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A Closer Look
Hold Tight | 48
Delicious Detox | 65
All About
A Visit from the Future | 32
How Texas Baptist Children’s Home shaped Linda McCasland
Interested in juicing? Healthy recipes to slurp up
A look in the mirror inspires one woman to improve her health
View From the Top
Healthy View
Get ting To Know
Leading Thoughtfully | 42 SU’s President Burger talks education with the View
d e part m ents
In the Kitchen
Chase the Chief | 68
A “Clean” Plate Approach | 52 Healthy eating advice from Heal Thy Living’s Kelly Richards
Buried Giants | 54
A Legacy of Response | 11
A Stone’s Throw
Local doctor follows his ancestors in service to others
Hallelujah and Sip Some Coffee! | 56
Historic View
Sunday morning gospel music at an Austin coffee house
Traveler’s View
Making Wishes on Dolls | 72 Japanese festival ushers in the new year
You Are a Mother and… | 58
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Learn from the Best | 63 Tips from Pro Bill Easterly
Georgetown Live | 67
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Restoration | 30 She Spies Private Eye owner loves her job
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EDITOR’S NOTE
The View now has a new website at www.gtownview. com. Please visit and we welcome your feedback. Also,
If I had to assign an icon to each of the months of the year, my icon for January would be a broom. As in “clean sweep.” Other people make resolutions in January—bye-bye, chocolate!—but I clean out my closets. And the pantry. And my file cabinets. I load boxes of stuff in my car to take to The Caring Place, and then I swing by Office Depot for a new paper shredder because, inevitably, my shredder doesn’t survive my cleaning rampage. Maybe my January icon should be a melted, smoking shredder? Whatever your icon for January is, we hope you find inspiration for the new year in this issue. Pledging to lose weight or get fit? Then check out our main feature on a woman who lost 200 pounds. Got a chunky pet? In Animal View, read how a foster family helped an overweight yellow Lab with aching joints find his spunk again. Find ideas for clean eating from Chef Nikki or from Kelly Richards (View from the Top). Start a business doing what you love, like this month’s Rising Star, Joseph Rothenberg, did, or follow the example of Dr. Richard Male (View from the Top) and give back to others this year. If you’re a mom seeking inspiration and advice, you’ll want to bookmark Musings for Moms, a new monthly column for mothers by Alicea Jones, former View editor-in-chief. You can find all our articles online at our web site, gtownview.com, and you can share them with friends who need some oomph to launch their New Year’s resolutions. And that brings me to one of my New Year’s resolutions, one of which is going paperless. Hey, is that my current shredder sighing with relief?
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ines of parents pushing strollers or carrying little ones stretched beyond the parking lot of PharrSan Juan High School. Inside, Georgetown physician Dr. Richard Male, Chief Medical Officer of the Austin Company for the Texas State Guard, prepared his team of soldiers to respond to the medical needs of those coming to Operation Lone Star, an annual joint-military event in the Valley. Over the next week, Dr. Male’s team coordinated with other military and medical teams to treat thousands of patients hailing from six counties along the Rio Grande border, from Brownsville to Laredo. The team assisted patients with immunizations, prescriptions, and diagnoses, while at the same time optometrists and dentists offered their services in a trailer in the parking lot or in the gymnasium. “I see [patients] and then send them to local social services, and
those people help them with the next step. We try to encourage them that there’s a variety of places they can go to get their health needs met,” Dr. Male explains. Volunteering his time and expertise is a family tradition for Dr. Male. He joined the Texas State Guard Medical Brigade four years ago in order to serve fellow Texans and to follow his family’s heritage of military service. “In every generation since the American Revolution, members of my family have served our country in military forces,” Dr. Male says. “I felt compelled and somewhat obligated to serve likewise, to carry on the family tradition of military service.” A Legacy of Service Dr. Male’s respect for his family’s sacrifice is evident on the walls at his private practice in Georgetown, the Physicians’ Center P.A., where he displays medals, photos, and newspaper clippings featuring family military
heroes, some of whom served in both a military and medical fashion. One such newspaper clipping honors his great-grandfather, who was a general doctor in rural west Texas in the early 1900s. He traveled with horse and buggy to provide medical care to neighboring ranches, using very limited medical supplies. “As a young boy, the repeated stories my father told me about my great-grandfather inspired me and sparked my interest [in] the potential of a future career in medicine,” Dr. Male said. “He was the only doctor in four counties. My great-grandfather was on a cattle drive with his brother up through west Texas [when] they had a smallpox epidemic in that community. [They] ended up settling there to care for people.” Dr. Male completed medical school at University of North Texas Health Science Center (TCOM) in Fort Worth, the city where his great-grandfather graduated
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from medical school, and opened his private practice, Physicians’ Center P.A., in 1992. Every few years after opening the practice, he revisited the option to join the military, but the demands of a young family and growing practice kept him from serving. Twenty years later, when his children became teenagers and adults, he decided to join the Texas State Guard Medical Brigade in order utilize his medical skills for military purposes. Continuing the Legacy As a member of the Texas State Guard Medical Brigade, Dr. Male volunteers his time during training exercises such as Operation Lone Star, an exercise that not only offers humanitarian aid but is also a joint-military training exercise for disaster situations such as hurricanes. The Texas National Guard Medical Brigade lists every action for which members train and drill on a Mission Essential Task list. According to Dr. Male, Operation Lone Star provides an opportunity for military brigades to practice for disasters because the situation is so similar to that of an actual disaster, without threats of danger. “We set up headquarters and use the military system structure through the whole process [of Operation Lone Star], just like that which would occur in a disaster situation,” Dr. Male explains. “For a training mission, it couldn’t get
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any better.” He’s fortunate, he says, to have “a very strong support team” of about twenty employees at his Georgetown practice, as well as patients who understand when he has to leave for military service. “Over the years I have had overwhelming support from my family, staff, and patients, who appreciate and remind me of the importance of my military service,” he said. Such support was critical when Dr. Male was deployed during Hurricane Alex in 2010. The Army National Guard and State Guard set up points of distribution from Brownsville to Laredo, the same general location that Operation Lone Star serves. Dr. Male was on-call
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ue Kullerd sits at her kitchen table, flipping through magazines in search of photos that make her heart smile. In the background, soft music plays, setting the mood for her creative endeavor. Around her are dozens of images separated into stacks— pictures of adults, children, animals, wildlife, homes. In a couple of days, she’ll be leading another three-hour SoulCollage workshop, and these photos will provide frameworks for participants’ masterpieces of inner wisdom. “SoulCollage is not therapy,” says Sue Kullerd, a Georgetown resident, Licensed Professional Counselor, and one of nearly 1,900 SoulCollage facilitators around the world. “Rather, it’s an intuitive collage process that aids in self-discovery and acceptance.” SoulCollage was developed in the late 1980s by psychotherapist Seena Frost as a way for people to tap into their unconscious wisdom in a fun and nonthreatening
Once the card creator has By formed a question, it’s time to begin making the collage. Large images typically become collage Photos by backgrounds, with smaller imAlyssa Dyer ages overlapping and filling in the gaps. After creators complete a card, they protect it inside a clear plastic sheath and file it with ® motto e g a l their ever-growing colol —SoulC lection of SoulCollage cards. Over time, regular SoulCollage participants will create Each collage takes the form of a deck consisting of three a 5-by-8-inch card and represents transpersonal cards—The a single aspect of the self or soul, Source Card, The Soul Sue explains. It also begins with a Essence, and The Witquestion about the card creator’s ness—and myriad life. cards grouped in “You might be wondering about four suits: The the next step in your relationCommittee Suit ship, career, or life journey, [or (the psychologiabout] how you can take better cal dimension), care of yourself or how to cope the Community with your grief,” Sue says. “These Suit (the commuare all good questions that your nal dimension), logical self may not know how to The Companion answer, but your inner, wise self Suit (the energetic can… Trust yourself and trust the Sue Kullerd holding the first soul dimension), process.” environment. The thinking behind the process is that by using images rather than words or text, a person can create a collage that bypasses the analytical, logical, and critical mindset and instead explores the inherently creative inner self.
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and The Council Suit (the spiritual dimension). While each card represents a single facet of one’s self, a deck represents one’s entire being. The number of cards in a full deck will vary from person to person. To date, Sue is working with a stack of about forty completed cards, while other SoulCollage creators’ decks may hold from a single card to hundreds. When creators do a reading—that is, interpret a card—they “always put your Source Card in the middle or on the table,” says Sue. “The Source Card represents your connection to The Divine or holiness, so the idea is that The Source is always present.” Sue holds up one of the first SoulCollage cards she made: an image of a little girl holding brightly colored balloons. At her feet are two small dogs. “When we make a card, sometimes we’ll name it,” explains Sue. “This is my creative one, from the Council Suit.” Following SoulCollage guidelines, Sue proceeds to read her card using poetic “I am one who” statements: “I am one who is creative. 22
“I am one who loves bright colors. “I am one who likes to wear outrageous, bright colors. “I am one who loves her dogs and loves to ride her bike. “I am one who thinks of how life changes—it can be dark sometimes, but then we can go through changes and transformation and come out a beautiful butterfly.” Having finished her reading, Sue explains that her guiding question had to do with how she could incorporate more creativity into her spiritual life. Her reading of the card led her to the following answer: To incorporate more creativity, she should look to the beauty of nature and to her two dogs.
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“It can feel really awkward the first time you do it, but as you do it more and more, it gets more and more comfortable,” Sue says. “You get comfortable with asking the questions, doing the readings, and journaling what you’ve learned. Over time, you’ll find more and more wisdom from the cards coming your way.” Though Sue is an avid proponent of self-readings—she’s made a daily practice of reading and recording findings from her own cards—she stresses that readings can be even more powerful if done in a group setting, because SoulCollage workshops permit others to ask open-ended questions to deepen the readers’ understanding. “SoulCollage workshops are a safe space, free of judgment and criticism,” Sue says, adding that the cards can be used in a variety of settings, including prayer card readings, daily or weekly card readings, community building exercises, times of transition, and celebrations of special events. “It’s important to remember that there’s no right or wrong way to do it,” Sue says. “It’s your own work and your own soul. And it’s a wonderful way to access that.”
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I began to notice subtle changes in my body and my energy level. My first weigh-in confirmed what I was feeling.” Theo then challenged her to up her goals and she was pumped to do just that. Sue broke through many physical and mental limitations, and went on to win the Most Inspirational category of the 2013 GET AGE FIT CHALLENGE. “No longer will I place physical limitations on myself and these legs. My 49thbirthday present to myself was taking my body back,” (and Sue is even leaner now that when she completed her challenge last April). Theo Thurston is a 60 year old Cooper Institute Certified Physical Fitness Specialist, who helps
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hen Kristi Simank, owner of GunsPlus, reads the letter her husband, Stephen, received after a concealed handgun license (CHL) course he taught, she gets tears in her eyes. “It was so nice to have someone look at our limitations as ‘no big deal,’” the letter from a husband and wife said. “You were so kind [and] patient, and really took the time with us and … we [learned] that we could shoot and it was fun!” “The wife had an auto-immune illness, and he’d had a stroke,” Stephen recalls. “He couldn’t control the pistol in his right hand, but he was right-handed. She couldn’t hold her arms up
[to shoot].” They wanted to get their CHLs, but they thought that neither of them could pass the proficiency (shooting) part of the course. Stephen, a former Austin police officer, has vast experience teaching firearm safety and tactics to law enforcement and military personnel. He knew that all the couple needed was someone to show them how to modify their loading techniques, grips, and stances. He taught the husband how to shoot with his left hand, and he taught the wife how to load a gun and then stabilize it by holding it against her torso as she fired. After this personal training, they easily passed the proficiency test. “This was huge for both of us
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because it not only really helped our confidence,” they wrote, “but we learned potentially life-saving skills and critical safety skills in the process.” Helping people feel confident and safe is Stephen’s passion. As a police officer and detective working violent crimes—sexual assaults, child abuse, homicides— he saw firsthand that victims too small or weak to defend themselves against an attacker could have protected themselves with a firearm. “I want people to be able to take care of themselves,” he says. But a firearm has to match a person’s needs and abilities to be effective. “From shooting a lot and teaching people to shoot, I’m able to work with people to steer them in the right direction,” Stephen says. In fact, all of the staff members at GunsPlus have extensive firearms expertise—instruction, hunting, military and law enforcement work, competitive shooting, and gunsmithing—that they use to help customers.
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Stephen recalls a woman who wanted to buy a shotgun for home protection. “They’re a great tool,” he told her, “but you’re going to feel really awkward walking to the front door and opening it while holding a shotgun.” A handgun, which is easier to conceal, might be a better option, he advised. On the other hand, if she thought she’d be in a safe room or closet, then a shotgun made more sense for her. “It’s so important to us to help people make informed decisions because a lot of places [that sell guns] are not able to help people because they don’t have
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anicked, the father on the phone entreated private eye Anji FussellMaCuk for help. His young daughter was
missing. Anji, owner of She Spies Private Eye, Inc., a local private investigations business specializing in domestic cases, rushed to the house. Concerned but clear-minded, she assessed the home. “Is your daughter’s computer here?” she asked. “Well … yes,” the parents said. “I need that computer,” she said. “Don’t touch anything on it.” Together, she and a computer forensics investigator searched the girl’s computer. Soon, they found communications between the girl and an older man she had met online. “The man had told the young girl that he wanted to take care of her,” Anji says. “In cases like these, older men often negatively influence younger girls to run away by telling them they will
Private eye helps rescue missing girl give them anything they want if they come with them. Maybe a parent won’t get their twelveyear-old the latest iPhone, for example. Well, the predator will say, ‘I would get that for you!’” Adrenaline ran through Anji’s body as she realized the runaway girl’s likely situation. Finally, they found a message from the man telling the girl he wanted to meet, providing a time and place. They presented the computer and evidence to the police, who used the information to locate and arrest the man. Police also found the missing girl and tried to restore her to her family, but she
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didn’t want to go home. “She believed that the man would truly care for her,” Anji says. “That wasn’t it at all. He was a predator. She didn’t realize that what we were doing was in her best interest.” Anji, worried that the girl might run away again, helped the clients find a restoration program that could provide their daughter counseling and safety. Anji transported the child to the location herself. Anji used to work as a juvenile probation officer. In that position, she developed a passion for protecting atrisk children and youth, ensuring that justice is done,
For more information about Anji and She Spies Private Eye services, visit www.shespiespi.com. and setting them up in safe, healthy homes. After seven years as a JPO, she conducted background investigation for the Austin Police Department. In 2003 she merged her passion for domestic cases with her love of investigation by becoming a private investigator and opening She Spies Private Eye, Inc. Soon, she will open Next Step Youth Transport Services, LLC. Supported by heart-felt determination and seventeen years of experience, Anji has had great success as a private investigator. She operates offices in Round Rock, Austin, and Dallas and creatively leads an experienced team of licensed investigators to fight for justice for their clients. “Even though I’m very busy in and outside of work, I always take the time to make each client feel like they are the most important person and that their situation is a priority,”Anji says. As she transported the runaway girl,
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Anji offered what she calls “off-therecord counseling.” By asking questions and listening, she builds trust with youth. “This is an important first step toward their recovery,” she says. “Often, by the time we get them to a program, they are hugging me and don’t want to leave. I always give them my phone number
and tell them to call me if they need anything or want to talk again. Some of them have called me years afterward to let me know how they’ve progressed. That’s the part of my job that I love.” Today, the girl is safe, thanks to the careful, focused determination and compassion of Anji and her She Spies Private Eye team.”
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A worrisome family resemblance leads one woman to change her life
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s Vicki Jackimiec got out of the car at her father’s funeral, an elderly friend of the family approached her. “Please don’t take this the wrong way, honey,” the woman said. “I haven’t seen you since you were three months old, but I’d know you were your father’s daughter anywhere. You look just like him.” Vicki was horror-struck. The last time she had seen her father was two months before the funeral. He had weighed over 600 pounds. His weight and the health problems that it caused had left him nearly immobilized in his final days. His wife had to assist him with his daily functions, including personal hygiene. He had told Vicki then, “If I knew it was going to be this bad, I’d have taken better care of myself.” After his funeral, with the woman’s words still in her memory, Vicki looked at herself in the mirror. She already weighed 330 pounds. And she knew that
her resemblance to her dad could be deadly. “I had the same hands, same feet shape, same blue eyes, and, unfortunately, the same body type and propensity to gain weight,” Vicki says. “I was the spitting image of my dad.” Her body suffered from a myriad of health problems, too, including diabetes, high blood pressure, sleep apnea, high cholesterol, acid reflux, and fatigue—many of the diseases her father had suffered as well. “I never went to the second floor of our house,” Vicki admits. “I would wait until my husband got the paper every morning because the walk down the driveway was exhausting. Life wasn’t pretty and was getting grimmer by the moment.” Her father’s slow, painful death haunted her, showing her what her own future held if she didn’t change—dramatically. “It broke my heart to see my stepmother having to care for my father as though he were a 600-pound child,” Vicki says. “I realized that if I stayed on this
path, that’s exactly what I would have to ask my husband to do for me someday.” Over the next few years, she tried dozens of diets, but she couldn’t seem to make them stick. “There are so many things that you have to change when you’re heavy that it’s overwhelming,” Vicki says. “I didn’t know where to start. I was eating all the wrong foods at all the wrong times and not exercising. Everything you can do wrong, I was doing wrong. I would try to cut out one thing, but it didn’t feel like it would make any difference.” She looked into getting coverage for a gastric bypass surgery, which places a small sack in the stomach to restrict food intake for about a year and a half. However, her insurance didn’t cover the surgery. “I’d like to say that I came home from my father’s funeral on fire, but sometimes it doesn’t happen that way; it happens a lot slower,” she says. “I would pick up the phone and make a few calls about what my insurance would cover.
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I went to a couple of seminars for weight loss and surgeries. I dragged my feet, still eating ‘bad foods’—carbs, carbonated sodas, and sweets. I kept saying, ‘I’ll get to it, I’ll get to it.’” One day, she was complaining about how many diets she’d tried and failed and that her insurance wouldn’t cover surgery. Her listening friend encouraged her, “Just do it, even if you have to pay for it yourself—this is your life!” “For some reason, that’s all I needed to hear,” Vicki says. “It was my ‘Aha!’ moment.” Vicki looked into her insurance policy again and learned that a gastric bypass surgery had just been added to her coverage the month before. She called her insurance and asked, “‘What do I have to do?’ They gave me a long list of people I had to talk to before the surgery. And I told them, ‘I will do every step.’” One step involved meeting with a nutritionist for six months before surgery. If she missed a meeting, the six-month clock started over. The nutritionist helped her isolate unhealthy habits and make changes, one at a time, to prepare her to adopt a healthier lifestyle after surgery. “Most people think the surgeons are all you need,” Vicki explains. “But they couldn’t be more wrong. Even though I got mad sometimes when the nutrition-
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ly to make sure she runs on her treadmill at home, goes to Anytime Fitness, or takes a walk. “It’s a little trick,” she says. “When I come home from work, I never put pajamas on. PJs tell me I can go to bed or just watch TV. Instead, I immediately put my workout clothes on because it’s a mental note that says, ‘Go do it!’” Vicki also teaches seminars on the benefits of healthy living and encourages others in the same situation with her ist told me not to eat certain things or drink Diet Coke, I made the changes, and I didn’t miss a meeting. I was about to turn fifty years old, so I knew I had to take this seriously, because my time was running out.” This was her life. With the images of her dad just before his passing in her mind, she told herself, “I will do anything not to feel that bad.” In 2009, she had the gastric bypass surgery. In the months that followed, Vicki abandoned the breads, carbs, and sweets that used to comfort her. “I had to keep in mind that bending over to tie my shoes without effort and fitting in an airplane seat would be far more gratifying than yet another serving of mashed potatoes.” Now, Vicki has shed 200 pounds and beat the diseases she had before. In less than two years, she went from wearing size thirty clothing to size two. When she comes home from work now, she puts her exercise clothes on immediate-
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Reflections from Southwestern University’s new president, Edward Burger
ngaging, erudite, and energetic, Dr. Edward B. Burger took Southwestern University’s leadership reins last summer as its fifteenth president. Since his first official campus visit nearly a year ago, Dr. Burger has diligently connected with all facets of Southwestern— faculty, staff, students, and alumni—as well as the extended Georgetown community. As Dr. Burger anticipates his SU journey, he peppers commentary with words like innovation, integrity, and intentionality. He offers a compelling portrait of thinking and learning.
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On Southwestern/Georgetown connections: “They’re important to each other, and you saw that beautifully at the first pep rally and our first [football] game. It really showed the true promise of ‘town-gown,’ how if we all embrace it, this could be an amazing college town. It’s good for all of us, that kind of energy … just extremely important. … I’m also sensitive to the other side, which is that we have events at Southwestern open to the public, all free. I want more people to be inspired by our beautiful grounds [and] I want people to know they’re welcome. … The [campus] commitment to civic engagement is, I think, robust and profound … [and] not a lot of schools have the participation that we have. We have students working with local elementary schools; there’s Operation Achievement, outreach with Paideia programs, and partnerships with Texas Life Sciences Collaboration Center.”
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On what’s different about Southwestern: “Alumni don’t talk about a program or generic major but about an individual. The people on this campus—faculty, staff, and students who engage with their peers—are committed to being educators. People take that seriously, and the individuals who’ve studied at SU acknowledge that as an important component. That’s exciting and distinctive.” On preparing for the college experience: “Parents, be thoughtful about what’s to be accomplished [by your child]. I suggest [that students] should look at one’s undergraduate career, no matter at which university [and]realize it’s a place and a time for individuals to really shape how they think, how they innovate, how they analyze, discovering … tastes and intellectual passions, at the same time practicing habits of communication, so they can articulate their ideas. … Your undergraduate education should be daunting because every experience you face should challenge you to rethink something. It’s a time to practice. It’s not a time to cross off a checklist of things. … Don’t define education as ‘credentialism.’ Also, cultivate the habit of creating questions, just one of the ways you can think more effectively. Constantly ask yourself, ‘What should I be asking here?’” On the practicality of liberal arts in a technological age: “The reason we have so many institutions of higher learning is because there’s diversity of tastes and interests. For some individuals, it might be to learn a particular skill or trade, which is noble. … But you see, some technical skills will very quickly become obsolete … any fixed skill set you learn today … will not be the cutting-edge tomorrow. Many vocations of twenty years from now don’t even exist today. I think that the ‘impractical liberal arts’ are some of the most practical to train intellectual agility and provoke [for] change. That’s what education is about, right?”
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Well aware that some students are “math-phobic” or may not share his passion for mathematics, Dr. Burger began developing instructional videos in 1997, utilizing CD-ROM and Internet technology. His more than 3,000 lessons target subjects and settings from kindergarten through college, from home-schooling to traditional venues around the world. Students can check out his rope demonstration at the Boston Public Library or “The Top Ten List of Algebra Mistakes” on YouTube. Additionally, Dr. Burger has served as guest lecturer in locales as diverse as Hungary, France, Greece, Australia, Japan, United Arab Emirates, Canada, and Mexico. Much of Dr. Burger’s adult life has been spent in New England, first at Connecticut College for undergraduate work, then at Williams College in Massachusetts since 1990, and most recently as its Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics. Yet he’s no stranger to Texas. He did his doctoral work at the University of Texas at Austin. In 2010 he received a prestigious national award from Baylor, the Robert Foster Cherry Award for Great Teaching. During his two years in Waco, Dr. Burger served as professor and, later, as viceprovost for strategic educational initiatives. Recognized nationally with numerous other mathematics awards, he’s also made media appearances on programs such as NBC’s “Science of the Winter Olympics” segments and has been an educational program advisor for the CBS series NUMB3RS. Dr. Burger has authored or co-authored thirty-five research papers and twelve books. He describes his most recent publication, The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking, as a “little teeny short read which invites people to think better.” Thinking ahead, he envisions Southwestern’s future—engaging minds, transforming lives.
On his choice of career/vocation: “I never had any aspirations of being a teacher or mathematician; I had wanted to be a lawyer since my earliest memories. It’s respected, important, you can make a lot of money. … Quality of life issues were lost on me when I was young. Early on, I wasn’t strong in arithmetic—no prodigy. Around algebra, I realized there are many creative paths to an answer. That epiphany was very potent. I had some amazing math teachers, especially my calculus teacher, Liza Metzler. I kept feeding the flame … [through college and graduate school], thinking, ‘I’ll figure out what math is, then I’ll go to law school.’ I was just having fun, immersing myself in this beautiful, abstract discipline, making new discoveries through research. … Then I realized I could actually earn a living having fun.” On “encouraging and rewarding effective failure,” an innovative teaching concept of Dr. Burger’s noted in The Huffington Post’s 100 Game Changers of 2010 award: “True innovation will not happen seamlessly. The element of change is one that requires some risk, so not getting ‘it’ right, or failing effectively, is necessary. Like Thomas Edison, we learn from failed attempts. The other element is to ‘push the envelope,’ to intentionally fail, to take the issue or program and push it to its limits [in order to] to see what happens. The idea of taking something to the breakpoint or one step beyond provides deep insight.”
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wo memories from early childhood tug at Linda McCasland’s heart. One Christmas, she and her siblings came home to find a Christmas wonderland created by their parents— lights sparkled everywhere, and beneath the tree, ready-to-go racetracks and Easy-Bake Ovens complete with scrumptiouslooking boxed mixes awaited discovery. The family played and laughed for hours. Linda holds the warmth of that memory close.
The second memory, however, provokes quite different feelings. “It was nothing,” Linda recalls, “for the ambulance to come traveling down the street, lights off, to pick Mother up and take her to the hospital for treatment.” Linda’s mother had ovarian cancer. She died when Linda was nine, and afterwards, sadness and uncertainty checkered Linda’s childhood. But there was a bright spot, and thanks to that bright spot, Linda grew up to cultivate a career that makes sure children learn about faith, family, and love. After his wife’s death, Linda’s father turned more and more to alcohol and couldn’t care for his four kids, so he sent them to live with their grandparents for two years. The aging couple, however, couldn’t handle that responsibility.
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Then the kids’ great aunt learned about Texas Baptist Children’s Home, and their father took them to visit. On a sunny spring day, Linda remembers, she and her sisters toured one of the cottages, where Mom and Pop Courtney and eight girls showed them around. “The seven-bedroom house had the cleanest and shiniest floors ever,” Linda says, “and there was a family room where the girls congregated in the evenings for their girl talk and game fun. Finally, I was seeing the family unit atmosphere that I had longed for since the death of our mother.” She loved it from the first moment. For five years, her life revolved around home activities and school. She attended Round Rock schools, was a good student, and participated in drill team and cheerleading. At seventeen she “went through that rebellious stage,” she says. During her senior year, she married her high school sweetheart, Doug, and graduated. The couple
welcomed their first baby the following year. Being a wife and mom while working full time was tough, but Linda knew what it took to make a strong family. At TBCH, along with love and faith came structure and discipline. “You had chores every morning,” says Linda. “We all came together for meals, prayed before, and cleaned up together afterwards.” She and Doug made it work. Over the next several years, their family grew from three to five. “It wasn’t until I was blessed with my own children that I discovered how much I enjoyed teaching, playing, and having fun with kids in general,” Linda says. In 1984 she began working at Cornerstone Connection, a Christian preschool. Linda says, “I was exhausted when I got home, but I loved it.” She earned her Professional Administrator’s Credentials in 1987 and worked there another ten years, learning developmental needs of preschoolers and kindergarteners. When a preschool went up for sale in 1998, Linda and Doug proposed a lease-purchase agreement, and the owners accepted. Getting Mrs. Mac’s Shining Stars up and running was an overwhelming challenge, but Linda forged ahead, building a school based on her philosophy of “growing kids God’s way.” Within five months, enrollment blossomed from thirty-two students to 134; in 2006 she opened her second school. Today, as Linda helps little ones strengthen their own foundations of faith, family, and love, she is so grateful to her own parents and family at TBCH, who helped her hold tight to these principles. “I’m really amazed,” Linda says, “at what has happened in my life.”
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A “Clean” Plate Approach Choosing food for a healthy life By
Christine Switzer
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ust a month after their marriage, Kelly Richard’s husband began throwing up blood and had to be rushed to an emergency room. The aspirin he had depended on to dull headaches and other physical pains during his six-year army career had eaten away his stomach lining as well as part of his esophagus. He could no longer depend on aspirin or other overthe-counter pain medications, and he had developed digestive issues as well. Facing this tangle of health issues as a new wife, Kelly began to take nutrition much more seriously. Today, she looks back on
that experience as a turning point, both professionally and personally. “I started studying holistic nutrition and using my husband as a guinea pig,” says Kelly, who owns Heal Thy Living Holistic Nutrition and Personal Training. “It’s been a long journey. We’ve been married now fourteen years, and it’s still going. It’s a daily thing. Early on, I learned that we often are taught to approach nutrition through a diet mentality, an all-or-nothing approach. But that doesn’t actually work well, and you set yourself up for failure. Instead, my husband and I have learned to approach nutrition in more of a step-by-step way. We have learned how to take small steps toward having a healthier diet.” Kelly describes this healthier diet as “clean eating,” and in her work with clients, she recommends moving toward this goal in a slow, step-by-step process. She explains that the changes a client wants to make will not happen overnight, and she guides each client to start simply and build slowly over time. “Clean eating is not about what you can’t eat—
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it’s about what might be a better choice for what you are doing right now. Once you are used to the better choice, then what is the next better choice?” The key to clean eating, Kelly points out, is balance. “It is not about eliminating; instead, you have to balance stuff out,” she explains. “Not everybody can take drastic steps, so I start clients off with simple things, like substituting white pasta with whole grain pasta or substituting soda with water. These were the first two steps for my husband and me. Then, later, I started integrating organic foods into our diet, watching out more for foods that had pesticides, buying cage-free, things like that. Now, I’m going gluten- and dairy-free with my husband, which is a whole new direction, and he’s been enjoying it more than he thought he would.” Kelly explains that “clean eating” is not a new type of eating. “It is not a diet,” she says. “It is eating whole foods that are simply cooked and that you can find in nature as they come. It is simply
Heal Thy Living Holistic Nutrition and Personal Training 512-565-7810 bkrichards@prodigy.net www.biblicalholistichealth.com healthy eating: choosing foods that are not processed and full of additives, chemicals, and preservatives; choosing foods that do not come in a package. It is learning about what food to eat and in what amounts. For example, instead of having a huge, loaded baked potato for dinner, instead enjoy roasted red potatoes or a sweet potato sautéed in oils and herbs.” More than a decade after her scare as a newlywed, Kelly has seen her hard work to improve her and her husband’s diet pay off. “We have made changes gradually, very gradually. It didn’t happen overnight. [Over time], my husband’s digestive issues improved. He was able to get off all of the drugs, and he’s learned to manage pain through different body work methods like chiropractic and massage. In the midst of all of this, my husband was and still is my biggest cheerleader.”
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Buried Giants Famed mountain range stretches into Central Texas By
Christine Switzer
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he Hill Country is known for its distinctive geological features: pocked limestone outcroppings that often jut out of the ground in great slabs, clear springs, and caves tucked into canyons and near rivers. The karst-like terrain, carved out over thousands of years by water running along the limestone beds, points to a geological secret, however. If you were to drill 1,500 feet below the surface some twenty miles west of Georgetown, through all those accumulated layers of 125-millionyear-old limestone, you would run into the Appalachian Mountains. “The Balcones Fault Zone that extends from Dallas, to Waco, to Austin, to Del Rio [is] the surface expression of [these] underlying mountains,” explains geologist Don Beaumont, who before retiring served for more than forty years as a geologist with Texaco and Knowledge Systems. “The displacement on these faults drops our limestones from fifty feet to several hundred feet down the east side of the Appalachian Mountains, while the limestones over the mountains remain largely undisturbed. Move-
ment along the Balcones Fault [has given] rise to caverns, springs, and some of our subsurface drinking water, [plus] undetermined natural gas potential.” The buried mountain range bears little resemblance to the one stretching through the coastal South Atlantic states, known as the Smoky Mountains in the Carolinas and as the Blue Ridge Mountains in Georgia. Near the Mississippi River, these mountains slip underground, hidden under longaccumulated river deposits. They continue to run underground until Arkansas, where they emerge as the Ouachita Mountains. Don explains that the discovery of a link between these ranges is fairly recent. “Only in the last fifty years,” Don says, “have we suspected that they were connected.” The technological developments that made it possible to trace the connection between the Appalachian and the Ouachita ranges also revealed that the massive interconnected chain does not end in Arkansas. Instead, the mountains return underground and then snake through Central Texas, concealed under multiple layers of limestone. “With the
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development of reflection seismic subsurface imaging in the middle of the twentieth century,” Don explains, “[we] can record the configuration of rocks to a depth of 25,000 feet and deeper. We now know that [all of these] mountains are connected.” Although springs, caves, and limestone outcroppings bear little evidence of these buried mountains today, Don explains that the chain once towered over the landscape. It formed nearly 300 million years ago, he said, when Africa and South America collided to create the supercontinent Pangaea. At the time, they would have rivaled today’s Himalayans, with peaks of up to 30,000 feet. “Subsequent erosion reduced them to ‘rolling hills,’” says Don, who regularly teaches and speaks about geology at Senior University and at local clubs. “Then [the hills] were buried by the limestones we know about here in Williamson County.” The discovery of these hidden mountains suggests new possibilities for hiking the famed Appalachian Trail. Texas hikers can get started right away—and quite near home!
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trange Brew, a South Austin coffee house tucked away on Manchaca, offers customers more than caffeine on Sunday mornings. Along with a cup of brew, music gets the coffee house’s patrons going, courtesy of The Purgatory Players’ weekly Gospel Brunch. Strange Brew opened in 2010 and has built a reputation as a hot spot for java-seeking college students, but since the 2012 addition of an adjoined bar and music lounge, Strange Brew has become popular among live music fans as well. Each Sunday, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., patrons purchase breakfast at the café counter and then make their way to seats around
the stage. Against the red crushed velvet backdrop, The Purgatory Players, the creation of some of Austin’s most prolific musicians, make music, have a little fun, and promote a good cause. All are welcome, and since admission is free to the public, those in the know come early to claim one of lounge’s 142 seats. Austin musician Jeff Plankenhorn—who along with venue owner Scott Ward brought the concept of a weekly gospel brunch to Strange Brew—joins Jon Dee Graham, Conrad Choucroun, and “Scrappy” Jud Newcomb on stage. About ten other musicians and guests rotate in when core members are away on tour. “A lot of us are really lucky to be able to play [professionally] most nights of the week with various different bands,” says Scrappy Jud. “[The gospel brunch] is a little different from a normal [nighttime] gig, but everyone’s drinking
mimosas and having just as much fun. I always enjoy playing on this stage.” Each gospel brunch is offered to patrons with no set cover charge, although band members do pass around a tip collection jar for the musicians and to raise money for the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas. Typically, tips are divided equally, with the food bank receiving a band member’s share of the proceeds; but sometimes The Purgatory Players go all out, running canned food drives and presenting all donations to the food bank. During their week-long Thanksgiving food drive in 2012, the band raised $2,400 and gave 100 percent of the proceeds to the food bank. “We decided early on that we wanted this to be mostly a charity gig,” says Scrappy Jud. “I think a lot of people like to start their Sundays doing this because you’re helping some people out and having some fun.”
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had an interesting conversation with a woman I sat next to on a recent flight. We both have children in college and shared our empty nester woes. After a few moments of silence, she asked about what I am doing now that my child is in college. I told her that I am a writer and speaker and that I had started writing professionally when my daughter was in middle school. “I wish I had taken up other interests while I was raising my kids. Now that they’re gone, I don’t know what to do,” she said. Her response
saddened me and made me think back on my own journey. I could relate to this woman. There were times when I also felt I had to abandon or delay my aspirations while my child was young. When we decide to become mothers, raising our children necessarily becomes a priority, whether we stay home with them or not. We make sure, to the best of our ability, that their physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual needs are met. Sometimes, however, moms forget to nurture themselves in this process. “Taking care of yourself as a woman is like taking care of a garden,” says Cathie Walling, licensed clinical pastoral counselor for Hope and Life Counseling in
Alicea Jones is a professional writer and speaker encouraging mothers to nurture the whole woman so that they can achieve all they are designed to be. She is currently working on Free To Mother, a book to help moms live courageously. www.freetomother.com
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Georgetown. “Ready yourself for the coming years when your children need you less so that you are not left in a wide open field of uncertainty.” So how do we nurture our interests, dreams, and goals as we mother? Here’re a few ideas: Do the things you love. Love art? Pal up with a friend who has children and stroll the kids through the local museum. Like to dig around in the yard? Purchase kid-sized gardening tools and let them dig holes while you prune the petunias. Keep learning. Learning isn’t just for kids. In this season of motherhood, you may not be able to take a full load, but perhaps you can take one online course each semester. Check your local YMCA, recreation center, or college for community education classes. Other online resources, such as Khan Academy (www. khanacademy.org), offer free classes and libraries.
Try something new. Always wanted to learn to knit or paint in water color or give a speech? Go for it. Get a baby sitter or swap childcare with a friend so that you can attend group meetings an hour or two each week. Learning or mastering something new has many benefits, including keeping your mind sharp and giving your self-esteem a boost. Keep your dreams in focus. Buy or make a dream board. Attach to it the things that represent your dreams and goals. Want to run your own business someday? Clip a dollar bill or a handmade business card to your dream board. Add things like clippings from magazines, inspirational scriptures, and quotes. Place your dream board where you can see it every day. Help Someone Else. Have a skill or talent you’d like to cultivate? One of the best ways to enhance what you know is to teach it to someone else. Conduct informal classes for your church or civic group or for your children’s teachers. You’ll sharpen your craft while feeling good about helping others. It may take some creative juggling of your time and commitments, but you can do it. The first step is recognizing that you can nurture your gifts and interests and still be a great mother. Who knows? You just might discover a new passion or fall into a new career. Go for it!
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ila Craig, a Georgetown woman with a big heart for dogs, lists a few of their finer traits: “They are capable of boundless love and affection. They don’t judge. They don’t lie. They live in the moment, and nothing makes them happier than the attention you are giving them right now.” In 2011, Gila’s desire to foster dogs took an inspiring twist of fate. As she cruised through pictures of possible foster pets at the Williamson County Animal Shelter’s Facebook page, her eyes settled on a pudgy yellow Lab named Charlie. “His weight definitely prompted me to foster him,” Gila recalls. “I was in the middle of my own weight-loss journey, and I knew that I could apply the same principles to him, and he’d be losing weight in no time.” Soon after Charlie arrived, however, Gila realized that he was limping. She immediately took him to her veterinarian, Dr. Oliver Engle. He weighed Charlie in at fifty pounds over the typical Lab weight of sixty-five to eighty pounds. “Over eighty percent of my clients are overweight,” Dr. Engle says. “Treats are one of the biggest factors, as well as not measuring food correctly or even using the right tools to measure food. We use this rule of thumb: an eight-ounce cup per day of food for every twenty pounds of ideal body weight, less if weight loss is needed.” Dr. Engle explains that a good goal for any pet owner is to look for food
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t’s January, that time of year when many people seek a way to cleanse their bodies after indulging during the holidays. Lots of options for cleansing exist, from shakes to supplements to drinking lemon water for a week. Personally, I like juicing—turning fruits and vegetables into a drinkable form. Many health experts tout the benefits of juicing for helping people detoxify their bodies, lose weight, and revitalize the skin. Plus, the juice tastes delicious! If you’re interested in juicing, try the delicious and easy recipes below.
Watermelon Bliss Ingredients: 5 oz. strawberries 5 oz. raspberries 10 oz. watermelon Preparation: 1. Wash and roughly chop the fresh fruit. 2. Place all ingredients in a blender or juicer. 3. Pulse until liquefied. 4. If using a blender, strain the solids out of the liquid.
Tips for juicing: 1. You don’t need an expensive juicer; most blenders will do the trick—simply strain the liquid for a smooth consistency, if you prefer. 2. If you find the taste too bitter, try adding a banana or apple, instead of sugar, to sweeten the finished product. 3. You can include the cores, peels, and rinds of many fruits and veggies. For suggestions about what works and what doesn’t, visit www. justjuice.org/ and similar sites.
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Powerhouse Punch Celery is a nutrient giant. This green juice is full of calcium, iron, folic acid, and potassium. Ingredients: 1 bunch celery 1 green apple ½ cup flat leaf parsley 5 lacinato kale leaves 1 lime 1 lemon 1 Tbsp grated fresh ginger 1 Tbsp organic coconut oil
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“W
atch out, or the cops will getcha!’” Police Chief Wayne Nero, brow furrowed, shakes his head. “Have you ever heard that? That’s 180 degrees from what we’d prefer that parents are telling their kids.” He leans back in his chair, reflecting. “We don’t want kids growing up being scared of police. We want them to understand that we’re the good guys, and they can come to us when they need something.” That message, combined with the Georgetown PTA’s message promoting awareness of childhood obesity, is what led the two entities to partner for the first annual Chase the Chief 5K and Fun Run in 2013, an event that allows the community to, well, chase the chief!
The family-friendly event takes place in San Gabriel Park and features a Pre-K obstacle course, an obstacle course, a chip-timed 5K race, and a fun run during which Chief Nero is clad in full uniform. “This is what I get for not being a part of those [initial planning] meetings,” Chief Nero says with amusement. “It comes down to me being chased, which is great.” This year’s event will take place on April 13, says PTA committee member Rebecca English. “There will also be educational booths at the event. We expect about fifteen nutritional food booths, fitness companies, and nonprofits to be in attendance—offering free recipes, tips, and healthy food samples—and our goal is to have 800 people participate in the run.” Last year, the Georgetown Independent School District school with the highest percentage of participants—teachers, students, and families—received a $250 donation to
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their PE department. Every other GISD school received a $100 donation. The committee hopes to award GISD schools again this year for their participation. For many kids, says Rebecca, Chase the Chief is not only their first 5K but also one of their first positive experiences with the police department. Everyone who crosses the finish line before the chief does will receive a prize, and there will be a photo op area where participants can get their picture taken with Chief Nero and other officers after the race. “We want it to be a friendly community event where kids can learn to make healthy choices and be exposed to the police department in a fun environment. It worked out that the first one was super fun and super successful, and we can’t wait to do it again,” Rebecca says.
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oe Rothenberg was twelve when he learned to use the computer animation software Adobe Flash and Multimedia Fusion 2. A year later, he and fellow thirteen-year-old Austin Tompkins started a summer animation and video game camp to teach other children how to design their own video games. “At first I think parents were skeptical,” Joe says. “But that was only on the first day. Once kids went home from the first day, we’d always hear from parents, ‘They could not stop talking about it!’ Because you got to make a video game! We did not waste time.”
The camp had spots for thirtysix students, and at only $100 per week, kids who couldn’t afford most high-tech camps could participate. It was so successful that Joe and Austin offered the camp three times per summer for seven years. “At the time, we thought we were just teaching people to make video games for fun,” Joe says. But with the growing popularity of video games and applications, anyone now “could theoretically make a living from these skills.” And that’s just what Joe does. Ten years after hosting his first summer camp in his parents’ “studio garage” in Georgetown, the twenty-three-year-old animator, director, and video game creator is parlaying the skills he learned as an adolescent into a new animated video game: Ping. Though similar to Pong, the two-dimensional tennis-like arcade game released in the 1970s,
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Joe’s Mac and PC-compatible computer game adds an offensive component—missiles—to computer-based ping-pong. “It’s like Pong, but so much better,” Joe says enthusiastically. “It’s silly and it’s fun, and you’re mostly shooting at the ball to influence its movement. It feels sort of like a sports game or fighting game but without the violence.” Joe created the prototype for Ping when he was studying animation at the University of Southern California, but he didn’t consider its commercial viability until a group of investors offered him seed money to pursue the game. Now, the company has about $15,000 in funding, with Joe among the investors. “At this point, my salary is nonexistent, but the process is exciting. I’m learning everything about creating a new piece of entertainment and trying to get people engaged with it.” Currently, Joe and his team— which includes two composers, four producers, an artist, and a team liaison—estimate that about 5,000 people are aware of
Ping, and they’re gearing up for a big campaign push and full launch in early 2014. Joe already has a sequel planned for Ping and another game called Run and Jump Fred, which will merge his love for video games with animation. “With Ping, the only real animation is the trailer … but with Fred, I’ll try to tie the mechanics of the game in with the story. This is something that indie game developers are just starting to discover to make video games a richer experience, so I want in on that.” The thrill of getting one of his ideas funded and bringing it to life has significantly altered his worldview, Joe says. “In college they tell you they’re prepping to go into an industry and start a career, and even if you’re a freelancer, there will always be rules,” Joe explains. “But I think it might fit my personality a lot better to just pursue projects I enjoy. Just to do them! You can do that!” he enthuses. “I got a little bit of backing—it’s not a huge investment or risk for them—but it could be a huge thing for all of us if we connect with a fan base.”
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Making Wishes on Dolls Celebrating Japan’s Daruma Ichi Festival Story and Photos by
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undled in a matching stocking cap and scarf, and sporting warm woolen socks, a heavy, knee-length jacket, and durable, snow-resistant boots, I still shivered with excitement. It was early February, and I’d just arrived at the Daruma Ichi Festival in Japan’s Fukushima Province. Vendors lined the streets on either side, preparing feasts of Japanese street food on large electric grills. Among the offerings were grilled squid on a stick, candied strawberries, and bowls of fresh octopus. I wanted to try it all. After surveying the abundant selection of offerings, I paid an elderly Japanese woman 250 yen for my ayu on a stick and bit through the fish’s crispy skin. “Mmm … delicious!” I said through the white surgical mask I was urged to wear. It was influenza season, and practically everyone was wearing masks to prevent the flu from spreading. “It has to do with being considerate,” said my friend Abraham, who had already lived in Japan for nearly a year, teaching English to Japanese students. “Everyone is in J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 4 G E O R G E T O W N v i e w
such close quarters here, so it’s really the polite thing to do.” Abraham and I continued walking, passing vibrant pop-up shops peddling toys and masks of cartoon characters like the famous Pokémon character Pikachu, the über-popular cat from Hello Kitty, and Disney’s animated blue alien, Stitch. At last, we reached a tent displaying an assortment of hollowed-out daruma dolls in different sizes and colors. Each doll was handmade out of papier-mâché and painted by Japanese artisans. People purchase eyeless daruma dolls at the festival, celebrated throughout Japan from January to early March, and color in the right eye of the doll once they’ve made a wish or resolution for the year. After that resolution or wish comes true, the doll’s owner may color in the daruma’s left eye. Daruma dolls are talismans of good luck, intended to motivate people to keep track of and see their goals through to completion. There’s nothing sadder than a one-eyed daruma. At the next year’s Daruma Ichi Festival, participants cast their old daruma dolls in a communal fire pit and purchase new, slightly larger daruma dolls. Children commonly start out with tiny darumas, and adults have bigger ones. That year, I purchased my first daruma, painted traditionally in red, black, white, and gold. And I’m proud to say that it ended the year with two large, dark eyes.
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