I am a writer and illustrator with a strong background in fashion design and fine art. I also work as a brand voice consultant assisting designers and artists in the assertion of their unique voice through written word. To me, being a creative cannot be divided into clear-cut job titles. I help other creatives tell their story in the most compelling way possible, whatever that requires.
I studied fashion and fine art at Parsons Paris then transferred to Parsons New York where I graduated with a degree in menswear design. After working in fashion design for a year, I transitioned into writing as the sole copywriter and content editor for e-commerce label, La Garçonne. After exploring many aspects of the fashion industry, I decided to go freelance in order to tell the stories of smaller, more inspiring clients and be able to pursue my own art.
For any creative field from writing to illustration, the key is balancing refinement with expression. I think other writers and artists tend to get caught up in the end result when the focus should be on telling the story. When approaching new projects, I try and utilize everything I've learned in the past. Writing about design takes a knowledge of all aspects of design, not simply a knowledge of writing.
I have quite a few projects going on at the moment. In terms of consulting, I've been working with a number of fashion designers, fine artists, and creatives on written content for their sites and social media channels. At the same time, I've been collaborating with a fellow ilovecreatives member as a regular contributing writer to The Elysian Edit, Ebay, and Food 52. I am also working on an exciting project with an innovative model management agency creating illustrations for their rebranding.
I honestly feel very connected to a broad range of styles. In my own work, I aim to create powerful emotion in the least imposing way possible. My illustrations are a good example of this concept. I relate most to work that is compelling and thought-provoking without being too brash.
Definitely illustration. I love words and collaborating but I'd love to pursue more of my own visual work.
I think my biggest setback is finding a description that encompasses everything I do. If I feel a connection with a project I want to bring it to it's full potential and assist with everything. I have a wide background of knowledge and It's often hard not to get trapped into one role.
Working from home most of the time, I really wish I could be more organized. If I had someone who could tidy my apartment and methodize my computer I think they would deserve more than $20/hour.
I wish I could tell my younger self to breathe more, accept when things don't go as planned, and move forward with a new experience under my belt. Sometimes things just happen.
I'd like to know more about HTML and coding. I think it's a fascinating subject that I'm just beginning to discover. There's so much to learn.
I'm always interested in discovering the unique stories behind brands and helping them be told. I would also love to express more of my own opinions as a contributing writer on anything fashion, lifestyle, travel, or food related. Lastly, I would love to take on more illustration projects for clients who feel a connection to my aesthetic and style.
I love working with clients who are passionate about their vision but need help refining their words. I find the most fruitful partnerships come from people who are open to new ideas and take the time to listen to those around them.
My pricing really depends on the project. When beginning a partnership I like to have my client walk me through what they are looking for before determining cost. I tend to charge on a project basis opposed to an hourly rate as I feel the results are more successful (and less stressful) for both myself and my clients.
I'm always open to e-mails! Just tell me a bit about your project and we can work from there.
Walking without destination and drawing daily.


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TRCS volleyball had a successful year, only missing districts by a game loss at Kingsway. Next year brings much promise as they only had one senior on the team.
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Since we didn't do any expensive excursions while we were on the cruise, we decided to splurge on a day at Epcot. JS hadn't been there since 1990 and figured this would likely be his last opportunity. I have been to Epcot and Disney Studios twice in the last 8 years so not much had changed for me. It was a very long day, about 12 hours, but we enjoyed wandering around at a leisurely pace (our fitness trackers recorded 9 km). We went on 4 tame rides....Soarin, which felt like you were in a hang glider soaring across amazing landscapes from around the world; Living With the The Land, a boat ride that showed the history of agriculture and the latest growing technologies; Frozen Ever After, a boat ride in the Norway Pavilion based on the Disney movie; and Spaceship Earth, a dark ride in the geodesic sphere that takes you through technological advances. The longest wait was 50 minutes for the 3 minute Frozen ride. Soarin was my favourite. The park was crowded as expected but we've seen worse. It was fun to people-watch, everything from 2 year old temper tantrums, multi-generational family groups, international visitors, to a large wedding party. Everyone was happy, except for the 2 year old!
We had a very tasty dinner at the Moroccan Pavilion and hung around until 9 pm for the fireworks and laser show. It was quite impressive although we opted to sit which meant we had a somewhat obstructed view.
We were up early again this morning and breakfasting like kings on danishes from 7-Eleven. Then we packed our essential supplies; sunscreen, cash, magic bands, water and my camera gimbal before sauntering down to the dock beside our hotel to await the first ferry of the morning.
In no time we were on board and cruising across the lake to the Magic Kingdom. Now this is how to arrive at a theme park! The only disappointment was not seeing any gators in the water, but that's probably for the best, as last year one killed a small child in this lake.
Once again we were in the park for rope drop. Now this being Disney's marquee park it was no ordinary rope drop. The mouse himself greeted us outside Cinderella's castle and officially opened the park for the day with some magic and fireworks, before all decorum was lost amid a frenzied scramble to beat the crowds to the rides. We legged it to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and in a mere twenty minutes were careening through canyons, down mineshafts and around gulches.
Our first Fastpass of the day was the Jungle Cruise, where we saw lots of hippos, some of them were even in the jungle. The others seemed to be in Disney cast member uniforms. There was about an hour wait between Fastpasses, so while Jean rode Space Mountain, which makes me violently ill, I rode the People Mover, which is a great but sedate means of viewing Tomorrowland.
Staying in Tomorrowland we went all Toy Story and took a spin on Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin.
After four hours of roaming the park and enjoying the heat and humidity we adjourned to the hotel for lunch and a break. I hit the gym to try and combat some of the effects of my prodigious American calorie intake. I fear 90 minutes on the treadmill and bike may be just trying to hold back the sea with a bucket as I find American food to be my kryptonite.
Workout complete we braced ourselves for another assault on the Magic Kingdom and caught the next ferry to the park. We arrived just in time to use our last Fastpass of the day and first new ride for this park, the Seven Dwarfs (that's not a spelling mistake, it's how Americans spell it) Mine Train. The standby queue for this was 140 minutes! Even with a Fastpass it took us 20 minutes to get on the ride.
It's a fun, fast and exciting themed ride, albeit short, but I guess considering the ride theme I should have expected it to be a little short (Dad joke there).
After a quick feed of more gourmet American food it was time for the fireworks which was the perfect opportunity to squeeze another ride in while everyone else was looking up and going 'ooohhh pretty'.
We rode the Pirates of the Caribbean, which is shorter than its Disneyland counterpart and then finished the Magic Kingdom visit with the ultimate thrill ride, 'It's a small world'.
Loaded with adrenaline and all walked out we flowed with the throng through the gates and voyaged across the lagoon to the Wilderness Lodge and a well earned sleep.
Call back day at AMS tomorrow Terry- do you want to video link do you don't miss out??
Er is te veel om fotos te maken in Epcot.
Zittende bij de derde show van de dag: hier zijn nog meer fotos!


MINNEAPOLIS, MN – (Marketwired – Sep 3, 2015) – Today, Onvoy, LLC, a leader in wholesale telecommunication services, finalized the acquisition of Broadvox, LLC, a CLEC that provides wholesale VoIP services, to become the third largest CLEC by rate center coverage.
With its newly-expanded network, Onvoy can meet the communication needs of all telecom carriers and service providers across the country. The combined customer base includes over 1,000 major wireless, cable, telecom, next generation VoIP and enhanced service providers. All customers will soon have access to the coast-to-coast network.
The acquisition cements Onvoy's position as a major national player as Onvoy continues to build its network through strategic mergers and acquisitions as well as organic growth.
Founded in 1991, Onvoy offers a full suite of wholesale services to wireless, wireline, cable, and broadband companies. Onvoy provides tandem and transit, wholesale VoIP, long distance, SS7/database services, and call management solutions, including directory assistance and operator services. Onvoy is headquartered in Minnesota and continues to expand throughout the US. For more information, visit Onvoy at www.onvoy.com.
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When it launched, WiiWare signalled a shift in Nintendo's attitude toward developers and gamers. After Dr. Mario and My Pokémon Ranch hinted that it was really just another outlet for them to spawn pedestrian versions of their tremendously popular franchises, many gamers lost hope in Nintendo's plans for WiiWare. Then, suddenly, Art Style: Orbient appeared as if out of nowhere and although it was a remake of a Japan-only GBA release, it rejuvenated enthusiasm in the service by offering a glimpse into Nintendo's intent to offer elegant gameplay at a reasonable price. With Art Style: Cubello they've upped the ante with a completely original 3D puzzle game that is unlike anything on WiiWare or practically anywhere else.
Cubello's premise is a deceptively simple, three-dimensional take on classic puzzle gameplay. Each puzzle, or stage, is a structure made up of a number of cubes in various colours. The goal is to launch coloured cubes from your magazine (which holds up to ten) at the structure to match four or more cubes, which causes them to disappear and more cubes to be added to the magazine. As cubes vanish they cause any detached cubes to fall toward the core, effectively changing the structure and potentially triggering combos. The stage is finished when all that's left is the core; however, run out of cubes in your magazine and you'll fail. Compounding this simplistic design are equally straightforward controls that yield enthralling challenges.
While the basic controls consist entirely of highlighting an area with the pointer and pressing A or B to place a cube in that spot, Cubello is not as easy as it may sound. Each puzzle is in perpetual motion and placing a cube causes the structure to rotate in the opposite direction, leaving the player balancing careful thinking and patience with a quick-trigger and steady hands. The structure also moves steadily toward the screen until it collides and causes a few cubes to be removed from the magazine. Likewise, the closer it gets, the smaller the window is for launching cubes. To keep it at bay you must continually launch and match cubes, which will knock the structure back a bit.
Topping things off is a hint of luck in the form of randomly activated bonus rounds. Each matched series of cubes triggers a corresponding number of slots. Matching four slots activates either a normal (unlimited number of a specific colour) or super (unlimited number of all colours) bonus for a short period of time, leading to a frantic race to launch as many cubes in the proper places as possible to make some potentially serious headway -- conversely, careless placement will only add further clutter. This adds a welcome dynamic to the otherwise straightforward gameplay, but also means that high scores are occasionally subject to lucky breaks rather than effective, efficient thinking.
All told, Cubello offers countless hours of gameplay over two distinct modes. There are over 35 widely varied stages divided into six levels with each subsequent level introducing more colours than the last (the first has three while the last has eight). Beating a stage unlocks the next level as well as more stages in the current level, meaning the game thankfully never requires you to play a specific level over and over again to advance. However, the goal is to not simply complete each stage but to do so in the fewest number of turns and in the shortest time possible. Additionally, there is an unlockable 'endless' mode that challenges the player to complete successive randomly generated puzzles until getting stumped. Here high scores are tallied on a point system and then recorded on a local leaderboard. Points are scored for matching cubes, triggering combos, and for finishing a puzzle. In a nutshell, Cubello has plenty of challenges for even the strongest intellect.
Finally, Cubello's presentation is based around modest aural and visual design that is entirely adequate and mostly pleasant. The cubes and colours are all easy to identify due to the minimalist graphics and the music changes from strictly ambient to upbeat based on your performance. There are, however, a few occasionally grating sounds and a mildly annoying voice that announces the launch of every cube in a computerized accent. The result is a game that maintains a proper, if unimpressive graphical and audio fidelity to achieve a desirable block size. It certainly could look and sound better, but as with any WiiWare game it's a trade-off between size and style.
Despite its basic presentation and superficially simplistic gameplay, Cubello is the kind of game that delivers an engrossing experience every time you pick it up. A compelling blend of concepts makes for progressive gameplay that constantly evolves into fresh challenges even when repeatedly replaying the same stages; inspiring proclamations of "just one more level" well after you planned to put down the Wii Remote. That's the trademark of quality game design and a testament to Cubello's value for a mere 600 points and 47 blocks. It's one of the best puzzlers on WiiWare and a must have for any fan of the genre. Just be prepared for each play session to balloon into an extended diversion.
Great start to the Art Style Series!
Looks like the Art Style series will be a nice addition to WiiWare.
"Oh no not another puzzle game!"
Great review Alex, I can't wait for this and Orbient to hit EU!
Great review Alex. I just couldn't get into it. Not my thing at all.
Good conclusion to the review. That's the same thing that happened to me. I was just going to clear a couple Cubellos before work, and I ended up not being able to peel myself away from the screen until I had finished all 6 stages from levels 1-3. Fun puzzler. Try playing with the Zapper!
I was expecting the robotic voice to complete drive the review score down. I am pleased it doesn't dsirtract too much from the fun gameplay the title looks (and sounds...no not that sound) to offer.
This looks pretty good. Whenever I can get some points (who knows when that will be), I'm getting this and WoG. I was planning on getting all of the rest of the MM9 DLC, but I'll just get the extra level so I can afford this.
I'm gonna buy the whole Art Style series!
I thought it was going to get at least a 7 so I'm glad to see the 8. I love this game! It's one of my favorite wiiware games already and I highly recommend it if you like puzzlers! It's extremely addicting!
So is this game sort of like a 3D Bust-a-Move?
This is one freakin' rock-solid solo puzzler. Yet another incredibly pleasant Wiiware, Art Style surprise that manages to be a much deeper experience than the surface lets on. "Just one more level" sums this game up perfectly, as Alex stated in his review; I can't put my Wiimote down. The robot voice never gets annoying, the simplicity of the gameplay really opens the longevity of the experience wide open and keeps the player striving for faster times and fewer block usage, the music has a nice, ambient drive to it and the overall atmosphere of the game is just... enjoyable. It's gaming at its most basic and most engaging.
I didn't want to have that many puzzlers on my wii, but now I have Groovin' Blocks, Plattchen (and yes, I like it), Toki tori, Pokemon Puzzle League, and I really want Cubello and Madstone, not to mention World of Goo, which I don't think I'll be buying soon due to a serious lack of wiipoints; I really have to admit that there's been more enjoyable puzzle game releases than what I expected, like this Cubello game, it looks quite charming, a very good shot for Nintendo. Now I don't care how many puzzlers I end up having, while they're fun (but now I'm gonna need more money ).
I really wish these Art Style games were 500 so I could get one with World of Goo. Oh well, must buy multiple cards.
Great review. Gonna pick this up soon. I loved Orbient.
Dang! slow down. so many games. I need more memory and some time to catch up on work. I didn't expect wiiware to get so good so fast. This reminds me (visually) a little of the old "Block out" arcade thing. I want orbient, too. Now I'm really ready to kill my mail in rentals and save it all for wiiware.
This looks good, defintley consider if i have any spare points left over.
This game looks great, i wish we would get it tomorrow. but it's VC week. surely there are enough wiiware games they they don't need to alternate anymore. i would by this , orbient and world of goo tomorrow if they came out.
I PLAYED BOTH THE ART STYLE GAMES AND THEY'RE RUBBISH!
No wonder they werent heard of before they came out!
Also, Not that Orbient is good, but it was better than this.
Considering that strong bad is worse than cubello and the same as Orbient is just ridiculous!
People, dont buy these games you'll be easily disappointed!
Some of your reviews I agree with, but I had to put my foot down on this, sorry.
thanks for the review, the nintendo channel video was rather confusing. I'm having a great time with orbient and may pick this one up at some point.
I must admit that I really like the look of this one, and so can't wait for a possible UK release. Still not too bothered with Orbient though, and think the series should be 500 points rather than 600, due to the games' depth.
I know not everyone will agree with all our reviews because each person has different tastes and preferences. The Art Style games, in particular, demand a certain appreciation for profoundly simple puzzle games. That is, they are both very simple games on the surface, but gradually reveal their depth as you advance (maybe a more efficient way of saying it is 'easy to learn, tough to master'). Both games, I feel, offer a ton of value for the price and block size if you can appreciate their underlying complexities and extremely elegant design. If you don't agree, there is nothing I can say other than "to each his or her own."
So, I'm sorry if anyone feels our reviews are "wrong" as none of us wants to mislead anyone--especially our readers. Understand that we call these as we see them. If I was the only one on the planet that liked Cubello, I'd still give it an 8 and praise its accomplishments. That's all I can do. Hopefully you can always appreciate our honesty, if not our judgement.
Kinda like MaBoShi then? I didn't even realise there were boss battles on bar until the other day!
If you were talking about me being bad, then you're wrong.
I think reviewers would like some feedback on their review, so I was just giving back my feedback.
Usually, I wouldnt bother, but seeing that no-one thinks its bad, I decided to show my point of view on it.
Also, Yeah, MaBoShi, is pretty much the same, I would buy that game over this though, because it offers more than this does not that I like that game either.
Again, yeah, I was just giving my feedback on the review on this game.
It might just be I'm not into these types of games perhaps, so sorry.
The only reason I gave my feedback was because I noticed no-one had said anything bad about it, and in my experience, that makes the game good, if someone was reading this and everyone thought this game must be good and read that everyone liked it, they'd probably get it, so I'm just helping them to think if they like this type of game before buying.
oh yeah i'm aware at this stage world of goo is not getting a wiiware release.
but i was saying that i would get it if released. Honestly i'm hoping they will change thier minds and release it on wiiware. if not i'll get it on steam, i hope that this message comes across because i've notice i'm not the only person thinking that way.
Yet another game to add to my wishlist.
Haha, nice to see people "putting their foot down" about their subjective opinion. I really enjoy both of the Art Style games, and Cubello has already sapped a ridiculous amount of my time. You can seriously zone out and plays this for hours at a time. I haven't even tried the Endless Mode yet.
@LAA: You made it sound like you had to point out that Alex was "wrong." That's why people are reacting the way they are.
Hell, I m interested. Small price, small blocks, so definitely worth a try.
Anyway, I wasn't at all offended that you disagreed with me or anything, it's just that you stated I got the review "all wrong" and I felt compelled to respond. However, if you still believe that I'd like to hear why (other than the game just not being for you, of course).
I think these Art Style games are going to come with mixed opinions. But so far they seem to be quite popular with gamers. I remember the bit Generation games and how mixed the reviews of them were. They certainly don't appeal to everyone, but I think many find their minimalist approach a bit refreshing. Not to mention their cheaper price and smaller block size.
Finally a descent Wiiware game that I can enjoy without having the same old "should I delete a, b, or c, to make room for game d" problem like I do for every other Wiiware. This is a must-download title for when I go home from school, along with Rubik's World when it comes out in November.
@ 33. LAA - Since these games are published by Nintendo it is an automatic download for me.
The art style series looks pretty interesting. And I wish every game has a low block count like cubello.
Boy do I love this game.
The robot voice isn't annoying for me at all. In fact, it adds to the game.
Does this game have an option to turn the robot voice off?
This game is so much fun to play.
@Versus22: Thanks, I agree .
@Ferret75: Unfortunately there is no way to turn off the voice, but it's really only annoying when you aren't the one playing the game... If that makes sense?
This game is seriously fun for a 6 dollar game. I'll throw my hat in with many of you in regards to the robot voice though. It's not bad when it's just playing through my TV speakers though.
I want this game so bad. NEED WII POINTS NOW!!!
@ absen and the deleted text: "As simple as it is, it took ages for me to understand what the actual point was."
It took ages to understand? Did we play the same game?
And maybe you should read some reviews before you buy games .
@ absen's deleted "Review": The first paragraph says nothing about the game, the third paragraph says nothing about the game, and even the second paragraph says next to nothing about the game, so the whole comment is ridiculous.
@ absen's deleted text: Your whole comment is still very childish and provoking.
"The game doesn't even make creative use of the Wii controller; you might as well be using a mouse or standard controller."
A standard controller? How should that function?
Another point: Do you know Tetris? It is normal in a Puzzle-game that (with the time) the action gets faster, and also the game mechanics of Tetris isn't much more different than the game mechanics of Cubello, so i don't understand why you complain about the gameplay. This is a puzzle game, and if you play it right you have fun, but i think you don't even try to understand Cubello.
"Basically you could just sit there and mash the A button over and over again and sometimes win and sometimes not."
This is also so ridiculous that it proves that you don't play the game.
there. i edited down to simple and clear. that better for you? just because you don't agree with someone and are a fanboy does not mean it's okay to sit and flame people. wtf? did your dad code the game or something?
I just want to make clear that your negative points are not that negative because either your explanation is weird or it is the intention of the game or the genre to do so.
And to say that your comment was childish and provoking is rather an "attack" to your text than to your person.
i didn't have fun playing it. i don't like it, and i found it to be boring. i don't care for the music either and the announcer is annoying. also it is sometimes hard to tell exactly which color a block is. it also makes you sit through the credits unless you just shut off your wii, this is also accompanied with annoying music.
I like this game. There's just one thing though. There's no option to change the colour schemes for people like me who are colour-blind. So it gets a 7 from me. It gets a 9 based on gameplay but that fault brings it down for me.
If this had a co-op option / scoring, then there would be a lot more life in it, but for a single player game, it's not that bad.
I just downloaded this game and it just feels a little random.
Where is the actual skill or technique in this game because it feels like all I have to do is keep shooting until ll the blocks are gone?
I waited a long time to get this one, but I had 600 points burning a hole in my pocket. I chose Cubello thanks to your review, and I love it. I was worried after watching the videos that I would hate the computerized voice, but it doesn't bother me at all while I am playing. Now my wife, on the other hand, will probrably get tired of it pretty quickly.


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Lakers Nation takes a look back at the top five moments of Hall of Fame Lakers head coach Bill Sharman during his six years of coaching the purple and gold. Sharman coached the Lakers from 1971-1976. Sharman spent his years as a player for the Boston Celtics before becoming a head coach only five years after he stopped playing. Sharman brought an NBA Championship back to Los Angeles after a decade long drought and paved the way for the lights to shine bright again in Los Angeles.
5.) October 29, 1996; Sharman Added to 50 greatest NBA Players List
17 years ago Bill Sharman was added to the prestigious list of the Top 50 Players NBA Players of all time. He averaged 17.8 points per game with three assists and shot 43 percent from the field. Sharman played in the NBA from 1950 to 1961. He played his first season with the Washington Capitals and the rest for the Boston Celtics. He played in eight straight All-Star Games and won the 1955 All-Star Game MVP award. Sharman holds the NBA record for most consecutive free throws made in the playoffs with 56.
4.) Elected to Hall of Fame as a Player and a Coach
In 1976 Sharman elected into the NBA Hall of Fame as a player. In 2004 he was also enshrined into the Hall of Fame as a coach. He is one of three people elected into the Hall of Fame as a player and a coach. The other two elected in the categories happen to be John Wooden and Lenny Wilkens.
3.) 1972 NBA Coach of the Year
In the 1972 season the Lakers set the NBA record for most consecutive wins in a season with 33 straight victories. Led by coach Sharman, the Lakers finished the season with a 69-13 record. Their win streak still stands today. With the winning streak and another certain significant accomplishment, Bill Sharman won the NBA Coach of the Year Award.
2.) 33 Game Winning Streak
The Miami Heat gave it their best shot this past season, but fell a couple games short. In 1972, Bill Sharman led Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and the Lakers to a 33 game winning streak. The streak still stands as the longest winning streak in the NBA and probably will for some time to come. The streak led Sharman to winning the NBA's Coach of the Year Award.
1.) 1972 NBA Championship
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I just want to say that these are SO DELICIOUS! I mean really delicious.
We decorated them for July 4th but this is an idea you can use for just about any holiday or party. And, it's a fun way to serve it for both kids and adults.
Melt chocolate chips in microwave for about 1 1/2 minutes. Stir well.
Place on wax paper and return to freezer for at least 30 minutes.
Remove from freezer and decorate with festive designs of your choice!
Enjoy frozen, refrigerated, or even at room temp. They are delicious!
This recipe was adapted from Betty Crocker Recipes.


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Friends on death row
By Alex Hannaford |
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Don't be fooled by the horses grazing lazily in a field in front of the prison, or the corrections officers sporting hokey western hats. This is about as bleak as it gets: the Polunsky Unit is home to Texas' death-row wing. Its population currently stands at 241 men. On the day of an execution the condemned are driven to a separate prison in Huntsville where they are given a lethal injection.
This morning there's a solitary figure waiting outside the security gates: a woman in her late 60s wearing a red cardigan, a streak of pink in her short blonde hair. Ann Stevens' accent sets her apart from the other visitors to the prison; the guards all know the Englishwoman who has been coming to Polunsky twice a year for the past decade. Stevens, from Northampton, once worked at a supermarket checkout. She now runs a death-row ministry.
Twice a year she relies on donations to pay for flights to the US, where she visits men and women awaiting the death penalty around the country. Like Sister Helen Prejean, the nun played by Susan Sarandon in the movie Dead Man Walking, Stevens is the religious conscience of the condemned, consoling them as they face the ultimate penalty.
Once you've gone through a security check, you walk along a path beyond the razor wire and into the prison. Ivan Cantu, the 44-year-old prisoner Stevens has come to see, is led, handcuffed, behind a row of booths by three officers. Once the door to his pod is locked, he sits on a chair and pushes his cuffed hands through a slot in the door so a guard can remove them.
Cantu, a small-framed man with thick, swept-back black hair, smiles as Stevens sits opposite him and places the phone to her ear. "Hello, love," she says. "How have you been?"
The state holds that Cantu killed his cousin, James Mosqueda, and his cousin's fiancée, Amy Kitchen, at their Dallas home in November 2000, because his relative failed to pay a drug debt. He's been on death row for 16 years. He was given an execution date in 2011 but it was withdrawn for legal reasons.
Although clothes in Cantu's apartment were found to have the victims' blood on them, Cantu has always maintained his innocence. Unless they volunteer the information, Stevens doesn't ask what crimes the men and women she visits have committed. She tells me she made that mistake once. A friend who also visits prison inmates asked her if she could send $20 to a particular man on death row. Stevens found out he had beheaded his two children. "I really struggled," she said. "I didn't want to send him the money, but I always told myself whatever they'd done they're paying the ultimate price."
She sent him the money, but now she doesn't look up their crimes. "I'd rather not sit there and think: 'This is a monster.' Most people wouldn't normally love these people because of what they've done, but God doesn't do it like that. And because I'm there as an envoy of God, giving some sort of comfort, I'm not going to judge them."
Cantu asks Stevens to read Psalm 139 from her Bible. She pulls her chair closer to the glass and thumbs the pages. "I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made. . ." she reads. Cantu, elbows on his ledge, shuts his eyes. ". . . test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting."
Cantu tells me he wasn't a Christian when Stevens first visited him. But slowly, perhaps because of the comfort it offered him, alone in his cell 23 hours a day, he began to find faith. Earlier, Stevens told me she ministered to another inmate who didn't want to know about God. "Then he had an execution date—after 23 years on death row," she said. "And he told me that after all the years I'd talked to him, drip, drip, dripping stories from the Bible, he swears he heard a voice say, 'I'm not finished with you yet.' He looked around and there was no one there. And then they took him off death row. He believes it happened because he found the Lord, and he's been faithful ever since."
I first met Stevens last summer at her small, terraced house in Semilong, Northampton. She never envisaged becoming involved with her church, let alone one day running a death-row ministry. She had a child at 16, after which she was disowned by some of her family. She was married for 27 years, but at the age of 48 she left her husband and became more involved with her local church. But it was a documentary, Fourteen Days in May, that changed her life.
First broadcast by the BBC in 1987, the film follows Mississippi inmate Edward Earl Johnson in the two weeks leading up to his execution. After seeing that, Stevens contacted LifeLines, a charity that organises pen pals for death-row prisoners in the States.
There came a time when writing letters wasn't enough. Stevens wanted to do more, and some of her pen pals had begun asking when she was going to see them. "My first visit to Polunsky was so surreal," she tells me across the dining table in her front room. "I'd never been in a prison before and the way the guards were looking at me, I felt judged, I suppose.
"I was visiting Duane Buck, my first penfriend, who was known on the row as "Brother Buck" because of his conversion to Christianity. He'd obviously told some of the other inmates I was coming because as I approached his pod in the meeting room some of them were banging on the glass: 'Are you a Christian, ma'am?' 'Will you visit me, ma'am?' Just seeing them sitting there behind glass—they looked so desperate. And they had nothing. They couldn't even go to church."
More and more, Stevens felt compelled to write or talk to inmates about her faith, and in 2013 she was ordained as a minister and awarded a certificate by a church in Texas. This meant she'd be given greater flexibility when visiting inmates, but it would also enshrine her visits in meaning and purpose. She started spending her time in England raising money so she could take two lengthy trips a year to Texas.
During her visits with inmates, Stevens buys them something from the vending machine, asks about their well-being, and talks to them about God. But, she said, she is never pushy. "I don't want to sit there preaching at them. I just want to show there is somebody out there who gives a damn about them; who prays for them." And she doesn't mind if they don't share her faith. "They eat, shower and die when they're told. They need choices, and if they choose not to believe in Jesus, that's up to them."
One inmate always asks her to buy him a packet of chips and herself a bag of cashews when she visits. They eat them and drink a can of soda at the same time and have what Stevens calls a mock communion. Another, who's been on death row for 30 years, tells her he doesn't believe in God. "He's never done anything for him so he doesn't see why he should," Stevens says. "But at that last minute he might accept God. Or he might never accept God. The only thing I can do is to show them I care about them, and God cares about them."
Stevens had previously told me over the phone that this could be her last trip to the US. She's been visiting American prisons for more than a decade and running her ministry for the past four. But she turns 70 next year. "Flights and insurance are expensive," she said. "I have diabetes, arthritis. It's difficult." But she seems to have had a change of heart. "I've always said when I can't raise the money that's the end of the road for me, but I don't feel like it is yet."
The darkest, most difficult part of her work comes at the end. Stevens has now witnessed two executions. The first was in 2012, that of Keith Thurmond, convicted of killing his estranged wife and her boyfriend after losing custody of his son. "Keith was very mentally vulnerable: he was a bit of a Walter Mitty—believed he was a helicopter pilot and the FBI had set him up."
At the prison in Huntsville, Stevens was told to remove her shoes to go through security before being searched. "I remember my foot made a sweat mark on the floor and I apologised. I was a nervous wreck." Outside, it was raining and she remembers walking up a set of metal stairs at the prison and hearing the noise of the rain on the steps. She was led into a small room and told to stand facing the execution chamber. "They pulled back the curtain—I was only a few feet from Keith, who was behind glass, strapped to a hospital bed. It made me feel claustrophobic, panicked. I wanted him to be able to lift his hands. I saw a tear roll down his face. I managed to give him a thumbs-up and smiled. What else do you do?"
She says the warden stood behind Thurmond and a prison chaplain held his ankle. "We all just stood there, rooted to the spot. No one moved. You're not prepared to see a man who, apart from the effect prison had on him, was fit and healthy, die before your eyes. I thought: how does this change anything for anybody? Then they pronounced him dead and I went outside and it was still raining."
Later, in the prison chapel, she was able to hug Thurmond for the first time. He was covered with a maroon blanket. She had dreams of that day for a while afterwards—as though a camera was zooming in on Thurmond's hands, bandaged to the gurney. At his funeral the next day in the prison cemetery, she laid white roses on his coffin. "He had said that they would somehow make him pure and help him get into heaven," she says.
At the Polunsky Unit, Ivan Cantu is talking to Stevens about other inmates; those who rarely have visitors, never get letters and who almost never leave their cells. He's concerned about their mental health. He tries to urge them to take the one hour of recreation offered each day. He asks Stevens if she'll help; if she'll start writing to them or pay them a visit.
Later, Cantu will write to tell me that Ann's positivity is contagious; that the happier she is during her visits with the condemned, the happier they become. "It blows me away that a single, retired woman on a very limited budget is willing to travel across the Atlantic for people considered unworthy of society—to bring hope and dignity to us," he'll say. "It's kind of a saintly move, don't you think?"
The corrections officer who's been sitting by the door gets up. Stevens' two hours are up. Cantu shifts in his seat and his eyes well up. "Will you pray for me before you go?" he asks. "Of course," Stevens replies. She stands and places a hand on the glass. Cantu puts his palm up to hers and they close their eyes.
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Started by DWLange, April 20, 2018
DWLange
NGC Research Director
Member: Seasoned Veteran
I'm surprised that no one on the boards has commented on NGC's certification of the fourth known 1854-S half eagle. There was certainly plenty of excitement around here:
https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/6557/discovery-of-a-lifetime-1854-s-five-dollar/
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WoodenJefferson
I have nothing to add or subtract, I am merely here.
Joined: December 8, 2006
Location: Fibonacci φ spiral
We were waiting for you to post this...it is BIG NEWS as it was splattered ATS. Laughing, ppl over there saying now if it would only cross!
It's in our new crack-out-proof holder!
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TOTAL NEWBIE
Joined: January 3, 2005
Spectacular find for the owner and excellent research and authentication for NGC.
World Colonial
I was posting here when you were in diapers.
Unlike so many other high profile US coins which actually have little if any distinction outside of the hugely inflated price tag, this is a classic (as in traditional and long time) US rarity. I'd rate it the #2 half eagle behind the 1822.
Edited April 20, 2018 by World Colonial
USAuPzlBxBob
Up 20 words per minute since I signed up
The bigger Story of the Year is that it took two days to even start a thread on this coin, here at "ground zero," and that the thread had to be started by NGC's Research Director, no less.
I got the email from NGC on Wednesday, announcing it. Then I sort of brushed it off because other interests vied for my attention.
But I came back to it today, and I was going to start a thread on it just now, to ask everyone: What gives with you guys?!!! No thread?????? Anyone?????
Anyway, it is quite a find.
I still have to wonder about the owner, and how did he come upon the coin, how long has he owned it? Did he pay a lot for it? These kinds of questions.
Cool holder, with the special label, and all. And it's already written up, and included in the Coin Explorer for the coin.
If I had that coin, I don't know, I'd sit on it, with it in a SDB… at Fort Knox!!!
That is, if I had enough money to get by without selling it.
We all know where this goes now, right?
The media is going to be all over this once it breaks. It's like finding Forrest Fenn's Treasure Chest.
So glad NCG encapsulated it! Looks great in the holder!
And makes me feel better about one of my gold coins that has a little black around a dentil, like this coin below its gap between the "1" and the "8."
Funny how all of the 1854-S Half Eagles all go for $4,500,000 +/- $250,000.
Edited April 20, 2018 by USAuPzlBxBob
Auto spell check tripped me up.
casman
Collector is an understatement.
It's posted on the home page. It's neat but there's no backstory, just that it appeared and it's rare.
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KarenHolcomb
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Location: Charleston, WV
Casman, I thought the same thing. No backstory. Dude is remaining anonymous. What's up with that? And,I gotta wonder how they could tell it wasn't the stolen one after so many years. Too many questions to get super excited. I didn't even see a picture of it.
rrantique
Location: Midsouth USA
I saw it on my NGC Facebook page first.
erwindoc
Bid more or post more... tough one...
Location: Erwin, TN
I guess I don't appreciate the significance, since I don't know as much about gold coins as I do other coin series. Great job though!
51 minutes ago, erwindoc said:
I suspect there is a difference in perception between "older" and "younger" collectors. Since the last sale (Pogue coin) occurred in 1982, "most "younger" collectors have never seen it come up for sale and it's "out of sight, out of mind". The same applies to other traditional "ultra elite" coins such as the 1822 half eagle.
For those of us who are older or somewhat older, I remember it from the Red Book as an entry where there was no price listed by grade, only a prior auction or the number known. This is why it stood out to me.
Of course, now there are other coins which were described likewise that I don't think amount to much of anything, so it's all relative. The primary example being the 1861 Pacquet reverse double eagle which I consider the most overrated coin in all of US numismatics.
Today, I'd rate the 1854-S half eagle #2 among half eagles, Concurrently, many or even most other denominations don't have any "ultra elite" coins by my standards. This includes the cent, quarter, half, gold dollar, quarter eagle and eagle.
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bsshog40
Location: Midland,TX
I also seen this ATS. I read the article but had to jump off the thread as most of it turned to crossing to pcgs. Pretty cool find!
Talkative?
Joined: December 28, 2013
Waiting to hear more of the story.... Glad it went to NGC.
Star City Homer
The Collectinator
Thought it was totally cool (especially the 'crack out proof' holder serial #), but it's so far out of my collecting realm it didn't even cross my mind to post about it. Even so, an excellent story/coin!
Walkerfan
FACT if I stop posting, trillions and trillions of transistors would be out of work.
Wonderful find of an exceedingly rare coin. What a windfall for the owner. I would love to know the details surrounding its discovery. The NGC slab is really cool with its custom serial number and special label designation---I hope that it stays in there. I read the whole article and it's a great story. Congratulations NGC!!
wdrob
If you have a dream about out-posting me, you better wake up and apologize.
Location: Ga.
On 4/20/2018 at 5:36 PM, casman said:
That is what I thought as well when I clicked on my email and then read the article.
I also thought that you guys must not really think it was such a special find since you didn't even take the time to make sure your database was accurate and a reflection of the actual coin.
In time I hope we can learn more about the find. It would be interesting.
MarkFeld
Joined: September 23, 2002
On 4/20/2018 at 11:04 PM, KarenHolcomb said:
NGC determined it wasn't the "stolen one" by comparing the discovery coin to pictures of the former.
Curiously, do you really not understand or appreciate why the owner might wish to remain anonymous?
LINCOLNMAN
3 hours ago, MarkFeld said:
Only one person in a thousand, perhaps fewer, would have anything to gain from such publicity. Of course, there may be a few folks who would enjoy frivolous lawsuits, being harassed for money, being robbed in their home, being targeted by a variety of nut jobs, etc. Maybe unwanted attention is better than none at all for some.
On 4/20/2018 at 12:56 PM, DWLange said:
Please explain how the holder defies cracking-out.
My guess is that if you cracked it out to cross-it-over to the competition's holder, the coin would lose the "cool" slab ID number, and the "cool" Discovery of a Lifetime subtitle.
So, with all that to lose, no one would want to crack-it-out just to include it in their "registry" for registry-point-value gain.
A quick check of the competition's available numbers, to compete with NGC's 001854-001 "cool" verification number, reveals that a 1924 $20 Saint, MS 63 already exists in a slab having a number even close to NGC's "cool" number, btw.
tejas1836
Joined: November 18, 2009
17 minutes ago, USAuPzlBxBob said:
I took David's post about a crack proof holder as a joke.
So did I, but Star City Homer made me question my initial reaction.
Just being silly...but tone does not always convey well. If nothing else, the post office is pretty good at cracking slabs.
5 minutes ago, Star City Homer said:
Looks like it went through the sort machine. Was that yours?
On 4/22/2018 at 2:20 PM, MarkFeld said:
Well, it seemed to me some time had passed between the theft and the find, and while it's like winning the lottery and some of those winners want to remain anonymous, dude could have at least revealed if he found ut on the beach or it was inherited or some kind of tale as to how it was found. Could have given a new hobbyist like me a reason to keep going with hope when we read about how everything cool is already being hoarded by old time collectors. So curiously, did you have to be rude?
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21 minutes ago, KarenHolcomb said:
A backstory would have been interesting and unthreatening to the seller, good point Karen.
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1 hour ago, KarenHolcomb said:
I'm sorry you took my question to you that way. Yes, the owner could have disclosed details and made things more interesting and more exciting. But I can certainly understand his choosing not to do so.
Could have given a new hobbyist like me a reason to keep going with hope when we read about how everything cool is already being hoarded by old time collectors.
Only a low proportion of the consensus or supposedly most desirable coins are being hoarded. Most coins are available for those who have the money. Most coins aren't remotely hard to buy, though from my experience US collectors use contrived definitions of "scarcity" to exaggerate the significance of what they like and justify the exorbitantly inflated US price level..
However, the chances of this kind of find are no better or worse now versus 43 years ago when I started collecting and to my knowledge, previously. At all times, effectively zero.
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Just from the limited back story, the coin is probably from an inherited collection. It just has that vibe.
It has always been "raw."
It's a gold coin.
Current owner shows the coin to dealers at shows and is told it is probably counterfeit.
Coin is sent for authentication.
Owner is incredulous when told coin is genuine.
The story will slowly leak out; it's too good to keep secret forever.
Also, the story, itself, has value. So, that has to be marketed to the highest bidder. Especially in this day and age of media hype and frenzy.
"I know a friend who knows a friend whose sister's brother's friend's father had a gold coin collect, and you'll never guess what…"
But it's also one of these things of who are your real friends, and who can you trust.
So, whoever it is, that person should move slowly.
Thanks, me too. And I apologize. It's been a day from spoons, as JKK taught me to say, and I have taken many things wrong today. Please forgive me.
6 minutes ago, KarenHolcomb said:
Nothing to forgive.
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Benjamin Elijah Mays (* 1. August 1894 in Greenwood (South Carolina); † 28. März 1984 in Atlanta) war ein US-amerikanischer Lehrer, Baptistenpastor und von 1940 bis 1967 der Präsident des Morehouse College in Atlanta. Außerdem war er Mentor Martin Luther Kings. 1971 wurde Mays in die American Academy of Arts and Sciences gewählt.

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HomePast ChallengesClassic (Manly) Movie Marathon"Heat" Made Me Want to Puke, But You'll Never Guess Why
"Heat" Made Me Want to Puke, But You'll Never Guess Why
Written by Don P on January 22 2014 . Posted in Challenge #3
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Heat goes down in history as one of the greatest bank heist movies of all time. And how could it not? The two leading men are Al Pacino and Robert De Niro, two men that if you stuck them together in a movie about a tornado raining down sharks on Los Angeles it would have gone straight to Academy Award gold. They're pitted against each other as Lt. Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) frantically and violently pursues expert bank thief Neil McCauley (Robert De Niro).
Although De Niro and Pacino both starred in The Godfather II, they never shared the screen together given the split chronological storytelling of that film would have made their interaction impossible unless a time machine was utilized... which would have made The Godfather II the most mind-blowing movie EVER! In Heat, they only have two scenes together, totaling less than 10 minutes combined; just enough time to bring cinephiles across the globe to full mental orgasm.
Even if you don't count the top-notch acting, this movie has every characteristic a classic movie should have: Based on a true story, has inspired others to take action (albeit rob a bank), and has been used in military application. That's right, "In June of 2002, the scene involving the shootout after the bank robbery was shown to United States Marine recruits at MCRD San Diego as an example of the proper way to retreat while under fire." Shown. To. MARINES.
But why would such a kickass movie make me feel sicker than a girl on prom night? For that answer, I have to take you back to college.
Freshman Year: 2001-2002
Oh man, freshman year of college. Let's see, I had the cry-like-a-baby-on-the-bathroom-floor night because of tequila (the story can be found here and the first chapter in my book); The "Night of Rum" where I woke up in a strange dorm room sporting neon fingernail polish from knuckle to fingertip on my left hand; and of course, the day I washed down one too many painkillers with half a liter of vodka before meeting a friend's mom for the first time and could barely form a single coherent sentence. Those were the days.
[left to right: Rick, Pam, and Don]
Oh, young Don. There's just so much I need to warn you about.
Nevertheless, I pressed on, eventually reaching spring break and traveling to Fort Lauderdale (where my friend Rick lived) for a week of debauchery, mind-numbing drinking, and just about as many girls in bikinis as one could handle. Mike, Scott, and I planned on staying at Rick's for the entire week of Spring Break. If you've never experienced spring break, you've denied yourself the right to engage in behavior you'll only ever otherwise see in something written by Todd Phillips or Larry Flynt.
Every year someone ends up falling to their death from a balcony or in a hospital with alcohol poisoning. Thousands of girls show up topless on the Internet, and apparently people take dumps and vomit in the ocean. Does any of this shit happen when celebrating Memorial Day? Probably, but very rarely. But it's all in good fun, right?
Whew whoo!!! Spring Break!!!
In 2002, Rick's dad, John, was a sergeant for the Fort Lauderdale police department. The last night of our trip we decided to go hardcore and head to downtown Fort Lauderdale to drink ourselves into oblivion. Thousands upon thousands of college kids were roaming the streets around us, and just as luck would have it we ran into John. He was working the nightshift and standing slightly outside a large crowd of people with about 30 other officers, all armed like they were preparing to be shipped off to Fallujah.
He pulled us aside and said to stay out of trouble, then asked, "Do you know why we stand in an 'L-formation' like this?" We collectively slurred, "No." John added, "Because when" — not if, but when — "we shoot into the crowd we won't hit each other." That was just his vernacular.
We took his advice with about as much heed as a warning label insisting, "DO NOT CONSUME RAW COOKIE DOUGH." Cookie dough is fucking delicious, and so is alcohol. We continued to party until one-by-one we were more drunk than the other and slowly starting blacking out.
That Pesky Hangover
The following morning, John made sure to wake us up extra early so we could fully enjoy our hangovers — one of the worst I've experienced. Now, John is a very reasonable man, but 3 things were on his mind: He's a sergeant, we were all under 21, and we were shitfaced in HIS city for a week. If there's anything I've learned from watching all these movies, it's the fact that you can only break the law for so long before having to pay the piper. John was the piper, and he was about to collect through our asses.
"Hey boys, you've gotta check out my new surround sound system. Top of the line. Dropped my whole year-end bonus on this baby." John proceeded to put Heat into the DVD player, skipped to the bank robbery shootout, and turned the speakers up to window-shaking levels. Pregnant women within a mile radius just experienced birth defects.
Every gun blast might as well have been a real bullet entering my head, the knot in my stomach growing to the size of a Navy anchor. I wanted to throw up so badly, but knew that would show weakness and John would win. I began to sweat, and when the whole shootout was over, John asked, "You boys want to watch that again!?"
Last night was the first time I watched the movie in its entirety. Still to this day — 12 years later — I get a nauseous feeling in the pit of stomach during the bank shootout. Well played, John. Well played.
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Mysticism in the Media: LOST, Part 2 (The Finale)
SPOILER WARNING: If you're squeamish about spoilers and you haven't watched the last episode of LOST, don't read this post until you have.
The second half of my analysis of LOST will concern the final scene of the series' last episode, titled The End.
Many people were disappointed by the ending, saying that the series didn't end up answering many of the questions that came up over the course of its run. This is true, to an extent. But this scene is so perceptive, so beautiful and so all-encompassing in its scope that I believe it makes up for any of the show's transgressions. Knowing this, in this post I intend to analyze this scene and explore its spiritual components.
First, a quick summary of what happened. The Jack featured prominently in this final scene is the Flash-Sideways Jack, in the world where the plane never crashed. He is in the middle of a grand awakening: everyone who was on the plane in the main world is starting to remember their lives on Island. All except him. From his perspective, he is surrounded by a bunch of people he does not know, all saying that he was their friend in another world. It scares him. He insists to himself that this reality, the Flash-Sideways world, is all there is, even after he is given preliminary glimpses of his Island life.
Just before the first video below starts, Jack was in a car (parked outside a church) with Kate, his on-Island love. She insists that if he goes inside, all his questions will be answered.
He walks inside and sees his Father's coffin, which was lost by airport customs and only recently returned. He circles around the casket, nervous to actually open it. He finally is brave enough to touch the coffin, and in a surge of relief the memories of his Island life come flooding back to him. Everyone he loved and lost, and all the adventures he had are finally restored to his mind.
Finally beginning to understand, he opens the coffin, but it is empty. For an instant, his doubt and fear returns, until a voice from behind causes him to turn around. Jack's dead father stands there, in the flesh. Jack, shocked, asks him how he could possibly be there. Christian (Jack's father) turns the question around and in turn asks Jack "How are you here?". Jack turns his recent epiphany over in his head, still processing the data. It finally comes to him: "I died too". He remembers his as-yet-unseen death, and realizes that the Flash-Sideways world is some sort of afterlife. Feeling strangely relieved, he embraces his long-estranged father, finally able to say that he loves him. After a long hug, he asks his father for some details as to the nature of the Flash-Sideways world. Christian affirms that it is real, just like everything Jack has ever experienced. Seeing Jack's confusion, Christian tells him that it is outside of time, so that individuals who died at different times could all meet there. He then says that the Jack and his Island friends made the Flash-Sideways world as a place where they could find each other after their deaths, reassuring him the reason they are all there is because they spent "the most important part of [their] life" together. Jack then suddenly recalls something Kate said in the car: that they were going to the church to "leave". After Jack tells Christian this, he confirms it, but offers "moving on" as a better expression. A nervous but increasingly happy Jack asks Christian where they are going, to which he replies "let's go find out".
"Meanwhile", the on-Island Jack is mortally wounded by his encounter with the Island's source. He stumbles forward, knowing that he has only minutes left to live. He walks through the bamboo forest until he reaches the spot where he woke up in the very first episode. No longer able to stand, he falls down. He lays there alone, until suddenly he hears a dog's bark. The dog Vincent, who woke him up in that first episode, lies down next to the dying Jack, comforting him. With only moments left to live, Jack looks up and sees a plane pass by, letting him know for sure that his friends are safe. He smiles, and knowing that his purpose here is fulfilled, he closes his eyes and expires.
Jack and Christian step into the main area of the church, where everyone he had come to know and love in his Island-life is there, all showing their love for one another. Happily, he acknowledges Locke, his one time rival. He proceeds to hug Desmond. He then proceeds to embrace Boone, Hurley and Sawyer; Finally, he sees Kate, and takes her hand. Everyone takes their places in the church's pews. Christian then pats him on the shoulder and walks down the center aisle to the back doors, which he opens. A bright light fills begins to fill the room, enveloping all who are there. Jack, overcome with joy, excitedly enters the world to come.
Amazing, eh? Now, I had a friend who claimed that LOST was like a crossword puzzle. In a crossword puzzle there are intersecting big words and small words, and often by filling in the small words you can have enough letters in the big word's space to guess what it is. He claimed that in the end, LOST had no "big word", indicating that the various pieces of LOST didn't resolve themselves into some higher meaning. I highly disagree. In fact, I can think of at least eight (one of the numbers!) higher meanings that emerged in the final moments of LOST. Here they are:
What Happened, Happened: Just before Jack lowers Desmond into the Heart of the Island, he tells Jack of his encounter with the Flash-Sideways world, where the plane never crashed. He insists that he is going to travel there, and offers to help Jack go there as well. But Jack refuses, saying that "there are no do-overs", and "what happened, happened". This latter phrase refers to Daniel Faraday's insistence to the survivors, once they begin jumping through time in Season 5, that they cannot change the past. But it has a deeper significance than meets the eye. By saying these things, he affirms that his life on the Island matters, and that he shouldn't try to escape from it. This is precisely Christian's sentiment in the second video above, when he says that "everything that ever happened to you was real". In short, Dave was wrong. The Island is not some easily escapable dream in someone's head: it exists, and everything that happened there means something.
Man of Faith: For the bulk of the series, Jack Shepard and John Locke stood apart as the manifestations of two opposing viewpoints. Jack was a man of science, referring to his need for evidence and his constant skepticism, while John was a man of faith. Their ideological battle continued for several seasons, ending when John Locke died. However, Jack did not remain a "man of science" for the entirety of the series. Beginning in his encounter with Jacob's lighthouse, where he discovered that his life had been guided from the very beginning, he changed, and began to be as faith-centered as you can get. This came to a head in The End, where he agreed with the Man in Black to extinguish the Source, even though he knew he had to protect it. He had faith in Jacob's plan, knowing that things would work out in the end. But this is not mere confidence; he didn't even know what the result of his actions would be. After all, he jammed a giant stone cork into a hole (the height of ridiculousness) not knowing what he was doing, why he was doing it, or how it would work. It is a leap of faith.
But this new-found faith of Jack can also be found in the final scene. Kate told Sideways Jack that he needed to go into the church, in order to "leave". The remarkable thing is that, even though Jack had no idea what this meant, and even though he is very aware that this might be the end of the world as he knows it, he ventures inside. This faith is displayed even more when Jack expresses his wariness at "leaving" to his father. Christian responds simply: "let's go find out". This statement, and Jack's acknowledgment of it, is the ultimate leap of faith: I don't know what's coming, but I'm confident enough that it will be a good thing that I'm eager, even excited to learn what it is. It is like they have just blown open another hatch: a new world full of possibility, wonder and hope remains inside.
Live Together, and You Won't Die Alone: In one of The End's deleted scenes, a curious Ben asks Desmond what existed in the Flash-Sideways universe. He responds with one word: love. This admittedly isn't understandable at the point where the scene would have been placed, (which is probably the reason why it was deleted) but it make all too much sense after viewing the final scene. For it doesn't portray anything but love: love between Jack and his father, love between the various romantic pairings, and love of each person in the group for everyone else. Moreover, one could easily say that the entire series had been building up to this moment thematically. After all, didn't Jack say that "if we don't live together, we're going to die alone"? The great truth is that they did live together, and that each of them will enter the next life as one, overwhelmed by the others' love for them.
Resurrection: The last episode is probably the strongest example of a tendency which I noted in the previous part of this post, that it portrays spiritual stories in a new light. The concerned story is probably very familiar to you, probably more so than any other, as it is none other than the sacrifice and resurrection of Christ. For Jack, just like Christ, gave his life to save the world. I firmly believe that if Jack had not re-plugged the Source, all things would have become purely material and mortal, just like the Man in Black. There would be no such thing as a spirit or an afterlife, meaning that a) death would be the end, and b) the final scene would be impossible. But Jack did plug the cork back in, meaning that he became the Christ-like savior of all people's immortal souls.
The last scene provides the climax for this scriptural representation. For when Jack opens his father's coffin, his Father isn't there. That phrase, repeated by an angel at Christ's tomb, and actually uttered by Jack in White Rabbit, perfectly conveys the despair any person feels at loss. We literally fear that they are no longer there, that they have ceased to exist. But both stories say that one need not worry, for from behind both Jack and Mary Magdalene the one they mourn speaks, showing us that they continued to exist after their death, that they are there.
Light: Some might consider the end of the final scene, where the Losties become engulfed in light, as a little cliche. However, if they do, they are missing the incredible significance that light has as a motif. For light is at the center of all that happens on the Island. First, it was the shining light of the Hatch that comforted John Locke in his moment of despair. But more importantly, the literal light at the Heart of the Island (known in earlier seasons as a buried electromagnetic force) is one of the main actors of the series: it healed John Locke, sent people traveling through time, and even crashed Oceanic 815 on the Island. But even more significantly, in Across the Sea Jacob's mother states that this light contains "life, death, and rebirth". Whether we think of the first and last scenes, Aaron's birth/Boone's death, or even the flashbacks, LOST has always been about the contrast of what is gone and what is here, of what is dead and what is alive. Thus, considering the Mother's information, perhaps we can say that the Light has been the driving force behind all of the action on the Island, making the final scene that much more meaningful.
To Remember: When Jack asks his father why the he and his friends needed each other, he gives a simple answer: "to remember, and to let go". This, to me, is the thesis of LOST. I believe that if we remember, let go, and help each other do both, we can perhaps achieve our life's purpose and end up like the Losties did.
First, what does Christian mean by "to remember"? The answer has been staring us in the face ever since the pilot, for what is a flashback if not an act of remembering? Starting when they arrive on the Island, each character spends about half of their episodes recalling the past. But this is more than mere reminiscing, for the two storylines' parallelism ensures that they are also coming to terms with the past. Whether it's Jack's obsession issues or Charlie's drug problems, remembering the past allows them to confront it and let it go.
To Let Go: The whole series has been centered around people letting go. When they come to the Island, each character has an issue which they must get rid of in order to progress. I've already mentioned Jack's and Charlie's, but we could also consider John Locke's need to prove his ability, Hurley's food problems, Sun and Jin's marital issues, Michael's relationship with Walt, and Sayid's remorse over his past as a torturer. The fantastic thing about this series, though, is that nearly all of these characters will let go of their baggage and move on.
Moving On: "Moving on" isn't just an activity; it's a way of living. To "move on" means to be ready to forsake the past and accept the future. It involves a willingness to "leave" everything that holds you back, that halts your progression.
But if we think of "moving on" literally, at least for the moment, we can see that this too has been a center point of the series. For from the very beginning, the Losties have always been going somewhere. The series is centered around the various places they are trying to reach on the Island, ranging from the Hatch to the Others' Camp to the Radio Tower. But none of these are so symbolically important as the very first and last voyages, for the trip from Sydney to the Island and the trip from the Church to the next life are the capstones between which the series is built. You see, the latter is a parallel of the former. You can see it visually, as the pews of the church are like the rows of seats in a plane, and the back of both places opens up to a bright light. But more significantly, both involve leaving behind a place filled with suffering and baggage to one of freedom and peace. This is the great secret hidden in the heart of the last scene: this parallel tells us that the the place to which the Losties are "moving on" is actually a greater and more wonderful version of the Island. You can be sure that this place has all of the Island's life, wonder and adventure, and that everyone who goes there will be forever happy and peaceful.
There you go. If you read it all the way through, I apologize for the length. It's just that I feel extremely passionate about LOST; it is my favorite TV series ever, and I believe it deserves the attention I have given it.
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Sitter Solutions is the Mississippi Gulf Coast's most trusted provider of in home childcare services and has earned the trust of families throughout the region. We understand that many parents struggle to find competent and safe caregivers for their children and we are here to help. We recognize that our role is of enormous importance and we take this responsibility very seriously.
Owner, Michele Cardenez, is a mom herself who takes great care in the day to day running of the business. Her goal is to ensure that families are provided with excellent childcare and have all their scheduling needs met, while also providing ongoing support to our wonderful sitters.
To ensure that the quality of care meets our standards, babysitters and nannies with our agency are carefully selected.
CPR and first aid certification is also verified and such certifications are kept current and filed with our office.
Areas served include Biloxi, D'Iberville, Gulfport, Ocean Springs, St. Martin, Gautier, Pascagoula, Long Beach, Pass Christian and Diamondhead. Don't see us in your area? Call us and see if we can help! We are always expanding!
Sitter Solutions, LLC is a registered Limited Liability Company in the State of Mississippi.