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Reiki Level One Initiation
Fri January 21, 7-9 pm
Sat January 22, 10 am-6 pm
Sun January 23, 10 am-4 pm
Sliding scale fee $150-$300
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117 1st St, Suite 26, Mt. Vernon (Carnation building)
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THE NEW YEAR by Carrie Williams Clifford
The New Year comes—fling wide, fling wide the door
Of Opportunity! the spirit free
To scale the utmost heights of hopes to be,
To rest on peaks ne’er reached by man before!
The boundless infinite let us explore,
To search out undiscovered mystery,
Undreamed of in our poor philosophy!
The bounty of the gods upon us pour!
Nay, in the New Year we shall be as gods:
No longer apish puppets or dull clods
Of clay; but poised, empowered to command,
Upon the Etna of New Worlds we’ll stand—
This scant earth-raiment to the winds will cast—
Full richly robed as supermen at last!
From Sally Riggers
Carrie Williams Clifford was born in September 1862 in Chillicothe, Ohio. A poet and activist, she is the author of Race Rhymes (R. L. Pendleton, 1911) and The Widening Light (Walter Reid, 1922). A co-founder and the first president of the Ohio State Federation of Colored Women, Clifford helped form a women’s subset of the Niagara Movement, a predecessor of the NAACP.
I’d like to offer my technical services to the community. I work with computers, tablets, phones, printers, networks, and websites. I d
on’t promise I can fix everything, and I’ve got a pretty good track record (references available). $60/hour. If you’re interested, please text or email me: 360-389-3399 or
g.rodgersclark@gmail.com