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rom a lush, striking peachorange ‘Rosie the Riveter’ to a classic red ‘Legends’ hybrid tea rose, North Haven Gardens’ Rose Weekend features a bloom for everyone. With more than 100 varieties, you’ll find a wide selection of roses in all shapes and colors. A tradition for over 68 years, NHG’s Rose Weekend has been instrumental in keeping Dallas rose gardens vibrant. Originally, this popular weekend event was held in October. In those days, original rosarian Ira Duncan and founder Ralph Pinkus trekked to the Tyler rose fields, selecting the rose varieties that would be displayed instore for customers to browse. Bareroot canes were brought in after orders were placed. North Haven Gardens grew the shrubs over the winter in recycled food cans, and customers returned in March to pick up their shrubs. By the mid-1970s, commercial rose growing in the U.S. was largely centered in California, but today, North Haven Gardens continues the tradition of bringing in several thousand bare root roses each winter to grow out for the next spring. Bare rootstock comes from several reputable wholesale rose growers from around the country, says
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OF NOTE Daniel Hart is one of Hollywood’s most respected composers, and his musician-parents still live in Lake Highlands. Interview by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB | Photography by EMILY ULMER
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hen 2021’s medieval fantasy adventure The Green Knight finally hit theaters (after a yearlong pandemic-induced delay), Daniel Hart, composer of the movie’s musical score, hosted a friends-and-family screening at Valley View Center’s AMC 16. “Talk about weird,” Daniel quips. The Green Knight is almost universally revered by critics and discerning watchers alike for its specific, well-executed and majestic weirdness, but he’s describing oddity of a different ilk. Daniel worked at this mall when he was in high school — in the Food Court, at Chick-fil-A. So, standing outside the theater with his guests last August, he pointed to one abandoned space after another, telling them who occupied each in the ’90s. “Which is strange in itself, isn’t it?” Daniel wonders. “Like, why is that information still in my brain? It does me no good. Very, very strange.” Absence of Hat World and Games Chest notwithstanding, Daniel cherished the day he rented out that theater. It was a day spent with his parents, Ken and Ellen Hart, to whom he owes his remarkable success. “It feels like sharing it with them is a reflection on their parenting work,” Daniel says. Ken and Ellen — both respected musicians in their
own rights — played piano and accompanied their son on untold violin recitals, and they drove him to Godknows-how-many Greater Dallas Orchestra rehearsals on the other side of town, Daniel says. “They spent a lot of time giving me opportunities to explore music, so it feels like it has come full circle,” he says. Daniel lives with his partner Rachel and two dogs, Daphne and Archie, in Northeast Los Angeles, but they all came to town last summer to celebrate Ken and Ellen’s 50th wedding anniversary. All but the canines made the outing to Valley View. Filming The Green Knight, Daniel and Rachel traveled to Ireland. She has a role in the movie, too. In a Camelot scene where King Arthur is giving a speech, she is standing behind him. “She’s on screen for about 15 seconds,” Daniel says. Ellen and Ken still live in the Lake Highlands home they purchased in 1987, near Audelia and Ferndale. Annie Clark — now a famous rock star called St. Vincent — grew up on the same street, though she and Daniel were a few years apart in school and would not become friends (and collaborators) until adulthood. At 82, Ken and Ellen have both retired from positions at Richardson’s Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration, known for its ambitious music program and a magnificent pipe organ. But Ellen still
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plays gigs all around the Metroplex, subbing in when needed. “I think they really enjoyed The Green Knight,” Daniel says. In 2017 for the premiere of A Ghost Story, in which Daniel’s music is as pivotal a player as its powerhouse stars Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara, his parents traveled to California. Ken told The Advocate at the time that he found the movie “profound and thoughtprovoking.” Critics call it “haunting” and “piercingly emotional” and applaud the director for “leaning into Hart’s lush, stringheavy score,” so “full of pathos and longing.” (It’s fair to say reviewers o u t - f aw n e d father.) Ken says Daniel taught Casey Affleck to play the piano, at least “enough to make it look like he knew what he was doing in a few short scenes.” Daniel and his brother Justin began their musical education at an early age. Daniel played the violin before he was 3. Music was a family pastime, “something we all wanted to do,” Ken says. It did not take long to realize Daniel had a gift — specifically, two lessons, Ken says. Daniel had a unique vocal ability, phenomenal for a child. Daniel was 10 when the family came to Dallas and his father took a position teaching at Southern Methodist University. Daniel attended Northlake Elementary, Lake Highlands Junior High and Richardson High School (RISD’s arts magnet), specializing in orchestra and drama. At SMU, Daniel laid off music for a year or so while
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earning a playwriting degree. In the theater program at SMU, everyone is good, he says. Among his classmates was Amy Acker, a consistently working Hollywood actor, also a Lake Highlands native. After college, Annie Clark produced Daniel’s solo album, The Orientalist. They have worked together frequently, including touring with Polyphonic Spree while they toured with David Bowie. “He was friendly and quiet,” Daniel recalls of Bowie. “He and Tim (DeLaughter) would talk, but he was also very kind to the rest of us.” St. Vincent’s voice also appears on the new album from Daniel’s LA-based band Dark Rooms, on an ethereal single entitled, Like Battling the Hydra. Through Polyphonic Spree, Hart met musician, actor and producer Toby Halbrooks (another Lake Highlands native) who made the introduction to David Lowery, who wrote and directed The Green Knight. Today the two are regarded in movie and entertainment circles as, cinematically speaking, creatively inseparable. They’ve worked together on many movies, to unmitigated success — Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (another Casey Affleck flick, about outlaws in love), The Old Man and the Gun (Robert Redford’s last movie also starring Sissy Spacek), Disney’s Pete’s Dragon (starring Redford and Bryce Dallas Howard) — and now they are working together on Disney’s Peter Pan and Wendy (whose screenplay Lowery and Halbrooks wrote together). Sure, it's fair to call them a pair Lowery says. "I look at Tim Burton and Danny Elfman or Spielberg and John Williams, and even though they've occasionally worked apart, they always come back together, and that's comforting," he says. Aside from the working relationship, the duo has
p ro f i l e been known to hang at hometown haunts — laser tag in Plano, the occasional game night with the wives (Lowery is married to actor/director Augustine Frizzell) and Lowery says he once convinced Daniel to accompany him on an afternoon of indoor rock climbing. In addition to his work with Lowery, you'll hear Daniel's work in The Exorcist on FOX; the documentary Eating Animals, produced by Natalie Portman; a couple of David Sedaris’ audiobooks and Ira Glass’ S-Town podcast. He recorded strings on St. Vincent’s 2021 album Daddy’s Home and rearranged songs for Anjimile’s Reunion album. To name a few things. He says writing the musical score for The Green Knight is, so far, the toughest — albeit probably the most rewarding — challenge of his deeply layered career. There’s this scene in the middle of the movie where Sir Gawain (played by Dev Patel) encounters a traveling tribe of giants roaming across the wilderness. “It is the biggest moment of the film, literally, thematically, a very big moment. And I wrote this big, orchestral piece of music for the scene. It hit all the marks. It worked on paper, but it didn’t,” Daniel says.
“I don’t know why, but the film was rejecting it. David knew it and I knew it. Then he suggested I write a song for the scene instead. That’s what ended up in the film. It was a breakthrough moment.” What becomes of the “rejected” compositions? “The trash heap — that’s where it goes,” he says. The instrumentation was so specific to the film, he explains. “There’s a recorder quartet, and there’s a small female choir that does a lot of little dissonant chord clusters, and there is a Swedish medieval instrument called the nyckelharpa.” He’s right. There is not great demand for the nyckelharpa these days, in this region, although Daniel does mention that use of recorders was inspired by Johnny Greenwood (Radiohead guitarist and cinematic composer) who recently joined a recorder ensemble. He says work isn’t wasted — “sometimes it is just the necessary building blocks.” Lowery says he values the way his composer friend and collaborator pushes him creatively. "I haven't made a sequel yet, and don't have any plans to, so for the time being we'll just keep forging new paths ahead."
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Sim was introduced to Cajun-inspired food when she worked at a Louisiana Famous Fried Chicken in Los Angeles. In 2009, she moved to Dallas, where she owned and operated Super Discount Liquor. But she missed chicken and seafood, so she started working at a Cajun restaurant again — this time in Dallas — all the while working up her own fried chicken and Cajun recipes so she could open her own restaurant. “I was curious. I wanted to know what was going in my food so I wanted to make it myself,” Sim says. In 2015, she started Hen House on Skillman Street, across from Royal Lane and next to Tom Thumb. Two years later, Kuyly moved from Cambodia to Dallas. “I wanted to help out my sister while my children get to live in a better country. Every day, Hen House became busier, and Sim needed my help,” Kuyly says. “It’s much harder here in terms of the work, but it is much happier here. It’s more work, but coming here meant more happiness and success in our business.” All sorts of Lousiana dishes — gumbo, fried okra, dirty rice, red beans and rice, Cajun fries, catfish, shrimp and, of course, fried chicken legs, breasts and thighs — fill out the Hen House menu. Other sides include mashed potatoes, coleslaw and potato salad. The restaurant also offers chicken tenders, hot crispy wings and hot barbecue wings. “We feel like we have done something right, something good, because our customers always come back. We offer people real good food with freshness and quality. We enjoy the Kuyly Chan, left, and Kuysim Chan, right, have been working together for over five years at chicken ourselves and take it home The Hen House. to eat,” Kuyly says. “What makes our chicken different HEN HOUSE LOUISIANA FRIED CHICKEN IS is that you can still save it and eat it for later. The leftovers KNOWN FOR ITS JUICY, MOIST CHICKEN SEAcan become lunch for tomorrow and still be good. That’s SONED WITH HOMEMADE CAJUN SPICES, as well why customers come back, and they will buy things in bulk as its fresh-out-of-the-oven rolls and sides. at Hen House.” After years of trial and error, the sisters say they’ve perfected How is it possible, then, that sisters and owners their own original Cajun seasoning. The secret formula is in Kuysim Chan, who is known as Sim, and Kuyly Chan the made-from-scratch gumbo, red beans and rice, coleslaw have never even been to Louisiana?
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and fried okra. “The seasoning has taken us years to perfect, and it is one of the things we can look back on and be proud of,” Kuyly says. The menu also includes all-natural, made-in-house slushies and specialty drinks such as strawberry lemonade and pineapple lemonade. “When you have your own business, you can buy your own supplies instead of waiting for a boss to buy everything. The more you make things in-house, the less you have to buy from other sources,” Kuyly says. The sisters say they’ve learned Cajun cooking by listening
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to suggestions. Many of their customers are native to the culture of Louisiana, Creole and Cajun food. “I like to listen to people. If they tell me to add this ingredient or add that, it gives me an idea. It gives me creativity,” Sim says. “I like changing the flavor to adjust to what works and what doesn’t work.” Kayla Glover, a Hen House regular, says she can’t stop coming back. “I’m from Louisiana, and Hen House meets the standards of Louisiana Cajun food. Their food is really fresh, and there is good customer service. They’re really sweet people,” Glover says. “Most people can’t even cook chicken breast right, because it ends up being too dry. But Hen House is so good, and they always get it just right. I drive about an hour just to get here sometimes. It is well worth it.” Hen House’s combination meals, which come with a small side and a drink, range from $7 to $12. Bucket packs range from $13 to $36. Shrimp, fish and chicken can be mixed in combos ranging from $12 to $27. Sim says she enjoys the freedom and flexibility owning a restaurant provides. “I don’t like having to ask a boss if I can leave early to pick up my kids. With owning my own business, I can let Kuyly take over while I take a break and pick up my kids from school.” Sometimes, it’s vice versa — Kuyly leaves to take care of her daughter while Sim works at Hen House. Sim has a 13-year-old son, and Kuyly has a 16-year-old daughter. The teenagers help their moms when the restaurant gets busy and at peak hours. Both Sim and Kuyly say having their teenagers around is helping their kids to build valuable habits and skills. “Working with us will train him to become a businessman and teach him how hard his mother and I work,” Kuyly says. Most important, it keeps them close to their parents. On Sundays, the restaurant is closed because the sisters want to spend the day in church service and with their loved ones. “I want to be a better person from day-to-day, and I want to lead my kid to be a good person for the future,” Kuyly says. “When you take care of yourself, you can take care of the business and other customers better too.” Hen House Louisiana Fried Chicken, 8692 Skillman St., 469.930.8099, henhouselouisianafriedchicken.com
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hen Lee Kleinman first served on the Dallas Park Board in 2008, he found the City already had a map that planned hundreds of miles of trails. “That was an epiphany for me,” Kleinman says. An experienced cyclist, he was familiar with the city’s few and unconnected trails at the time. The Katy Trail opened in 2000, and the White Rock Creek Trail is one of the oldest in town. But that was about it. He knew there was an Oncor easement running the length of his neighborhood. “There was a lot of talk about a lack of green space in North Dallas, yet you had this potential asset just sitting there,” he says. “Nine miles of linear park.” The Northaven Trail will one day connect all the way to the Trinity River and Fort Worth, and by this time next year, it will cross over Central Expressway to Lake Highlands. Kleinman had a good idea but no funding for the Northaven Trail, so he started an advocacy group, the Friends of the Northaven Trail, modeled after similar groups for the Katy and Preston Ridge trails. It turned out there was some 2006 bond money earmarked for sidewalks on Royal Lane between Central and Hillcrest, but neighbors there didn’t want sidewalks. Then came another epiphany: Sometimes public funds can be “reprogrammed” at City Hall to pay for similar amenities. With an initial investment of about $2 million from that 2006 bond money, construction started on the Northaven Trail in 2009. The original section was 2 miles from Valleydale Drive to Preston Road. Now it spans 9 miles, from Central Expressway to near Denton Drive. Its crowning achievement is under construction, a signature bridge across Central that will connect five trails: Northaven, Cottonwood Creek, Preston Ridge, White Rock Creek and the Central Trail in Richardson. On the western end, an expansion is planned to the Trinity River levee trails, march 2022
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Jeff Kitner is president of the Friends of the Northaven Trail. It took 15 years of neighborhood advocacy to complete 9 miles of trail.
which already connect to Irving’s Campion Trail. So one day, it will be possible to ride a bike from White Rock Lake to Fort Worth entirely on a trail system. Nicknamed “the low five” because of those five connections and its proximity to Dallas’ “high five” expressway exchange, the bridge is expected to be complete early next year. It didn’t happen overnight. Arriving at this destination required wrangling the City, Dallas County, Oncor, Atmos Energy, the Texas Department of Transportation and the North Texas Council of Governments. “Just think of the bureaucracy that you have to get through to get this done,” says Jeff Kitner,
who is president of the Friends of the Northaven Trail. “But we were consistent. We were convinced this was going to happen, so we found the money, and we have an excellent board of advocates.” Here’s how the Friends of the Northaven Trail got it done.
and later originated some of the signature events, such as outdoor movies and “light up the trail.” Any time neighbors complained about plans for the trail, Kleinman would ask them to join the board, and he wound up winning several people over that way, he says.
GREASING THE WHEELS Anh Vo, the owner of Cindi’s NY Deli, allowed Friends of the Northaven Trail to use a side room at the Royal Lane location for its meetings. Kleinman, who served on City Council from 2012-2020, invited everyone he could think of and had a good turnout for the trail friends’ first meeting. His wife, Dr. Lisa Umholtz, joined the board
DREAMING BIG When the original 2 miles went out for bids in 2009, the economy was in a slump. Kleinman asked city staff members to list every desired amenity they could think of — drinking fountains, stone benches, landscaping and lighting — in the request for proposal, “just to see what we could get,” Kleinman says. The project received about 14 bids,
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and the winner agreed to everything they requested. “Because they were hungry. The economy was slow, and they needed work,” Kleinman says. “I had to live that down at Council for a while, because it was, ‘Oh, why does North Dallas get everything?’” That was a stroke of luck, but it set a higher standard for trails in Dallas, he says. “Changing that mentality ... for what a trail could be, and that it’s so much more than just a ribbon of concrete, was a big deal,” he says. O.P.M. (OTHER PEOPLE’S MONEY) Kleinman stole this phrase from Errol McKoy, former president of the State Fair of Texas, and he’s employed it throughout the development of the Northaven Trail. Koop and former City Council member Ann Margolin had the idea to ask Dallas County for trail money, Kleinman says. County Commissioner Maureen Dickey helped them get a match for city bond funds to build more sections of the trail. “I’ve since heard Dallas County refer to our city bond funds as O.P.M.,” Kleinman says. The signature bridge and related projects, costing around $20 million, are being funded mostly by the Texas Department of Transportation and the North Texas Council of Governments. KNOWING THEIR AUDIENCE Kitner, a former lawyer, served as Kleinman’s park board commissioner for most of his eight years as a council member. Kitner has frequently employed his powers of persuasion on governmental bodies. “If you’re talking to the council of governments, then it’s an alternative transportation project,” Kleinman says. “We’re trying to take cars off the streets and take walkers out of the streets, because a lot of places in North Dallas don’t have sidewalks.” For city and county audiences, the points were more about quality of life, he says.
NAVIGATING RED TAPE In guiding these projects through bureaucracy, Kleinman kept running into “forward and forget it,” where unreturned emails were stalling progress. So as a councilman, he started having meetings, the Northaven Trail Task Force, that brought everyone from all agencies involved into the same room together once a month for three or four years. “There were a few times that people like me were pounding their fists on the table going, ‘We need answers on this,’” he says. Kleinman’s term limit set an artificial deadline for projects, he says. “I can’t sit on this Council for eight years talking about this bridge and not have it started yet,” he says. “And staff responded pretty positively to that.” MINISTRY OF HAPPINESS Kitner and Kleinman have taken to referring to their work as part of “the ministry of happiness,” and they’ve even had buttons made. That’s the concept that parks, libraries and cultural facilities are the three things in a city’s budget whose purpose is to make people happy. “Unfortunately, when times are tough, those are the departments that are cut pretty quickly, and those are the departments that when times are tough are doing more for the actual residents,” Kleinman says. User counts shot up at the start of the pandemic. About 30,000 people stepped onto the Northaven Trail in June 2020, for example. Trails are expensive to build, costing about $1 million per mile, but they require little maintenance and no staffing or building costs beyond that. “The dollars per contact is way low compared to a recreation center,” Kleinman says. SIGNATURE BRIDGE The cable-span bridge now under construction crosses all eight lanes of Central and requires no pylons through the center. Engineering and
construction are extra challenging because the bridge isn’t perfectly straight. It had to be curved slightly between its endpoints. The project also includes a second bridge over White Rock Creek on the east side. The state highway department had to buy some of the land for the project, and Friends of the Northaven Trail wound up paying about $2,000 to cover property taxes that came due before the deal closed. A quarter-mile bike lane connecting Valleydale to the bridge on the West side has been completed, but that also took a lot of negotiating with neighbors, who won new sidewalks in the deal. The bike lanes will approach a gently sloping roundabout up to the bridge, designed so that it’s not too difficult a climb. “It’s going to be so beautiful and cool when it’s done,” Kleinman says of the bridge. WHAT’S NEXT What’s left for a rockstar neighborhood advocacy group once all their dreams come true? Friends of the Northaven Trail will continue to raise money and partner with churches and businesses for trail enhancements. And eventually, there’s the connection across Harry Hines to the Trinity River. They also advocate for trail connections throughout the city. But their next project is a push for the reconstruction of the White Rock Creek Trail, which has its own friends group. Friends of the Northaven Trail is an example for other friends groups, often lending knowledge of how to navigate the system. Last year, they invited all of the trail friends groups in Dallas to lunch at Rodeo Goat on the Trinity Strand Trail to share ideas. “We have a great trail system, but it’s disconnected,” Kitner says. “If we can make these small connections, we become a more pedestrian-friendly, bike-friendly city.”
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the bald & the beautiful Helen Bowles publishes a lifestyle magazine for women with cancer
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rint media hardly makes the hot list of money-making entrepreneurial ideas in the 21st century.
But Helen Bowles thought of an idea for a magazine that no one else had. It was inspired by her friend Jean Maday, who was an executive director for the YMCA when Bowles met her. Jean was single and fabulous, a traveler who was known for her personal style and enviable shoes. Everywhere she went, she always had a glossy lifestyle magazine in her bag, Bowles says. After Jean was diagnosed with cancer, Bowles went to visit her in Chicago. “She said, ‘These magazines I carry around with me make me sad now,’” Bowles recalls. “I can’t do the makeup; I can’t do the hair. My body has changed shape, so I don’t want to buy any new clothes. It just augments the thought that my life is not going where I want it to.” Jean died a few years later, in January 2020, but Bowles’ new magazine, Brighter, is produced four times a year in her memory. Bowles worked for the YMCA for over a decade before becoming a personal trainer specializing in postpartum women as clientele. She was looking for her next thing when the pandemic hit. She took her idea for a lifestyle
magazine for women with cancer to an acquaintance who is an oncologist in Fort Worth. “She said, ‘If you don’t do it, someone else will,’” Bowles says. The conversation showed her she was onto something unique that would fill a hole in the media landscape. The only problem: Bowles had no idea how to publish a magazine. She says she’s called to serve and uplift women as part of her Christian faith, and she told her husband she felt like Moses, with a message to bring the world that just needed a medium. “I just need an Aaron,” she told him, referring to Moses’ brother, who was his assistant and spokesman. Bowles’ Aaron turned out to be Erin Schreyer, a photographer and leadership coach from Highland Park. “She helped me hash out my mission and vision and goals for the magazine,” Bowles says. Brighter has a board of directors and has applied for nonprofit status, which Bowles expects to be finalized in April. The magazine is entirely selffunded and produced with all volunteers, including Bowles herself. The editorial staff includes four students from the Hockaday School, and its main editor is Hockaday senior Clair Cahoon.
“They’re rock solid and a huge part of the reason we can be successful,” Bowles says of her Hockaday interns. Other volunteer writers include cancer survivors, doctors and health professionals from all over the country. Their issues have contained headlines such as “The girlfriend’s guide to cancer” and touched on topics such as dermatology dos and don’ts. A wig expert answers questions. They’ve taken on the dirty details of pelvic radiation therapy as well as how to draw the perfect eyebrows. An idea driving their content: “I wish someone had told me that after I or a loved one was diagnosed.” “We’re a support group for all types of cancer,” Bowles says. “We’re always looking for diversity within our pages.” Bowles, a longtime Lake Highlands resident who now lives in Preston Hollow, wears all the hats of a small publisher, including advertising sales and delivering magazines out of the trunk of her car. She’s building a mailing list and distributes copies to local doctors' offices herself. Besides Jean, Bowles also lost her mom, Christie Steel, to pancreatic cancer in 2004. “There are very few people who haven’t been touched by cancer, so people come out of the woodwork to help,” she says. Brighter published two issues in 2021, and four are expected this year.
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BAPTIST PARK CITIES BAPTIST CHURCH / 3933 Northwest Pky / pcbc.org
Finding middle ground We have to rectify our past with our future to live in the present
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e live between memory and hope, between what has been and what will be, between the past and future. But do we live there, really? Much of our time is taken up either hallowing or being haunted by the past. For some, there was a golden era we can’t seem to let go of. Those high school days on the cheerleader squad or football team when popularity was a given and our bodies worked for us instead of against us. For others, eating alone at a school lunch table or smelling the breath of our assaulter never seem to go away. The past has a grip on us for good or ill that prevents us from living in the present. Likewise, the allure or foreboding of the future can tug on us powerfully and prevent the full experience of life now. We may long for the day when we can get our driver’s license and have a measure of freedom, or feel our health come around at last, or find our one true love. The yearning for a golden age to come or a better future at least can inspire action and motivate us to work hard, but we might also dread what tomorrow may hold in a way that immobilizes us. Again, for good or ill, preoccupation with the future can diminish our experience of the present as a gift we will never get back. The Buddhist monk and spiritual teacher Thich Nhat Hanh died last month. We classify Buddhism as a religion alongside Hinduism, Sikhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, to name the main belief groups; Buddhism, Thich reminded us, is more of a practice of mindfulness that can
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followed by people of any faith. Thich warned against attachment to views of the mind too focused on the past or the future. Washing dishes or brushing teeth or taking a walk are experiences that shouldn’t be missed by having your mind on something else when you do them. Preoccupation means we aren’t fully alive in the moment. I have been thinking about this a good deal since announcing my retirement from the role of senior pastor of the church I have served for more than three decades. The months between the announcement and that new stage of life ahead are easily occupied with what has been or could have been on the one hand, and what may or may not be on the other. Gratitude and expectation aren’t wrong, so long as they aren’t totalizing. Being mindful in the moment is part of what I think Jesus had in mind when he talked about coming to give us “life, and that more abundant.” The only way to experience abundant life, I believe, is to embrace it fully in the only time we have — which is right now! An adage comes to mind here: “Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift — that’s why we call it the present.” That’s making more sense all the time.
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9555 North Central Expressway / 214.363.5457 / northparkpres.org / Welcoming Seekers, Thinkers and Doers. NORTHRIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH / 6920 Bob-O-Link Dr. 214.827.5521 / www.northridgepc.org / Sunday Worship 10:00 am Church that feels like church and welcomes like family. PARK CITIES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH/ 4124 Oak Lawn Ave Sunday Worship 9:00 & 11:00 A.M. To all this church opens wide her doors - pcpc.org
GEORGE MASON is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, president of Faith Commons and host of the “Good God” podcast. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.
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SPRING FLING Disc golf creates community at B.B. Owen
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B.B. OWEN PARK boasts an 18-hole disc- golf c ou r s e t h at d raws a commu n ity of avid pl ayer s e ve r y d ay. Disc golf takes the concept of golf and replaces t he c lu b an d ball with a s mall plas tic disc. Ins tead of shooting for a hole in the ground, disc golf ’s targe ts are 5-foot-tall me tal baske ts that t h e d i s c s g l i d e i n t o . B e s i d e s t h a t , t h e s p o r t ’s rules are similar to golf. Players throw discs toward the baske t “ holes” and tr y to s tay under p a r f or high e r s core s . “ It ’s good e x e rcis e th at you can be social with too.” says Jordan Willows, who plays at this park a c ou p le of time s a we e k. Willows is one of many who call the park “B.B.” “My friends and I played the full 18 during the snowstorm last year.” Willows says. “It was super c ool a n d d iffe re n t to play in th os e conditions, and it added another memor y for us at the park.” The park draws equally passionate players, y ou n g a n d old . A mon g th e m is Trace Cab aniss, a n 1 8 - year-old s e n ior at L ake Highl ands High S c hool. “At first it felt a little awkward being surrounde d b y mo s tly ad u lts ,” Caban is s s ays. “Howe ver, everyone in the community is extremely welc o m i n g a n d e n c o u r a g i n g o f n e w f a c e s s o i t ’s e a s y t o fit righ t in .” Eve n o n th e d is c golf cou rs e , th e L ake Highla n d s s en s e of frate rn ity is fou n d . “Disc golf became a game to share not only with my friends, but with an entire community i n D a lla s ,” Caban is s s ays . Dallas disc golf culture is an inviting and m o s t l y c a s u a l c o m m u n i t y, h e s a y s . R e c e n t l y, the sport has expanded to hold a year-round pro tour featuring the game’s biggest stars. B.B. O we n n o w h o s t s p r o f e s s i o n a l t o u r n a m e n t s o n s i t e oc c as ion ally. “I enjoyed playing casual rounds with friends, but I longed for the competitive side of disc golf,” Kyle Moran s ays . “It was fu n pl ay ing for s ome t hin g oth e r th an brag gin g rights.” Mo r a n f r e q u e n t l y p a r t i c i p a t e s i n o r g a n i z e d mini-tournaments at B.B. Owen and has found a per fec t compe titive niche. Combining a smallscale presentation with large-scale stakes, tour naments at the park have become well-attended and are a great meeting point for the serious me mb ers of th e commu n ity. At B.B. Owen, L ake Highlands’ most thriving s u b c u lt ure grows big ge r by th e d ay. “ To t h e p e o p l e w h o h a v e n e v e r p l a y e d d i s c golf, I ’d s ay to give it a tr y,” Willows says. “At t he ve r y le as t, I can gu aran te e th at y ou’ l l have a good t ime .” march 2022
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The LH Chamber hosts a ribbon cutting at Fish City Grill in 2018. Photo courtesy of Lake Highlands Chamber.
'You belong right here' Lake Highlands Chamber is back Story by CAROL TOLER
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he Lake Highlands Chamber is rebooting in 2022 after cutting back some of its activities during the pandemic. The business networking group, launched in 2014 by neighbors Ted Hill, William Davenport, Chris Fifer, David Tyson and Chris Bone, says its members are ready to resume gathering face-to-face. The chamber hosts regular Learning Lunches at neighborhood restaurants, with speakers from business coaches to documentary filmmakers. It hosts monthly happy hours at community watering holes, with members swapping stories and business cards. Restaurant Week, held in May, promotes LH eateries and benefits charitable agencies. An annual “We Love LH” awards presentation honors individuals, businesses and nonprofits that elevate the neighborhood. Ribbon cuttings showcase new openings or highlight spots which have remodeled or added a new feature. “Our leadership team is bright and energetic, and we’re ready to welcome new members,” says chamber President Cheryl Price. “The majority of those who join us have a small business in Lake Highlands and are raising a family in the community as well. That’s why we look for ways to partner with schools and nonprofits
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in the neighborhood.” Price says the chamber’s goal is to connect businesses with the community so people can “stay local and buy local.” “Eight times out of 10, what you’re looking for is right here,” Price says. “Builders, roofers, dentists, doctors, real estate agents, mortgage brokers, insurance agents – we’ve got everyone you need. People like to do business with folks they know, trust and respect.” Price says her team is constantly brainstorming ideas to promote what LH has to offer. They’re planning a job fair since businesses need good help, and they plan to include opportunities for LHHS students. They have a farmers market in the works, and they’re seeking ways to facilitate small business’ dealings with agencies at the City of Dallas. “It’s our mind hive. We’re always thinking creatively,” she says. “We want LH to be a destination for restaurants, retail and services.” Price jokes that chamber membership is more like going for coffee on a first date than a candlelit dinner. There’s no pressure, and potential members are welcome to pop in at any event and check it out before committing to joining. Annual dues vary from $100 to $250 based on the number of employees.
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