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How many times, after the holidays have passed, have you said to yourself, “I wish I’d gone to that holiday concert,” or, “Next year we’ll finally take the kids to see that holiday show.” But, as the past two years have shown us, those special holiday events may not happen again next year.

So skip the mall shopping and head for the church fairs.

Skip the flash-and-dazzle productions and go to a school pageant. Introduce your chil-

dren to the region’s seafaring and farming past and to the local celebrations that grew out of those traditions.

The South Coast is rich

in special events spanning Halloween to New Year’s Eve, from big splashy commercial productions in the cities, to very local annual celebrations where everyone in town participates and practices their part for months. Here’s a bucket list of South Coast holiday happenings for you to finally check out this year.

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Enjoy one last seafood festival before winter arrives!

Don’t miss the 30th Annual Bowen’s Wharf Seafood Festival in Newport on October 16-17 (bowenswharf.com).

Then, remember that the first Thanksgiving started as a local

celebration! Plan a family day trip to celebrate an authentic New England Harvest Feast on selected dates in October and November at Plimoth Patuxet! (plimoth.org).

Treats for the little ones

For the all-dressed-up little ones who’d prefer a not-toospooky event, take them to the Buttonwood Park Zoo in New Bedford on October 16-17, 23-24, 30-31 for “Boo at the Zoo,” a walk with animal encounters, scavenger hunts, a maze, and free carousel ride (bpzoo.org).

The Jack-O-Lantern Spectacular is returning to the Roger Williams Park Zoo! For all of October, the showcase celebrates the greatest music from the last 150 years – enjoy the thousands of intricately carved pumpkins while stepping through the soundtracks of different eras!

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Stay safe and follow Covid-19 guidelines this holiday season – most indoor venues will require proof of vaccination, and you’re advised to wear a mask at all times, whether indoors or out. And choose the smaller, less crowded outdoor events instead of the commercialized indoor venues.

And always check ahead of the event in case of last-minute cancellations or rain dates.

“Phantoms & Fire,” a familyfriendly spooky museum after dark, from October 20-31 (coggeshallfarm.org). Or take the kids to the Halloween Trail at the Handy House in Westport until October 30 for scavenger hunts, friendly ghosts, and magical ravens (wpthistory.org).

Join in a town tradition since 1950 – the annual “Halloween Horribles Parade” in Fairhaven’s Benoit Square on October 24, with a costume contest, free treats, and hot chocolate (northfairhavenimprovementassoc. weebly.com). Or head for downtown New Bedford on October 23 for “All Treats, No Tricks” – a safe trickor-treating experience for everyone (downtownnb.org).

Halloween fun for the family

Head for the Zeiterion in New Bedford for a spectacular Halloween! On October 28, dress up and join in the fun with a performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, or watch two silent movie classics: The Haunted House and Nosferatu, each with a live soundtrack played on an authentic Wurlitzer organ on October 31 (zeiterion.org)!

Find a local farm to take a haunted hayride with your friends or be a-mazed by the eight-acre corn maze at Escobar Farms in Ports-

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Put on your walking shoes and go on lantern-led “ghost tours” in Newport (ghostsofnewport.com, newporthistorytours.org), Plymouth (deadofnightghosttours.com) or Providence (providenceghosttour.com), or go for a haunted boat tour (providenceriverboat.com).

Explore the haunted Linden Place in Bristol October 2-27 (lindenplace.org). Or take a tour of the most famous haunted house on the South Coast – the Lizzie Borden B&B Museum in Fall River – or stay overnight, if you dare (lizzie-borden.com).

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Or else you can experience Christmas music and pageantry from the past!

St. George’s School in Middletown will present its free candlelight concert of hand bell choir, lessons and carols on December 10, and the 110th Medieval Christmas Pageant on December 14 (stgeorges.edu/ christmas). And if you’re in the mood for a little European flavor this Christmas, listen to The Vienna Boys Choir performance of “Christmas in Vienna” on December 3 at Plymouth’s Memorial Hall (memorialhall.com).

Peek into the past Skip the over-the-top Newport mansion tours this year and rediscover the historic homes in your own community! Go on candlelight tours through whaling-era mansions in New Bedford on December 11 (nbpreseervationsociety. org). Enjoy a free guided tour on December 9 inside the beautifully decorated Rotch Jones Duff mansion and a lecture about the holiday traditions of 19th-century New England (ahanewbedford.org). Explore the elegant Christmas decorations indoors and out at Blithewold Mansion and Gardens in Bristol (blithewold.org), or the Victorian-era traditions

at the Fall River Historical Society Museum in Fall River (lizzieborden.org).

Harken back to a time when the church halls and town squares were the center of social life – group sings, ice cream socials, bake sales, music recitals, and holiday crafts fairs! Relive the excitement and all-handson-deck holiday preparations of yester-year! Enjoy the old-fashioned church lunches, local crafters’ booths, and town hall sing-alongs at Fairhaven’s famous Old-Time Holiday Fair on December 11 in the town’s historic center (fairhaventours.com).

Or spread out the holiday celebrations through November and December during the 35th Bristol Christmas Festival, complete with a European-style Christmas market, story-telling, treelighting, shopping, and loads of family-centered activities (christmasbristolri.com or facebook.com/bristolchristmasfestival).

Show up in Wareham for the spectacular annual Christmas Parade on December 4 (warehamvillage.org). And, instead of making the trek to Attleboro to see Christmas lights, don’t miss the Christmas Festival of Lights at Edaville Railroad in Carver on Thursdays through Sundays from November 12 to January 1. Take the little ones on a heated train ride illuminated by 17 million lights throughout the park (edaville.com).

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A place to remember Found by the banks of the Taunton River at the intersection of President Avenue and Davol Street, Fall River’s Veterans Memorial Bicentennial Park has lived up to its name.

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On May 15, 2021, the park dedicated its 80-percent scale replica of Washington, D.C.’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall with a ceremony attended by dignitaries, including Lt. Gov. Karen Polito, and those who worked to bring the monument to the city, including the city’s Veterans Council and Wall Committee.

October 3, 2021 marked the official unveiling of the Italian-American Veterans Memorial monument that honors Fall River residents of Italian descent who died in World War II (10), the Korean War (three) and Vietnam (three).

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21st centuries. Along the pathway that leads to the Vietnam Memorial Wall you’ll find monuments dedicated to the Gulf War and Global War on Terrorism, Korean War Veterans, and Gold Star Families, which was sponsored by the Gold Star Mothers organization, dedicated to those whose sons and daughters have died in service to American armed forces.

The largest of these memorials to our war dead centers the park: the World War II monument that recreates, on an enormous scale, the famous Iwo Jima statute of U.S. Marines raising the American flag at the top of the once-Japanese-held Pacific island. It was officially dedicated on November 6, 2005, in time for Veterans Day that year. (Dedication

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remarks were delivered by James Bradley, co-author of the bestseller Flags of Our Fathers, which tells the story of the battle and of the lives of the soldiers depicted by the monument, including that of Bradley’s father.) Surrounding its base you’ll find a walkway of bricks inscribed with more local veterans’ names.

Of the latest monuments to join this display, retired Fall River Veterans Agent Ray Hague said he sought to move the Italian-American War monument, sponsored by the Italian War Veterans Post 10, from the parish grounds of the Holy Rosary Church in Fall River when the church was closed.

In the late 1990s, local lawyer Brian Cunha bought the Newport home of the designer of the original Korean War memorial in Arlington, Virginia, and gave the mold of that design to Fall River, Hague said. The city installed the resulting recreation of the original at Bicentennial Park in 2001.

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ent made the placement of the Gold Star Families monument in Fall River possible by granting $5,000 of seed money to the city for the project, Hague said. Hershel Woodrow “Woody” Williams, a veteran of the Iwo Jima campaign in World War II, has made it his mission through his Woody Williams Foundation to donate that amount to any community planning such a project. City Veterans Council members then designed it and installed it in 2017.

The Global War on Terrorism monument was built using money left over from this Gold Star Families effort.

the pandemic shutdowns. Still, it’s a great accomplishment to have it here at all.

Only four communities in the country have been allowed to host the National Wall Organization’s permanently placed replica of Washington D.C.’s wall. The four must be regionally exclusive, at least 50 miles apart. The other three locations are in Kentucky, Oklahoma, and Utah.

Fall River’s wall is 360 feet long, eight feet high, and displays 58,489 names, including 13,050 service members from Massachusetts and 211 from Rhode Island. The names are listed chronologically, by when they died in action. In the grass circle fronting the Wall, you’ll find a “100th Anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War” time capsule to be opened on April 30, 2075.

“People call and tell us they don’t have the words to thank us,” Marshall said.

“They can finally visit their son. People leave mementos behind at the wall. We’ll store them at the state pier locker when they’re not weather-resistant.

I’ve seen veterans hug at the wall. We are just trying to keep the memory of this war alive.”

A monument to wartime sacrifice, he said, makes a veteran feel proud “that the public is committed to honoring their brothers in arms. After that feeling, you become somber, quiet. It’s therapeutic.

It’s healing. It’s a very good thing for Fall River and Massachusetts that it’s here.

This is what happens when a city and a community work together. The meaning and the spirit and the value of this wall will reach everyone.”

The Veterans Memorial Bicentennial Park itself was dedicated in October of 1978. The project first broke ground in July 1977 “to commemorate the 100th Birthday of our Nation.”

The park offers access to the Wall Mobile app at vvmf.org/app. All monuments are open during park hours, from dawn to dusk.

“It’s a very good thing for Fall River and Massachusetts that it’s here. The meaning and the spirit and the value of this wall will reach everyone.”

Born in the U.S.A. The plan to bring the replica Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial Wall to Fall River started in 2017 by a vote of a local veterans services organization that then formed a hand-picked Memorial Wall Committee. Support from the city and the community and monetary donations quickly followed, and the project broke ground in October of that year. The total cost was $1.4 million, and that much money was raised by a combination of pledges, grants, and donations.

“We got a ton of cooperation,” said Memorial Wall Committee chair and Vietnam War veteran Joseph Marshall, “thanks to fundraising and helpful vendors.”

Marshall said it would been officially unveiled in June of 2020 if it weren’t for

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Sean McCarthy

For many people, using cannabis was a forbidden thrill – stealing away with friends to a secluded location to smoke a joint. But since it became legal for adults in 2016, buying cannabis in Massachusetts is now as common as getting a candy bar at a convenience store.

Chappy Dickerson knew this day was coming.

“In 1999, I was stationed in Germany in the Army and I must have visited Amsterdam 42 times,” he says with a touch of sarcasm. “I saw the amount of people going in and out of these coffee shops and I realized it was a matter of time before this trend was coming to America and I wanted to get ahead of it.”

And he did.

“When I got home in 2001 I told everyone that I was going to open a dispensary one day and that they would be buying cannabis from me.”

And they did.

In February 2018, Dickerson opened Bask, a registered cannabis dispensary located at 2 Pequod Road in Fairhaven, just off of Alden Road. Offering both medicinal and recreational cannabis, the store provides as many as 450 different products for patients and consumers over 21.

“Everybody and anybody uses cannabis,”

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Dickerson says. “The people that come through our doors are from every part of society. Our clientele includes your aunts and uncles, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters. I love seeing a parent and their 21-plus child shopping together.

“Nowadays there’s no picture of what a cannabis user looks like. It used to be the guy in the tie-dyed shirt with the long hair, but not anymore. Deep down I always knew everybody could benefit from the medicinal effects of cannabis. Even recreational users are finding that cannabis can help them sleep or can help relieve aches and pains.”

Born and raised in Mattapoisett, the 42-year-old Dickerson is a member of the Mattapoisett Fire Department, as well as being a member of the town’s Conservation Committee and the Agricultural Commission.

“I’ve always dabbled in growing cannabis,” Dickerson says. “I started back when I lived at home with my mother.

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Chappy Dickerson cutting the ribbon to mark the start of Bask’s recreational cannabis sales in February 2021

I had plants growing in my bedroom window. When my mother discovered them I told her they were marigolds, but she didn’t believe me.”

Today, the number of full-time employees at the Bask store in Fairhaven is 70, and the business is experiencing consistent growth. Since February 2020, Dickerson has been cultivating and processing Bask’s marijuana at their 52-acre AmeriCann site in Freetown. The Freetown location boasts 49 employees.

“People are supporting their families thanks to this industry, and buying from a local business helps keep money in the town,” Dickerson says.

The grass is greener Massachusetts customers are legally allowed to buy one ounce of cannabis at a time, though they can make a purchase every day if they wish. All customers must have valid identification, whether it’s a driver’s license, passport, or military ID. Bask offers more than just conventional marijuana. Their shelves are stocked with

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“There are many levels of consumption,” “People have been using cannabis for he says. “Just like you can have one beer thousands of years, but it’s come a long socially, you can microdose, or consume way,” Dickerson says. “The line of products just a small amount, and feel great. I and uses will only get more innovative.” like to start with a little bit at a time and Bask is open seven days a week, from 9 be sociable. I want to be able to have a a.m. to 9 p.m. for recreational and 9 a.m. conversation with people. I may bring a to 7 p.m. for medical. Dickerson says it cannabis seltzer drink to an event rather has been “a lot of hard work and a lot of than alcohol and I won’t get so inebriated hours.” that I can’t function.

“We have a lot of people who come into “People want to be sociable when they the dispensary who haven’t used cannabis use cannabis. Eventually there’s going to since college because they didn’t want to be bars that people can go into to have a get in trouble,” he says. “For many people smoke, a cannabis-infused drink, or an it’s an enjoyable way to go back to their edible. You won’t be using it in front of youth and many have found the medicinal your child and you’ll be around people benefits of cannabis to be helpful in their who appreciate it. It will take a little while everyday lives. but it’ll get here.”

“Since cannabis has become legal, people Dickerson has plans for a second Bask are much more accepting of it. Nowadays location, to be situated in Taunton. The buying cannabis doesn’t have to be an South Coast also has dispensaries in Fall awkward handoff in a parking lot, and you River, Wareham, and Taunton. don’t have to go and wait at somebody’s house.

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Season’s greetings Brian J. Lowney

For many people the holiday season marks a special time of the year filled with beautiful memories, joy-filled celebrations with family and friends, and time-honored traditions.

During this magical time of the year, perhaps it’s time to recreate treasured recipes, reach out to folks in need of positive affirmation or a cup of tea or coffee, and bring some joy to the community.

Here are a few simple and inexpensive holiday suggestions on how you can add some sparkle to the holidays!

While many cities and towns throughout the South Coast are determining seasonal holiday plans, one community event for folks of all ages is set for December 4 and shouldn’t be missed.

Swansea’s Holiday in the Village began in 2016 as part of the year-long celebration commemorating the town’s 350th anniversary. It has become a much-anticipated evening that brings together people of all ages together for neighborly fun and entertainment.

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At the Veteran’s Memorial Green, visitors are welcomed with a vintage inspired “Season’s Greetings” sign. After parking, visitors stroll to the beautifully lit Swansea Dam waterfall with a large cheerful wreath on display. Main Street is closed to traffic all the way to Elm Street, allowing folks to enjoy hundreds of luminarias prepared by the Boy Scouts.

The Case High Band kicks off the festivities and gathers with attendees for the tree lighting ceremony. After the loss of the tree at the Junior High last year, a new one was planted and cared for by the Highway Department in honor of John McAuliffe, Swansea’s late town administrator whose playful rendition of “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas” was enjoyed by guests at the Swansea Free Public Library that evening.

During this holiday event, delicious cookies and hot

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M ya Doyle toasts a marshmallow for s’mores at S wansea’s Holiday in the Village

chocolate can be found at Fire Station #1, provided by volunteer Fire Department members. Face painting, a magic show, crafts, and the touch-a-truck activities keep everyone busy. Each year, the Girl Scouts bring a new activity for everyone to enjoy.

Holiday readings and crafts at the historic library are also a treat.

Strollers will also be invited to visit The Stevens Home, rarely open the public, and will be welcomed at Stony Creek Farms, where a petting zoo and hay wagon rides add to the fun.

During the family-oriented evening, Christ Church is at the heart of the celebration.

A joyful choral concert in the church is a wonderful way to feel the spirit of the season.

Next door at the hall, cookies will be decorated and children can enjoy time visiting with Santa Claus while holiday tunes play. Guests will enjoy a

beverage and a light snack and share holiday greetings with friends and neighbors.

“Each year the event has grown, with more activities and attendees,” says Joyce Moore, coordinator of Holiday in the Village.

“It is a magical evening that brings our community together,” Moore adds. “Keep an eye out for information on the Holiday in the Village Facebook page and the town’s website. “Hold the date and come to enjoy the fun on December 4!”

Finding Santa For folks who don’t believe in Santa Claus, you haven’t met “Santa” Joe Dawicki from Mattapoisett who was called five years ago to bring smiles and goodwill to his community because he has Christmas magic in his heart.

“Each year my skills are honed when I receive Top Secret instruction from Jolly old St. Nicholas,” shares the

popular South Coast resident, noting that the training comes from the New England Santa Society.

“This group is for anyone who is or has interest in being Santa Claus, Mrs. Claus, an elf, a reindeer or any other Christmas-related role,” Dawicki continues. “Others involved in groups, organizations, businesses, or services related to Santa and Christmas are also welcome to join. The group is for those in New England and nearby areas.

We strive to produce monthly get-togethers across the six New England states.

“We hope this will be a resource to meet each other, share experiences, exchange ideas, offer advice, and provide information,” he continues.

According to Dawicki, this past August, more than sixty Santas, Mrs. Clauses, and Elves met in New Hampshire. For three days, they spent full days in class and evenings sharing what Santa had taught them over the years.

Dawicki, who keeps a busy calendar during the last two months of the year appearing at local holiday events, emphasizes that it is important to know that the real Santa – whose real name is St. Nicholas – was born March 15, 270 A.D.. St. Nicholas was an orphan and raised by his uncle, who was a priest. Nicholas initially started his gift-giving when he learned of a poor family with three daughters who could not afford to pay a dowry, which was the custom back then. Young woman would be sold into slavery if their father was poor. So, the story goes, St. Nicholas snuck into their home as each daughter became of age and placed gold coins in the stockings. This beautiful tradition continues today with chocolate coins wrapped in gold foil.

According to legend, when St. Nicolas’s community heard about the secret gift giving, others started to help the less fortunate, and children.

St. Nicholas even saved a kidnapped boy and returned him to his mother. Children being excited with hopes of his visit started leaving carrots for his horse and small gifts for him.

“Today the tradition of cookies and milk are left on Christmas Eve,” Dawicki shares. “Santa always likes you to leave him some cookies.

Because he can’t eat them all at once, he brings the extras to the North Pole and locks them up in Mrs. Claus’s cookie room. Then he shares them with his Elves throughout the year. Before the room had a lock, the Elves had a party one night and ate too many cookies and got bellyaches.”

Dawicki adds that Santa arrived in New York as reported by the press in 1773.

Santa’s popularity grew.

In 1890 he visited the first Department store in Brockton, Massachusetts. And in 1897, young Virginia O’Hanlon wrote to the Sun newspaper and the Editor confirmed, “Yes Virginia, there is a Santa.”

On November 6, Santa will be at the New Bedford Masonic Lodge building 435 County Street from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., collecting new unwrapped toys for Toys for Tots. Bring your cameras – the Masons will also be taking pictures which will be emailed to parents. So keep your eyes open, your heart full, and have a magical Christmas season!

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You may want to authorize someone to access your private medical information immediately, rather than just upon your incapacity, via a HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Authorization.

This would be especially important for parents to have for that college student.

For legal and financial decision-making authority, you should have a Durable Power of Attorney, so that someone can pay your bills, manage your bank accounts, and take care of your home, even if just on a temporary basis, due to an unexpected hospitalization. Even a married couple (or more importantly, partners who are not married) need to have this authority for one another.

Having these basic documents in place will keep your care and affairs private, keeping you and your family out of the Probate Court during your lifetime, which far exceeds the importance of avoiding probate upon your death.

Finally for anyone with a minor (under age eighteen) child, or a child over eighteen with special needs, or if you are the primary caregiver for someone who will not be able to take care of themselves if something happens to you, have a basic Will in which you nominate a testamentary guardian for that individual for whom you are responsible. The Probate Judge who may be called upon to appoint the guardian will generally give great weight to your recommendation.

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a life raft Sometimes the simplest things require the most explanation. So, before I get going about art journaling, let’s clear up a couple of things.

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A journal and a diary are two different things! And the main difference is that a diary is usually a bound book with lined pages that is used to record your day.

In fact, the word diary comes from the Latin word for day. So, it is a blank book where you record your daily events as they happened.

A journal, on the other hand, is also a blank book where thoughts, impressions, and ideas are not only noted, but they are also explored further and developed.

It’s a combination of doodles, sketches, and diagrams explained by detailed

notes which sometimes turn into reality.

Journals and diaries have been around for quite some time and those of the past have offered a glimpse into the lives of historic figures. One of the most wellknown is The Diary of Anne Frank.

But what is the difference between a journal and an art journal? Well, the journal may contain words and sketches, but an art journal is a bit more robust. It’s a journal that focuses on images, whether drawn or clipped out of a magazine and pasted, patterns, materials, and colors.

Yes, art journals do have writing in them but sometimes, it’s just a combination of found or created images.

Most recently, art journals have been engaged as a form of creative self-care.

The global pandemic seems to have increased the interest in art journaling among artists and non-artists alike.

One of the South Coast creative community’s most enterprising “artrepreneurs” is Alison Wells.

Finding a connection Wells is originally from Trinidad and Tobago and relocated to the South Coast in 2004 to pursue a master’s degree in Fine Art Painting at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.

Through her hard work and persistence, she has joined the ranks of busy and successful artists.

One of her pandemic passions has been art journaling. She also teaches it!

And although others may think that

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artists are having fun all day long in their studios, it’s work! For Alison, art journaling is therapeutic.

According to Wells, art journaling provides an outlet where you can either get ideas down or get emotions and feelings out of your head, or both! Art journaling, she says, “is self-betterment that offers peace of mind, a release, a way to download thoughts and emotions while getting a better understanding of yourself.”

It has been quite a journey for Wells from her Caribbean homeland of Trinidad and Tobago to her arrival on the South Coast. Art journaling has provided her with an epiphany.

The pandemic provided “a fitting time to express gratitude and uninhibited creativity.”

She refers to her art journals as her “mixed media gratitude journals.” She says that back in the beginning of the quarantine in 2020, “my gratitude journals comforted me during a time of uncertainty, anxiety, and fear, and it also got me out of my creative rut.”

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“Art journaling is self-betterment that offers peace of mind, a release, a way to download thoughts and emotions while getting a better understanding of yourself” There are classes that teach art journaling. They offer how to start an Art Journal and art basics such as the importance of value, or simply the range of lights and darks to create visually pleasing composition.

Of course, there’s lots more but all you need is a journal, which is nothing more than a small sketchbook or notebook or even just a blank sheet of paper. Other tools include markers or paint pens, gel pens, paint and brushes, and of course, scissors and glue! The rest is up to your inspiration, motivation, and imagination.

In an October 2017 online article in My Modern Met by Sarah Barnes, the author writes, “the benefits of getting your thoughts on paper… offers a way to de-stress and to sort through complicated emotions. As a result, you gain selfawareness and feel empowered.”

Art journaling has become a recognized practice within creative therapy approaches to reduce stress, encourage creativity and to problem solve. The therapeutic activity relies on the use of art supplies and techniques without the necessary pressure of a perfect result.

As we all endure the uncertainty of the pandemic, self-care has become a new mantra.

Ron Fortier is an international artist who emigrated to the Silver Coast of mainland Portugal where he lived, painted, and exhibited.

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Turkey’s day As we lumber toward the darkness of encroaching winter and fully embrace the glory of Seasonal Affective Disorder marked by the coincidence of Paul K andarian falling leaves, falling temperature, and our falling spirits happening all at once, we celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday the way we have as a nation for so long: playing up the make-believe peace and harmony and cooperation of Pilgrim and Native Americans and ignoring the fact that the relationship ended badly for one of them and it wasn’t the folks in the weird black hats who said stuff like “doth” and “prithee” a lot.

And even earlier than the Pilgrims landing and taking over came Europeans who decimated the population of Native Americans, who were otherwise minding their own business, with disease, kidnapping, enslavement... in short, all the things we in America ascribe to our “heroes.” Columbus Day, anyone?

But Thanksgiving, which includes devouring turkey, has in this country a slew of what we like to call “traditions” but which should be called, in fact, “Things That Are Just Weird AF.” Take for example, the tradition for decades of the President, the Leader of the Free World, “pardoning” a turkey the day before Thanksgiving, which in the prior administration had the unique occurrence of one turkey pardoning a much more intelligent, well-spoken, cute, and likable one.

I always thought “pardons” happened only with criminals, but are turkeys criminal? I suspect you’d say yes if you’d ever been harassed by a gobbling gaggle of thick-bodied wild ones who seem to always be angry at humans but never each other. And what happens to them? They get sent to the former estate of George

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Washington where they are eaten by predators with wooden teeth. You think the Secret Service would look after them better.

Another weird tradition is turkey bowling with a frozen, presumably dead, or just wicked cold bird in an actual bowling alley, which began years ago in Newport Beach, California, where the town motto is “The Home of Really Bored Tanned Chill People With Not a Lot Else Going On.” Also a thing for no good reason is “Turducken,” which is a most bizarre form of avian body horror. You take a deboned chicken and stuff it into a deboned duck

You take a deboned chicken and stuff it into a deboned duck which you then stuff into a deboned turkey and cook it, basically creating a roasted Frankenbird which you then stuff into a deboned turkey and cook it, basically creating a roasted Frankenbird. This was so seriously wonderful to the late great football coach and commentator John Madden – he raved about it during broadcasts and once sawed through a turducken with his bare hand on live TV. Running off your meal before you actually eat it happens in a tradition known as “The Turkey Trot,” which involves humans in turkey costumes, and not birds with digestive issues. People in said costumes usually do this for a good cause, which is raising money for charity

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and if they’re really smart, raising money for themselves by getting themselves and their ridiculous outfits on “Let’s Make a Deal.”

Making American great and fat again, since we are one of the most obese nations on the globe (which many of us are shaped like), is the tradition of turkey eating competitions held across the country. This is serious stuff, evidenced by guys like Joey Chestnut, a legit (albeit inexplicably competitive and not obese) eater, who in 2014 ate nine pounds of a 20-pound turkey in 10 minutes. This is not without precedent: in the days of the Pilgrims, Ebenezer “Big Britches” Snarkweather consumed an entire deer at the first Thanksgiving, not including antlers, upon completion of which he doth exploded.

And leave it to our wonderful neighbors to our north to really know what the holiday is about. Canada, which by the way has been celebrating Thanksgiving for decades years before we started it, celebrates a variety of things on the day, including explorer Martin Frobisher’s 16th-century attempts to discover the Northwest Passage, and emphasizing, you know, things to be thankful for, like the harvest, changing leaves, autumn flavor, and the like. Whereas in this country, we’re thankful for the domination of indigenous people that was unfortunate but hey, it led to other beautiful Thanksgiving traditions like getting up at the crack of stupid on Black Friday and standing in line in the cold at the local WalMart to play human hungry hungry hippo and gobble up savings for stuff they really don’t need but will kill to get.

Happy Thanksgiving, America! And if you’re not gonna eat that turkey leg, prithee, doth pass it to me.

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