CHESAPEAKE PRICELESS Volume XXIII Issue 8 September 2020

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Serves and Celebrates the Chesapeake Bay Region and its People, Past, Present and Future 2 September 2020

Editor, Publisher, Chief The mission of Chesapeake Style Cook & Bottle Washer is to serve and celebrate the Fast Times on the Rivers Janet Abbott Fast Chesapeake Bay Region and its My daughter, who lives in Arizona , has developed an exercise Writers & Photographers people, past, present and future. routine for her 86 y/o father. She has choreographed a chair dancing Corinne Anthony, Cindy Letters to the editor are welcome. routine, and she works with him every week, to help keep him active. Balderson, Mary Beane, Mari For a number of years my friend Sandy and I swam every week, The editor reserves the right to Bonomi, Carol J. Bova, Deborah edit all submissions for clarity, first in Tappahannock at River Fitness, until the pool roof fell Butler, Dr. Jane Park Cutler, lousy spelling or any other in and later the pool was buried. Then we went to Irvington to Ellen Dugan, Ilona Duncan, Ann Westminster Canterbury and swam—usually 1/2 mile or more Eichenmuller, Eric Eichenmuller, reason that strikes her fancy. each week. Until the virus and lockdown stopped that. Needless Jay Fleming, RuthE Forrest, Chesapeake Style is a priceless to say it is difficult to maintain a decent exercise routine now. Sandra Fykes, Bill Graves, Martha magazine published eight times a So taking a page from my daughter's book, I invited Sandy to come over M. Hall, Torrence Harman, year by Chesapeake Bay Marketing. last Saturday to do some chair dancing. She brought me a series of exercise Melissa Haydon, Wendy Hyde, For delivery for one year, please routines, which I promptly discarded. I had downloaded Pharrell Williams Spike Knuth, Darleen Nichols, send your name, mailing Happy and Bruno Mars Uptown Funk. We had a ball, chair dancing. Michael Norvell, Kenny Park, address and a check or money Tyler Sanders, Gloria J. Savage, The night before I had watched and recorded Great Performances: order, for $24 for postage and Chelly Scala, Gerhard Straub, Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2019 Conducted by handling, to the address below. Ad Sales, Distribution Gustavo Dudamel on PBS. Renowned pianist Yuja Wang joined the Chesapeake Style orchestra for George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and performed Carol J. Bova, Susan Christopher, P. O. Box 802 Chopin’s Waltz in C Sharp Minor, op. 64 #2 for an encore. Willis Croxton, Bill Graves, Warsaw, VA 22572 Gustavo Dudamel, just completed his 10th season as the Florine Headley, Joanne Hunter, 804-333-0628 musical and artistic director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Tracy Lanum, Tyler Sanders, Nancy Shelley, Marie Stone Yuja Wang, critically acclaimed Beijing-born pianist featured [email protected] as an artist-in-residence at three world-famous venues: Carnegie Proofreader www.chesapeakestyle.com Hall, the Wiener Konzerthaus, and the Luxembourg Philharmonie; Marie Stone The opinions expressed in named Musical America’s Artist of the Year in 2017. Ad Composition, Chesapeake Style are those As Sandy and I watched these gifted and talented Graphics, Layout of contributing writers and musicians, we were both struck by their expressions. It was Janet Abbott Fast, Julie do not necessarily reflect the astonishing to watch Yuja Wang—whose outfit created a Stanley, graphics designer opinion of Chesapeake Style or dramatic look. She was clearly flirting with the music. its advertisers. Reproduction in Animated conductor, Gustavo Dudamel enjoyed every minute. whole or in part of any material The narrator observed that he had no musical scores, he conducted in this publication without from memory—realize this means he memorized every part of every permission is strictly prohibited. orchestra members’ music. For one piece he did not use the baton, which ©2007-2020 All rights reserved created a gorgeous movement of his hands at the end of the piece. Chesapeake Style Watching their expressions was priceless. Chesapeake Bay Marketing. Recently I wrote that music feeds your soul. For me, clearly, a variety of music feeds my soul. I hope you know or will find, what feeds yours. About the cover~ Google them to see the entire performance. Sunset silhouettes a group was an exciting photographic of White Ibis roosting on an journey that would eventually lead abandoned duck blind near a him to his career as a professional nesting rookery of 1000+ pairs of photographer. At the age of 31, Jay wading birds. Jay Fleming photo. has an extensive portfolio that is Jay discovered his passion in sure to impress. Jay’s first book, photography upon inheriting his Working the Water - a photographic father, former National Geographic narrative of the Chesapeake Bay photographer, Kevin, hand-me- seafood industry, is in its third down Nikon film camera at the age printing and his second book, of 13. Jay immediately developed an Island Life, is expected to be affinity to looking at life through the released in the fall of 2021. lens of his camera and what ensued September 2020 3 Thank You For The Music By Dr Jane Park Cutler you? Lifts your spirits? or months Is it a favorite hymn or now, life has some ‘golden oldie?” slowed way, Classic music or rock way down: ’n roll? Instrumental no summer or vocal? Even as you guests,F no road or plane watch a movie, shift your trips, no friends over for attention to the music dinner, no ‘date nights’ to hear the mood it sets. with dinner and a movie. John Williams composed Doctors and therapists some of the most popular have noted that stress, musical scores in anxiety and depression cinematic history, Jaws, have increased and sleeping Star Wars, Home Alone, patterns changed, with some of the Harry Potter people all over the world series to name but a complaining of nightmares. few. Thanks to the radio, How are we to cope? various streaming services MUSIC! Some 400 years and YouTube, music can ago Shakespeare noted be just a click away. “music can raze out the I close by thanking written troubles of the Abba for this one:. brain.” As a therapist, I https://www.youtube. vacation from our troubled brains. a newlywed was when I surprised always had soothing instrumental com/watch?v=-EVFYfVDXH8 People of all ages must my husband and his parents music playing in the background. So I say remember some of Elvis’s songs with hard-to-come-by tickets to Recently I listened to a young Thank you for the music, whether it is Love Me Tender, Blue a recital by the renown pianist woman suffering from Tourette the songs I'm singing Suede Shoes or one of the hymns he Vladimir Horowitz at Constitution syndrome share how music reduced Thanks for all the joy they're bringing loved to sing. What’s your favorite? Hall. By age twenty, Horowitz was her involuntary movements. Who can live without it? Surely anyone who was a teenager acclaimed in his homeland Russia. https://www.ted.com/speakers/ I ask in all honesty in the 60’s remembers when Ed His European and American tours esha_alwani That’s not entirely What would life be? Sullivan introduced The Beatles. I were spectacularly successful. unexpected as music stimulates Without a song or a can still hear I Wanna Hold Your Yet, at age 50 he withdrew from more parts of the brain than any dance, what are we? Hand, and She Loves You over the public concerts, fearing that he other human function. It certainly So I say thank you for the music screams of the girls in the audience. was not good enough. For twelve changed this woman’s life, as it did For giving it to me. It’s 1964 all over again, and yes, in a years Horowitz gave no concerts. for Gaby Gifford who said “music Dr Jane Park Cutler is a retired heartbeat, I’m right back there. It’s That made this recital even more composed me.” How lovely is that! social worker living in Deltaville fun to revisit them on https://www. precious, never to be forgotten in The very popular Aretha Franklin with her husband Dr Gordon youtube.com/watch?v=jenWdylTtzs my home. As we step out on our spoke about music transporting us B Cutler, Jr. Throughout her and https://www.youtube. own trips down memory lane, when back to the exact moment when we career she was concerned about com/watch?v=p3WnjKjlKTg. have we been overcome by doubts had certain experiences. During the wellbeing, physical and And, yeah, yeah, yeah, you or other sorrows and turned to these quiet times, trips down emotional, of her clients, students know you should be glad! music to mend our broken hearts? memory lane recalling music may and society in general. May A wonderful memory of mine as What inspires you? Comforts be just the thing we need to take a you find some comfort here. 4 September 2020 Style Spotlight~The Bay School~Sharing Art and Artists The state wide exhibition to go kits. The Afterschool Program Across Mathews will be partly had to be done online because will resume, but in a smaller scale. online and partly in person. of the difficulty in getting the Classes are continuing with One current plan is for Soup art to the gallery this year and much smaller class sizes of about six Sales at the Westville Christian ran from July 25 – August 25. people. Some techniques are harder Church next door to the Bay School If you missed the exhibition, or than others to show in videos or with soup in to go containers. The want to see it again, the entire Art online presentations and sound can Virginia Oyster Trail is planning Speaks Exhibition is online. The be challenging, so the Bay School’s a new campaign, and the Bay program, with images of all the current goal is figuring out how to School will be joining in with oyster artworks and ribbons shown with do more online and hybrid classes. related activities in November. the winning pieces, is available You can sign up and pay on the Although there is not as much to download in a low website for local traffic as there used to be, resolution pdf, or it each month’s Pam said that she is seeing a lot of can be picked up in the classes. in person visitors from the Farmers gallery. The variety and Last year’s Market or people looking to move quality of the works Artist of away from the cities. The gallery is a are outstanding! the Month natural draw for them and exposes By Carol J. Bova Juror and judge, is ongoing the artwork to a new audience. he Bay School Nicole M. Santiago is with Jennifer Pam said, “The Bay School is still Community Art featured in an online Schroeder here, still open, still connecting Center responded video sharing comments conducting people with art and artists.” Drop to the challenges of about her experience live interviews in when you’re in town or visit the pandemic with judging the exhibition. on Facebook them online and see for yourself! theT well known resilience of this She praised the entries almost every The Bay School Community Art region. Executive Director Pam as “high caliber and Tuesday. The Center is open Monday through Doss said, “It made us come up really impressive.” interviews have Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 279 with new ways to promote things Looking at the images included the Main Street, Mathews 23109. Their by thinking outside the box.” bears out her statement. artist walking phone number is 804-725-1278. An emergency grant from the With schools closed, through the The website is www.bayschool- Mathews Community Foundation and throughout the summer, gallery or in their studio to talk arts.com/ and you can email them and a PPP loan from Chesapeake Virginia Coyle and Davida Hall about their art. For example, Karen at [email protected]. Bank allowed the Bay School to led the effort to create the “Art Podd did a two part interview Photos Courtesy The Bay School. keep the staff employed during the to Go” program of take home at The Poddery on July 28th. Whimsical Birds Paper Maché. T, two months they had to be closed art kits. The kits with materials It is fascinating to learn about l Gracie Hellebrandt, l, Cameron to the public. Virginia’s Phase 3 needed are available for free how she creates her pottery as Wilson and Haley Jacobs, below. has let them resume some of their outside the Bay School classroom. she walks through the studio former in person activities, but with For families who had enough and describes the steps and smaller groups and mandatory supplies at home, instructions the equipment. All the artist masks. The staff’s creative use of the for kits were given online. interview videos can be viewed internet added new ways to share Bay School asked for pictures of on the Bay School’s Facebook art and artists with the community. the finished work or for families to and YouTube channels, linked The entire gallery is now online post them directly on the Facebook from the Bay School website. on the Bay School Facebook page page. They are definitely worth Fundraising will be a little and website, and artwork is selling checking out. The Art to Go Program different this year. The Bay both online and in person. Bay will continue until Mathews schools School will plan online auctions School has kept up with their resume full time, in person. as well as limited in person regular exhibition schedule in the Summer art camps have been a events. In December, the Empty gallery except for the Art Speaks combination of in classroom and Bowls fundraiser for Hands Eighth Annual Juried Exhibition. September 2020 5 Spike’s Wildlife Almanac~Yellow-Rumped Warbler and seeds when no insects are winter is a harsh, metallic, “tchup!” At this time of the year available, and it can live in the Yellow-rumps breed across they commonly flock up with shrubs and hedgerows of open the northern tier of states from chickadees, titmice, juncos and country as well as in woodlands. New England to northern white-throated sparrows when In Virginia, it is found in large Minnesota, and up into Canada. found inland in the brushy numbers along coastal and the The nest, built mainly in conifers, hedgerows and woodlands edges. Eastern Shore in the wax myrtle, is constructed with small twigs, Original art by Carl “Spike” Knuth. bayberry, sea oats, and wild grasses, plant fibers, and hair, and cherry stands, during the cold lined with feathers. Four or five months. It will often "dilly-dally" eggs hatch in about two weeks. in its northern breeding grounds The young are normally fledged well into the cold weather before by the end of June and by August moving south, and begins to show they are in their plumage. up in Virginia enforce in October. They prefer insects, which Its yellow rump patch best they catch in flycatcher fashion. identifies the yellow-rumped In addition to gnats, flies and warbler. Its spring plumage other flying insects, it also eats is more colorful, showing a grubs, caterpillars, small beetles, yellow crown patch and a borers, and ants. When insects yellow patch on either side are scarce, particularly in winter, By Spike Knuth of its breast. Its bluish-gray they turn to the berries of cedar, he yellow-rumped streaked upper parts of spring poison ivy, bayberry, wax myrtle warbler, identified become grayish-brown in winter. and other small wild fruits. in older bird books Its breast and side are streaked. as the myrtle In spring, they are the earliest warbler, and of migrating warbler, moving 1827 W. Main St., Richmond VA 23220 affectionatelyT called "butter- north as early as late February. At [email protected] butts" by birdwatchers, winters this time they may snack at your 804-337-0977 over much of the southern suet feeder, or on small seeds or portion of eastern United States, seed remnants dropped by other and in Virginia especially along birds. 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We can’t some of the beautifully think of a better place to do our crafted items in the Heritage Christmas shopping because the Arts Center Gift Shoppe. funds that are collected go right You can visit the following into the foundation to maintain guilds and watch them work and grow the building and events. Blacksmithing, the Spinners The artisans and crafters and Weavers, Quilters (this is seldom make any money except the largest with 65 members), to replenish supplies. Again, these Woodworking and Culinary. are all volunteers. What a huge Also there is a large undertaking to have 100% made number of crafters who up of people who give their time work there and sell their free of charge so this magnificent By M. Tyler Sanders and creations in the gift shop. building and culture of the times Darleen R. Nichols The Culinary Guild prepares all will continue to thrive. Bring your reasure has been of the delicious offerings served pets to the Market on Saturday, discovered right here in the little café in the hotel. For September 26 where a Blessing in the Northern Neck example, last week they offered of the Animals will be offered. Northumberland two soups, two special salads, five Who runs this enterprise on a day to be exact and if different artisan breads and four must be saved. And save it they did to day basis? The director is Corinne youT will follow directions below desserts. And for those counting with an organization now called Becker who is employed part time you too can hit the mother lode! their pennies, the most expensive Rice’s Hotel/Hughlett’s Tavern and volunteers the remainder of Go East 18.8 miles from Warsaw; item on that menu was $8. Foundation, Inc. The original five her day. Volunteer Judy Mooers 19 miles SE from Kilmarnock; 28 The Gift Shop is unbelievable. couples and everyone they could is the manager of the Heritage miles SE from Montross; 47 miles There you can appreciate the round up helped to rebuild this Art Center. All donations to the South from Colonial Beach and 68 beautiful jewelry, linens, wood structure. They were all volunteers. foundation are tax deductible. miles SW from Mechanicsville. items, quilts and all types of woven If you have ever tried to do Where are you? If you said items. You will see some of the minor work on your house Heathsville you’re 100% correct. most unusual art work you can you can imagine what an And what’s the treasure there? find anywhere. The shop is just undertaking this was and what If you said the Rice’s Hotel/ brimming with opportunities a debt of gratitude is owed Hughlett’s Tavern you’re 100% to have beautiful, one of kind them for saving this treasure. right again. Here you will find treasures at beggar’s prices. Circle the third Saturday of treasures that can’t be duplicated And before I move on I must each month on your calendar anywhere else. Why not? Because point out a very, very important Heathsville Farmer’s Market they are designed and crafted by fact. All of these people, every at historic Rice’s Hotel/ the Tavern’s guilds of artisans. single one of them is a volunteer. Hughlett’s Tavern from 9 Looking for something unique But where, you might ask, did a.m. to 1 p.m. This is not just an Visit the website at for yourself or a gift? This is the they get this old place? Let’s event, this is a destination. Enjoy rhhtfoundationinc.org. For more place where you can find that take a look at some history. hot glazed donuts in the Tavern information. Call RHHT 804-580- one of a kind item for that one of The structure itself was built Café if you’re lucky enough to 3377. The Gift Shoppe and café are a kind person. Note: a guild is an in stages beginning in the late arrive before they’re all gone. open Thurs. - Sat., 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. association of artisans or merchants 1700’s right up until today when Local produce and unique Darleen Nichols and Tyler Sanders who oversee the practice their craft/ work is still going on. The last crafts are on display for purchase. photos. RHHT photo courtesy RHHT. trade in a particular area. There family member who owned Be sure to visit the Heritage Arts are five guilds and a large group of the property donated it to the Center Gift Shoppe and be amazed September 2020 7 Where’s My Napkin? By Ellen Dugan Others threw them around as part like a super giant whisk that were the big winners, although of a game. Still others used was twice the size of a man and it’s possible there was a place for them as handkerchiefs. involved an operator from within water and oxen as well. Some of his Many found them perfect who was constantly in danger of innovations just haven’t survived. for wrapping food in and being whisked into the sauce. Sadly, Leonardo did not live using as a doggy bag. Or a nut crushing machine that long enough to see the universal When the meal was involved a team of three horses to and even elegant acceptance of over and the last guest had operate it. And, since power sources cloth napkins, first by the Italians, departed the dining room, were always frustrating, there was and later by the French Court in Leonardo found that the also a planned kitchen gadget the 1600s. By this time napkin table’s cloth was as dirty that would be operated by bees. folding had become an elaborate as ever. Disappointed, Without the incredible benefit art form in itself, and the little fabric he wrote that his latest of electricity, the vexing question squares had crossed an ocean. hen you place invention “would never take on.” of “But how shall I work them?” When they arrived in America a napkin on While he initially despaired of was always front and center in the form of linen, they were your lap, you the cloth napkin ever successfully when Leonardo considered said to be more valuable than don’t normally taking its place among the giants new inventions. His choices furniture—so valuable that George think of of culinary inventions, Leonardo as recorded in his Notebooks Washington’s great grandfather LeonardoW da Vinci, but it’s okay if continued to explore and study included “By wind or by water? proudly noted that he owned ten. you do. Some experts think that every technical aspect of food By cogs and by cranks?” or “By he invented these handy additions and its processing: unloading, oxen or peasant-power?” to our table etiquette. Certainly, transporting, storing, preserving, And as far as we know it looks as as a noted wedding planner, he transforming, making meals, and if cogs, cranks, and peasant power introduced them to the household eliminating waste. Much like today’s of his employer, the Duke of Milan. efficiency managers, his goal in After the Duke insisted on the kitchen was to “execute in a “tethering beribboned rabbits to faster manner with less effort.” the chairs of his table guests so To these ends he invented that they could wipe their grease the corkscrew, garlic crusher, ridden hands on the beast’s backs” pepper grinder, spit roaster, Carolyn S. Packett Leonardo is said to have stepped and the precursor to our 804-333-4933 or 804-761-8356 in with a kinder and more humane present day blender. 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Groovin’ in the Park come for a visit to the National Register of Historic Places? is a “bring your own lawn chair, Holly Point Nature The Deltaville Maritime Museum cooler and picnic” event. Spacing Park. It’s a great place & Holly Point Nature Park own lines are marked on the concert to bring children the F. D. Crockett, a 62.8 foot nine grounds and masks are required. and grandchildren, log bottom buyboat which is on Tickets must be purchased in or just come for both the National Register and advance on the website, or at a stroll along the the Virginia Landmarks By Carol Bova nature trails. Register. The Virginia on’t be deterred The park is the grounds and Department of Historic by Google setting for the museum, and Board Resources says, “It was announcements member and Events director Bill constructed in 1924, that the Holly Powell said, “We’re very proud of and is one of only two Point Nature Park our nature park. The Children’s large log deck boats still is closed.D It’s open every day and Garden has tunnels children can in existence that was crawl through and see built specifically for an all kinds of plantings internal combustion and a miniature engine. It is also the only greenhouse. We have one with its original outdoor exhibits log bottom.” You can with signage, and a read more details about the F.D. Nauti-nell's in Deltaville. Children great waterfront with Crockett at www.deltavillemuseum. under 12 are free. a natural shoreline com/f-d-crockett. The Maritime Park follows Father and Son Get It Done! that can be viewed The Museum’s Pierwalk on Mill all Covid guidance. from the pier.” Creek is used not only to display Holly Point Nature Park is at SELL SERVICE INSTALL The Children’s historic boats but it also allows 287 Jackson Creek Road, near the Generator Install Garden plants include visitors to access our Park by water intersection of VA-33 and Route 660. 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It’s Located across from Bill Hudgins, Rt. 17 that offer a place to relax nice to see all the local people September 2020 9 Books in Style~Beyond the Wall This nonfiction book, initially Flores, Venezuela's worst carcel. in Caracas, and Attention Must be printed through a 2000 Puffin In early 1996, the government Paid. Yet there is also Lewis Carroll Foundation grant, explores a blew it up, after Pope John Paul humor, in The Mad Hatter's Dinner. country with Napoleonic law visited there and was told he was What does this book have to —guilty until proven innocent— blessing prisoners when in fact they do with us? Gail addresses that unequal and unfair administration were guards. That is only one of question in the foreword. She of that law, and a legal-penal the captivating chapters in Beyond quotes poet Theodore Roethke: system of pay and you go. In the Wall. And it is a memorable “In a dark time, the eye begins fourteen interrelated real life cast of characters that Gail meets. to see.” And she asks how Lady stories, Gail Kenna unveils They include a medical doctor Justice should be depicted corruption that helps to explain imprisoned for eight years and in our country today? Does Venezuela's social, economic, found innocent twice, a mysterious Venezuela's political and judicial and political morass today. Israeli-American, a feisty nun who corruption have something to Beyond the Wall emerged from a makes it impossible for Gail to say to us in 2020? Beyond the stack of folders two feet high, which quit her prison work, an engineer Wall convinced me that it does. Gail took with her when she and her who communicates with Gail The book is available through family left Caracas. Later she began through email until his later death Amazon, Barnes and Noble. It can teaching at American University in in Arizona, two contrasting Consul be ordered from Kilmarnock's Reviewed by Ilona Duncan D.C. Yet her four-year experience Generals, and the imprisoned Book Nook or Gail's LLC, Crosshill n Gail Kenna's foreword in Venezuelan prisons haunted attorney, Ted, who is addressed in Creek Publications, through her to Beyond the Wall, she her, as did John Ruskin's words, both the prologue and epilogue of website: www.gailwilsonkenna.com describes the life-size used in the book: “Human actions Beyond the Wall. Three deaths of painting of Lady Justice must be guided not by interest but prisoners are described: in Fellini in the lawyer's room of by justice.” After moving to Bogotá La IPlanta, a Venezuelan prison. in 1999 with her husband, Gail Lady J. had unbalanced scales: felt compelled to tell the story of a one with gold, the other empty, group of U.S. prisoners who called her blindfold covering only one themselves The Dirty Dozen. eye, her sword missing. The time Lady Justice on the cover of was July 1995, Gail's last day in Beyond the Wall is startling. But Caracas after four years there. the title page in gray and white is Often, she had read Abe Lincoln's unsettling: a wall, a row of white words in Spanish on that same wall. buildings, and windows as black Translated they said: "If you cannot squares in an indistinct sky. be an honorable lawyer, then be The chapter, A Bang Without a honorable and not a lawyer." 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For Deborah Edgar, however, and her home in Lancaster County. for two or three years.” the Corona virus has had an The river life is nothing new to “It’s an ill wind that blows no unexpected effect on her ability Deborah, as her longstanding good,” I commented, and Deborah to contribute to the community love for the Chesapeake Bay area agreed. “This uptick in the housing she calls home, and Zoom has started when she was a child. market is having a positive effect been a plus for her business. “My family spent a lot of time at on other services in the area. Deborah and I conducted the Grey’s Point campground,” she Increased housing transactions our interview via Zoom, which laughed, “and since I’m a Pisces, means an increase in the need for Deborah is quite used to. “I water has always been a part of my contractors, plumbers, electricians, am a member of the Business life. I have been in real estate for building suppliers—jobs! Networking International Group, 17 years, and living in Lancaster An increase in homeowners and we meet via Zoom once a has allowed me to steadily grow means an increase in a county’s week, and I also have weekly my presence in the Northern revenue base, and newcomers meetings on Zoom with the other Neck and Middle Peninsula.” to the area are going to want By Martha M. Hall agents that are in my brokerage. “How is this virus affecting more stores, restaurants, and OVID-19 has created “It has really been a help to me business?” I asked, expecting entertainment options. Just look issues for many, in my business, and has enabled a different answer from what at the ways that several towns are including how to me to keep my finger on the pulse I got. “The housing market in rebuilding, taking advantage of continue conducting of things as we move through this the Northern Neck and Middle revitalization grants. Those efforts business that difficult period,” Deborah told Peninsula is greatly improving!” will bring more employment involves personal contact. Many C me. “It’s proven to be an efficient Deborah exclaimed. “We are really opportunities and resources to this businesses dependent on the public way to get work done, and has seeing a recovery in this area.” entire area, and increase property for their bottom line have radically actually given us more flexibility. I was flabbergasted. “Why?” I values.” One of the critical needs in changed the way they meet the In any real estate transaction, questioned. Deborah was ready this area, I pointed out, is reliable, needs of those who are literally their there are about 20 people who are with the answer, and for the first fast Internet service, and Deborah ‘bread and butter.’ Many workers involved in finalizing a sale, and time since the virus lockdown in offered some hope in that area, have fallen into the category of March 2020, I felt a little hope. too: “The more people who work “While COVID-19 has created a from home, the more critical FABULOUS lot of issues for people,” Deborah Internet coverage will become, FALL APPAREL said, “it has changed some of and providers will have to move the ways we deal with things. quickly to meet the demand. ARRIVING For example, many employers Better Internet coverage means EVERY DAY! are now encouraging their staff more business for the area.” to work from home, indefinitely. A forecaster of positive growth That changes the need to be close for an area she knows and loves, to the office, and more and more Deborah is certainly a breath employed people are selling their of fresh air in the current fog of Ladies Apparel, Casual Cruise homes in the cities and moving to virus-fueled fear and doubt. a rural, waterfront community. Call Deborah at 804-337-0977 & Special Occasion. They say, ‘If I can work from or at deborah@deborahedgar. home, then I can live anywhere com. Check out her website www. I want, and I want to live near deborahedgar.com. the water and in a more relaxed Photo courtesy Deborah Edgar. Hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11-4 September 2020 11 Body Mind Musings By RuthE Forrest BCTMB or muscle testing to illustrate this profound realizations how this the body mind, bringing it to o you know beautifully. Asking the body’s experience added to your life conscious awareness for release that emotions innate superconscious intelligence skills. Your pain dissolves. You and healing. Talk therapists guide can get stuck in directly, the practitioner garners feel lighter, more joyous. conversation to a doorway into your body? Your knowledge of the body’s needs. The name Complimentary the underlying emotional trauma body is a living This is done by testing muscular Alternative Medicine was coined to help reveal and heal emotional recordD of your every experience. response to yes/no questions to incorporate these concepts reactions to life events. Bodywork Traumatic events happening when targeted specifically to the dis-ease into the Allopathic Healthcare therapists facilitate innate healing you’re not emotionally ready to being experienced. Sometimes System. But CAM therapies systems in the body, allowing handle them get stored in your symptoms are released immediately aren’t new, many are revived and the mind to flow into a zone body’s tissues for later processing. with conscious recognition of the revised ancient techniques. New of deeper awareness. Options They can cause real pains. connection of past experiences combinations of old modalities abound for the earnest seeker. Physicians recognize the body to current pain. Some people have been trademarked by intuitive Have a chronic body issue that’s mind connection in ‘psycho need to process information for therapists, increasing potential not being resolved through any somatic’ illnesses. Great thought a while before they are able to in the innate healing ability with other means? I suggest exploring leaders have written extensively finally let go of emotional issues which we are all imbued. the alternative path. You may find about the placebo/nocebo effect. contributing to their pain. Movement therapists utilize free your body is craving attention to a The strength of the body mind For example, you wake up with flowing spontaneous movement subconscious emotion that’s stuck connection in creation, remission leg pain that manifested with no to release trapped emotions from in your tissues awaiting release if and spontaneous healing of obvious injury. You just woke up the body mind. Hypnotherapists you are ready to hear its message. disease is fully documented. one day and your leg was talking utilize intuitive questioning and Make your body mind connection The mind routinely LIES to us. to you louder than you’d like. positive affirmation to access at Spa 2 U 804-453-5367. Remember when you thought you Under hypnotherapy, you recall this deeper understanding in could still do that millionth push traumatic events in your past when up, or weed that entire flower you felt like you “didn’t have a leg bed? I call it IMS, in my mind to stand on” and “powerless to Take Time to Enjoy Life & Rest Assured. syndrome. I think I can do that, but move forward.” A recent incident Review your coverage. Manage what my body reminds me otherwise. left you feeling the same way. you can. Cover what you can't. The body NEVER LIES! You may With conscious recognition of Then relax and savor the good times. stuff your emotions for a time, but this connection you immediately eventually your body will remind release the old hurt. You’re you that there’s work to be done. far enough removed from the Once the body is acknowledged trauma, and feeling strong the pain is relinquished. enough to forgive. Suddenly, the An Emotion Code therapist pain in your leg has diminished. uses the science of kinesiology, Afterwards, you continue making

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Still, a lot of it Willow Stitch does allow I had to figure out on my own.” customers to provide their own Willow Stitch also has a booth in By Mari Bonomi of Shelley’s building, facing the items to be embroidered, within Acme Antiques in Tappahannock, hen she historic Saddlery building. She limits, though many commercial on the third floor. “We offer finished was living says she’s looking forward to that. embroiderers do not. But Shelley product there,” Shelley said. in Northern When asked what brought her prefers to provide the items. As for so many small businesses, Virginia, to Warsaw from Northern Virginia, The business name came from the corona-virus has made this Shelley Pierson Shelley Shelley’s love for the willow year challenging, Shelley said. tookW a job with a commercial said, “Like tree. She’s planted several She plans to add more equipment embroidery firm and discovered all other around her home and honors eventually, but those plans are it was “intriguing and fun.” Northern the many references to willows on hold because they are missing When she returned to Warsaw, Virginians in the Bible. Stitch of course a lot of their usual customers. she discovered no one in the area who wind refers to what she does. Shelley works with her offered commercial embroidery up at the Willow Stitch began with mother Cissie. “I’m here every services for businesses, and Rivah, my a single-head embroidery day,” Cissie said. “Shelley is realized she’d found her niche parents machine, but added a four-head usually up front while I’m in and created Willow Stitch. bought machine. That machine can do a the back with the machines.” In 2009, while working at Farm a river complete embroidery design on Shelley said Cissie “has done a Bureau Insurance selling health house in four shirts or hats lot getting me going insurance, Shelley began doing Hague. or caps or bags at a and keeping me commercial embroidery in her I spent time. It’s computer- going. She’s a lot home. “My mom, Cissie Green, lots of operated. “It really more than backup.” helped me get started,” Shelley said. time here makes completing a Also assisting In 2015, Shelley took her first big growing commission easier on a regular basis leap: she moved her business out up.” when it involves is Willow, Cissie’s of her home and into a space in And Shelley’s husband is a born- multi-dozen item beautiful Great Tappahannock. She’d tried to find here who grew up on a dairy farm order,” Shelley said. Pyrenees. “We’re suitable space in Warsaw but could and is still a small-grains farmer “Software makes waiting on a golden not find any at the time. And she working with his family. She has a difference,” Shelley retriever rescue group found a great landlord who helped, no intention of leaving Warsaw. continued. “Hats, for an adoption,” as Shelley said, “get me going.” “My goal with Willow Stitch for instance, need a Shelley said. “We’re In September of 2019, Willow has never been to compete with denser pattern style going to name it Stitch moved home to Warsaw. gift shops. I want to be the one because they’re made Stitch, of course!” “The town is thriving now,” Shelley who is the provider to shops that of stiffer fabric. Good embroidery, Willow Stitch is open Tues- said, “and offers so many business want to offer customized items,” if it’s well done, absolutely requires Fri 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sat, 9 a opportunities. We’re in the center Shelley said. “I serve commercial applying the correct style to each m to noon. They’re at 179 of town, which we really like.” businesses like pool and lawn design and each type of product. Main Street in Warsaw and on The town is going to put a services, school teams—any You have to know the software. It’s Facebook at Willow Stitch LLC. big Warsaw mural on the side business or organization that needs definitely not just pushing buttons.” Mari Bonomi photos. T, l, Willow, Shelley admits that, unlike Shelley Pierson, l,r Cissie.. September 2020 13 Faith Matters~When we ZOOM! cars in the hands of a kid or a dog other unmasked, to feel closer to that has been pent up too long or each other than a prescribed six a fly searching for a place to land. to eight feet social distance rule A second definition describes the requires. It allows us to reach out idea of zooming in on something, and touch one another, so to speak, like the zoom lens on a camera through the air waves, at distances as it shifts from a long shot to of a few or thousands of miles, even a closeup or vice versa. This is though the visual contact may limit probably the idea prompting the ones we want to see boxed into use of zoom as a noun naming a little squares on a computer screen. company whose products have Well, gotta’ go now—get to bed. become an important aspect of Big day tomorrow, lots of zooming. everyday people’s lives since the A zoom in church service at 11 coronavirus hijacked our world. a.m. Wonder if my sister who lives The company known as outside of Staunton will pop in. ZOOM is in the business of video Also, Bob the Crowley cat who likes communications offering products to parade in front of the family that make possible zooming in computer during my homily. to meeting and chat rooms and Then at 2 p.m. a zoom conference workspaces, video webinars, with the prayer and discussion cloud phone systems. Their peer group I am in with eight byline? “We deliver happiness.” other members from four different They are a booming business. time zones on two sides of the Zooming! Businesses do Atlantic. Who could have guessed it. Churches do it. Volunteer a decade ago that this is what organizations do it. Friends do church and community would it, Families do it. Zooming has look like in 2020! But my guess By Torrence Harman run around the cemetery just become such a constant activity is that it is here to stay—church, oom, zoom, zoom! outside the parish house office door. for so many that the idea of zoom community, and the zooming way. The sounds I Just watch his zooming strategy as fatigue has even crept into our The Rev. Torrence Ha remember my son he streaks between gravestones conversation. But zooming has rman is the Priest in charge of making with his little in his path. Winston is part offered us all opportunities to be Farnham Episcopal Church and St. matchbox racing Bassett and part English bulldog, together, to do the business of John’s Episcopal Church in Warsaw. carsZ as he revved them up to speed shortened to bullet by his owner. trying to live life in a connected Sir Winston and the minister down the hall or along the sidewalk Tank is also a good description. way during this pandemic time. setting up for a Zoom clergy at our house when he was little. Watch out if you get in his way! Zooming allows us to see each meeting. Lucy Baker photo. Zooming is the label that Who would have guessed that describes what Sir Winston, our over the past year zoom would THE CORNER COTTAGE parish house dog at St. John’s become a constant word in our WEDDINGS ♥ EVENTS ♥ CELEBRATIONS Crafted for a Lifetime does when he gets revved up and day to day vocabulary? One, races around an imaginary indoor however, that would refer to an Let Us Custom track that involves the church activity required those doing it stained glass office, the pastor’s study and an to exercise little or no physical Save Your Date photo frames adjacent conference room. motion. Googling a definition of menokinroadfarm.com by local crafter. Or when the opportunity arises zoom offers: “to move or travel for an outdoor track, a speed way quickly.” Think of matchbox race cornercottageframeshop.com 2709 Menokin Road 804-693-6722 Warsaw, Va. 22572 804.761.9429 Custom Framing•Fine Art & Photo Restoration 14 September 2020 Did You Exercise? By Gloria J. Savage moved forward. You may have as simple and guess that someone done some brainstorming stretching or read my article in the about what you want to do. walking. Then August issue of Style You may have said, “It's too push, or should I and started an exercise late, I just want to be a couch say force, yourself program or incorporated potato.” Well, I'm here to let to move forward somethingI new into their current you know that it is not too and document regimen. You have had a month to late and every little bit helps. your measured get started or make an addition, Isaac Newton said, “A body actions. but sometimes it takes longer. in motion stays in motion Here are some of As it is said, “Life takes over, and unless acted on by an outside the main benefits situations change.” If you are one force.” We know this as the law of stretching— of those who started or added to of inertia, which means that increases your exercise program, I commend there is a natural tendency for flexibility, you and say, "Congratulations!" your moving body to continue increases range of If you haven't made a new or doing what it is doing. motion, increases extra commitment, you will have When exercising, you don't blood flow to your plenty of other opportunities. even have to move forward; muscles, improves Maybe you didn't ask your doctor you can step or march in posture, helps to about exercising because he or she place. It's still called exercise. heal and prevent has been trying to get you involved Besides, it's nice to have an back pain, relieves in a consistent exercise program for alternative plan in case the stress, and calms some time now, but you have not weather is not favorable. your mind. These I followed are significant my instructions benefits, and added an especially when extension to long learned and researched the birthdays seem my current workout benefits of stretching and know to come twice a year. regimen. I used to that stretching is essential, yet I did What do you have to lose? Think RiverTitle & stretch more and wanted about it. Start with some simple not do a thorough job regularly. & * RiverEscrowTitle , LLC to reintroduce my body It was sort of hit and miss. I have stretching exercises. Stretching Escrow, LLC * to a regular stretching started the class, and I love it. is a slow and deliberate process and balancing routine. with benefits that we can all enjoy. • Residential & Commercial Real Part of getting a routine • Residential & Commercial Real A friend recently asked established requires starting. So, Try it. You can take your time and Estate Closings me to join a small Zoom enjoy the process. You can stretch Estate Closings as I did, and like Nike says, “Just • Real Estate Loan Closings Stretching Class. I had do it.” Get dressed to do something while listening to your favorite music, a book on CD, (now• holding Real closings Estate in WhiteLoan Stone Closings and Warsaw) (now holding closings in White Stone and Warsaw) or a TV program. Please • Title Insurance give it some intentional • Title Insurance thought and see what happens. Let's see what “NavigatingTaking care ofall all of your your Taking care of all your the future holds for you. realreal estate estate closing closing needs.needs.” Gloria J. Savage is a real estate closing needs. writer who lives in Hayes, 804.333.0195 with her husband Wil. 804.333.0195 Gloria J. Savage photo. 219 Main Street ● Warsaw, Va. 22572 130B Court Circle • Warsaw, VA 22572 130B *Courtformerly Circle Historyland • Warsaw, Title & Escrow VA 22572 *formerly Historyland Title & Escrow September 2020 15 LED Lights~What’s Not to Like? been changed over to LEDs Automatic Identification System audio noise, then the LED lights and the power savings while (AIS) receiver. Certainly not good are potentially degrading radio at anchor are just incredible. in a congested traffic area. reception. If not, then things The change over for the So, while this is not a new are likely OK. A variation of navigation lights is on the list. problem, it clearly still exists. If this test which I like better and However, not all LED you have installed LED lights think is more reliable is to tune lights are created equal. For on your vessel, the Coast Guard in to a weak station, like one those of you that have Coast recommends this test: of the weather channels, and Guard inspected commercial 1. Turn off LED light(s). then turn on the lights to see vessels, you know that every if the reception is affected. five years the vessel needs an Manufacturers of marine LED FCC safety inspection of the lights, especially navigation lights, marine radios on board. should be aware of this issue During a recent inspection and hopefully by now most of of a good installation on a well the problems for marine specific maintained vessel, I tuned in to lights have been solved. However, a channel with a weak weather if you want to outfit your boat like station and told the captain to a floating disco with LED light By Gerhard Straub turn on all the lights. He looked strings from the local discount veryone, including at me kind of like I was nuts, but store, or even when planning to me, seems to be when he turned those lights on, the install marine grade LED lights on crazy for LED lights, weather station disappeared! We your vessel for operational needs, and why not? Power then turned the lights on one by one check to see if it affects your radio consumption is and isolated the problem to a new reception. Your radio is a safety onlyE a fraction of an incandescent LED deck light. At least it wasn’t line and it sure would be a bummer bulb, the heat generated is less, caused by the navigation lights! 2. Tune the VHF radio to a quiet if your weak distress call wasn’t and the lifetime of the bulb itself This problem is not new. The channel (e.g. Ch. 13). heard by a nearby vessel because is many times that of an ordinary Coast Guard recognized it back 3. Adjust the VHF radio’s squelch their LED lights were putting bulb —unless the electronics in 2018 and put out a safety alert control until the radio outputs out a better signal than you! in the bulb go belly up. after an incident in a port where audio noise. See you on the water. Around the house, LED bulbs the Coast Guard was not able to 4. Re-adjust the VHF radio’s squelch Gerhard Straub is master of the are great, but on a boat, where contact a ship on the marine VHF control until the audio noise is skipjack Claud W. Somers, which power consumption translates radio. They later discovered that quiet, only slightly above the noise is owned and operated by the directly into battery requirements, the interference was coming from threshold. Reedville Fishermen’s Museum they are really fantastic. On my the vessel’s navigation lights and 5. Turn on the LED light(s). 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Hall The 1791 devised an elaborate plan to he Northern Neck Museum is actually comprised free his slaves, 72 years before the of Virginia is, in of three buildings, each with a 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. many ways, the different function and a different The first floor of the Museum cradle of American personality, yet all fitting together has two large rooms, one history: birthplace like a well worn glove. I started which contains portraits, relics, of threeT Presidents, home of two my tour in the Courthouse, a and furniture from George signers of the Declaration of stately building that anchors Court Washington’s family, including Independence, and site of 161 Square in downtown Montross. a chair from Washington’s villages that once comprised 32 Built in 1707 and reconstructed dining room, and the other Native tribes. A visit to the Northern in 1820, the Courthouse has which houses displays of Neck is to step back to an earlier gone through many renovations Westmoreland County’s coastal Westmoreland Mercantile General time, and nowhere is there a more over the years, but I could heritage, Native history, and Store and Montross Soda Shoppe. enjoyable starting place than the easily imagine the bustling famous historical figures. It is a museum in its own right, Westmoreland County Museum. activity and local commerce Outside the Museum’s doors is housing all manner of relics from When I visited the Museum, I was that went on in its heyday. the Presidents’ Garden, designed times past, and it delights visitors hosted by the delightful Brianna The Courthouse is quiet now, by Charles Gillette, and containing with souvenirs and informative Morris, Education and Programs its interior spaces devoted to busts of Washington, Madison, and brochures and, during non COVID Coordinator. A history major and a well equipped Research and Monroe, the three presidents who 19 times, serves as a venue for Northern Neck native, Brianna has Genealogy Library, a Movie Room were born in the Northern Neck. artists’ workshops and displays, been with the Museum for over housing a wide screen television The Garden is a peaceful reminder as well as a space for community seven years, is very knowledgeable, and two rows of seats from the of the history shared by Virginia’s meetings, lectures, demonstrations, and obviously loves her job. She is old Montross theatre, and a Presidents, and I could almost and other events offering both also frustrated by the restrictions large room used for displays that hear whispered conversations as entertainment and education. placed on the Museum by COVID change with the anniversaries I passed by its old brick walls. I left the Museum campus 19, which has caused it to be of special events in the County’s It is worth noting that reluctantly, but I was grateful shuttered since March 2020. history. My visit coincided with Westmoreland County owns that the Museum was alive and “We had so many exhibits and the 100th commemoration of both the museum building as well, waiting for visitors to enjoy events planned for this summer,” the Women’s Suffrage Act, and well as the historic courthouse, representations of history. she said. “Summer is the time the entire room was devoted to an example of the positive kind The Westmoreland County Museum when we get most of our visitors, reminders of County women who of partnership that can exist is located at 43 Court Square in because kids are out of school, and were the first to register to vote. between a local government Montross. Call 804-493-8440, or families take vacations. 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Because that was sprightly for it came to spin control the night 22 year old Elma a Quaker,” or and pulling strings. As a Sands was murdered modest and member of New York’s —aI Sunday, three days before virtuous. It “mercantile elite” Ezra Christmas, in 1799. We’re talking depended on had first tried to bribe about the celebrity trial of its day, whose side the court clerk to slant The Weeks Trial, in New York City, you took. the record in favor of his also known as the “Manhattan Levi Weeks, brother. When this failed, Well Mystery,” a trial so notorious the accused he sought to change the that it eclipsed the nation’s murderer, newspaper narrative mourning for George Washington was a young from an outraged “Levi is who had died eight days earlier. carpenter flatly guilty” (the public This trial, much like today’s legal “unduly near the well. There were men’s was sure of it) to a more block busters, had something for handsome,” and the younger footprints in the snow around cautious emphasis on “the need to everyone—a turbulent romance, brother of Ezra Weeks, a wealthy the well. Scratches and bruises reserve judgment.” But Ezra’s real boardinghouse gossip, sensational New York builder with connections. on Elma’s body, including a ring coup d’état, his strategic master newspaper accounts—even a The prosecution maintained of bruises around her neck. And stroke, was in hiring what many one horse open sleigh, dream that Levi had seduced Elma, Elma had not been pregnant. consider to be America’s first team, and spin control. promised marriage to win her, and The defense argued that Elma and most brilliant dream team. Elma, the victim, was said to then brutally murdered her to get was of low character, depressed, So, who did he choose? Who out of his promise and suicidal. They accused her of did Ezra select from the fifty because his brother sleeping with her cousin’s husband. lawyers then practicing in New Ezra disapproved. Implied that she was a laudanum York to defend his brother? They argued that addict, and that in all likelihood, she The answer may surprise you. Levi strangled Elma had been alone and flung herself Especially when you consider that and then threw into the well with no help. Or, if this most trials lasted less than a day, her body into the wasn’t the case, they speculated there was virtually no case law Manhattan Well. that another person in the boarding to go by, and accused murderers A witness testified house may have murdered her. They seldom even had a lawyer. to seeing Levi and maintained that Levi was innocent. In this trial, Levi had three. Elma on the night He had been with his brother Ezra And they were three of the of the murder in a on the night of the murder. Ezra best—Alexander Hamilton, one horse sleigh said so. And so did Ezra’s friends. Aaron Burr, and a future Supreme Court Justice named Brockholst Livingston. Stay tuned for Part II to see how they did.

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struggles. came to the house, delivering a Mary Ann variety of nymphs made by at least insists that 65 artist friends. Martha Anne kept people them around her house, calling learned them her “nymph army,” which from Martha held her close in darker days. Anne that it At Martha Anne’s passing, artist is “OK to be Libby Lipscomb Boyer made this vulnerable, tribute which speaks for many but you must of us: “Soar high my friend. A keep moving great lady—talented artist and on.” She amazing example of grace in the remembers face of adversity—left us today. a call “Libby painted a butterfly with carried with her through her from Martha Anne delivering a broken wing signifying the development as a painter and the news about her cancer supported Martha Anne through brokenness of cancer. “But like the through her final illness. in her lymph nodes. the emotional and physical struggle butterfly, she kept on soaring.” Indeed the creative groups Mary Ann shared the news with with her illness. While Martha Anne Artwork courtesy Pam Doss, Bay Martha Anne joined helped her others, typing “nymph” instead was away with her daughters both School and Martha Anne’s family. continue to thrive not only as of “lymph.” Thus was born “the Mary Anne and artist Steph Brown From p 22, t, l, MAK, Terry, an artist but also in her personal nymph army,” artist friends who florals, In The Beginning, Nikki. Stillness By Sandra C. Fykes voluntary times during my stretch our legs.“ You could always a welcome and much needed eing still, especially childhood when I took the initiative hear a collective sigh of relief in the part of my daily routine. This may when I didn’t want for being still such as when I room for the long-awaited break. seem counterintuitive: but the to, was at times a wanted to read, draw, watch a However, maybe more so busier I become, the more I need challenge for me movie, or watch the fish in my than childhood, there are times to stop, rest, and to just - be- still. when I was a child. aquarium; and yes, even for my during adulthood when stillness Being still does not have to TheB difficulty was not just having own self imposed quiet time or is voluntary. Perhaps one enjoys literally mean not moving, but just to stop what I was doing, but It nap time. Other times, I enjoyed spending time at the beach or resting and acknowledging in God’s also involved the length of time group games involving stillness poolside uninterrupted with a presence and glory. For some, that I had to be still. One minute such as Hide and Seek, Simon good book or crossword puzzle, that may mean being physically of stillness often felt like eternity! Says, Freeze, or by far the most or hiking, or sitting on a park still; but for others, it can mean During those times, I wanted to requested adult favorite during bench, or taking scenic drives. walking, gardening, painting, play, talk, stretch, dance, laugh, that time, The Quiet Competition. How about a restorative nap in watching the sunrise or sunset, or anything,...but remain still. Stillness on my own terms was a hammock or recliner? During praying. Whatever activity or non Some examples of parental and so much easier as a child, and these times, stillness can be activity that you enjoy, and that educator requests for involuntary admittedly, still is now as an adult. a welcome commodity. gives your mind, body, and spirit stillness involved getting shots at the I am not alone. Several of my One of my many favorite peace, is the first step of being doctor’s office, dental examinations, friends and former coworkers are Scriptures in the Bible is, “Be still still. God invites us to take that washing and combing my hair, also challenged with having to be and know that I am God; I will be first crucial step, and accordingly, doing my homework, class work, still at certain times, such as in the exalted among the nations, I will be knowledge and exaltation of taking tests, and attending worship workplace, during certification exalted in the earth.” Psalm 46:10. God will follow, Psalm 46:10. services. Sometimes, when testing, in waiting rooms, and The posture of being still has Consider planning voluntary appropriate, peppermint candy in school. Having to sit still and become a daily, spiritual practice Be still time each day and invite a was quickly offered to help keep me remain alert for hours during a for me. It was difficult at first in family member or friend to do the still, but that was not always a viable work meeting or class is not an easy terms of consistency and focus, but same for mutual encouragement option, especially while receiving task for some. During those times, with a willing heart, perseverance, and support. This may quickly dental treatment or getting shots. I have relished hearing the words, practice, encouragement, and become a welcome and treasured There were also solitary and “Let‘s take a 10 minute break to accountability, it has now become addition to your daily schedule. 24 September 2020 Finding Inspiration in a Troubled World experienced my soul in this troubled world. adapt, even if we do not agree moments As part of the food bank team, with the circumstances. We also of sadness, we were deemed essential early on. have the ability to take a step anger and We actually began preparing for the back and find our inner peace in most often onset of a pandemic a month prior the midst of the greatest storm frustration. to the shutdown. We have adapted most of us have ever endured. It is in those to the changing environment on I urge each of you…find your moments a daily basis. We have debated inspiration in our troubled world. I seek and disagreed but the one thing Make those quiet moments count. refuge on a I can say is that at the end of the Do what restores your soul and salty piece day we are still coworkers, friends keeps you grounded. Help when of land and most importantly, a team. We you can and do not hesitate to tucked away are blessed to work together By Cindy Balderson at the end of and to have been directly am forever the optimist, my road. 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Because the person the rest of the country - working going through this worry and disease, or a fall can change your is not ‘gone,’ but is changed, they from home, wearing a mask to the uncertainty should we experience life forever, can put hopes, dreams, find themselves with a dilemma grocery store, and praying no one another wave of infections or if and basic skills on a roller coaster that seems to have no solution. in our family gets sick. However, bad weather hit. of advance and retreat motions. Rosemary Rawlins, author of the added stress of worrying about This is a difficult situation for the Learning By Accident, relates We moved her to a lovely Mom living alone put me over the survivor to deal with, but many her experience with ambiguous suite at Commonwealth Senior edge. All the little things I used to times, it is also a confounding loss when her husband, Hugh, Living as soon as we could get do for her would now put her at position for caregivers. For many sustained a life-threatening the paperwork together. At risk. I worry day and night. survivors and their families, one brain injury while cycling, and Commonwealth, she enjoys an of the most challenging effects she offers these techniques for • How would she get groceries? award-winning dining program, housekeeping, activities, friends, of a brain injury is a condition dealing with finding yourself in a • Was she able to manage her and a 24-hour team who assists called “ambiguous loss.” ‘gone, but not gone’ situation: medications and navigate new with her medication. I rest easy Ambiguous loss occurs when • Meet each other where you are telemedicine appointments? the survivor is physically present, now. knowing that no matter what • What if she had a fall? Or got but psychologically absent. In • Support each other. comes in the days ahead, she’ll be sick? Would she tell me? other words, the person presents • Try new things together. safe and cared for every day. as physically the same, but their • Don’t get stuck in the past. • Should she move in with us? Do personality or their demeanor • Look for qualities you love in each we have enough room? If you worried about your parents during this or the way they interact is very other every day. COVID-19 is teaching us all how different from the way they “used to • Realize that you may have both precious life is and how difficult crisis and want more be.” This change can be very radical- changed from this traumatic family it is to be apart. In addition, it information about how to --a person who used to be outgoing experience…but you can find peace taught me that I cannot provide prepare for senior living, is now shy and withdrawn---or it in the present if you actively seek it the support Mom needs by myself. call us to receive our can be barely noticeable, except out. I need to know no matter what complimentary guide, to those closest to the survivor-- Abby Maslin, author of Love was happening in the outside “Is it Safe to Move Now?” -an unaccustomed quickness of You Hard: A Memoir of Marriage, world, she would not be alone. temper, for example. A wife may Brain Injury and Reinventing Love complain “He’s my husband, puts it this way: “Ambiguous loss but I don’t know him anymore,” is about learning to live with lots a mother may say “Something’s of uncertainty and learning to not right with my daughter, but I live with different goals.” Coping don’t know what it is,” or a survivor with ambiguous loss is not easy, may wonder why situations that but a path forward can be found. never fazed him before now cause Like most worthwhile ventures, it Commonwealth Senior Living at Kilmarnock | 804-210-7594 an intensely anxious response. takes work, time, and patience. Commonwealth Senior Living at Farnham | 804-375-2553 Both the loss and the ambiguity For more information on brain Commonwealth Senior Living at Gloucester | 804-375-2552 are very real, sometimes for both injury, contact the Brain Injury Independent Living, Assisted Living & Memory Care the survivor and his loved ones, Association of Virginia at 800- and sometimes only for the loved 444-6443 or at www.biav.net. www.CommonwealthSL.com 26 September 2020 Paid In Cash By Kenny Park where they live, or because of In the case of income, the state and federal governments. t is safe to say that their age, find it even harder if not client is asked to provide either It is a reality. People are going to most folks who come impossible to find employment. four weeks or three months’ do what they are going to do. from Mexico or central These folks take on the additional worth—depending on the clinic’s When an employee suffers from a American countries to risk when coming here of suffering guidelines —they vary—of pay set of chronic conditions—diabetes, work are in the prime from some health crisis and stubs. These are then used to high blood pressure, kidney of theirI life. Usually in their being incapacitated by it. extrapolate the income that would failure—but still wants to work—in early to mid 20’s or younger, It is in those instances that be received in a year, and that order to support their family back they understand that if they are Community Health Clinics, or amount is compared to the income home—it would seem to make going to make their time here Free Health Clinics, become a guidelines and the client is either sense for that employer to at least count, they must do it when they lifeline, if not an actual lifesaver.. accepted or not, based on income. make it easier for that employee are young and healthy, with no These clinics must adhere to Not everyone is paid weekly, to receive medical care that would major health issues, and a low guidelines and practices in order and not everyone is paid by check. enable him to work and fill out that likelihood of becoming sick. to continue to receive funding Some are paid in cash. In those form, wouldn’t it? After all, the That is the case most of the time, from the local, state, or federal cases, the clinic provides a form for employer needs workers in order but not always. Some come with government, which is to be the employer to fill out by hand, to run the business, don’t they? a family history of diabetes, or expected. They must keep records stating what the employee has Unless, of course, the employees heart or blood pressure problems, that verifies that their clients been paid, and on what date, for are considered expendable. or some other chronic condition meet the income guidelines, are the corresponding length of time. I suppose that’s a possibility. that only begins to present as uninsured, and are not eligible for A simple alternative confirmation Not one I would wish to they work and grow older. Medicaid. Each of those points in the absence of pay stubs. ascribe to anyone in our area. Others come later in life, because are covered in the application Some employers pay in cash to Kenny has served the Northern they have no viable income and screening process. make it easier for their employees Neck Immigrant community and as who may not have bank accounts. Pastor of Jerusalem Baptist Church Some may do so to reduce their in Warsaw since 2003. His email paperwork, or their reporting and address is [email protected]. withholding that would go to local,

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In a large bowl, whisk Prep Time: 30-40 minutes another bowl combine cornbread together the mayonnaise, lime Cook Time: 30 minutes crumbs and 2 Tbsp. cornstarch. juice and honey and season to 3 /4 c. honey Have a baking sheet By Wendy Hyde 2 chipotle chilies in adobo nearby lined with paper y husband’s 1 8”-square pan baked sweet towels. Working with 1-2 earliest hunting cornbread (Krusteaz box mix or quail at a time, coat with memories were homemade) flour mixture and shake off made along the 2 Tbsp. cornstarch any excess, then dip into egg fence rows in 2 eggs mixture, then dip into the LoudounM County, where he grew 1 /2 c. dark beer cornbread mixture, pressing up. As a young boy he was taught 1 /3 c. all-purpose flour lightly on the bird to help how to be safe and responsible with 1 /3 c. cornstarch crumbs adhere. Carefully firearms. He learned to target shoot 1 tsp. smoked paprika lower quail into the oil with .22 rifles and shotguns under 1 /2 tsp. garlic powder and fry 5-6 minutes, gently the watchful eye of his father and 1 /2 tsp. onion powder turning over several times so uncles. Going afield with a firearm 1 /2 tsp. ground black pepper they brown evenly. Remove as part of a quail hunt, however, 8 skin-on quail to the paper-towel-lined was a privilege earned over time. Coarse Kosher salt sheet, season immediately Not only did he need to know 3-4 c. neutral oil (canola or with coarse Kosher salt safety and marksmanship, he vegetable) and keep warm in the oven while taste with salt and pepper. Add needed to demonstrate respect for In a small saucepan, combine preparing the remaining quail. drained onion and remaining the animals, the firearms, and the honey and chipotle chilies. Drizzle with the Chipotle ingredients and stir to thoroughly others in the group. Hunting at age Heat until simmering over low Honey just before serving with coat with dressing. Taste and adjust seven with his father, he carried heat, remove and let steep while the Apple Jalapeño Cole Slaw. seasonings. Refrigerate several an empty .22 and Dad doled out preparing the breading and Apple Jalapeño Cole Slaw hours to allow flavors to blend. one round at a time. He will never quail. Strain before serving. Serves: 4 Photos by Wendy Hyde. All recipes forget when at age ten, a respected If your preferred cornbread is Prep Time: 30 minutes included in this column are original family friend and seasoned hunter already a bit dry/crumbly you can Refrigeration Time: 2-3 by Wendy Hyde unless otherwise suggested to his father to “bring the skip this step. Preheat oven to 250°. hours or overnight noted. She can be contacted at boy along this afternoon”. 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