Update on Project Compassion

Here is an update on Project Compassion...
as of now, since 2003 just over 1,850 portraits have been painted by their 5 artists, and sent home!

You can go to their new web site...

http://www.heropaintings.com/kzindex.aspx

and read about these marvelous artists and view their work...It was Kaziah Handcock who started this never ending project...My hat is off to her and her fellow artists...

Please help them if you can.

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Marry Christmas Everyone....from Uncle Ron

Christmas dinner...

I just put a 6 lb. precooked ham in my 5 qt. (or is it 7 qt.) crock pot and lined the bottom of it with cabbage wedges...I am going to let it cook on low for 8-10 hours...Too long you say? Well I'll check it periodically to make sure I don't over cook it...Any suggestions are welcome...I'm going to do the turkey tomorrow morning and have it ready by noon...We eat at noon... I might made an apple walnut cake today as well...Sounds Yummy...

I went to a funeral yesterday for my good friend, Jerry's brother Jim...Jim had not been well for some time...They lived together...Funerals make people sad but I'm kind of the opposite...I believe Death is our beginning not our end...They do it right in New Orleans with the parade of mourners marching down the street, trumpets blaring and drums pounding and dancing in the street...I like that...

Portraits of Fallen Soldiers

There's some artists out there who are helping to heal the heartbreak of fallen soldier's family and friends...It was started by a Utah artist named Kaziah Handcock...She and a few other artists are painting portraits of our fallen heros in Iraq and Afghanistan and sending them to their families free of charge...They call it,"Project Compassion"...and you can go to it's web site and see virtually all of the portraits (over 300) they have completed...They have not stopped doing this...They are continuing to paint these portraits even as we speak...They need our help...Please go to their web site...

http://www.kaziahthegoatwoman.com/

and see these beautiful paintings and view the videos of Kaziah and`then give them a hand...

God bless...

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Here is another shot of that farm house I took yesterday while driving to pick out a ham for Christmas dinner...I'm going to slow cook it in a large crock pot with a head of cabbage cut up underneath it...For some reason my daughter Sandra wants cabbage this year along with the typical condiments on the menu...I am also doing a turkey as well...

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No photo today as well...But I think this little sign and motto from the Peace Pilgrim is very apppropriate for this time of year...Anyone wanting to know more about the Peace Pilgrim can google her name...Her message to the world is very beautiful and profound...

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I didn't take a daily photo today so I thought I would add an old photo I took a few years back of a lovely belly dancer who taught at the YWCA in Columbia...She was illustrating her art to the students of University of South Carolina ...I bounced my flash off the ceiling of this room which was very high...I don't know what my shutter speed was but it must have been slow since I picked up the wonderful highlights from her movements...Over the years I have made many mistakes with my camera but this one made this photo a keeper...