'Frisbee College' might have been a joke on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' but sadly, the Detroit Lions started heading in an anti-decent direction due to the the addition of Rebecca Smoker's strumpets. The Detroit Lions would have been better off adding a trumpet section to keep Ellen Trudell alert rather than adding Rebecca Smoker's unholy women to Martha's animal house. The many good messages of Garry Capps is not forgotten when I reuse the word 'strumpet' and warn against such behavior.
On occasion I search the internet for signs or inforation on people I have been acquinted with, both evil and good people. I suppose this is not much different than working in the Missing Person's Bureau without any hockey players named 'Haggerty' or sergeants named 'Hess' telling me what or who to search for. I could hardly sleep last night after seeing what a wonderful young man my former step-son, Jarob Ortiz, has become and the choices he has made. He hasn't desired to get employed taking pictures of Seattle Seahawks NFL cheerleaders but rather has developed a sense of the phrase 'Be still and know that I am God' as he captures images of that which is decent and often wonderful natural beauty in landscapes and architecture. The tears that came from me last night were not only because I miss being with decent young people such as Jarob Ortiz had been when he was playing hockey or whining about the vegetables I prepared for him, but also because I was very happy that he has made good choices for himself even though his parents, like so many, have made very bad choices in the past.
What I know about Jarob Ortiz's past is very different than what Jim Axelrod tried to find out about him. Escaping an environment filled with cigarette smoke is what he and I might both have tried to do with adult steps, not baby steps. He somehow overcame some childhood fears and gained anough confidence and physical strength to get into the USA Air Force just as I had to work hard to pass physical tests to get onto the police department where I was given paychecks but wasn't given instructions on what Yehovah expected of me so I, maybe like Ellen Trudell, did not have a truly good leader at my workplace or in my household. I don't know if Jarob will read the email I sent him, just as I don't know if Ameer Abuddah is going to read and believe the letter I intend to send him, but Jarob's words during his interview indicates that he not only was a good student in the schools he went to but also that what his eyes are directed toward is DECENT, not useless or perverted.
This content from CBS records might help you as much as it did me when trying to gain perspective of what it means to be blessed after going through adversities as a child that I never faced because my parents never divorced.
National Park Service photographer captures "essence" of American history
This piece originally aired December 13, 2016.
Seventy-five years ago, the secretary of the interior commissioned the legendary Ansel Adams to photograph America’s national parks. Ever since, there’s been a reverence and a sense of responsibility around the job. The National Park Service hired a photographer this year to document the human touch on the American landscape. One of his first assignments involved a little-known part of Ellis Island. For this installment of our “America the Beautiful” series, Jim Axelrod met a man who hopes his work will reveal more of the fabric of our nation.
While at first look his workspace doesn’t look so dreamy, the building – abandoned for 60 years, boarded up and filled with debris – is actually supplying photographer Jarob Ortiz with both a challenge and some powerful inspiration.
“An area like this, is this a challenge for you?” CBS News’ Jim Axelrod asked.
“This area is very largely a challenge for me,” Ortiz said.
“You’ve got to make something interesting, when it’s actually nothing but big, white, open, empty space,” Axelrod observed.
“Exactly,” Ortiz said.
He continued, “When you’re taking a photograph – and especially the way the public is consuming photography these days, it’s all instant, real quick – so what you have to do is try to find a composition and angle that you know is going to capture people and interest them. That’s where the light comes into play. Usually you can play with light to draw on people’s emotion and bring them through a photograph the way that you want to do.”
Photographer Jarob Ortiz
CBS NEWS
Ortiz is snapping his way through a forgotten corner of Ellis Island, far from the splendor of the great hall where 12 million immigrants entered the country.
Whether it’s rusted mattress sterilizers or 80-year-old graffiti, Ortiz is making sure all parts of the immigrants’ experience in Ellis Island are remembered.
“Is there a way you can take a picture in 2016 which gives us a sense of the challenges of 100 years before?” Axelrod asked.
“That’s the hard part because I don’t think you can really capture that essence. That’s more to the imagination,” Ortiz said.
“Carved into the wall here: ‘Paul Kettunen. March 20th, 1935.’ That must grab your eye,” Axelrod said, pointing to the letters on a wall.
“Well absolutely, I mean because this is a physical remembrance of this particular person, and obviously, he thought it was important and he knew that there was something big happening here.” Ortiz said. “I definitely think about the emotions. I just can’t imagine what it must have been like to go through that boat ride, coming off and that port – it inspires me to do the best I can because I think it’s important that these stories get told.”
“Ellis Island is important to American history because immigration is important to American history,” said historian Kenneth C. Davis. “One in three Americans is descended from someone who walked through these halls. It’s an astonishing idea but history is not about dates, battles, and speeches. It’s about real people doing real things.”
Ortiz is the newest member of an exclusive club of American photographers – those like Ansel Adams – who captured our national parks for the Library of Congress. And just like Adams in the 1940’s, Jarob Ortiz uses a large format camera.
“It’s really a control thing. I just have to be honest, it’s like if you’re really meticulous and you just want to have all control over every single aspect of your image, this is the camera to use,” Ortiz said.
“Large format cameras are old school,” Axelrod said.
“They are old school but they’re still used today. The resolution you’re going to get out of that piece of film will blow away any digital photograph,” Ortiz said.
“Really?” Axelrod asked.
“They can’t even come close,” Ortiz said.
Each shot can take up to an hour and a half to set up and light. It’s a process involving a lot of math and precision, all for just one split second, burned into film forever.
“What I’m doing is just trying to capture the essence of history and inform the public of what’s happened in these locations with my photographs,” Ortiz said.
“And why is that important?” Axelrod asked.
“Because I think a lot of people forget about where we came from all too easy,” Ortiz said. “It’s what shapes us. It’s how we know where we got to.”
The problem that I have had to overcome was reacting to SIN with more sin rather than rebuking or fleeing from an unholy leader. Rebecca Smoke is an unholy leader that men like Ameer Abdullah have not had the courage to flee from because of MONEY, which makes Ameer Abdullah similar to a spouse who stays with or is attracted to an unholy household leader to avoid poverty rather than head away from their ungodly companion to avoid sin. A split second of unfaithfulness is burned into history forever and only future images of true faithfulness can counter the real effects of unfaithfulness. Every year I pitch a tent in my parent's yard for the Feast of Tabernacles, images of faithfulness are burned into history while others may have decided to only remember the years I was unfaithful to the entity I used to refer to as 'God' but now I refer to as Yehovah.
I hope to meet Jarob Ortiz again someday and maybe even talk with him about historic sites such as the water tower on the Mrs. James A. Garfield lands or the specific images etched into glass in the Israelite synagogue near the Pittsburgh University campus, both sites of which I am sure Jarob would appreciate more than a poker chip adored by the children and relatives of my 3rd former husband, Shane D. Hendrikson. Contrast is often what a photographer SEES, but there are contrasts in behaviors that are also seen and DISCERNED by real holy angels that aren't always clothed in Cleveland Browns attire.
Men like Mikell Clayton might not understand why some people cheer and are encouraged after a battle between opposing forces such as the Cleveand Browns vs. the New York Jets that are not fights to the death but are actual physical and spiritual battles. It is perfectly good to encourage young and old people to prefer teams that do not have strumpets, guns and roses on the sidelines but might have trumpets, footballs, shitzu named Mozzie and beef sliders on their sidelines to bring a city or state together to combat the currently unholy mindsets of Eric Frisbee and Rebecca Smoker.
Men like Jarob Ortiz, Nathan Ortiz and my son Richard should know that I still love them though they are far from me now and I truly hope they have a discerning spirit within them that not only is able to resist sin but also is able to cause them to repent for any past sins.
If you made it to day 157 of a tribulation count, did you think of Jean-Gabriel Pageau, Reggie H. White or maybe even Snoopy as you walked away from 'Choppers' motorcycle outfits stuffing swine into their face? Have you considered that those how lost their lives in the flood waters from Hurricane Florence have been spared from something even worse to come that those still alive will have to face? So many religious leaders focus their speech on 'the father', but there are actually a few truly holy mothers and hurting stepmothers and stepfathers on earth that are sometimes friends closer than a brother.
'And the earth helped the woman.....'
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