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What memories of your grandparents do you have?
Was any wisdom handed down to you?
Since my parents were in their 40's and had left New York and moved to the west coast by the time I "accidentally" came along I never really had grandparents in my life. I never met the Grands on my dad's side, and he never spoke of them. I have just a few memories of Mimi and Papa on my mom's side. Both of them died before I was 7, but there was evidence of Papa's genius everywhere that still inspires me in anticipation of retirement. What an explosion of creativity he experienced once he had free time!
Papa, it seems, had been hiding an internal Renaissance man. His parents came to Canada from Wales, and then he and his brother moved to Buffalo New York and started a used car business. Once he retired, though, it was if he'd gotten permission for his real life to begin.
He started making furniture in his Buffalo basement workshop, graduating from simple pine hutches to cherrywood writing desks to elaborate grandfather clocks. I'm told he spent hours hand-rubbing oil into the wood of each creation. Each of his grandchildren has a piece he made. Then at some point the winter chill got to be too much for his arthritis, and he decided to learn how to play the organ, succeeding so well in this they featured him on a fledgling news channel as "the oldest man in Buffalo to play the organ."
Then photography caught his interest, and he built his own darkroom. A look through old family albums shows many soulful 8x10 portraits of the older kids (well before I came along). This was followed by indulging in his lifelong interest in classical music as he built his own Hi-Fi system. He and Mimi briefly lived in southern California where he cultivated a rose garden. The picture shows him during this stay.
It is in that garden that I have my clearest memory of him. He was a tall, slightly stooped, quiet and very kindly man, and always brings to mind the associated smells of cherry tobacco and butterscotch candy. In this memory I'm of pre-school age and he seems quite ancient to me. I'm sitting in the dirt contentedly playing watching ants running to and fro, and he is slowly moving along his rows of roses. We don't speak as there is no need to talk, but every now and then he looks over and smiles at me. There is a timelessness to this memory, the very old man and the very young girl somehow inhabiting the same meditative space, comfortable being entirely in the moment with nowhere else to go and nothing else on earth to do.
Tell me a story about your grandparents.
Latest Updates on Kossack Regional Meet-Up News Below the New Day sunrise cloud
:: COMMUNITY BUILDING UPDATES ::
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Let's build communities!
Every region needs a meatspace community like SFKossacks.
We take care of each other in real life.
I urge YOU to take the lead and organize one in your region.
Please tell us about it if you do and we're here for advice.
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THINK GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY
>>>Instructions on HOW TO FORM A NEW DAILY KOS GROUP
NEW GROUPS IN THE PROCESS OF ORGANIZING:
Send a Kosmail to the organizers and ask for an invitation to the group.
• Northern Indiana Area: Kosmail Tim Delaney
• Long Island: Kosmail grannycarol
• Northern Michigan: Kosmail JillS
• Nebraska: Kosmail Nebraska68847Dem
• Westburbia Chicago Kossacks: Kosmail Majordomo
• Caprock Kossacks (Panhandle/Caprock/Lubbock/Amarillo area) : Kosmail shesaid
• West Texas Kossacks (including Big Bend Region and El Paso) : Kosmail Yo Bubba
• Las Vegas Kossacks: Kosmail miracle11
• Vermont Kossacks: Kosmail 4Freedom
• Silicon Valley Kossacks: Kosmail Glen The Plumber
Note to the above new leaders: Feel free to leave a comment any day reminding readers about your new group. Also, tell us about your progress in gathering members. Kosmail me when you've chosen a good name for your group and have created a the group. Then I'll move you to the NEW GROUPS LIST. When you've planned a date for your first event I'll make a banner for you to highlight your event in our diaries and your diaries.
These are the groups that have started since * NEW DAY * began. Please Kosmail navajo if you have started a group before that.
NEW GROUPS LIST:
• California Central Valley Kossacks - Formed: Jul 29, 2012, Organizer: tgypsy
• New England Kossacks - Formed: Aug 6, 2012, Organizers:
Clytemnestra for Lower New England (Conneticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island)
nhox42 for Upper New England (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont)
• Houston Area Kossacks - Formed: Aug 7, 2012, Organizer: Chrislove
• Kossacks in India - Formed: Aug 14, 2012, Organizer: chandu
• CenTex Kossacks - Formed: Sep 9, 2012, Organizer: papa monzano
• Central Ohio Kossacks - Formed: Sep 26, 2012, Organizer: VetGrl
• Kansas City Kossacks - Formed Oct 15, 2012, Organizer: [Founder stepped down]
• Phoenix Kossacks - Formed Oct 16, 2012, Organizer: arizonablue
• Chicago Kossacks - Formed: Oct 31, 2012, Organizer: figbash
• Koscadia the Pacific Northwest coast from Northern California to Alaska
- Formed Oct 17, 2012, Oganizer: Horace Boothroyd III based in Portland, OR
• Boston Kossacks - Formed: Nov 7, 2012, Organizer: GreyHawk
• Motor City Kossacks South East Michigan (Detroit) Area - Formed: Nov 10, 2012, Organizer: peregrine kate
• Pittsburgh Area Kossacks - Formed: Nov 12, 2012, Organizer: dweb8231
• Salt Lake City Kossacks - Formed: Nov 17, 2012, Organizer: War on Error
• Twin Cities Kossacks - Formed: Nov 17, 2012, Organizer: imonlylurking
• Dallas Kossacks North Texas - Formed: Nov 21, 2012, Admins: Catte Nappe and dalfireplug. Please contact them to join the group. An Event Organizer needed.
• The Southern California Inland Empire Kossacks - Formed: Dec 3, 2012, Organizer: SoCaliana
• Los Angeles Kossacks - Formed: Dec 17, 2012, Organizer: Dave in Northridge
• Northeast Ohio Kossacks - Formed: Jan 16, 2013, Organizer: GenXangster
• Kansas & Missouri Kossacks - Formed: Jan 17, 2013, Organizer: tmservo433
• I-77 Carolina Kossacks who live from Columbia, SC to north of Winston-Salem, NC. - Formed: Jan 30, 2013, Organizers: gulfgal98 and eeff
• Indianapolis Kossacks - Formed: Feb 6, 2013, Organizer: CityLightsLover
• Southwest Ohio Kossacks - Formed: May 10, 2013, Organizer: Dr Erich Bloodaxe RN
• Northern Arizona Kossacks - Formed: Jul 5, 2013, Organizer: Sam Sara
• Mexican Kossacks - Formed: Apr 14, 2013, Organizer: roberb7
• New York Hudson Valley Kossacks - Formed: Oct 27, 2012, Organizer: boran2
• North Carolina Triangle Kosmopolitans - Formed: Aug 2, 2013, Organizer: highacidity
ESTABLISHED GROUPS LIST: (List will grow as we discover them)
• SFKossacks Founded by navajo, Formed: May 2, 2005
• Maryland Kos Founded by timmyc, Formed: Feb 23, 2011. Contact: JamieG from Md for a group invite.
• New York City Founded by Eddie C - Contact the group organizer for meet-up events: sidnora
• Baja Arizona Kossacks, Event Organizer: Azazello
• Three Star Kossacks Tennessee, Founded by maryKK, Formed: Apr 8, 2011
• Nashville KosKats, Founded by ZenTrainer Formed: Jan 30, 2012
• Virginia Kos Founded by JamieG from Md, Formed: May 3, 2011
• Kos Georgia Founded by pat208, Formed: Feb 13, 2011
• Colorado COmmunity Founded by Leftcandid, Formed: Feb 13, 2011
• New Mexico Kossaks Founded by claude
• Philly Kos Founded by mconvente Formed: Aug 29, 2011
• DKos Florida Founded by ThirstyGator, Formed: Feb 14, 2011, Currently organizing: Kosmail Vetwife to be included in next event.
• Oklahoma Roundup Founded by BigOkie, Formed: Feb 13, 2011, Currently organizing: Kosmail peacearena to be included.
• DKos Asheville Founded by davehouck, Formed: Feb 13, 2011 - Organizing Assist by: randallt
• San Diego Kossacks Founded by La Gitane, Formed: Nov 18, 2011
by navajo ♥ for SFKossacks
L-R: SFKossacks meeting at the home of Andrew McGuire in the Wine Country
You can join the SFKossacks by sending a Kosmail to navajo.
by randallt ♥ for DKos Asheville
Asheville, NC gets out the vote:
L-R: These are our volunteers, randallt, davehouck and Lamont Cranston.
Would love to add your picture!
You can join DKos Asheville by sending a Kosmail to randallt.
Wednesday, October 30th
I-77 Kossacks Last Minute Meet-up
ORGANIZERS: Fineena and SteelerGrrl
L-R: Fineena, Steelergrrl, steelerdude, edrie, eeff, Poz, cskendrick
Reporting diary: I-77 Kossacks mini-meetup 10/30, updated with better photo
:: Events Currently on the Books for ALL Kossacks ::
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Saturday, November 9th
Columbia, Missouri Kossacks Political Meet-up
TIME: 7:00 PM
LOCATION: Trey Bistro
21 N 9th Street • Columbia, MO
ORGANIZER: Send tmservo433 a kosmail to attend.
We will have D. Brekhus in attendance, PhD professor at University of Missouri who will talk with us about the demographic shifts, patterns of sexual politics and the future of democrats at the state and national level in the Show Me State.
Do you know people who aren't on Daily Kos but are interested in change for Missouri? Make the effort. Encourage them to come out.
Put faces to userIDs. Meet and work to elect more & better democrats.
RSVPs:
1. tmservo433
2. Man Oh Man
3. cweb7
4. glitterscale+friends
5. kj in missouri
6. Glitterscale
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Maybees:
Spunhard
RerumCognoscereCausas
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Latest diary: Columbia, Missouri Get Together Gains Momentum...
Saturday, November 16th
Indianapolis Kossacks Meet-up
TIME: 2:00 PM
LOCATION: Pancho's Tacqueria
9658 Allisonville Road • Fishers
ORGANIZER: Send CityLightsLover a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. CityLightsLover
2. Yours Truly
3. Mokurai
4. Alexandra Lynch
5. avalonbear
6. Tim DeLaney
7. Dragon5616
8.
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Latest diary: [Waiting for linked diary]
Saturday, November 16th
Kansas City Kossacks 2014 Strategy Meet-up
TIME: 7:00 - 10:00 PM
LOCATION: Overland Park Marriott, ballroom TBD
10800 Metcalf Ave • Overland Park
Catered casual dinner.
If you've got politically motivated friends in your facebook feed, if you have followers on twitter - if you know people in your college community that think as you do, this is a truly unique event that will get you into the ground floor, behind the scenes of campaigns that look to raise the issues in Kansas and Missouri. And they are all invited.
ORGANIZER: Send tmservo433 a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. tmservo433
2. Statusquomustgo
3. ShowMeMoBlue
4. MoDem
5. zamrzla (Offering carpool from Topeka)
6. zamrzla's guest
7. Glitterscale
8. Jen Hayden (Scout Finch)
9. Mr. Jen Hayden
10. kcdesigngirl
Representatives of Paul Davis Campaign for Governor of Kansas
Representatives from Planned Parenthood and other organizations
Representatives from some Kansas City PACs
Maybees:
We are working on attendees from:
The Wakefield Campaign
Emmanuel Clever's Office
Latest diary: KC Meetup: November 16.. You -WANT- to be here.
Sunday, November 17th
Los Angeles Kossacks Meet-up
TIME: TBD
LOCATION: TBD
TBD • TBD
ORGANIZER: Send Dave in Northridge a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. Dave in Northridge
2. susans
3. Otoelbc
4. Joe Bacon
5. jakedog42
6. DontTaseMeBro
7. DontTaseMeBro's husband
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Latest diary: Los Angeles Kossacks: October 19 Meetup, Saladang Song, Pasadena
Sunday, November 24th
Colorado COmmunity Kossacks Meet-up
TIME: NOON
LOCATION: Annie's Cafe & Bar
3100 E Colfax • Denver
ORGANIZER: Send ColoTim a kosmail to attend.
RSVPs:
1. ColoTim
2. Phoenix Rising
3.
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Maybees:
bristlecone77
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Latest diary: Colorado Meetup November 24th
Send navajo a kosmail if you post a diary about an event so we can update our round-up.
Okay. Floor's open.
Tell us what you are doing on this NEW DAY?