs. She has worked extensively with numerous government programs across early childhood, public assistance, and employment services. She has worked with federal funding sources including Medicaid, SNAP (Food Stamps), Title IV-E, TANF, CCDF, WIOA, IDEA Parts B&C, and competitive grant funds. Specific examples of Ms. Reynolds' work with PCG clients include outsourced government operations, information systems consulting, financial management consulting, business process improvements and design, federal fund reporting and claiming, program consulting and person-centered planning practices. She leads PCG's efforts in using executive function brain research to develop more effective human services programs based in coaching and skill building. Ms. Reynolds has presented nationally on numerous topics including human services finance, coaching, and employment services.
Prior to joining PCG, Ms. Reynolds was Deputy Education Advisor to the Governor of Massachusetts. In this role, she worked on early education, K-12 education, and higher education policy, legislation, regulation, and finance. Previously she worked for the Massachusetts Office for Administration and Finance and was responsible for budget oversight and analysis related to education and other areas. Ms. Reynolds is a 2017 Eisenhower Fellow, for which she studied labor market participation for people with disabilities in Peru and Japan.
Sarah Salisbury
Sarah Salisbury has over 14 years of experience in a vast array of health and human services programs with specific focus on aging and disability services, early childhood programming, rate setting, and cost reporting. She has managed rate studies and fiscal analysis for Early Intervention (EI), Vocational Rehabilitation (VR), and Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) programs in numerous states. Ms. Salisbury also assists states with Federally required HCBS Statewide Transition Plan (STP) activities, including provision of person-centered planning trainings and compliance site assessments.
Prior to her work at PCG, Ms. Salisbury completed the Public Management Internship program in New York State while working for the State's Budget office. At Division of the Budget, she managed over $6.1 billion with her portfolio including Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP), Supplemental Security Income (SSI), homelessness, supportive housing, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), EI, state operations, and IT infrastructure. She also developed cost savings and revenue maximization recommendations for IT development projects and strategic sourcing. Her other past work has included serving as a subject matter expert for the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, and public affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Guatemala.
Ms. Salisbury holds a Master's in Public Administration from Rutgers University, a Certificate in Management Development from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Social Science from Nyack College.
Ezra Sykes
Mr. Sykes has led numerous complex projects in the public sector that include elements of process improvement, organizational effectiveness, and change management. He has worked with several states since joining PCG in 2008, primarily working with health and human service agencies aiming to improve frontline services for public benefit recipients. Mr. Sykes also serves as the director of PCG's Sustainable Change practice, a bundle of knowledge and tools that supports the growth, change, and revitalization of government organizations. Prior to joining PCG, Mr. Sykes worked for the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance as the Director of Project Management. Mr. Sykes also has experience in the non-profit realm, serving as Director of Policy for the Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance, a public policy advocacy organization advocating on behalf of homeless individuals.
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I want to dedicate this entire shoot and post to my late grandfather who passed away shortly before this shoot took place. I like to think that the beautiful day and the magical photos were because of him. He always supported me and my passion for photography.
Another successful styled shoot in the books!
The amazing model of this shoot, Mari, did a wonderful job and trying on wedding gowns provided by Tre Bella Inc. in downtown Durham was so much fun. We narrowed down to a gorgeous Pronovias wedding down that had a beautiful silhouette and perfect for the shoot! I loved the lace sleeves and the long train that added wonderful movement to the photographs.
I am so grateful for the people at the Leslie Alford Mims House!! For one, it's a gorgeous venue that I knew would be a perfect fit for the shoot and I was ecstatic when they allowed me to use their space for my styled shoot.
My favorite part of the planning process was the flowers. At first I was stuck on light pinks, apricots, hints of ivory and dark greenery. However, I came across yellow Catalina garden roses and instantly fell in love! (And I really mean it, I love love loveeee yellow flowers!!) My plans for the flowers headed towards more romantic, rustic Italian feel with the ruscus and the olive branches for the greenery. The bouquet was lush, filled with yellow catalina roses, yellow stock, white garden roses, light pink astilbe, ruscus, olive branch, and sand dollar eucalyptus. With the bouquet I also had a garland made with pops of flowers to have along the table, garlands are always a nice touch to any wedding ceremony / reception.
On the day of the styled shoot, Mari went to Raleigh and had her hair and makeup done by Makeup For Your Day. I had worked with them on my last styled shoot and they did a fantastic job and did not disappoint this time!! Mari was glowing and was an amazing model during the entire shoot! I could not imagine anyone else as the bride.
Also special shoutout to Nikki from Fancy This Photography, who was my assistant during the shoot and helped out very much AND did the wonderful calligraphy.
I hope ya'll enjoy the beautiful photos! Stay tuned for more engagement shoots and wedding from fall 2017!
Hope ya'll enjoy these beautiful photos of Jackie and Jesus! I haven't been to Hanging Rock in so long and it was so much fun to capture their love!
I've always been drawn to the storytelling aspect of wedding photography. Wedding days are full of so many different stories and wonderful moments! Getting to document all of them, then piece them together to create one amazing love story is one of my favorite things. Nothing says summer in North Carolina like thick humidity in the morning and then dark storm clouds with a downpour of rain in the afternoon. Brittany and Miguel definitely got a taste of a true summer day in North Carolina. The morning started out normal with gorgeous sunshine and sporadic clouds. Brittany and her bridesmaids were getting ready at Mason Ridge, Brittany hiding the anxious smile on her face the whole time.
By the time Miguel and his groomsmen arrived the storm clouds rolled in. But that didn't phase either of them. When the wind and the rain eventually did come it arrived just before the ceremony was about to start. We all decided to wait it out, knowing that rainstorms here don't last that long usually. Everyone held their breath as the rain continued, hoping to see a break in the clouds. Brittany, surrounded by her mother and her bridesmaids, prayed for sunshine and for the rest of the day to run smoothly.
Thankfully, just as we were about to rearrange the entire schedule the sky opened up and the rain stopped!! Brittany got to walk down the aisle escorted by her father, exchange vows with her now husband and have her perfect wedding day! I was in awe the whole time and so thankful that the rain had stopped. I captured pure joy that day and when it was all over it just reaffirmed by love for wedding photography. I hope ya'll enjoy these awesome photos!!


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