Category: DeBorah Ann Palmer

Handwriting | The Daily Post

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Handwriting

Many of us have heard the expression “Handwriting on the Wall.”  Here is where it may have originated.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Daniel%205

Daniel 5 New King James Version (NKJV)

5 In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.

 

Ancient Cave Handprints

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/hands/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/10/131008-women-handprints-oldest-neolithic-cave-art/

Ambidextrous

Some people are Ambidextrous. I am not one of them. I’m right handed. Stephen is left handed.  Because of past battles with carpel tunnel syndrome and current wars with arthritis I hate to sign paperwork or documents.  As a writer I carry around a small notebook but some days I can’t even read my own handwriting!!

 

am·bi·dex·trous
ˌambēˈdekst(ə)rəs/
adjective
  1. (of a person) able to use the right and left hands equally well.
    “few of us are naturally ambidextrous”
    • (of an implement) designed to be used by left-handed and right-handed people with equal ease.

 

http://mentalfloss.com/article/30667/11-facts-about-ambidextrous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambidexterity

 

Automatic writing

Some people have or claim to have the ability to write messages from the great beyond. I’ve had my own spiritual or out of body experiences so perhaps there is some truth to this ability.  Personally I believe in approaching the spirit world with great care for both evil and good exists in these realms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_writing

https://ghosttalkblog.com/2013/01/08/automatic-handwriting-messages-from-beyond/

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寒山
“Kanzan” (Cold Mountain)

Artist: Inoue Yūichi (Japanese, 1916–1985)
Period: Showa period (1926–89)
Date: 1966

I am not a linguist by any stretch of the imagination but I believe handwriting encompasses not only alphabets used by many cultures but pictorial etchings including Egyptian hieroglyphics. Love Japanese, Farsi and Arabic writing also. I find character based handwriting fascinating. Calligraphy is one of my favorite art forms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handwriting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calligraphy

When I was a little girl I made up my own personal alphabet, handwriting and words. Designed a book in which my main character Mr. X had various adventures. I could not have been more than seven or eight.  Not to brag but I was creatively gifted as a child and my parents encouraged me. They were always buying me various art supplies and Mom and Dad kept me engaged with arts & crafts. As for my book I think it lies in the bottom of my trunk which is now in storage until I can once more afford my own place.

 

 

Wronged Objects ~~ Sadness

On By dancingpalmtreesIn DeBorah, DeBorah Ann Palmer, Eva Gordon Palmer, Eva Sophronia Gordon Palmer, The Daily Post, THE MILLS BROTHERS - SING BARBERSHOP HARMONIES, Uncategorized, Wronged Objects5 Comments

 

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Wronged Objects

If your furniture, appliances, and other inanimate objects at home had feelings and emotions, to which item would you owe the biggest apology?

 

Grandma Eva Sophronia Gordon Palmer — Grandmother Music Sewing Box
Grandmother Eva’s Music Sewing Box
Eva Sophronia Gordon Palmer — Grandmother Music Sewing Box

 

Pictured is my Grandmother’s musical sewing box. When opened it plays an instrumental “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.”   I would guess this was a popular song in 1919 when she was wed to my Grandfather William Palmer.  She passed away when I was around 5 or 6 so I don’t know if she brought this musical sewing box with her into the marriage or my Grandfather gifted it to her at one point during their marriage.  I do know that when she passed away my Dad, her son Edward G. Palmer inherited it. Then when my Dad died in 1995 it became mine. Before she married my Grandmother was a Milliner.

Because I was so young when she left the body I never really got to know her well. My memories of my Grandmother Eva are few and faint. Growing dimmer as time passes yet sometimes flashes of her being enter my mind.  Her musical sewing box remains a point of connection between us.  Every time I touch the box or turn it upside down to wind the key so that I may once again hear it’s wonderful musical refrain sometimes I sense a touch of sadness.  Sadness from the box because it is no longer touched, held or played on a regular basis anymore.  Sadness of missing it’s original owner. Wondering in fear what will happen when it’s current owner ~~ me passes from time into eternity.

Lately I’ve heard the box call out to me. Perhaps a part of my Grandmother’s spirit still resides within. Maybe through this precious musical sewing box she still calls out to me that during her lifetime she had many Sweethearts. Her parents. My Grandfather, all her children including the two boys lost to polio, my Dad who was nicknamed Precious because he was the only boy to survive. Her grandchildren.

So I vow to open and play you more often. I Love you Sweetheart. Not to worry I shall make provision for you. You are forever Precious in my sight.

The Mills Brothers recorded their version of the song in the year I was born 1959.

THE MILLS BROTHERS – SING BARBERSHOP HARMONIES

 

Eva Sophronia Gordon Palmer -- Grandmother
Paternal Grandmother Eva Sophronia Gordon Palmer

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Footsteps ~~ Ambient City Sounds & A Poem

On By dancingpalmtreesIn 1883, DeBorah Ann Palmer, Footprints in the Sand, Pts. 1 & 2 (Audio), Uncategorized3 Comments

 

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Footsteps

 

Walk the Eight Blocks from the Met to the Met Breuer, Accompanied by Soundscapes

 

http://metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-live-arts/soundwalk

 

Welcome Footsteps (Well-known Footsteps) After Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (British Date May 7, 1883

 

Footsteps SOUND EFFECTS – Walking Laufen Sand SOUND

 

Footsteps Woman Slow Walking Sound Effect

https://youtu.be/ZWFYUWMoCAQ

 

 

The Isley Brothers – Footsteps in the Dark, Pts. 1 & 2 (Audio)

 

Footprints in the Sand

Footprints in the Sand, a beautiful poem!

One night I dreamed a dream.
As I was walking along the beach with my Lord.
Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life.
For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand,
One belonging to me and one to my Lord.After the last scene of my life flashed before me,
I looked back at the footprints in the sand.
I noticed that at many times along the path of my life,
especially at the very lowest and saddest times,
there was only one set of footprints.

This really troubled me, so I asked the Lord about it.
“Lord, you said once I decided to follow you,
You’d walk with me all the way.
But I noticed that during the saddest and most troublesome times of my life,
there was only one set of footprints.
I don’t understand why, when I needed You the most, You would leave me.”

He whispered, “My precious child, I love you and will never leave you
Never, ever, during your trials and testings.
When you saw only one set of footprints,
It was then that I carried you.”

– by Mary Stevenson

 

 

Alice in Ghettoland ~~ Depending or Not!

On By dancingpalmtreesIn Alice in Ghettoland, Brooklyn, DeBorah, DeBorah Ann Palmer, Uncategorized7 Comments

This post is not for the overly sensitive!  This is DeBorah Raw & Uncut!  

Ladies and Gents. Boys and Girls. Welcome to another addition of Alice in Ghettoland!

If you’re a Member of the Club for the Politically Correct please turn the channel now so as not to be offended.  In Living Color ain’t got nothing on me!

Now time for still more WTF New York moments. Guy on the street corner selling adult diapers for $2.00. I declined his offer. According to the Bodega owner he had just gotten out of the hospital and was selling his Brand X Depends. Now if the hospital gave you the diapers upon discharge apparently you need them? Am I right? Yes of course I am. As Always.

Now back to your regularly scheduled Wonder bread programs.

Goodnight Children.

 

 

 

 

 

 

What Price Beauty or Fame?

On By dancingpalmtreesIn Camera, DeBorah, DeBorah Ann Palmer, House of Ganesha Zen Garden Created and Photographed by DeBorah Ann Palmer., Kehinde Wiley, Photographs, Photography, Stephen, Stephen Vincent Palmer, The Daily Post, Uncategorized4 Comments

Jacob Lawrence_Migration Series

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Price

What Price Beauty or Fame?

As many of you may know I work as a Security Officer in a museum so I am Blessed to be surrounded by Beautiful Works of Art all day long.  No matter which wing or section of the museum I am posted I always find artworks with limitless intrinsic value.

One of the many repetitive questions I get from museum visitors is “What is the most expensive painting/artwork in the museum?”  At first I was puzzled that one could be in a gallery full of Rembrandts, Vermeers, Caravaggio’s, John Singer Sargent, Manet, Monet, Degas or any of many gifted artists and seek only to know a price tag!  Well since I’ve now been working at the museum for eight years I’m used to the question and no longer offended. Still a bit puzzled but I suppose for some people it is human nature to want to know the cost.  I explain to the visitors that most of the artworks are donated to the museum, there are some purchases but very few.

I am not an artist. At least not a visual artist in that respect. Many of my fellow guards are artists. I highly respect them and artists throughout all ages and eras.  I admit to being a late blooming photographer and a frenetic writer!  I often introduce myself as a Writer masquerading as a museum security guard!!

 

Being possessed of a sensitive nature I absorb what’s around me. My favorite art in the museum are paintings. I feel paintings speak to me. They tell me a story.  Even landscapes and still lifes have some tale to impart to the viewer. Since my job can be monotonous and boring in between patron queries I allow the paintings to tell me their stories. Also as the Tour Guides and Docents introduce various genres of art and artists to the visiting public I’m there soaking up their wisdom like a sponge. Many times when I get home I’ll listen to art classes and studies which are readily available on YouTube.  When I can I may purchase a book or catalog on a specific exhibit or artist who has taken my fancy.

Many of these artists were not appreciated, famous or in some cases able to make a decent living via their art. Most only gained fame long after their deaths. Some who became famous during their lifetimes did not necessarily have happy lives.

One of the best things about working for a museum in New York is that my ID card enables me to get into any New York City museum for FREE!!  So all those trips to various museums you have read about cost me nothing except for the food and any item I purchase from the gift shops.

 

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