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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) pegkerr | |
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I honestly don't know what to think of this one. The concept of this card is so important to me. Part of me thinks it's fabulous and part of me wants to scrap it and start all over again. I think my uncertainty stems partly from the fact that I'm up way past my bedtime and I'm COUGHING MY GUTS OUT ARGH RAWR STABBITY STABBITY STAB. It's been over two weeks since I first caught the H1N1, and it feels like this damn cough has moved in for the winter (no, it's not a productive cough so I don't think it's a bacterial infection/pneumonia. It's just that the coughing mechanism is stuck in the permanently 'on' position.) Anyway, the card:
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Light in Dark Places - Council Suit
I am the One who lights your way when all other lights go out. |
What do you think? (From the top center, going clockwise: St. Lucia Day in Sweden, a firewalker I photographed at the Minneapolis winter solstice celebration, menorahs, Christmas Eve candlelight service, random lady with lamp, the winter illumination on Winter solstice day in Newgrange, Ireland. The central image is Galadriel handing Frodo her phial which she has described to be "the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain." (Earendil's ship shining with the light of one of the Simarils is the tiny image between Frodo's hand and the firewalker.) Tags: council suit, light in dark places, solstice, soulcollaging, soulcollaging cards
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I accomplished a lot today on the Book Fair Decorating front. Our door display was originally only in black ( here), which I accomplished by using the overhead projector to project the outline onto the green paper. I traced it with a pencil, and then used black paint (left over from last year's A.R. banners) to go over the pencil. The result was the above image. Today I finished it, using the metallic paint purchased yesterday, with this as the end result. I think it looks nice. :) I've also been working on the bulletin board, which features a world map. It's not quite done, but I thought I'd post pictures of my work in progress. First, the outline, which was again traced from the overhead projector and gone over in green paint. Yesterday I cut out the western hemisphere and put it up on the blue bulletin board paper. Today I cut out the eastern hemisphere, only to discover that Asia was so large that I had to move the western hemisphere over to make it fit. This required me to take down everything I'd put up (and I'd glued the small islands and Greenland down onto the blue paper, which required me to cut them back out) and redo it all. Sigh. :)) But it looks nice now! (Don't mind the excess paper on the right-hand side and bottom - it's all going to be cleaned up once we finish the border.) I also stuck the thumbtacks in (I used yellow instead of red) to mark St. Louis and then the various other places for the Notable Landmarks. Monday I will try to finish the rest of the actual board up, and then can start working on hanging the flag banners. I watched Monday's episode of Castle tonight, and also yesterday's NCIS: Los Angeles. And then it was time for Criminal Minds. ( Spoilers! )Time for bed. :) PS: Pictures are set to registered users, so you'll need to log in the "hard" way to see them.  126:  tired
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![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/syndicated.gif) makinglight | |
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http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/011918.html By the President of the United States of America.
A Proclamation.
The year that is drawing towards its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies.
To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God.
In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battlefield; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People.
I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and Union.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the United States the Eighty-eighth.
By the President: Abraham Lincoln
William H. Seward,
Secretary of State
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