Graceful Birds and Buildings

On January 20, 2017 By dancingpalmtreesIn A Gaggle of Canadian Geese, Canadian Geese, Central Park, Dinosaurs Among Us, Goose, Goosey Gander, Graceful, Graceful Birds and Buildings, Mother Goose, Uncategorized1 Comment

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Graceful

Whether it’s a person, a building, or an abstract shape, show us something that exists harmoniously with its surroundings.

Look at him!

Canadian Geese at Rochdale Village, Jamaica, Queens, New York

Canadian Snow Geese

Spring

Canadian Geese at Rochdale Village, Jamaica, Queens 2010/2011

Brooklyn Botanic Gardens

Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Office Building in Harlem

American Museum of Natural History

Stephen says this one looks like a chicken!

Stephen thinks this one looks like a chicken.

Good Vacation News

On January 8, 2017 By dancingpalmtreesIn 1 Chronicles 4:10 New King James Version (NKJV), Christian, Christianity, Edward G. Palmer, Edward Gordon Palmer, Edward Palmer, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, Harlem Renaissance Exhibit at Yale, Jeremiah 29:11New King James Version (NKJV), Saratoga Dreaming........, Saratoga Springs, Saratoga, NY, Stephen, Stephen Vincent Palmer, Uncategorized12 Comments

Blogging Family,

Remember how I was moaning and groaning over the extremely high Con Edison bill and thought I was not going to be able to go away end of Feb/March 2017. Well I was wrong! I received this great email message a few days ago.

Hello, Deborah.

Thanks so much for your note and glad to hear of your interest and plans.

MetroNorth from Grand Central or 125th Street is the way to come — and it ends in New Haven at Union Station here. Beinecke Library is downtown in the heart of the Yale campus, an easy taxi/Uber from the station (and a nice enough walk if the weather is decent).

Our hours and other information are here: http://beinecke.library.yale.edu

The Yale University Art Gallery, among other venues on campus, are also worth checking out on a visit. Yale’s art museums, like Beinecke’s exhibitions, are free and open to the public. The Yale Calendar of Events — http://calendar.yale.edu/cal/opa — and Yale Arts Calendar — http://artscalendar.yale.edu/ — are great resources.

P.S. ~~ All that overtime I do helped me pay my half of the bill. My room-mate and I split the electric bill. Hard work does pay off and working on Holidays is a good thing! Mo’ Money! Mo’ Money! Mo’ Money!

So Yes I will be going to see the Yale Harlem Renaissance special exhibit for my birthday!! Hooray!! Maybe not right on Feb. 27th which will be my BornDay Celebration but I plan to take that week off on vacation anyway. My only consideration will be the weather as Snowstorms put an end to train travel. But with God’s Blessings and Divine Favor it will NOT Snow and the temps will rise to the 40s at least for my vacation week!

On the subject of Vacation Big Ups to both my Supervisors who are excellent young Ladies! They are a Blessing to work with. We work well together. They have a sense of humor and are Flexible! I know I’ve said this before but I cannot repeat it enough, I’m so Glad and Happy I moved to the Evening/Night Shift!! The rest of my co-workers on both the evening and night shifts are Super Nice. We have each others back and support each other. My work environment is the best its been in 8 years. This is my 9th year at the museum and I’m so Blessed to be with a community of people who are fun to be with.

As for Saratoga, well I did go there with my Dad many years ago and I thoroughly enjoyed our trip. My Dad Edward G. Palmer was a true Blessing for me and my brother Stephen as he took us many places and exposed us to locations outside New York City.

When I was in the military Daddy had more Father/Son bonding time. Daddy and Stephen went on an Alaskan cruise! I’m sure they had fun. Stephen was very close to Daddy and even though he can’t really tell me what they did I’m sure Stephen has fond memories of the Cruise.

The moral of the Story is that and always is God answers prayer. Maybe not in the way we want or on our time line but the Lord always comes through. For that I am Grateful.

As the Mothers of the Church used to say, God will make a way out of no way! Say Amen Somebody!!

1 Chronicles 4:10
New King James Version (NKJV)

10 And Jabez called on the God of Israel saying, “Oh, that You would bless me indeed, and enlarge my territory, that Your hand would be with me, and that You would keep me from evil, that I may not cause pain!” So God granted him what he requested.

Jeremiah 29:11 New King James Version (NKJV)

¹¹For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.

Dance | The Daily Post

On March 18, 2016 By dancingpalmtreesIn Dance | The Daily Post, Harlem, Uncategorized11 Comments

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Dance | The Daily Post

DAILYPOST

PHOTO CHALLENGE

Dance

There’s rhythm and motion all around us — this week, let’s capture some of it in a photo.

20150913_142318 — Young People’s Dancing Band in Harlem

20150913_142307 — Stepping High in Harlem

20150913_142454 — Getting down to the Beat in Harlem

20150913_142511 — In Sync Dancing in Harlem

Young People's Dancing Band in Harlem — Young People’s Dancing Band in Harlem

State of Mind | The Daily Post

On February 27, 2016February 27, 2016 By dancingpalmtreesIn Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Harlem, Harlem Renaissance, Uncategorized6 Comments

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PHOTO CHALLENGE

State of Mind

This week, let your inner world and the outside one converge in a photo.

Billy Joel – New York State of Mind (Audio)

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New York Skyline as seen from Central Park

Harlem blues

Jay Z Empire State of Mind featuring Alicia Keys Lyrics

https://youtu.be/nFqgJdw5b_4

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Jay-Z & Alicia Keys Perform Empire State of Mind (AMA’s 2009)

https://youtu.be/RPQD5RT_MPg

The Classic One and Only Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra – New York, New York

Quilts

On January 18, 2016March 18, 2017 By dancingpalmtreesIn DeBorah Ann Palmer, Eva Sophronia Gordon Palmer, Everyday Use Short story by Alice Walker, Helen Garcia, Helen Palmer Garcia, Quilts, Thelma Palmer Varner, Uncategorized, William J. Palmer, William Junius Palmer, William Palmer12 Comments

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Quilts

On the surface the beautiful design, the warmth on a cold winters night while underneath an intricate patchwork of stitches all coming together joining not just pieces of fabric but generations. In my case me granddaughter to my paternal Grandmother Eva Palmer. Grandma Eva died when I was 5 or 6 so I did not get to know her well but that quilt held her memory however faint to me for quite some time. The colorful triangular patches sewn together combining functional with fancy.

Grandma Eva Sophronia Gordon Palmer — Grandmother Music Sewing Box

Grandmother Eva’s Music Sewing Box

Eva Sophronia Gordon Palmer — Grandmother Music Sewing Box

Grandma Eva’s Musical Sewing Box that plays, “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.”

Her patchwork quilt so lovingly made for me the first child of her only surviving son, my Dad Edward G. Palmer was like an umbilical cord linking us together. Now both my grandmother and my Dad have long since passed on but every time I see quilts I think of Grandma. Some threads represented the sons she lost to Polio other threads her grandchildren representing the next generation. And I possess her quiet strength and strong faith to endure tragedies and celebrate triumphs.

Eva Sophronia Gordon Palmer -- Grandmother — Eva Sophronia Gordon Palmer — Grandmother

Eva Sophronia Gordon Palmer. My Dad’s Mom. She married my Grandfather William Julius Palmer on Jan. 15, 1919. My grandmother was 27 when she got married to my grandfather who was 40. My grandmother was a Milliner, my grandfather a shipping clerk. I have very vague memories of her.

When I read the story Everyday Use by Alice Walker which is supposed to be a riff on the Bible’s Prodigal son I the good girl, the faithful daughter became the prodigal daughter who eventually returned to the fold. Every so often whether permitting I make my pilgrimage to Harlem to walk the streets of the Harlem Renaissance and every day people like William and Eva Palmer raising a family on a shipping clerk’s salary. My Grandfather William Palmer taking the kids to Mt. Morris Park (Now Marcus Garvey Park) on an outing.

My Grandfather William Palmer with four of his children at Mt. Morris Park around 1926. My Dad Edward G. Palmer is not in the photo because he was not born until 1930. The little boy on my GrandDad’s lap later died from polio.

Everyday Use

Short story by Alice Walker

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug97/quilt/walker.html

Sometimes I can still remember traveling to Harlem with my Dad to visit my Grandma Eva. In my mind I’m still walking around her large apartment. I see my Aunt Eva’s piano. I see my Dad looking out the window while playing with the window blind cords and then I hear my Grandmother’s voice telling him to stop and for all of us to come eat.

Then memories fade………….