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[ Friday, September 26, 2008 05:14 ]

Legacy Journal: Friday: Family First

Section:
Personals

Summary:
If it is Friday, it is Family First.

Main:

* So, when is the snapshot on the ice going to turn into a slapshot hockey goal?

It is a good day when the OSU Beavers defeat the USC Trojans on the football field.

* It may be a good day when members of the do nothing congress want to get out of town and go back home where their friends, families and supporters can message their easily bruised egos and polish their images by pretending to listen to the voters.

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[ Saturday, September 20, 2008 06:30 ]

Legacy Journal:Laidback Saturday

Section:
Environment

Summary:
While some fixate on the Gorey details of Climate Change and the coming Collapse of world civilization, others are living the dream in paradise places like Hawaii.

Main:

Daughter Tiffany lives in Kona coffee, Captain Cook area on the western side of the Big Island of Hawaii. Her view perch from the historic Greenwell Family Farm is nearly 1,500 feet above the shoreline of the blue Pacific Ocean.

Within hiking distance are the Captain Cook Memorial and great surfing at Kealakekua Bay, Kona Coffee plantations, the Amy Greenwell Bishop Ethnobotanical Native Plant gardens, and the local Kona Historical Society site.

The hippy refugee and breakfast site, the Manago Hotel, is just around the corner. The ocean side City of Refuge National Park is a short distance down Naapoopo Rd

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[ Wednesday, September 03, 2008 05:47 ]

Legacy Journal: Wicked Wednesday

Section:
Commentary

Summary:
The mood this Wednesday should be positive: the citizens of New Orleans, Louisiana have been spared another hurricane lashing, smiling kid are returning to the nation’s class rooms, a bright sun is shining in upstate Rochester, NY, the war in Iraq is winding down, yet another successful Olympic Games have been competed and completed, and the country has two fine candidates for the soon to be vacated office of Commander in Chief.

So, why all the doom and gloom from the pages of the nytimes?

Main:

Today, Thomas Friedman, Maureen Dowd, and Andrew Revkin are at their dypeptic drumbeat worst as they continue their respective personal rants formed by their pessimistic views of the state of the world. Tom is increasingly bitter about the state of the environment and the prospects for peace, Maureen continues to mischaracterize and denigrate the national political change agents with her wicked literary prose, and Andrew continues to slog on in his blog about the SAD state of research and policy in the emerging science of global weather and climate studies.

What is to be done? Some have suggested a boycott of the various messages from the “Anger Liberals” of the old Left. There are good reasons that the circulation and the readership of the nytimes is falling like a rock. The popularity of the press is low and sinking because of it writers and pundits. The nytime’s own David Brooks has said it best: on the PBS News Hour coverage of the RNC from St. Paul , Brooks opined “ The public does not like or trust us.”

Unfazed and without reflection , Brooks’ partisan commentary colleague, 71 year old, Mark Shields previously upstaged by David Gergen and Paul Gigot, continued to prattle on about the obligation of professional press people like himself to vett the background and suitability of the children public service folks Sarah Palin to stand proudly in the public kleg lights.

I am reminded of the time some Santa Rosa public high school civic teachers( one was a former small time journalist) picketed and harassed the chairwoman of the local School Board at the beginning of a new school year. Their labor issue and the public’s right/obligation to know trumped a single citizen’s right to privacy and sanctity of her home. When was the last time you felt good about having your home picketed by noisy advocates ?

Meanwhile, tonight Sarah Palin, the 44 Y/O PTA mom and soon to be grandmother from Wasilla, Alaska, will Stand and Deliver on state in St. Paul, Minnesota. Levi Johnston is also said to be a standup kind of person. For 38 minutes on stage Palin accepted the nomination of her Party, defined herself to the nation, chided the live mic, trip wire prone national media, defended her “little state”, exposed the lack of executive experience of the other candidate team, skewered those who pretend to objectively perform live “dissections” of new faces on the national political scene.

In prime time, Palin ran the table set up a series of bright, forceful, articulate, and funny warmup speakers and left folks like the embarrassing Mark Shields of PBS to slowly twist, turn and trip on his own misanalysis.

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[ Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:30 ]

Legacy Journal: Olympic Swimming Prep

Section:
Parks & Recreation

Summary:
The Rochester, NY Parks and Recreation Dept has a citywide summer swimming progress that includes lessons for kids at the Genesee Valley Aquatic Center.

Main:
Emma and Tessa Little are getting an early start on the Olympic Games of 2028.

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[ Monday, July 28, 2008 12:43 ]

Legacy Journal: Summer Swing

Section:
Education

Summary:
Summer fun for kids includes continuing to learn, explore, and grow in body and mind.

Physical activity and music are part of the mix for the Little girls of Rochester who recently spent two weeks in California. San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and Santa Barbara were in the mix of family venues. See and hear the videos. The embedded version below requires a shockwave-flash plugin.

Main:
Emma and Tessa are now back in Rochester, NY and are in full time - full speed biking, swimming and skating modes. Meanwhile the Buffalo Bills are painting the town of Pittsford and the John Fisher College practice field red and blue. Live music is in the air every night of the week.

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[ Wednesday, May 28, 2008 10:44 ]

Legacy Journal: Summit Dr. Flowers of Spring

Section:
Personals

Summary:
Tessa Little of Summit Dr. Brighton, NY is now a four year old perennial flower who is blooming with the best as recorded here by big sister Emma.

Main:

* The season is Spring.

* The occasion is Memorial Week End in western upstate NY.

* Tessa’s profile includes Tag along as in following Emma, riding the addon to her Mom’s bike, and helping her Dad with yard work. She likes to torment Leo the cat, eat yogurt and sweet treats, open packages, and listen to stories read from her growing library collection of books. Her roaming domain includes her shared upstairs bedroom and playroom, the family areas on the main floor , and the basement including the tool storage area. Outside, she is a motion machine drawn to swings suspended from the high branches of the deciduous trees and private spaces shaped by the lower branches of the evergreens.

* Tessa is likes to do hands on activities. She is curious about which bottons to push and thus make handy things like TV remotes, digital cameras, and cell phones magically work.

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[ Thursday, May 15, 2008 08:06 ]

Legacy Journal: Water, Swimming, and going with the Tide.

Section:
Watercooler

Summary:

A run up to the Olympic Games 080808

Main:
I do not recall a time that I have not regarded water from a mostly positive point of view. Maybe it it the surname Fisk, Swedish for fish; maybe it is a vestigial DNA remnant from a former Chinook salmon tree of life ancestor.

Oh, there was a little chop along the way. I recall the time I had to pull my two year old sister out of the deep freeze drink when she fell through an ice bridge while crossing a rushing Strawberry Creek that ran through Grandpa’s place where we were otherwise spending a traditional, safe , cozy, kid centered eastern Oregon Christmas. Today, she has no recollection of the event.

Come to think of it, I have experienced some seasick moments crossing the bar at the mouth of the Columbia River at Astoria, and rolling with the waves in a storm while waiting to dock at the lime stone cliffs Dover after an English Channel ferry crossing on. But, those were mostly no harm - no foul events.

Water for me is all about fun, motion, beauty and power.

My Rites of Passage included climbing up Horsetail Falls with a full pack into the Desolation Wilderness Area above Lake Tahoe to the granite moonscape of the high Sierra that is the snowy source of the American River, fishing behind beaver dams on the Klamath Indian Reservation, SCUB diving solo in mile high alpine Lake Strawberry, spring time water skiing on Lake Shasta with all of my 34 Malin H.S. senior classmates, and carving a pattern of syncopated 15 ft rooster tails behind a single fiberglass slolom ski while skimming across glassy smooth surface of Lake-of-the-Woods during quiet midweek evening after work at the Klamath Fall molding plant.

Watching white water pound over the spillways at Grande Coulee, Bonneville, and Hoover Dams was also part of my experience exploring the American west .

Another part of my expanding experience included the waves of the warm Atlantic in Southern Florida. Even the wind driven, poison laden Portuguese Men-of-War cast up on the beach could not deter youthful curiosity.

The lure of water adventuring matured into vacations to Makaha Beach for viewing the Surfing Championships and weekend sailing in western San Francisco Bay from a berth in Sausalito, and bare-boat cruising in the the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. Free diving the reefs, challenging the surge of the surf and tides among the lava flows and cavorting with the dolphins around the Capt Cook Memorial in Hawaii’s Kialakekua Bay was part of the fun and part of the adventure challenge.

However, the best was yet to come with a two year experience with the DAM swimming club in Davis, CA. A local, the non Marvel comic character, Ironman Triathlete Dave Scott, was the founding coach of that group, now largest Masters Club in the U.S.A. For two years on a 0545 and 1000 AM x 7 day x 52week schedule, I learned about the power of swimming, I had missed watching Johnny Weismuller on Tarzan B-W films, taking summer polio season swimming lessons at the Redmond Community Pool , or later doing after work laps in the Malin Community pool in hopes of making a University frosh swimming team.

What I had previously missed was the power of good technique, proper coaching, disciplined practice and group support. Much of my group support came from charter Davis DAM members and workout regulars like Steve Watson, Harry Colvin, Susan Munn, and Lucille Richards. They, and others, were youthful beyond their seventy plus years. One result was a trip to St. George, Utah, the Huntsman Senior Games, and a swimming event metal.

Among our group, there was a running debate as to who or what had launched our shared love of the water. Truth to be told, in the men’s dressing room, the usual winner was the ever youthful Esther Williams. I can not speak to the conversations in the women’s dressing room.

However, I can guarantee that the DAM dressing room chatter will be focused on Olympic Swimming times and records come August, 2008 in Bejiing China

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