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Local poet reads Poems and tells of travels at Sunnybrook

7/18/2017

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PicturePoet, author, world traveler Diane Schetky
​(Brunswick) Diane Schetky will read poems and tell of her travels from the Arctic to Antarctica on  Wednesday, July 26 at 3 p.m. at Sunnybrook Senior Living, 340 Bath Road, Brunswick.  Author, poet, retired psychiatrist, world traveler and now Topsham resident, Schetky will read from her latest poetry book, Taking Flight: New Poems and Others illustrated by the poet and published by Just Write Books of Topsham. The talk is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
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​Taking Flight is a selection of poetry that will provoke a thoughtful journey companioned by a mindful guide according to publisher Nancy E Randolph of Just Write Books. Randolph invites you to enjoy Schetky’s poems and sketches from her travels. ​

​Maggie Butler, poet and Certified Amherst Writers & Artists Facilitator opined, “Diane Schetky’s poems are filled with the observations of someone in love with the natural world, someone who listens and sees beyond what is on the surface. In Taking Flight, you’ll meet a river that becomes a traveling companion, experience a sense of place in countries you may never have visited, and meet people whose voices have been lost or silenced, as the author deftly bears witness to their stories through her poetry.
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Taking Flight cover
Young Schetky dreamed of becoming a doctor. Her education began at Sarah Lawrence College where her focus was art. At a time when few women entered the medical profession, she was welcomed by Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She completed post-graduate training in pediatrics, child and adult psychiatry. From 1986 until her retirement in 2000, she practiced child, adolescent and forensic psychiatry in Rockport, Maine.  She lives in Topsham, Maine, and summers in Phippsburg, Maine. She volunteers with CHANS Hospice and facilitates bereavement groups. She leads tours for children as a docent at The Bowdoin College Arctic Peary Museum. She also facilitates a writers’ group at the retirement community where she resides. 
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Schetky’s journal sketch of a Lemming observed on Wrangel Island.
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Another sketch from Schetky’s travel journal.
Schetky previously wrote five books on forensic child psychiatry, two books of poetry, Poems on Loss, Hope and Healing (2009) and Dancing Bear and other New Poems (2012). Her poems have been published in Off the Coast, Goose River Anthology, The Puckerbrush Review, The Maine Review, The Northern New England Review, The Aurorean and several psychiatric journals. 
​Schetky says, “My poems reflect my love of adventure. I’ve traveled to seven continents and fifty countries. My writing also shows my deep concern for our endangered earth.”
​This free event is open to the public and co-sponsored by Sunnybrook Senior Living and Just Write Books.  
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​Each year, Just Write Books of Topsham publishes a few Maine books by Maine authors telling Maine stories, several websites and social media posts for authors, business owners and others. Working together with authors/clients, we work to help the author of any publication achieve his/her goals. www.jstwrite.com
​Sunnybrook, a senior living community in Brunswick, Maine boasts a home-like environment and beautifully appointed apartments, many with picturesque Moose Pond views. Sunnybrook is now proud to be part of the Northbridge Companies family, with a focus on living well and loving life.
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Thoreau remembered by Emerson

7/13/2017

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The writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau was born 200 years ago on July 12, 1817.

Ralph Waldo Emerson remembered him thus:
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His poetry might be bad or good; he no doubt wanted a lyric facility and technical skill; but he had the source of poetry in his spiritual perception. He was a good reader and critic, and his judgment on poetry was to the ground of it. He could not be deceived as to the presence or absence of the poetic element in any composition, and his thirst for this made him negligent and perhaps scornful of superficial graces. … He was so enamored of the spiritual beauty that he held all actual written poems in very light esteem in the comparison. …
Such was the wealth of his truth that it was not worth his while to use words in vain. … His biography is in his verses. His habitual thought makes all his poetry a hymn to the Cause of causes, the Spirit which vivifies and controls his own.

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Join the action to save NET NEUTRALITY

7/11/2017

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On July 12, 2017, websites, Internet users, and online communities will come together to sound the alarm about the FCC’s attack on net neutrality. Learn how you can join the protest and spread the word at https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12/.

Right now, new FCC Chairman and former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai has a plan to destroy net neutrality and give big cable companies immense control over what we see and do online. If they get their way, the FCC will give companies like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T control over what we can see and do on the Internet, with the power to slow down or block websites and charge apps and sites extra fees to reach an audience.

If we lose net neutrality, we could soon face an Internet where some of your favorite websites are forced into a slow lane online, while deep-pocketed companies who can afford expensive new “prioritization” fees have special fast lane access to Internet users – tilting the playing field in their favor.

But on July 12th, the Internet will come together to stop them. Websites, Internet users, and online communities will stand tall, and sound the alarm about the FCC’s attack on net neutrality.

The Battle for the Net campaign will provide tools for everyone to make it super easy for your friends, family, followers to take action. From the SOPA blackout to the Internet Slowdown, we've shown time and time again that when the Internet comes together, we can stop censorship and corruption. Now, we have to do it again!

Learn more and join the action here: https://www.battleforthenet.com/july12 ​

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    Nancy E. Randolph operates Just Write Books offering consulting and coaching for writers.

    An active community member she co-­chaired the rehabilitation effort of the Androscoggin Swinging Bridge and guided the planning and creation of two riverside parks at each end. Along with two others she founded and serves as a member of the board of Save Our Swinging Bridge.Org to ensure the maintenance of the historic Roebling designed and built bridge connecting Topsham and Brunswick.

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