Weight(less) forms of Chaos ~~ The Daily Post

On January 8, 2016November 4, 2016 By dancingpalmtreesIn Hurricane Sandy, Snowstorm Juno, Travel theme: Fierce, Uncategorized, Weight(less) ~~ The Daily Post, Where's My Backpack5 Comments

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Chaos

Travel theme: Fierce

Travel theme: Fierce

https://dailypost.wordpress.com/photo-challenges/weightless/

Weight(less)

Show us the effects of gravity in your photo this week.

Hurricane Sandy October 30, 2012

Snowstorm Juno 2015 ~~ The Unbearable Lightness of a Heavy Snowfall

Winter

Snowstorm Juno

Juno Snowstorm Bed-Stuy/Brownsville, Brooklyn

Juno Snowstorm

Juno Snowstorm Brooklyn

Snowstorm Juno Brooklyn

Snowstorm Juno Brooklyn, NY

Juno Snowstorm Depth

Cee’s SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 1

On January 4, 2016January 4, 2016 By dancingpalmtreesIn Cee's SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 1, DeBorah Ann Palmer, Helen Palmer Garcia, SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 1, Uncategorized6 Comments

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SHARE YOUR WORLD – 2016 WEEK 1

As a child, who was your favorite relative?

My Aunt Thelma Palmer Varner. I spent many happy times with her at her apartment in Co-op City Bronx, NY. She also took me to the movies, petting zoos, shopping etc… Aunt Thelma was the “funny story” Aunt. Always having some weird, wacky yet wonderful NYC adventure. I was truly brokenhearted when she passed away from breast cancer in 1985. After she left the body I became very close to my Aunt Helen Palmer Garcia (the woman in the pink dress) who went to be with the Lord May 2010 at age 89. Both my Aunts (My Dad’s Sisters) had a great and positive impact on my life.

Aunt Thelma, yours truly, Aunt Helen HS Graduation 1977

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

A Palm Tree that way I’d know I’d be in a warm climate!! Or a Rose bush because that was my Mom Mable Elizabeth Palmer’s favorite flower. She planted many rosebushes in our backyard when I was growing up.

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

Awake before Noon! Unfortunately my body clock loves to wake me up before dawn! Dang Insomnia!!

Would you like to sleep in a human size nest in a tree or be snuggled in a burrowed spot underground?

I don’t like heights but I’ve rather sleep in a well secured human size tree nest since being burrowed in the ground sounds too much like being buried underground!! I wanna me Jesus but not right now!! Let me sleep with the Eagles!

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

I’m grateful for the Blessing to have spent time with my brother Stephen Vincent Palmer on Christmas Day and the following weekend. Regular readers of my blog know how much I Love my brother Stephen. He was my own personal Christmas gift! I’m also grateful for the Me-time I took this past New Year’s weekend. I just relaxed, rested, wrote my blogs, did my Soulful Struts, took photos and just enjoyed my time as a Solitary. As for the upcoming week I requested Friday, Jan. 8th off from work so I can attend a progress report meeting at Stephen’s Day Treatment Center, AABR. Anytime with Stephen is time well spent!

Roaming Urban Gypsy

Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge ~~ Nature

Times Past | Baby Boomers

On January 2, 2016 By dancingpalmtreesIn Times Past | Baby Boomers, Uncategorized7 Comments

A New Monthly Challenge:Times Past

Baby Boomers

Boom Generation/Hippie 1946 -1964 Space Exploration/ first counter culture

I’ll revise the writing prompt to Eating out with Dad. My Mom Mable Elizabeth Palmer cooked so we rarely ate out. Too expensive. My earliest memories of eating out with my Dad Edward G. Palmer was our weekend forays into the city (Manhattan) I grew up in St. Albans, Queens, New York. Daddy took me to a restaurant called the Automat, where you’d put your money usually a quarter into these vending machines and get yourself sandwiches, desserts, snacks, drinks etc… I remember if one of us having to watch the table if the other got up because if you left your food unattended either the Automat workers would take it or the homeless. I just loved those vending machines and making my selection.

Here is more information on this old-time New York eating tradition.

http://exhibitions.nypl.org/lunchhour/exhibits/show/lunchhour/automat

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A Brand New You, Effective Tomorrow ~ The Daily Post

On January 2, 2016January 2, 2016 By dancingpalmtreesIn A Brand New You, Effective Tomorrow, Uncategorized

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DAILY PROMPT

A Brand New You, Effective Tomorrow

Tomorrow you get to become anyone in the world that you wish. Who are you? You can choose to be anyone alive today, or someone gone long ago. If you decide to stay “you” share your rationale.

Kinetictra

Kinetictra – Backstory Beginnings

I’d be the Super Heroine Kinetictra!! While Kinetictra is in development I would combine my Avatars from previous Halloweens so I could spring a Can of Whoop Ass on all bullies!!

Halloween 2013 ~ Year of the Tiger!!

My Avatar ~ Cat Woman

Me channeling Cat Woman Halloween 2011

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Prompt Stomp ~~ Super Heroes

On January 2, 2016 By dancingpalmtreesIn African Goddess, Brooklyn, Brownsville, Cracker Jack, DeBorah, DeBorah Ann Palmer, Developmental Disabilities, Diana and the Stag Maker: Joachim Friess (ca. 1579–1620, Eartha Kitt, Ethiopian Goddess, Feline, Female Divinity, Feminine Divine, Halloween, Stephen Vincent Palmer5 Comments

Prompt Stomp Week 13- Welcome 2016!

“…I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I’m more powerful…”

—Olivia Munn

Real or made up. A super hero can be anybody. The lady next door who devotes her time to the needy, our soldiers across the seas or like our heroes growing up we can write about Batman or Wonder Woman. A super hero can take many forms. Lets write about them this week!

Every Halloween my brother Stephen and I become Super Heroes. Halloween is my favorite holiday because you can not only dress in costume but it’s okay to walk around the city in that costume with your new though temporary Identity. For a long time I went with a feline theme thus I was Cat Woman channeling Eartha Kitt for several Halloweens. As you can see I greatly enjoyed my Cat Woman and Tigeress Avatars! Stephen won Best Costume in 2011 for his Scarecrow Costume!! in 2013/2014 Stephen was a Sailor aka like the kid on the Cracker Jack box for those of you old enough to remember the caramel popcorn with the toy surprise. Obviously for those of you living on the East Coast of the United States Hurricane Sandy put the kibosh on Halloween that year. Some photos were taken at Stephen’s training center AABR in Jamaica, Queens, New York.

Sailor Stephen

Stephen as Scarecrow

Ebony Panther

Me as the Black Panther

Stephen as Scarecrow. Me as Cat Woman.

Halloween 2013 ~ Year of the Tiger!!

Me channeling Cat Woman Halloween 2011

My Avatar ~ Cat Woman

This past summer Stephen with his Group Home residence had visited The New York Renaissance Faire located in Tuxedo, New York. So together we decided on variations of a Renaissance Theme. I re-imagined Diana the Huntress as DeBorah the Huntress, a combination of the Hunger Games and the Goddess Diana. So I become the Goddess DeBorah acting out my incarnation as Huntress Protector of the Forest. Stephen transformed from a Sailor into the Black Robin Hood! This is what ensued.