I have been asked to help find a good psychiatrist

 SCHWARTZ

DR. LAURENCE M.
On April 17, 2020 of Bala Cynwyd, formerly of Abington, husband of the late Diana (nee Fogel), Father of Nina (Michael) Rosenthal. Grand-father of Nathalie and Jonathan. Services and Interment are private. Contributions in his memory may be made to a charity of the donors' choice.

IT WILL NOT BE LARRY SCHWARTZ. 

I did find a Jonathan Small at Abington who seemed okay.

Just made a couple of scrambled eggs and chopped up some of Sarah's leftover garlic. Delicious. 

It is a little frightening to have trick or treaters wandering the streets. As I said earlier, I used up all the candy after a couple of hours. Joli Price did me a favor and brought in the table upon which I had a pumpkin filled with yummy candy.

She is running for our school board. Her sign is on my lawn.

Signed sealed and delivered.

RZD

Pure Slush Rejects Every Story I Send - Happy Halloween - Quelle decorations

 Matt informed me via email that I did not follow proper procedure.

It is now a dusky 4:36 pm. 

My big plastic pumpkin is outside filled with candy. Last night I ate Twix Bars and Snickers. Then I got on my bike and rode for half an hour. Not easy.

Just ate an Amy's Pad Thai, vegetarian. Delicious. While it baked in the oven, I walked around block stargazing at all the wonderful Halloween decorations.

Discovered an art channel of the National Gallery in Washington DC. Constant lectures are on. Today we learned about THE BATHERS by Paul Cezanne.

Oh look! She's got it in her bedroom. But you know what? You can buy reprints immediately at Walmart!

The Bathers became very famous after Paul Cezanne's death. Picasso loved it. Our guide told us there is NO WATER in the Bathers.

Did we see it at Z Barnes?

Hold on. 

Darlings, you must see what I posted. Click here. 

We hope this works.

Scuse me while I take a sip of my Trader Joe's Autumn Harvest Tea.

No caffeine. 

REJECTED

Each and every one of them was a gem

Spellbinding, suspenseful, shocking, and written 

in my own voice. But when you own your

publication, you have the right to dissent. 

I have watched every single TV tour by Rick Steves

 

Rick Steves, travel writer in his hometown of Edmonton WA. 

He wrote an essay for the NY Times on the importance of travel.

To help us understand other lands.

On a recent morning, Rick Steves was wandering around the ancient Tuscan town of Volterra with a new crop of tour guides. His company’s trips to Europe are set to resume in February after a nearly two-year pandemic hiatus, and the guides were midway through a nine-day trip around Italy to learn “what makes a Rick Steves tour a Rick Steves tour.” One of the stops on their itinerary was Volterra, a medieval hilltop town whose stone walls are 800 years old. Mr. Steves — who has been to Tuscany many times for his popular public broadcasting show and YouTube channel — was relishing being back.

“We’re surrounded by the wonders of what we love so much, and it just makes our endorphins do little flip-flops,” he said during a phone interview.

That unabashed enthusiasm has fueled Mr. Steves’s empire of guidebooks, radio shows and TV programs, as well as tours that have taken hundreds of thousands of Americans overseas since he started running them in 1980.

Along the way, Mr. Steves has built a reputation for convincing hesitant Americans to make their first trip abroad — and that first trip is often to Europe, which Mr. Steves has called “the wading pool for world exploration.” But he also speaks passionately about the value of travel to places like El Salvador and Iran, and he’s open about how his time in other countries has shaped his views on issues like world hunger and the legalization of marijuana.

An email I sent three years ago, which Ellen forwarded to me

 Sarah, thanks to you and Ethan for singing the birthday song! I loved it!!!

We had a delicious meal at Gram's - Chinese Food. She sat in her usual matriarch's chair and could hear most of what we talked about, hearing aides in, and cracked a few jokes.

In addition to Ellen, guests were Carlos Guerrero, Lynn Greene, son Miles Greene who's halfway thru law school at Columbia.

Lynn visited him at his school. His apartment is really tiny. They ate at great restaurants in the neighborhood. He studies Chinese law with one of the greatest Chinese scholars: Benjamin Liebman, a Jew.

I'm noshing now on some delicious ham Nicole made. Her mom was also there. We also had shtuffing, pecan encrusted sweet potatoes and butternut squash. Max ate a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and only drinks water.

Afterward we played musical chairs.

The stress was on! Max looks adorable when he loses and cries.

I wore the outfit Ada and Rich bought me at Chico's. I'd bought many earrings in NYC but people either didn't like the gold or they didn't fit. So I'm wearing a new pair of gold earrings now with posts.

For dessert, Ellen made a scrumptious apple cake w powdered sugar on top. So good you didn't need ice cream on top.

Scott left for work around 7 pm after removing my Claritan generic pills from their packet. Very hard to do. My honey also bought me some honey, which he said would be good for my throat with lemon.

The cough is a tiny bit better.

Told Dan I would walk to Claudia's house on Chelfield Ave. I couldn't find the damn street. And that he should meet me there.

Apparently she and Barry weren't home since there was only one car in the drive. Perhaps visiting her mom in the nursing home.

So I began walking back to Argyle Road when  a kindly looking man stopped for me. Dan Paul Deming.

Nicole is dog-watching one of her teacher's dogs. In Chestnut Hill. So everyone drove there but me and Dan.

Watch your grammar around the children, my ex-husband Millard G Deming used to say.

I hear fireworks now!

Enjoy the rest of your day!

Love, Ruth.

...

Right now it is pouring cats n dogs.

I had to latch my storm door so it wouldn't fly open.

Earlier today Scott, who is retired, and I went on a fantastic walk before the rains came.

Went to the new YMCA off Davisville Road and walked for about two hours, or two miles. Felt great to keep on truckin.

There was a new playground funded by Gale Faulkner. 

I said the enclosure looks like it was done by Buckminster Fuller. 

Bucky, please say hello. 

Richard Buckminster Fuller (/ˈfʊlər/; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983)^[1] was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, and futurist. He styled his name as R. Buckminster Fuller in his writings, publishing more than 30 books and coining or popularizing such terms as "Spaceship Earth", "Dymaxion" (e.g., Dymaxion house, Dymaxion car, Dymaxion map), "ephemeralization", "synergetics", and "tensegrity".

Fuller developed numerous inventions, mainly architectural designs, and popularized the widely known geodesic dome; carbon molecules known as fullerenes were later named by scientists for their structural and mathematical resemblance to geodesic spheres. He also served as the second World President of Mensa International from 1974 to 1983.

Years 1895-1983, died at age 87.

Sunday Company

 

How delightful that our fav people in the world surprised us with a visit today. We are grilling on Scott's BBQ on his second floor deck. Sarah and Ethan went shopping at Giant. They forgot fresh rosemary but I went next door to where Bill Adams lives -- and there was fresh fragrant rosemary! He snipped a few pieces for us. so we have everything we need. 

Start your engines please -- I mean, start the BBQ!

The Girls Drive off in the Dark, with Tyler at the Wheel of the Car, a white Nissan Rogue, 10 or 15 yrs old

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_A29KXEjY

What a great time we all had partying tonight!

Tyler, Donna, Ellen and me.

We ordered food again from Ming's. 

Everything was delicious. The only one wearing a mask was Tyler as he is unvaccinated.

I read my poem ODE TO ERIK who had died of substance abuse and booze.

Death by cop - a military friend of Tyler died this way.

So in the midst of all this partying, death stalked us.

And that is all I have to say for now.

DID YOU LIKE MY SHORT STORY?

Yes, no, yes, no, yes.

I drank cinnamon tea from Trader Joe's as I

composed upstairs with light on

brightly. Name of story was so forgettable

I have forgotten it already. 

Tyler: You are Smart. When did that happen.

You looked massive as you backed out the drive

black mask on. You are playing chess more and more

to keep up with that kid of yours. I looked up in the

blackest of all skies and imagined your boy winning

It's just something he does.

The Galapagos Islands from Patch.com

 

Upper Dublin High School Senior Gets Surprise Trip To Galapagos

Zoe Oliveras, a senior at Upper Dublin High School and student at Eastern Center for Arts & Tech., got a surprise trip from grandmom.

Jon Campisi,Patch Staff

Posted Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 12:15 pm ET|Updated Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 12:17 pm ET

Zoe Oliveras, a senior at Upper Dublin High School, got a surprise trip to the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador. Her grandmother surprised her with the trip in honor of her 16th birthday. (Photo Courtesy of Eastern Center for Arts and Technology )

UPPER DUBLIN, PA — A local high school senior and budding environmentalist is reflecting on a surprise trip she received this summer to the Galapagos Islands and Ecuador, which was given to her by her grandmother.

Zoe Oliveras, who is a senior at Upper Dublin High School and also studies veterinary sciences at the Eastern Center for Arts and Technology, was surprised with the National Geographic Student Expedition by her grandmother in honor of Oliveras' 16th birthday, according to Eastern.

The trip took place from June 19 to July 3.

During her overseas venture, Oliveras studied native wildlife, worked with community conservationists and marine biologists, and took part in a climate action and ecosystem restoration service project, according to a news release from Eastern.

"The experiences I have gained from this trip and from the ecosystem restoration project have made me realize how important it is to keeping helping make the environment healthier, and to try to do our very best not to destroy the ecosystem any further," Oliveras said in a statement.

Find out what's happening in Upper Dublin with free, real-time updates from Patch.

Oliveras and her fellow trip-goers dug up bush and tree saplings from the Paramo Forest during the ecosystem restoration project, and they took sapling roots to a nursery to be grown over the winter, according to Eastern. The saplings will ultimately be replanted into another part of the forest.

Eastern says that Oliveras documented her trip experience in a report for her graduation project at Upper Dublin High School.

The surprise trip helped Oliveras narrow down her postsecondary major to marine science, according to Eastern, and while in the Galapagos she had a chance to study giant tortoises, equatorial penguins, marine iguanas and blue-footed boobies (a close relative of Pelicans).

Oliveras was also able to learn about the fragile ecosystem in the Galapagos.

In addition to her study of veterinary science at her program at Eastern, Oliveras has also volunteered as a teen conservation ambassador at the Philadelphia Zoo, and she has worked a part-time job at the North Penn Animal Hospital.

Eastern Center for Arts and Technology serves students in Abington, Bryn Athyn, Cheltenham, Hatboro-Horsham, Jenkintown, Lower Moreland, Springfield, Upper Dublin and Upper Moreland. The campus is based in Willow Grove.

Movie palaces - the perfect name for them

 THE HEYDAY OF MOVIE PALACES - found the below theater on the Internet

THE KESWICK THEATER IN GLENSIDE SAVED THEIR THEATER

Horace Trumbauer was the architect.

He may also have designed the Horsham Clinic.

Insta Carte accidentally delivered EIGHT DOLLARS worth of Tavern Ham. Just made a sandwich with tomatoes and mayo.

Mmmm good!

When I would attend the theater I would park way far out at the WON TEMPLE tho later I discovered another place to park.

COME ON DOWN

If you're late you've gotta wait

and then the usher - remember that word? -

will show you to your seat.

Egads, the legs I had to crawl across

like turnstiles aboard a stormy sea

till finally finally I made it home

and saw they were drinking beer

like at a baseball game

but sadly not to be.

History of the Crusades

 

Archaeologists in Israel Unearth Only Known Crusader Encampment

Frankish soldiers camped at the site before the 1187 Battle of Hattin, which ended in a decisive victory for Muslim sultan Saladin

David Kindy

Daily Correspondent

October 19, 2021 3:24 p.m.

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A Crusader coin found at the excavation site bears the name of Baldwin III, who served as king of Jerusalem from 1143 to 1163. Clara Amit / Israel Antiquities Authority

On the eve of combat, Frankish Crusader knights broke camp near a spring in what is now Israel before moving into position to meet the Muslim armies of Saladin. The next day, July 4, 1187, the legendary sultan’s soldiers crushed these men and their European allies at the Battle of Hattin, paving the way for the end of Christian occupation of the Holy Land—and the eventual outbreak of the Third Crusade in 1189.

Now, archaeologists say they’ve located remnants of that Crusader camp—the first of its kind ever unearthed in the Middle East. As the Jerusalem Post’s Rossella Tercatin reports, the researchers also found a trove of artifacts that shows how Christian armies lived while they were in the field.

Published in the book Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century, the new findings shed light on the medieval encampment, which was discovered at the Zippori springs in Galilee during expansion of a local highway. Archaeologists Nimrod Getzov and Ianir Milevski of the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) conducted the excavation with assistance from Rafael Lewis, an archaeologist at the University of Haifa.

....

I loved history in high school. One of my teachers said, Look at the word, 'history.'

His story.

And sure, men indeed have made much of our history.

FINALLY FINALLY I am reading a good book. Sat out on Scott's porch reading LITTLE AND OFTEN by Trent Preszler. We follow his troubled relationship with his father. I am 40 pages in. 

While getting ready to go home I heard voices. School kids arriving home, cutting thru Scott and my yard.

Trent, born in 1977. 

Everyone is coming home now

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PO Box 98204

Washington, DC 20090-8204 USA

Jus put a $20 donation in the mailbox. 

Returned every single book to the Upper Moreland Library and checked out many more.

Before I left I made three scrambled eggs with ketchup, a favorite of Jackie Onassis. 

All he talked about, she said, was Money. 

...

The first book I wanna start reading is...

I am dipping my hand in the lovely bag with print of watermelon slices, hand made by a friend of Sarah's

LITTLE AND OFTEN: A Memoir by Trent Preszler

Dunno who the guy is on the right.

...

Huntingdon Dales is the development I live in.

Received an ad from them today showing all the BIG SALES they have made.

...

Do YOU have a plan? Perhaps we can discuss that at 7 pm when we zoon.

I try to look nice when we zoom. I am wearing a shirt with TREES on it I bought on a day trip to NYC. 

Am wearing long lavendar shorts I bought at Macy's and my great beige shoes from Flaherty's.

My hip is killing me from carrying all those books into the house.

This is a YA book, young adult. I read the first few pages and if they are good, I check out the book.

You know, I could write a novel about Gloria, who was in jr high with us 

She had polio and walked with a limp.

Finally they discovered the Salk and the Sabin vaccines. 

When people went swimming in the summer, they seemed to get polio.

That's it for now,

Nancy Guenst to the rescue

 PROBLEM  In the mail I received a notice to get a new PHOTO ID for my PA driver's license. Due to my kidney transplant in 2011 I am at big risk for  Covid 19.

Received a phone call from Nancy Guenst of the PA House of Reps. She is just finishing out her first term and loves the work and her many successes.

Nancy - You will need a printer.  Do you have one at home? Yes, it is upstairs. 

 

Nancy Guenst (She/Her/Hers) Pennsylvania House of Representatives Member – 152nd District   Email: NGuenst@pahouse.net Phone: 717-210-8679   19 S. York Road, Hatboro, PA 19040 101A East Wing, Harrisburg, PA 17120 PAHouse.com/Guenst

 

 So the PA Department of Motor Vehicles had made a mistake.

My Driver's License expires in 2025. I do not need to travel there.

I printed out the necessary paperwork and put it in my glove compartment. The glove compartment does not work properly so I kept slamming it until it did work.

But - and yes there is always a but - I did not see my all important GLUCOSE TABS, which are all over my house just in case.

Just in case.

I am heartened that I still have feeling in my feet. All 11 toes!!!

Nancy was wearing comfortable shoes and I showed her mine. Ours looked quite similar. 

Told her to check Faherty's in Southampton.

And now a poem:

HALLOWEEN

We have so many children on our street

What shall I give them that's healthy to eat?

Arugala? 

Acorns that fall off the oak trees?

A hot cup of Trader Joe's Cinnamon Tea?

Mommy, where are you when I need an answer?

Max's favorite are Reese Cups.

So be it.

Half for the trick or treaters

And half for me. 

Important news for WG-Horsham residents

 UPPER MORELAND, PA — Fencing has been erected around a former township school building that is being prepared for demolition as local officials announced they had purchased the property.

Upper Moreland Township commissioners recently announced that the township had bought the Woodlawn School Building for $750,000, while at the same time approving the purchase of a tax exempt bond, or bonds, to find the improvements to the property, according to a social media post announcing the move.

The post by Upper Moreland Ward 1 Commissioner Nick Scull was shared by community members on a Facebook page for neighboring Horsham Township. It was shared just last week, but the original post appeared to be from late September, as Scull said settlement on the property had been scheduled for Sept. 30.

In the shared post, Scull stated that the former Woodlawn School building would be demolished and that the property would be regraded and have a grassy surface restored.

Scull said the bonds that were approved would be repaid during a 30-year period, which would raise township taxes by about $13 to $15 per household.

WHY, wondered Ruth Z Deming, would the taxes be raised? 

Her mother wondered the same thing.

Her mother wondered the same thing!

General Colin Powell dead of complications of COVID-19

 Colin Powell, the first Black U.S. Secretary of State, has died from complications of COVID-19, his family announced on Monday. He was 84.

General Colin L. Powell, former U.S. Secretary of State and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, passed away this morning due to complications from Covid 19," a statement on the Powell family wrote in a statement on his Facebook page, noting that "he was fully vaccinated."

Continued the statement, "We want to thank the medical staff at Walter Reed National Medical Center for their caring treatment. We have lost a remarkable and loving husband, father, grandfather and a great American."

Powell served in former President George W. Bush's Cabinet from 2001 to 2005. Prior to his White House tenure, Powell — a four-star general — was the 12th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Colin Powell

Bachrach/Getty Images Colin Powell

A New York native, Powell joined the City College of New York's Army ROTC program and was commissioned as an Army second lieutenant when he graduated in 1958. He served 35 years in the Army, receiving the Purple Heart, Defense Distinguished Service Medal, and the Legion of Merit, among other honors.

Powell also served under President Ronald Reagan as National Security Advisor from 1987 to 1989 before transitioning to Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff — making him the first Black person to hold the position.

He is survived by his wife, Alma Johnson Powell, and their three children, as well as grandchildren.

Former President Bush issued a statement on Powell's death early Monday, writing, "Laura and I are deeply saddened by the death of Colin Powell."

- From Yahoo.com