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Share Your World 2014-Week 47

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This is Thanksgiving week, my favorite time in the entire calendar year. In honor of this auspicious day Cee has asked her contributors only one question.

List at least 50 Things You Enjoy.  

So here are a few of my favorites things:

1. The privilege of having a relationship with the God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit through the atoning death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.

2. Freedom from a life of sin, guilt and shame

3. a lifestyle of worship

4. My daughter Amanda.

Us on the way to Ireland.

Us on the way to Ireland.

5. My daughter Melanie.

I walk Melanie down the aisle.

I walk Melanie down the aisle.

6. My son,Joe.

Joe and Gramma Lillie after the wedding.

Joe and Gramma Lillie after the wedding.

7. And my son-in-law James.

My daughter Melanie married the man of her dreams last Saturday

My daughter Melanie married the man of her dreams last Saturday

8. My ex-wife Tina (how many men can say they still have a good relationship with their ex? I am forever grateful for this).

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9. I am thankful for the relationship I have with my mom.

10. And my sister.

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11. I enjoy the privilege of sharing the Good news with people as a minister.

Me preaching for Special Touch Ministries

Me preaching for Special Touch Ministries

12. and the church family.

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13. I enjoy having two church services now so that I can lead worship in one and be involved in prayer in one.

14. I enjoy art…

15. And artists.

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16. I enjoy music…

17. And musicians.

The band Cloverton played to a nearly sold out house in our church last week.

The band Cloverton played to a nearly sold out house in our church last week.

18. I love writing…

19. And writers.

20. I enjoy cooking (which is good since I am in charge of the Thanksgiving meal).

21. I enjoy being busy.

22. But I enjoy those quiet moments when I can just sit and hear the voice of God as it comes across the landscape.

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23. I enjoy travel.

24. I enjoy a good book.

25. I really enjoy a good cup of coffee. Though in a pinch I will even drink a bad one.

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26. I enjoy blogging.

27. I enjoy reading blogs.

28. I enjoy being part of this blogging community.

29. I enjoy my little dogs.

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30.  I enjoy a good movie. Anyone seen the new Hunger Games movie?

31. I enjoy a good concert. I am going to see the Piano Guys on Dec. 8th with the pastor who officiated at my daughter’s wedding

32. I enjoy photography.

32. I enjoy exercising.

Me reclining after walking up the "Rocky" stairs at the Philadelphia Art Museum.

Me reclining after walking up the “Rocky” stairs at the Philadelphia Art Museum.

OK that might be stretching the truth a little.

33. In enjoy singing.

34. I enjoy playing the piano, although my hand injury is still limiting this a bit.

35. I enjoy playing the flute (an old instrument I recently picked up again after many years).

36. I enjoy eating out.

37. I enjoy my gardens.

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38. I enjoy a good laugh.

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39. I enjoy studying the Word of God.

40. I enjoy a night at home watching TV.

41. I enjoy working with people on projects.

42. I enjoy pizza.

43. I enjoy a good grinder every now and then (hoagie, sub whatever you may call them)

44. I enjoy the ever-changing New England Seasons

45. I enjoy the fact that I now have a snow-blower as the season is about to change to winter tomorrow according to the morning news.

46. I enjoy peace-making.

47. I enjoy the fact that after a season of incredible busyness I am settling into a season of quiet.

48. I am enjoying writing again.

49. I enjoy life.

50 I enjoy eternal life even better!

Now check out how Cee’s other contributors have answered at

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/11/24/share-your-world-2014-week-47/

Share Your World 2014 Week 46

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It is time to share a bit of my world again. To see how others responded to Cee’s sharing questions go to

Share Your World – 2014 Week 46

Here are my answers:

On a vacation what you would require in any place that you sleep? 

I need a comfy bed, a clean room, and quiet. Nice views and a deep tub are an added bonus but not completely necessary.

Music or silence while working?

It seems I work faster or at least more focused when I have instrumental music playing.

If you were to move and your home came fully furnished with everything you ever wanted, list at least three things from your old house you wish to retain?

I think I would want my pictures, my wood stove and my book collection. I don’t have any family heirlooms or anything like that.

What’s your least favorite mode of transportation?

Camel?

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I was grateful to get a little rest last week. This week I am looking forward to settling down to writing the new book. Oh and I am looking forward to having lunch with Mr. and Mrs. James Franklin.

My daughter Melanie married the man of her dreams last Saturday

My daughter Melanie married the man of her dreams last Saturday

Share Your World 2014- Week 45

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It’s that time again! Here we are sharing our world five questions at a time. Find out what the blogosphere is revealing about Cee’s other contributors at

Share Your World – 2014 Week 45

Meanwhile here are the questions and my answers:

What is your favorite color?  

I really like the color green. My current house is green. My last house was green. My office is green. My bedroom is green. My favorite season is green (I mean spring) and I recently took a whole lot of green pictures in Ireland.

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The bark at Torc

In what do you find the simplest of joys?

I really like to just sit with a cup of coffee in hand and watch the world go by. I don’t have a lot of time to do this but even a few minutes a day of just drinking coffee in silence as a bunch of strangers walk, drive, jog or bike past me totally unaware that I even exist is the greatest relaxation I can find.

Would you prefer a reading nook or an art, craft, photography studio?

Oh, a reading nook please, but it has to have insulated windows and a window seat with really comfy cushions.

What is at least one of your favorite quotes?

“Make time for the quiet moments as God whispers and the world is loud.” author unknown 

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

It was a HUUUUGE week. My daughter Melanie got married and then our church hosted the band Cloverton all in the same weekend. It was awesome and wonderfully tiring. Now I am looking forward to a season of relative quiet. This week is about napping! 🙂

Share Your World 2014 Week 44

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It’s time once again for…

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Share Your World – 2014 Week 44

Here are this week’s questions from Cee and my answers:

What is your most vivid memory of the kitchen in your childhood?

The most vivid memory I have of our kitchen is the red and black indoor outdoor carpeting that covered the floor wall to wall when we first moved into the house. My mother decided to remove it herself and I remember it took us almost seven years to get  all the glue scraped off those floors.

As a child, who was your favorite relative?

Oh gosh that’s a hard one! I am assuming we are talking extended family, so I would have to say my father’s mother. She was probably the one I felt closest too. I remember being by her bedside the night she died and singing her the old hymns of the faith as she prepared to meet Jesus. She was the first person to quote John 3:16 to me.

What did you or did not like about the first apartment you ever rented?

Now that’s much easier than the last question. Our first apartment was rented sight unseen from the Bible College I was attending. The walls were bright blue and the carpet was orange. You could literally sit on the toilet and put your feet in the shower because the bathroom was so small and we could not control the heat so it stayed around 85 all winter long (which is better than the alternative I suppose).

What kind of TV commercial would you like to make? Describe it.

TV commercial? Oh wait! I know! I know! It would be a commercial lauding the value of eating peanut butter and spaghetti sauce sandwiches!!!

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? 

I am grateful last week is over….’nuff said. I am soooooooooo looking forward to my daughter’s wedding on Nov. 8th!

Share Your World- 2014 Week 43

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Week 43! Can you believe it? That means at this point we have all answered 215 questions about ourselves here on Cee’s forum!

Check out the sharing at:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/10/27/share-your-world-2014-week-43/

Now here are this week’s questions…

What is your favorite time of day?

My favorite time of day is early morning. I think I shared  last week that it has been years since I have had the luxury of sleeping until noon. The truth is it has been years since I have slept much past dawn. I kind of like those dark quiet hours of the morning when the world is just waking up. It is so peaceful.

What’s your favorite charitable cause and why?

The church is my favorite charitable cause for a couple of reasons: 1. It is a charity that has stood the test of time and will stand through to the end of time. God will always have His church.

2. The church has done so much for me and my family. It is a part of my family.

How do you like to spend a rainy day?

Usually I work through the rainy days but if I should happen to have a rainy day free of work, then I love to sit and read or nap or maybe catch up on some  TV watching (which I haven’t had ANY time for at all lately).

When writing by hand do you prefer to use a pencil or pen?

Pen definitely! I am always afraid pencil is going to eventually fade to nothing and my words will cease to exist.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am grateful for a successful art show this last weekend. Crowds were a little down but sales were up for our artists so that was good. This week I am looking forward to buying the new suit for my daughter’s wedding. It’s coming up fast!!!!

Share Your World 2014 Week 42

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I am so glad to be getting back into the swing of things now that I am home from vacation! It is once again time to do one of my favorite things which is to share my world with Cee! Each week Cee asks her reader’s four questions and a bonus. Our answers go out into the blogosphere and tell the world out there a little bit more about who we are (or aren’t in some cases).

Do me a favor and when you have finished here head on over to Cee’s blog and see what her other contributors have written. I’ll meet you there!

Share Your World – 2014 Week 42

Here are this week’s questions and my answers:

What would be your preference, awake before dawn or awake before noon?

It has been something like thirty years since I have slept until noon. I am pretty sure I couldn’t do it  anymore even if I wanted to, at least not with this forty-seven year old bladder; So I would say awake before dawn and throw in an afternoon nap! 🙂

If you could choose between Wisdom and Luck, which one would you pick?

Wisdom is more precious than rubies according to the Bible and in obtaining it there is life that lasts. Meanwhile luck… well it doesn’t last forever even when it comes in good long strings. I’ll take the everlasting quality in healthy doses.Wisdom if you please!

If you were given the opportunity for free skydiving lessons would you take them? Why or why not?

I think I would probably not for the same reason I don’t ride horses. I have a little too much weight on the frame and I am afraid the horse or in this case the parachute would not support me. If I am afraid to fall off a horse and hurt myself because I am too heavy for the horse why on earth would I not be afraid to fall out of a plane held aloft by what amount to an oversized diaper?

Is the glass half empty or half full? What is in the glass?

The glass is half full. It has ambrosia in it (the nectar of the gods). Sometimes that nectar is sweet, sometimes it’s sour but it all works out tasty in the end according to Romans 8:28. I have drunk almost half the glass by this point in life but the good news is that when I finish with this glass I get another full one according to John 3:16

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up? 

I am grateful to have been involved in performing a wedding service with my lead pastor Barry Risto in Swampscott MA last weekend. The groom was a young man I have worked with as a minister since he was 11 years old. What a privilege! This weekend I am excited to be hosting, along with the other C.cada artists, our fourth annual art show. This year we will display close to two hundred pieces.

Share Your World 2014 Week 41

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Share Your World – 2014 Week 41

We are almost through another year of sharing. If you have fallen behind in learning and sharing you can catch up by following the link above. Come on give it a try! It’s a whole lot of fun!

Here are this week’s sharing questions from Cee….

Would you rather take pictures or be in pictures?

Since I just got back from a two-week trip to Ireland and took 850 pictures of which I am in exactly two I would have to say I like taking pictures (although I did have my daughter take pictures of me with her camera to prove I was really there).

Us on the way to Ireland.

Us on the way to Ireland.

What did you most enjoy doing this past week?

I think finishing up our tour of the Emerald Isle and flying back to resume working life.

What is your greatest extravagance?

I would have to say my greatest extravagance is books. I love to buy and read books.

Which letter of the alphabet describes you best?

M for “ME”

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am really grateful that I got to go to Ireland with my daughter Amanda. This week  I am so looking forward to beginning two services at our church and the C.cada art show this next week being held at our church. Come and visit us if you have the notion.

Share Your World 2014 Week 39

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http://ceenphotography.com/2014/09/29/share-your-world-2014-week-39/

Here are my answers:

Did you ever get lost?

I don’t get lost often but when I do it is usually a doozy. Once when the kids were little we took a week at a local campground. I think Joe was probably three and a half which would put Amanda about 2 and a half. I decided to take them on a nature walk around the pond on grounds. Somehow I got off the trail and ended up in apple orchard some three miles from the campsite. I think we would still be walking the road back today if some kind passers-by had not stopped to give us a lift back to the camp.

Who was your best friend in elementary school?

My best friend in elementary school was Eddie Murdock. We lost touch after middle school as he went to a different high school than I did.

Since the news television season has started in the US, list three favorite TV shows.

I am really enjoying the new show Scorpion, Agents of Shield is a favorite from last season and of course the new Dr. Who.

If you were a mouse in your house in the evening, what would you see your family doing?

You would probably see us watching the new television season or maybe playing with the dogs.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am so grateful for the wonderful turn out for the Toy Town Fall Fest and the groundswell of support that was shown for the Ingleside Makerspace Project. About 2000 people came out to see the property we are hoping the town will buy and turn into makerspace.

I am grateful the festival is done and now I can get ready to leave for Ireland. Thursday here we come!

Share Your World 2014 Week-38

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This week’s questions that open our community conversation can be found at:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/09/22/share-your-world-2014-week-38/

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Go to Cee’s  page and see how some of our other friends have answered the questions.

Here are my answers:

If you could be a tree or plant, what would you be?

I think I would be a giant redwood. As I understand it these trees may be the biggest things in the forest but they have very shallow roots and the only way they stand up to the storms of life is by interlocking their roots with other redwood trees. If I had to be a plant I would like to be one in fellowship with other plants.

If you could have a servant come to your house every day for one hour, what would you have them do?

Oh gosh that is a hard one but right about now I would have them take an hour a day to get all the projects around the house done that are being neglected because of my fall work schedule.

If you could have an endless supply of any food, what would you get?

Assuming I could still buy and eat any other kind of food I wanted I would opt for an endless supply of coffee from around the world.

What was one of your first moneymaking jobs (other than babysitting or newspaper delivery)?

Since my dad owned a restaurant one of my first money-making jobs was dishwasher and bus boy.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am grateful to have had another wonderful weekend with my C.cada friends and this week I am looking forward to the Toy Town Fall Fest. It’s planning crunch time!

Share Your World 2014 Week 37

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It’s time once again to give you a glimpse into my world with Cee’s help of course

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Broaden your own world’s horizons by visiting:

http://ceenphotography.com/2014/09/15/share-your-world-2014-week/

And while you’re at it  share your world with the rest of us by answering these questions in a blog post of your own.

The questions are…

List three pet peeves.

1. alligators in my bed

2. sunspots

3. people who mix liver into fruit salad.

Actually I tried to answer this seriously, but I thought of the people who perpetrate these pet peeves and so I thought it just best to keep the whole thing to myself.

What makes you unique?

Why my pet peeves of course! 🙂

Actually I think the best answer is…God makes me unique. I have a relationship with my Savior God which is intensely personal and unique to me and Him. The good news is that each man and woman in the world can have a unique relationship with God just like mine (that would seem to be the very definition of not unique but that’s the thing with God, He defies definition)

Would be your ideal birthday present, and why?

Lately I have been craving a massage because of my intensely sore and tired muscles. Someone else wrote a day at the spa as their ideal birthday present and I think I could go for that a mud bath and a hot rock treatment right about now.

Which way does the toilet paper roll go? Over or under?

I solved this whole issue by breaking the toilet paper holder off the wall. So currently the toilet paper goes sideways as it sits on the shelf. And I wasn’t even thinking of my pet peeves when I broke it.

Bonus question:  What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?

I am so grateful that just this morning I got up and did a stretching video. it is nice to be back to exercising and I look forward to exercising at least 5 times over the next week.