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or those of you who are new to Ithaca, this is an annual tradition here at the Ithaca Times. We turn the content of the paper over to the readership, and they fill up the last issue of the year with their own thoughts, feelings, and reflections. In order to bring some focus to the proceedings we always put a theme out there, ostensibly with the idea that people will write something that more or less corresponds to some interpretation of said theme. As you will see in the pages that follow, this is not always the case. But hey, this is Ithaca. Who follows directions? The 2015 theme is “transitions.” In the essay below John Gann, a former denizen of the School of Human Ecology at Cornell, put his finger on what the editorial staff had in mind, but as you will see, there are myriad other interpretations. Ithaca became a village in 1821 and was re-incorporated as a city in 1888. If you walk around in the city (and this is recommended; it is more attractive the more slowly you greet it), you will see that an enormous number of structures are from the post-Victorian and pre-Depression era that includes a lot of Arts & Crafts

and cottage-style houses and buildings. In other words, the city seems to have had its most recent growth spurt—before the current one—in the latest 19th and early 20th centuries. Which is to say, everyone alive then has probably passed away and so no one remembers the previous round of ubiquitous construction. The centralization of commerce in the post-World War II era has drawn resources away from the hinterlands and, aside from Cornell and Ithaca College, not much has grown around here since the last world war. The transition that most living people have experiences has been one toward increasing sleepiness in the city proper and a dissipation elsewhere. Some people, of course, adore this sleepy little “centrally isolated” college town (see Leslie Ihde’s love letter on page 7), but, as picturesque as it is, it basically can’t pay its bills, and hasn’t been able to for years. Ithaca is like your cool, eccentric uncle who a great art collection, but is rapidly headed toward living in his car. But in the following pages you see that there are some fertile and fascinating minds living here. Whatever this city becomes, it will likely be a lot of fun. §

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Ithaca in Transition By J o h n L. Ga n n, J r.

erhaps the highest-profile local symptom of Transition recently has been Ithaca’s Rendezvous With Density. High-rise building seemingly out of place in a country town of 30,000 has been discussed, opposed, and defended. But bigger buildings are an indicator of contemporary college town success and perhaps a symptom of a small city in Transition to something bigger. However the current density controversy turns out, there will be Transition in Ithaca. That’s because higher ed nationally is in Transition, as is Cornell University, which is growing a glamorous new campus in New York City. When Cornell courses and degrees are offered on the Web or on Roosevelt Island, how many students will still come to Ithaca and for how long? I think this company town will have to Transition to a multi-purpose place that is more than just “Cornell, New York.” Four years ago I wrote The

The downtown Marriott hotel, a 10-story building, going up on South Aurora Street. (Photo: Cassandra Palmyra)

Third Lifetime Place as a guide to such Transitions for college towns nationwide. It defined compatible additional functions for A Place to Learn college towns. They are A Place to Live, A Place to Retire, A Place to Meet, A Place to Vacation, a Place to Heal, and A Place for Sports and Entertainment. Key to success in new roles, I suggested, was a Transition in our minds: specifically in the identity of what is our Third Lifetime Place (TLP). The TLP is a dwelling place that is or was a temporary retreat from work and everyday home responsibilities that has special significance in our lives. It has emotional equity comparable but in third place to the place where we grew up and the place where we spend most of our adult lives. In the past the TLP has usually been the regular year-after-year vacation spot: the Catskills, the Hamptons, Florida. As illustrated most dramatically by Florida, the vacation TLP has had T

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the potential to graduate to a place to retire or even live during working years. But with more of our population than ever before having graduated from college, there is reason to believe attractive college towns could for many replace vacationland as the 21st century TLP. The college town was, after all, the site of some of the most pleasurable, memorable, and meaningful years of our lives. College years are associated with youth and a time still free of fulltime work and domestic responsibilities. There were no kids, no mortgage, no Form 1040. “Gorges” Ithaca has more promise than most college towns for attaining TLP status. Transitioning from academic ghetto to a Univer-City, it could more fully develop all of the potential that Cornell’s presence offers. But that will call for initiative on the part of imaginative and entrepreneurial

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academic, civic, or business leaders. Transitions are more difficult when it’s Business As Usual. A more diverse Transitioned Ithaca would be a socially and economically richer community. It could offer more part-time jobs for students, more customers for local businesses, more sources of revenue for Cornell and Ithaca College, and more tax revenues for the city and county. That could be a Transition worth working on. § Formerly with Cooperative Extension at the College of Human Ecology at Cornell University, John L. Gann, Jr. (citykid@uwalumni.com), president of Chicago-area-based Gann Associates, consults trains, and writes on marketing places for economic growth. He is author of The Third Lifetime Place: A New Economic Opportunity for College Towns.

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Business Man’s Lunch By J i m Ca rozza

his year 10 to15 grammar school/high school classmates will gather at Horigan’s Tavern (in Elmira) for a Christmas Eve lunch. This tradition started in 1971. We have met every year since. The idea was to gather at a

restaurant as opposed to our usual gathering places, the banks of the Hoffman Creek, drinking beer, smoking cigars, or the basement of a house where the parents were gone for a few hours. We were a tame group judging by today’s standards. We placed bricks in

the road, covering the bricks with tree leaves to create a jolt for any motorist who drove through this obstacle. We did the obligatory snowball-throwing at passing cars and underage beer drinking. The drinking age in New York State in the late ‘60s was 18. I was buying beer at age 15 as I had grown to my adult height at age 14. The Viet Nam war was raging and anyone of us might have been drafted. Older brothers were drafted, or older brothers left for Canada, or older brothers attended college. Canada and attending college deferred young men from Viet Nam service. Sammy L. did

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not seek a voidance, and he returned from Viet Nam to walk the streets of Elmira, wearing a sport coat and smoking cigarettes for 40 years after the war. We would not have to go to Viet Nam, as 1973 was the first year no young men were drafted. We were a carefree group with colorful names: me; Crow; Dave (Buzz; named after a popular drinking game); Muls; Blackie (derivatives of their last names); Bill; Grady (he looked like the Grady character from Sanford and Son, a popular TV show); Clarky or McGarrett (Clarky was always inquiring what members of the group were doing, and his nosiness earned him the name McGarrett after the detective on the first Hawaii 5-0 TV show; Clarky was the founder of the Date Patrol, which followed members around town while they were on a date); Harry J. the original hippie; Pitch (first name in Chemung County to wisecrack about a gun before he entered an airplane; his mug shot was hilarious); Fulkie; Tips; Jake; Scott (who was called John Thompson because of his resemblance to the Georgetown basketball coach); Lemon; and Tate. We were broke high school students, but this luncheon afforded us a break from Christmas Eve family gatherings. I enjoyed my mother’s feast of seven fishes, but I was the youngest of the family and would have to endure having my cheeks pinched by Italians relatives, or having my older sister announce that I would never have a girlfriend, as I was a “just look at him.” My sister was only four years older, but it might well have been 40. Her age group wore ankle-length skirts, talked constantly on the phone, and worried about boys and clothes. My group was more rebellious: long hair, bellbottoms, less interested in material effects. My sister was good in a pinch though. In my sophomore year of college I learned how to make long distance calls using other people’s phone numbers. When AT&T called my parents, attempting to track down the charges, my sister stonewalled the phone company. The luncheon conversation was about how little Christmas shopping we did, our plans for the new year, and who wanted to stay up all night and deliver Arctic League packages. The Arctic League was/is a charity that buys gifts for the poor children of the county. Christmas day at 5 a.m., volunteers would deliver the packages. No one stayed up all night to help the Arctic League; we were all talk in the early years. Later years would find me going to bed at midnight and rising early to deliver for the Arctic League. continued on page 5

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my mind as I pictured it woven into my blond hair. If I didn’t do it now, I might always wish I had. Feeling a bit devilish I had the red put on strands at the bottom of my hair, at least an inch or two high, and in the back the hair above it is cut a little shorter to expose it more. Some people instantly light up with enthusiasm when they see it and tell me how much they like it, what courage I have at my age, and the fact that I must be middle aged then stories of their grown children that I actually realized I was a senior when they were young and what they citizen. Shortly there after, when I started getting Medicare advertisements, did with their hair. Other people simply stare, have a look of confusion, say nothing, and I know it is all about them and not me. It is not something they would ever do. One person asked me what my children think. I wondered, because I am old enough to be his mother and a grandmother to his children, if he thought I was getting eccentric. It use to be that people would ask me what my parents thought, now it is Photo: Rye Bennett what my children think. My internal transiting to what I thought surely it was a mistake, surely society considers a senior has it’s own someone else had my name at my GPS. I think that is true for most address. For a while now I have enjoyed hair of us. Real people are much more interesting than stereotypes. As for a styles that artistically added strands of naked grandma, there are real problems Elumen colors. Rainbow colors, deep waiting for someone who breaks into a red, bright orange, no-mistaking-theblue, green, and purple danced through house and that is not one of them. §

No Longer Young By Ba rba ra West

hile watching Family Feud on television I heard the question, “What would be the first thing someone breaking into a house would not want to see?” The fastest answer was “a naked grandma.” Instantly, out loud, I accentuated “welllllllll excuuuuse meeeeeeeeee.” Already that day a cashier at Wegmans called me “madame.” I wanted to say, “Call me hot lips, but don’t ever call me madame.” The day before in the store Hot Topics I stood before the shelves of peace signs and Beatles’ paraphernalia. I was recalling my high school days in the 1960s. With that mind set I caught a glimpse of my face in a mirror. “Who in the world is that,” I thought. The answer came back “Mirror, mirror on the wall, I turned out like my mother after all.” It wasn’t until I was contemplating

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The early years of the businessman lunch would have Blackie calling everyone to remind guys of the luncheon. Blackie does not make calls anymore, as the luncheon is a standing date. I see people there I may see once a year. Ex-Elmirans know they can swing into Horigan’s and visit with us. The current owner of Horigan’s complains what a nuisance we are (we have been know to stay until 6 p.m.) to serve when the staff wants to close the restaurant. But as a group we have supported her restaurant. My 28-year-old daughter is a waitress at Horigan’s! She now cooks the seven-fish Christmas Eve dinner that my deceased mother used to prepare. Professor, bank president, food salesman, contractor, dentist, lost ‘60s child, teacher, lawyer; these are our current titles. We will gather to rib each other (“Remember when Crow stole the popcorn money from the varsity club? Don’t let him handle the lunch check money!”). I have grown up and old in Elmira. The Christmas Eve businessman’s luncheon has been a fond memory and an ongoing event. §

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Family in Transition By Ba rba ra D. Katz- B row n

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t first we moved his instrument, a large string bass, into his tiny dorm room and then we started filling the space with his luggage, his computer, and the essentials of a freshman dorm room. Our son’s roommate had not arrived yet, so his sister decided to use the time we had alone and she hung up his T-shirts and long-sleeved shirts on the hangers we had brought. She placed the shirts into the small closet one by one. She carefully organized them all by color, which we laughed at because we knew in a week’s time the shirts would probably never know such a nice environment again. Our son nervously bid us goodbye, we hugged and kissed each other and then wished him luck. This was our first child going away to college and although he had been to sleepaway camps and longtime stays with his grandparents, we knew this was a big change for our family. When we walked to the car, I began to cry and our daughter looked at us and simply said, “He’s not dead, mom. He’s only going to college.” This prompted me to laugh through my tears, and although our daughter was correct, she was unaware what a huge transition this would be for our family. First of all, in order to pay for the tuition that remained after his scholarships, I knew I would need to get a part-time job as a speech pathologist in our local nursing homes besides my regular full-time position in the public schools. I also knew I would have to work in the summer as an administrator for summer school, and teach as an adjunct instructor at one of our local colleges. I would be using all of my certifications at once. My husband would need to take gigs as a musician, playing the types of work that he said he would never do again in his life, like playing wedding gigs, in addition to his full-time professor position at a local college. We had made a commitment to make sure our children did not graduate with huge school loans and would do anything we could to make sure that any loans would not be needed. Both children worked in the summer and both were employed during the school year at their colleges. This is why I was crying ... I had begun to realize that our free time, our travel time as a family, our hanging out 5,

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time, and our buy-anything-you-needat-the-time lifestyle had just vanished. My husband and I would be working our tails off for the next 10 years of our life to support our two children, who would be in college and graduate schools at the same time. If we lived with our promise of “no school loans” this would be a no frills period of our life. Shopping at the Salvation Army (Sally’s), would be about all we would be able to do and we cut out any extra expenses we had. Bye-bye cleaning person, dry cleaned shirts, HBO, trips to the beauty parlor, Saturday night full price movies and expensive restaurants ... not that we did those things often anyway, just now, our life would become spare, stripped down of any guilty pleasures and filled with many, many sacrifices. When a student makes a move from high school to college, the entire family is affected in some way or another. It’s not just the student who has to make a transition, but generally people don’t talk about the economic effects on the family of the student. Even in Ithaca we generally speak about how our Commons stores are thrilled to see the students return each fall to refill their coffers, forgetting that most of those shekels come from working parents. With an empty bedroom at home, yes, your household water bill decreases as the number of showers decrease and the cookies stay in the jar longer, but the overall result on the dynamics of a family, the time the parents have to spend with the other siblings, the activities your family enjoyed in the past and the focus of your paycheck is also involved in a conversion. While we in our little I-town accept new freshman every year into our fold, we should remember that the students are not the only ones making a transition. The families of the students are also making huge changes in their own lifestyles as well. When we look into the faces of the parents of the freshman college or university students, please remember that the look back you may see is not just a smile. It is a look of fear. Fear that the parents may also be embarking on a traumatic four-year, five-year or ten-year period of financial upheaval and are just beginning to feel the magnitude of that transition. §

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Moving to Ithaca By Lesl i e I h d e

ntil now I was never able to choose to live in a place just because I wanted to. When making the big decisions of my young adulthood, career and relationship were my priorities. I envied my brother, who fresh out of undergraduate school chose the Northwest as a destination just because it was beautiful and he wanted to go. I’d never had that chance. As I worked to balance the sometimes-warring considerations of love, work and location I was to be lucky with friends, mentors and work, but not location. I chose Binghamton with its two lazy rivers, and IBM its main employer. When friends or family came to visit, we would jump in the car and drive to Ithaca. Spending the day at a waterfall, window shopping downtown, exploring the Cornell campus and stopping for ice cream at the Cornell dairy bar was a fun and beautiful diversion. The town I lived in was only an hour away, and yet both nature and people seemed more interesting in Ithaca. During the dark days of IBM’s radical downsizing there was a running joke shared wryly among friends, “Will the last person in Broome County please turn off the lights?” As a therapist, I knew the life stories behind this joke. “IBMer’s” as they were known, had always been golden in the Binghamton area. If you worked for IBM you had benefits, pension and, sometimes, a smug attitude to go with it. As IBM reduced its local workforce, people transferred, moved with family, lost employment and stellar pension plans. The loss was felt throughout the area. Then there were the brown fields. Whispered about in Endicott where homes in certain areas didn’t sell, the hidden residues of various chemical spills stimulated suspicions. Unnamed cancer clusters—not admitted to but prominent in local lore—struck fear in the hearts of locals. I fancied that the population of Ithaca, highly educated and motivated, would stop such dangers from occurring here. A fantasy perhaps, but a hope nourished when I walk the Commons with its references to nature, or talk to food science majors and organic farming visionaries. There were other devastating downturns in my former town. Two massive floods wiped out hundreds of

houses. A mere three blocks from my home the roads were under water. There were other dark signs about the area. Young people complained that they couldn’t meet a love interest. As a therapist I challenged this, but secretly took note of the repetition of the comment. People complained about the endlessly gray weather. Although it’s gray here in Ithaca, too, the feeling in the town seems very different to me. Maybe it’s the glorious waterfalls; the blue, spacious lake; the Johnson Museum with its transcendent upper floor with views and Asian art—Ithaca just doesn’t feel as gray. Maybe it’s just that I live downtown and walk so much more. After all, gray is an inner experience, not just an outer one. It had always seemed to me that I couldn’t leave the town I had built my private practice in. Private practices are supported by word of mouth. If I were an unknown, how would I make a living? Then things in my field began to change—two big shifts in particular. The first was the injury to wordof-mouth-based-referrals by the increasingly widespread managed care system. If your friend suggests a therapist who isn’t covered by your

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policy, you are likely to try those covered by your policy first. Second came the widespread use of webpages by professionals. The Internet defies location. During the summer I took a student sublet in Fall Creek and began to build my practice here in town. It went beautifully. I kept meeting marvelous, bright people with whom I could work. I know there are smart and good people everywhere, just as there are difficult people everywhere, but somehow it seemed that I kept meeting marvelous, bright people.

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I see other marvelous people when I walk up Cascadilla gorge, or stroll along Cayuga Lake, or descend the gorge at Treman. I now have an office in the Dewitt building and call Ithaca home. I know I am in the honeymoon stage, but I just love it here. Oh, and I know Ithaca isn’t perfect. I worry about the vertical sprawl that everyone is talking about, noise pollution, and the homeless people who sit on various corners, but its really good to be living in a place where the people who call it home are happy to be. §

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nvision a glorified heritage of epic proportions that emodies an Oriental pivot shake. My greatgrandfather, a Filipino general, mastered the English language during the Great Depression. His future wife, the daughter of a wushu instructor at the Shaolin Temple of Eternal Wisdom, was summoned by a Japanese ace pilot to fly a Kamikaze mission over the Pacific Ocean in the last world war. Her smiling lover perished but she was fine and soon met her match in the treacherous jungles of Burma. Their only son, my grandfather, a proud Buddha seeker, married the daughter of a Manchurian prisoner of war who was shipped as forced laborer to Hiroshima. A Korean comfort woman smuggled their only child out just in time to escape the atomic blast. My father ended up in Hong Kong and once the Portuguese withdrew from Macau, made a fortune in shaping the island as a post-Vegas destination spot for tourism. I just returned from Paris. During the November terror attack on Friday the 13th, I was a spectator at the soccer stadium and like the rest of the sports fans hardly missed the diplomatic exit of President Francois Hollande. In the following weeks I limped like a zombie and may never recover from the scar of the mass shooting. Pure aching hearts melt to infinity. At least I can sadly relate to what transpired in San Bernadino or the Boston Marathon tragedy. I feel our good old heaven light miles away. The ocean is roaring. I am not here. When I get down to work I’m a human fist and not a machine bulb. The complicated task of understanding the reality of this planet, the simple notion of human consciousness on global warming, that’s nearly impossible to fathom unless you submit your soul to a state of mind that operates on sublime empathy and compassionate balance. I was born on the Indonesian island of Bali, not far from Australia, but for all mom recalls, the family officially resides in Singapore and that’s where my younger brothers and sisters were born and raised and educated long enough to converse in eight different tongues. The ancient Chinese philosophers tapped the genealogy of three primary sets of zoological species, other than the nine-life heart pattern of a Persian Cat: above the high ground in a monster cage of bar acoustics, the flashing parrot, the cocks of heaven-to-earth rise and 5,

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shine, the peacock of lofty triumph; lurking above the tree of knowledge, behind the branches of jungle dusk, the obnoxious chimpanzee with a particular fondness for chomping on red bananas; and the opposite sphere of free songs, the sovereignty of true art melts to the sublime rotation of pantomization in the social orbit, illuminating the heart of the compassion in dolphins. In the eco-sphere of pantomization, dolphins are to mime what stars are to earth. They constitute the nature of what a feline linguist purrs as ocean smile. Few skeptic acknowledge the star of truth for the beauty of truth, the sheen of a morning pale sky blue shine, the morning hope to believe as to breathe and trob like parrots, dolphins and babies; be or bye like the chimps of the upcoming Year of the Monkey; end or loss as in the musical echo chamber of parrots. The new postmodern philosophy emerged as a counterpoint to the Big Bang Free Magic Pie Circles. It gave birth to mime for pantomization goes as follows: the expansion of everything in all but one thing is the key ingredient to Golden Elephant Slippers. The creation of Earth as the subset of stars as in Earth-the-planet-ofa-little-star we get EarthStarPlane as in ESP. To elect empathy and balance and adopt ESP offers the following appetizer for the brain teasers of the Martian order: The Universe and the Matter of Sheen as in Energy Self-Propelled. It began with pantomization as the root of consciousness, the essence of dark matter, to sketch the scope of the universe and ended with a side excursion on how a chorus of angels abruptly freeze our heated cosmic discussion on hope and humanity with a quirk discourse on clemency. I am stranded in the upper corner of the Tibetan Tower, far removed from the rustle of joy and delight below. It’s dark, I’m alone and all excited about being accepted to the school of my dreams. I’m not creative, I never was. I don’t understand the meaning of imagination. I like to write so I wrote about dreams. I like to think so I wrote down my thoughts. I’m a science lover who wants to fix the world for the good and health of all its inhabitants so I became the biggest proponent of the landmark Paris climate deal and vowed to make it my mission in life to lower planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions on college campuses worldwide. Care to join? §

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Music Lesson By Pa u l D rewe r y

ur family owned an old upright piano, kept pretty with lemon oil and elbow grease, tuning was kept at ‘tolerable state’.

My sister Julie was one few in a family of 11that could go beyond chopsticks, we had a book with all the classic songsAmerican marches, Mitchell Miller and folk ballads. Neil Young’s Heart of Gold and Old Man. Somehow I found myself in piano lessonsI can’t recall if it was due to lack of protest, or no choice in the matter. The teacher I recall was nicetempered from the boys of yore, each one like me, fidgetywith the mind drifting offsunny day at the fishing hole, or a grassy lot and a ball game. She gave it her all to excite me to the piano, hers being much more in tune then ours, one such lesson plan‘create a rainstorm and thunder’or to put it mildly‘drive the parents mad’. I can’t recall getting good at the piano, or understanding how to read music. what good was knowing how to read music? tying a good fishing knotnow that was important. you could correct your friends’ knotsdone with authority.

I hung a extension cord that had a fat endpretended it was a microphone. I can recall singing loudly and banging away, thankfully not hitting any nerves of the others in the house. the drum set didn’t last long, a brother made holes on the heads, with a ‘let me show you how to drum’.

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I did try my hand at singingjoining a friend at a nearly empty coffee house, my nasal like whine sounding like Dylan himself‘it ain’t me babe…’

In college I owned a red Kay guitar and amp$50 purchase from someone in the dorm. my friend next door had a guitarhe could play his. I was shown a few simple chords, never really getting the hang of it. I just like to strum loudlyrock god I wasn’t.

At age 45 I’ve come full circle, joining the choir at the Unitarian Universalist church I attend. how I wish I could read music now.

It’s no secret that I wish I could play the guitar. I once brought home a $5 acoustic from a thrift store, put new strings on itjust never could get the hang of pressing down the strings correctlylet alone trying to put chords together. I was never good at hand/eye coordination, except for playing pinball.

My trips to the piano teachers house, the one with the pool and diving board in front yard, soon came to a halt, maybe the parents coming to see the hopelessness of their actions. the money was better put into my bank account. It was during this time my love for music was startedevery family member had a stereo, myself owning a handed down ‘all in one’ stereo. how I’d bring home scratchy records from the libraryreturning them scratchierPaul McCartney and Wings Venus and Mars being a favorite. A year or two later came a drum set for Christmas, a Mickey Mouse drum set. one snare, cymbal and kick drum. it was set up in the basement-

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Famous Last Words By Do rothy Lo nsky

he first thing I though about the word “transition” was that it’s about dying. What can I say about that and what does one who is dying say about it? When one is about to transition from the living state to the “great adventure” (as one put it), does

a person know he or she is about to breath the last breath? “Transition” is a good word and a rather recent one and, I believe, not simply to avoid the words “death” and “dead.” It’s the only word for one who believes in life ongoing without a

physical body. And now, having been with four family members who were in their last days on Earth, I am certain that “last words” could well be the most important words we will ever speak. My husband of 22 years woke up one morning, took me in his arms before getting out of bed and said, “I love you very much. I want you to know I’ve enjoyed this tumultuous life with you.” (Seven children can be that at times, but he’d never used that word.” He went off to the high school to show a new teacher around (it was summer; no classes), and two hours later had a heart attack and I never

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heard from him again. His last words kept me and the family going. In my father’s last days, my mother was upset whenever he would hold up imaginary things and ask her to “cut it.” So I told her to “cut” those strings (the silver cord that binds us to Earth?), and he would sit back then, content. Minutes before his transition, he turned to his wife and said so sweetly, “I love you, Anne.” Three days later in the middle of the night, the house was full of light, and no lights had been on. Ah, we are made of light. Mother passed on about 10 years later. One day she was lying on the couch looking at the stone fireplace. She said, “It’s beautiful, that egg.” I was startled and heard myself ask her, “Egg? Are you seeing the world egg?” (It’s amazing the comments that come out of our unconscious in the presence of those in transition.) “Is that good?” she asked. “Oh yes!” I replied. “That’s wonderful!” She smiled and said, “That egg we created and we supported.” She made her transition that evening, and I never asked her to describe that egg.! Ten years ago, my dear daughter was the next of our family to pass on. We had been sitting closely, not speaking, when suddenly she said, “I’ve been invited.” She repeated it firmly and I said, “Oh. I hope I’m invited too.” Then she sat up straight and said, “I want to be lifted up.” With my arm around her, she looked up, closed her eyes slowly and left. Or did she? Did she transition and I was left holding the empty envelope, her message delivered? Of course there is sadness as we miss our loved ones who “transition,” and we have more understanding for us to think about. How beautiful the peace when they pass on at home and leave us their famous last words. §

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Whitecliff Bay, Benbridge, England

By Fra n k J. Ke l ly After the celebration, the let down Short days, cloud-choked skies Conspire with bitter winds To damp down spirits Already frayed by family quarrels Abandoned Christmas trees One silver strand of tinsel still intact Lie next to last week’s trash On soiled snow banks

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By N i co la M o rris My mother and I walk the beach where we both were young she and her sister picking winkles off the rocks, sitting on the rocks pointing out to sea me walking out to sea before I knew to swim.

And then, the spectacles The crystal ball in Times Square drops Bowl games are played The New Year’s Day parade Spectators crowd around Flat screen TVs Get drunk and overeat

from Sicily, she wouldn’t mind dying, knowing, as she does, this place will continue. I won’t forget that beauty can be held close while we scatter memories. The bay with the long tide the shallow sand ripples continues. I can not bear to visit but I hear the sounds, walk with my mother with her uncertain knee and certain death.

My mother says she wouldn’t mind dying knowing as she does this beach, these chalk cliffs, the caves, the ruts in flat rocks exposed at low tide ruts worn down by Roman carts with metal wheels unloading wooden boats

Hope wakes up with a hangover Revives herself with black coffee and a shower Climbs on her bike, heads for the gym Texts Faith to meet her there The game clock ticks again

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Forwarding Address By A n i ta Sye rso n The Canada Goose winters here. Which tells you something About this place. We are also blessed By their company. When they are not in, or near The lake, they spend time here On the golf course. Many times I have crossed Their tracks, or encountered them, As I do today. They migrate To left and right as I approach. Then, about one hundred birds Take flight, with a crisp whir Of wings. They did not fear The squirrel. They fear me though. I watch them and wonder Where are they off to? Will they be here when I return? All that commotion On my account. Now I cross untrodden snow On the way to the park And the bird sanctuary Where I plan to go. I think what a refuge this place Has been for me as well. Hosta Song. (Photo: Laura Hogan) poem

A Parting of Friends By Ro b e r t D i rig On December 22, 1975, in a heavy snowfall, I helped my best friend drag his luggage from East State Street to the Baker Flagpole on Cornell’s West Campus, to catch a bus to Long Island for the holidays, giving him a box of cookies as he boarded. That evening, while reading Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, I suddenly realized that some sentences, although written as prose, were in iambic pentameter. Then this poem happened! The snow falls ever steadily, and grey and cold and short and bitter is the day. They trudge along the walk, along the way, with heavy luggage shared, they heave and sway. The hill is long and steep and slick, and now they pause to catch their breaths, and wonder how it is that summer’s, autumn’s days have passed, and Christmastime has come again so fast. Some things are done, some things are left to do: a book to finish, plates to draw, a few. The crowd is gathered at the stopping-place, a box, a quick farewell, exchanged in haste. Now one retraces footprints through the grey, which quickly fill with snow and fade away. 12

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Saying Goodbye By Ro n i Fu l l e r Close to two thousand books, hard- and paper-backed, one hundred or so vinyl records— they are already gone, and now, another thousand or so books, face me on the eve of departure, the emptying shelves staring blankly. How many will I keep? A few dozen to donate to the synagogue— now, sometime, maybe later; some few for which there is no use other than knowing who wrote them; some unread; some to read again; a few hundred I can’t define whether to keep or not, so merely wait until some clearer message might reveal itself. No one would want one of these, quite falling apart, The Annotated Alice, read and read again, thirty times at least; and there are also those books, those which will live again as I read them, poem many times perhaps: Wodehouse and Austen, Dickens and Proust, Eliot and Tolstoy (when I was young I thought I was Levin). There are the sometimes charming, sometimes only personal volumes: David Graham Phillips (a relative), By Ze e Za hava in decaying editions from the early 1900s, even a biography of Phillips; Dostoyevsky in new and fulfilling translations; Laura Ingalls Wilder—always.

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The Way Memory Slips In and Out after she rinses out the teapot she can’t remember what to do with it standing in the cold pink light of early morning her robe hanging off her shoulders her bare feet numb on the linoleum cradling the clean teapot in her chilly hands

They will go, around new walls, to a new room where they will share shelves with rocks and other memorabilia, where I may say hello again.

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By W.T. Ra n n ey The waving dark shadows in the pines that hold the cool air in the gentle wind, the flashes of light therein, where in the winter pailfuls of sunlight danced in subterfuge, and shadowy darkness of said pines also swayed, their creaking limbs sometimes snapping under the weight of snow. In the summer dust will rise where thou dost sigh

and fill all sky with songfuls of verse, over gray mosquitoes at twilight where we played under bushes all gigglely and raggedy. And words that crack and bleed cannot do so at the hand of rain, and somewhere I heard someone call my name, as screen doors slammed and Roy kicked the can and responsible adults eventually turned on their house lights. T

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The Beautiful Baby By M a rj o ri e O l ds

he day Ron was born was hot and sunny. We had a crib all set up in my old room. It was a bright, narrow, tiny room. The little wooden shelves had my horse figurines of all sizes and colors. I thought it would be a lovely room for our new

baby to wake up in soon. Paul was nine and I was seven. We tried out the crib we’d brought down from the attic. It was cozy and a little awkward to maneuver into and out of, but we managed. Outside the window of my Yellow Room, now the Nursery,

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we could smell lilacs. Our dog Brownie was sleeping by the rusty red swing set. A marble bench stood under a lone tree, a little off center in the backyard. Behind the back fence (white washed wood with chicken wire to keep Brownie safe) we could see the Ross, Strumpf, Sullivan, Smilac, and Dougherty yards if we stood on our tippy toes. Most of our neighborhood kids went to Catholic school. The Smilacs had the best jungle gym. Sylvia hit the longest home runs—over the fence into the Rosses’ yard. Mrs. Ross was our Cub Scout leader and had a big dog named Rex. It was a great

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neighborhood to bring Ron home to soon. When Ron arrived home Sylvia had to stay in bed for a long time. Beulah came and took care of Ron when we went off to school. We tried to stay till the last second, squeezing in bed with Sylvia and Ron. Then we had to run till our chests burned to make the bus way far away. We thought Ron was the most beautiful baby in the world and didn’t want to miss a moment, in case he “changed” while we were at school. Sam would take us grocery shopping (simple stuff, since all he cooked was hot dogs, barbecued on the tiny charcoal grill out back, even in cold weather). And we went to Murphy’s, an old-fashioned five-and-ten. I kept asking Sam to buy me one of the “outfits.” I wanted one that had a baby size shirt matched to a big size shirt. Finally Sam bought one of these outfits. The baby sized one was too big on Ron, and the bigger shirt was way too big for me. But it would do. Once I had the outfit I lobbied every day for Sylvia to invite Mrs. Heath, my first and second grade teacher over to meet Ron. I was quite worried that the longer Sylvia tarried with the invitation, the better the chances were that Ron would not remain so darling. Sylvia, I figure now, 55 years later, didn’t want to invite Mrs. Heath until she could get out of bed. Anyway, finally Mrs. Heath was coming, and I put the little shirt on Ron and the big shirt on me. Mrs. Heath, understated and dignified, brought us a Coleus plant cutting in a paper cup. She pronounced Ron “darling” and I was charmed. All went well until I read about the Beautiful Baby Contest at Prince George’s Plaza. This plaza was the first shopping center I ever saw. The really bad boys in the neighborhood used to bike there, and have all sorts of scary adventures before the plaza was built. But now there were stores and a Hot Shoppes Cafeteria, and all kinds of exciting events took place—a tiny circus, a carnival with rides and treats, and most important now—the Beautiful Baby Contest. Unfortunately, the contest occurred on a very hot day. Ron had an ear infection or maybe he was teething or something that afternoon. I raced home from school all sweaty to “get him ready.” I washed his face and changed his shirt, but he was sad. He never ever cried, and was so totally engaging that the entire neighborhood loved it when we would haul him around after school. No one ever told us to “Take him home.” All the big kids took it for granted that we would drag him along and plunk him down on the cool, wet continued on page 15

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Life Transitions By Gay H u d d l e

believe we are all in transition from the moment of conception. We become something from practically nothing, a whole new being, we become a miracle. After birth, we very quickly, it seems, transition from a baby to a toddler, learning how to talk and walk, how to read and write. We transition from being totally dependent to becoming independent, to becoming who we will become. As young adults, we choose what we will wear, how we will act, who we will spend time with. We transition thousands of times over as we struggle to fit in. As adults, we transition almost every second of every day. We learn to change our habits if need be, to change

jobs and careers, move to a new location, cut our hair or grow our hair, falling in and then sometimes out of love. We change our outlook, our views, our likes and our dislikes. We transition from following to blending to leading. We become parents and start the process all over again through the eyes of our children. As senior adults, we hope we can slow the transitions down. We want to de-clutter and downsize. We like to take more naps, eat less, and keep our strength up. We transition from busy, often hectic lives to more of a low-key, slower pace. Sometimes we spend time in warmer climates, escaping the cold

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and the snow and the Photo: Frank J. Kelly darker days. We become grandparents and start the process all over again through the eyes of our grandchildren. I sense a pattern here, don’t you? We are all transitioning, every moment of our lives, for in order to live life to the fullest, we have to do it. We have to change, adjust, re-think and compromise, and we have to meet life at least halfway, or we will surely be transitioned into someone left behind. §

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s my friend Camille and I drove into Judy Gibson’s driveway last week we were greeted by her forsythia bushes blooming again. I love my visits with Judy; the smell and the feel of the woodstove, sipping tea with honey (local), and munching on apple cake made with apples from her tree. We’ve had numerous discussions in this room over the years ranging from the U.S. invasion of Iraq, deplorable race relations and the need for single-payer healthcare, just to name a few. Looks like today, prompted by the forsythia, it will be climate change. As I listened to Judy and Camille, both more informed on this issue than myself, I was beginning to feel a bit uncomfortable, squirming in my seat. I was vaguely aware that the growing and feeding practices of food for lifestock and the market demand for meat was negatively impacting the environment. However, I had little knowledge of the effects of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. I’ve known these two amazing women for nearly twenty years. They both love Mother Earth with a passion, to the point of risking arrest to protect her. I was getting that familiar feeling in my gut … Now that I believed what

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they were sharing with me, how was that going to translate into behavior change? I already gave up my car, now I am supposed to consider becoming a vegetarian? I don’t consume that much meat, but I have to admit that I love those little 4-ounce steaks from Wegman’s, nice and rare, with melted butter, and what about bacon? I love bacon! I enjoy eggs and potatoes fried in that flavorful, artery clogging grease on occasion. My homegrown kale and collards taste wonderful sautéd in garlic, olive oil, and a little balsamic vinegar, I admit, but add a little bacon and they rise to a whole new level. When did our definition of food change from fuel and medicine for our bodies to such hedonistic delight? I need help! Thank God my primary doctor is also a registered dietitian and she likes me. She’ll be on board. I’m feeling better already … and … Loaves and Fishes, my favorite place to eat ALWAYS has a vegetarian alternative. I love rice and beans, tofu, fruits and vegetables and all the grains. We’ll figure it out … Can I make the change? Will I? § T

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lot onto Seneca Street where traffic is moving freely, at least for now. By the time we reach Cayuga Street the scene is eerily normal, except for the wail of emergency sirens. I tell Mark what’s happened, what Eva and I saw, and my expectation of many casualties. Then we ride in silence. After a few miles, Sam pipes up. “You said the S word, and you said the name that Christian people think is the son of God, but you said it as a curse.” “Yes, I did, Sam. And just this one time it’s OK to tell your parents.” Somehow we get through the next few hours—seeing the reactions of my son and his wife as we tell them and we all realize what could have happened had there been any cars in the eastbound lane. Mercifully, we learn quickly from the Internet that the injuries were far fewer than I thought. “Only” one person was killed. Bad enough, but so much less than I’d feared. Around 10 o’clock, Eva melts down. She’s been following all the news and reactions on social media and they’ve fueled her underlying anxieties. “We were so close, and it was so scary,” she wails. I tell her that it’s all right to be afraid, that it was the scariest thing I’ve ever seen, but that we’re safe. I hold her and we both cry for a while, tears purging a bit of the fear. Not much sleep that night. Every time I doze off, violent dreams jerk me awake. During those dark hours my thoughts travel through decades at the intersection of State and Aurora streets. We’ve lived south of Ithaca for more than 40 years, and Aurora Street is our route into the city. For my family, that intersection has been the hub of Ithaca. I remember the little hippie stores on the southeast corner in the ‘70s, the Shotaway bookstore where the food co-op started, Mrs. Andrews’ candy store where we got our rock candy and marzipan fixes, the changing array of clothing stores and restaurants. Mayer’s Smoke Shop, which had just announced that it was closing, was our family meeting place in the precell phone years when our children were young. “If we get separated at the Ithaca Festival, go to Mayer’s and we’ll find you there.” I remember other crashes of continued on page 18

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The Enlightenment By Do na Keyote Black and white flint and salt red and yellow ochres gold, copper iron and tin diamonds, platinum, uranium coal, oil, gas. Slaves, prisoners, miners dig, drill and die for minerals, metal fuel — wars. A bronze age barrow in Cimbria, now Denmark held a hollowed oak tree holding a woman laid to rest on a cowhide her final garb a linen blouse and skirt a sun disc over her belly in the middle of a woolen sash.

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Three millennia later my grandmother gifts me her jousta, the woolen sash she carried cross an ocean seeking a better life with a miner. The sash stayed stored in a chest until I asked about her life growing flax, herding sheep, spinning and weaving thread into the fabric of life.

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where she came from the sun was Saule a woman who loved the moon the way she loved her miner. She wove a jousta of light into a rainbow and bore the moon the morning star.

You have to see a little boy standing up to his waist in a pile of leaves he is five and with time holding still he will be five five more times on his birthday and then six three times but he will be seven just once because now he is in school where they teach about time where are the hands on the clock, matthew? that is what schools do but still the day comes when he is seven and his shrieks of joy are augmented by five little boys who jump out of the cars their mothers are driving and run up the hill always little legs running because the piles of leaves so carefully raked by a young father are waiting to be demolished to be jumped on, scattered and kicked while the grown-ups on the porch fiddle about with lemonade and paper cups talking and barely noticing but years later they will remember the innocent mayhem and how time held still so the little boy standing up to his waist in a pile of chestnut leaves was five five times and six three times but seven heartrendingly only once. 18

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Some say she grew jealous of her daughter’s beauty the moon’s lust for her as if it were ever wrong to be angry at that. She slashed his face with a sword and banished him to the dark. Even today, if he dares eclipse love with lust she quickly reappears guarding her children, turning him pale and weak with light. Unbinding her sash she casts a rainbow between heaven and earth waits for us to cross the bridge of light. ‘Simeon’s’ contin u ed from page 16

runaway trucks. In the mid-‘80s, a truck coming down Aurora Street plowed into a car. My friend Lucy Bergstrom left her studio above Simeon’s and cradled the Volvo’s driver in her arms, singing to the woman as she died. Years later, a truck rammed into a corner of the Community School of Music and Art, breaking into the practice room where Mark’s piano lesson had recently ended. And I see the latest disaster over and over in my mind. In the morning, Mark says, “You need to go to Tai Chi today.” “How can I go? The family’s leaving. I have to help them get out, say good bye, clean up.” 2015

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“No, you NEED to go to Tai Chi today.” So I do. I slip into the Taoist Tai Chi studio just as class is starting, avoiding the social chatter. I know what they’ll be talking about, and I’m not ready for it yet. As we raise and lower our arms in the commencement of Tai Chi, my breathing slows down, the energy shifts from my racing mind to my body. We proceed through the 108 moves, and I feel the tension slide down my torso, legs and flow out through my feet. The cement binding every joint of my body loosens, then melts away. When I get home, Mark looks at me closely and says, “You’re a different person than when you left here this morning.” I eat lunch, take a nap. When I wake up, life goes on. §

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12/30 Wednesday Reggae Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Dock, 415 Taughannock Blvd, Ithaca | I-Town Allstars are the House Band featuring members of: Mosaic Foundation, Big Mean Sound Machine, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, John Brown’s Body and More! Jam Session | 7:00 PM-10:00 PM | Canaan Institute, 223 Canaan Rd, Brooktondale | The focus is instrumental contra dance tunes. www. cinst.org. Djug Django | 6:00 PM-9:00 PM | Lot 10 Lounge, 106 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Live hot club jazz. i3º | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM | Argos Inn, 408 E State St, Ithaca | Live Jazz: A Jazz Trio Featuring Nicholas Walker, Greg Evans, and Nick Weiser Home On The Grange | 4:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg |

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1/01 Friday The Delta Mike Shaw Band | 9:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Dancing Blues. Contra and Square Dances | 8:00 PM | Great Room at Slow Lane, Comfort & Lieb Rds, Danby | Everyone welcome; you don’t need a partner. Dances are taught; dances early in the evening introduce the basic figures. Bring a tasty treat and get in free. For directions/information, call 607-2738678; on Fridays, 607-342-4110. Gerard’s Crossing | 6:00 PM-8:00 PM | Americana Vineyards, 4367 E Covert Rd, Interlaken | New Ithaca band, Gerard’s Crossing, featuring Christopher Gerard, Warren Cross, and Joseph Prusch.

1/02 Saturday Brandon Schmitt & John North | 8:00 PM | Silver Line Tap Room, 19 W Main St, Trumansburg | Folk Rock.

1/03 Sunday Acoustic Open Mic Night | 9:00 PM-1:00 AM | The Nines, 311 College Ave, Ithaca | Hosted by Technicolor Trailer Park.

every Tuesday. Cayuga Blue Notes: Viva Rongovia | 6:00 PM | Rongovian Embassy, 1 W. Main St., Trumansburg | Country Blues, Folk, Country, Old-Time.

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Steve Jobs | Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution, to paint a portrait of the man at its epicenter. The story unfolds backstage at three iconic product launches, ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac. | 122 mins R | The Danish Girl | The remarkable love story inspired by the lives of artists Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. Lili and Gerda’s marriage and work evolve as they navigate Lili’s groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer. | 172 mins R | Spotlight | The true story of how the Boston Globe uncovered the massive scandal of child molestation and cover-up within the local Catholic Archdiocese, shaking the entire Catholic Church to its core. | 128 min R|

rises to become founder and matriarch of a powerful family business dynasty. | 124 mins PG-13 | Point Break (2015) | A young FBI agent infiltrates an extraordinary team of extreme sports athletes he suspects of masterminding a string of unprecedented, sophisticated corporate heists. “Point Break” is inspired by the classic 1991 hit. | 113 mins | Star Wars: The Force Awakens | A continuation of the saga created by George Lucas and set thirty years after Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). | 135 mins PG-13 | Sisters | Two sisters decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home. | 118 mins R | Alvin and the Chipmunks: Road Trip | Through a series of misunderstandings, Alvin, Simon and Theodore come to believe that Dave is going to propose to his new girlfriend in Miami...and dump them. They have three days to get to him and stop the proposal, saving themselves not only from losing Dave but possibly from gaining a terrible stepbrother. | 86 mins PG |

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to showcase their work. Each week we will spotlight an artist for an hour, from about 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM, to perform (mostly) original compositions Sunday Square Dancing | 7:00 PM, 1\03 Sunday | Temple Beth-El, 402 N Tioga St, Ithaca | Square Dancing is a low-impact aerobic activity that stimulates both mind and body. Easy and fun for people of any age. Sunday Squares is free and open to all. We dance to a wide variety of popular music, and learn dance steps used all over the world. Come alone or with a partner. No special dancing skills required. The Ultimate Purpose: Free Speech Open Forum Discussion | 7:00 PM, 1/05 Tuesday | The Mate Factor Cafe, 143 The Commons, Ithaca | Please join us for tea, cookies, and a lively open discussion on the deep issues concerning humanity and our future. Every Tuesday Night at 7 O’Clock.

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Jeanne Calabretta, N.D, A.A.S., CNHP, Nature’s Sunshine Manager | 3:00 PM-4:00 PM, 12/31 Thursday | The Jenkins Center, Suite 110, 301 South Geneva St., Ithaca | Topics include, The Gut::Brain Connection, Flower Essences and the emotional areas of the brain, Herbs that do not counteract medications, Lifestyle changes (at your own pace), and much more! Open to the Public. Reserve a place by calling (607) 277-7337 www.mhaedu.org Learn to Play or Practice Bridge | 9:00 AM-12:00 PM, 1/01 Friday | Ithaca Bridge Club, 609 W Clinton St, Ithaca | Coaches available. No partner needed. No signups required. Walk-ins welcome. The Ithaca Bridge Club is located down the hall from Ohm Electronics in Clinton St. Plaza. ASLCI: American Sign Language Learning Group | 5:00 PM-7:00 PM, 1/05 Tuesday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | ASLCI is a casual group for Ithacans of all signing abilities. We welcome everyone, Deaf or hearing, to learn more about Deaf culture and practice ASL. Our group meets every Tuesday at Barnes & Noble (614 S. Meadow St.) from 5-7pm, in the study area behind Starbucks. You may arrive and leave whenever you wish. For more information and resources for beginning signers, please visit our website: aslchatithaca. wordpress.com P.L.A.C.E.: A Lunchtime Series

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Labyrinth Meditation Walk: Path of Prayer | 10:00 AM, 12/30 Wednesday | First Baptist Church, 309 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | This is an indoor 40ft across labyrinth that is 1/3 of a mile walk inward and then another 1/3 back out. It is walked in candlelight with a background of meditative music. This circular labyrinth modeled on the one set into the floor of the Chartres Cathedral in France (1194-1220 A.D.) will be open to people of all ages and faiths, handicapped accessible. Those wishing to walk the Labyrinth may do so anytime between 7-9 p.m. on December 30, 31 and 2-4 p.m. on January 1st. The labyrinth will also be available to walk Jan. 5th, 6th and 7th from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., when the building is open.There will be a brief service at 6:45p.m. on December 30th to dedicate this ancient sacred path. New Year’s Eve Bash at Holiday Inn Elmira Riverview | 8:00 PM, 12/31 Thursday | Holiday Inn, 760 E Water St, Elmira | Join local band Devon Franks at Anthony’s Lounge inside the Holiday Inn Elmira for Country and Rock tunes all night. Live Music, Party Favors, Drink Special and more! Please note: Must be 21 & over For more information on either of the above options or to make reservations, call 607-734-0402 Dancing Through The Decades: New Years Eve Dance | 7:00 PM,

A band that forges rock spirit and folk-art sensibilities, Binghamton’s Driftwood have blazed a unique path of thier own with an amazing work ethic and dynamic live performances. They play The Haunt on New Years Eve, 12/31, at 9 p.m. (Photo Provided) 12/31 Thursday | Cortland Repertory Theatre, Dwyer Memorial Park Pavilion, Preble | The downtown theatre will turn into a huge dance floor and starting at 8:00 PM, hit dance songs from the 1950’s thru today will be played, with a different decade every hour. The 50’s and 60’s will play from 8:00 – 9:00, with the 70’s from 9:00 – 10:00, and the 80’s from 10:00 – 11:00. Then from 11:00 – 12:30, a “Mega-Mix” of all the decades through today. Tickets are available now by calling 607-756-2627, online at cortlandrep. org or stopping by CRT Downtown at 24 Port Watson Street. Umpteenth Annual New Year’s Community Dance Celebration | 6:00 PM, 12/31 Thursday | Slow Lane, 888 Comfort Road, Ithaca | Potluck, Waltzing, and Contras with the famous open band. Bring a dish, a desert, or refreshments to share. New Year’s Eve Dinner | 5:00 PM-10:00 PM, 12/31 Thursday | Aurora Inn, 391 Main St, Aurora | Join us in the Aurora Inn Dining Room for a tasting dinner designed to help ring in the new year! Seating from 5:00- 10pm. Contact Inns of Aurora at 315-364-8888 for

reservations or find more information at www.innsofaurora.com. 2016 Bula in The New Year at Sacred Root | 8:00 PM, 12/31 Thursday | Sacred Root Kava Lounge & Tea Bar, 139 W State St, Ithaca | Live Musical performances throughout the night. Bring an instrument if you care to share a few songs. For more information, please visit www. IthacaRedTent.com Doug’s Fish Fry: To benefit the Newfield Lioness Club | 11:00 AM-6:00 PM, 1/04 Monday | Newfield Fire Hall, 77 Main St. , Newfield | Bake sale and drinks available. Call ahead orders on Jan. 4th until 4 PM. Info at 607-423-5996

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Books Coloring: Stress Relief | 5:00 PM-6:00 PM, 12/30 Wednesday | Buffalo Street Books, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | GM Asha introduces you to the stress relief that is coloring. Yes, coloring. All the rage these days, but many have known for years how taking a colored pencil to a page can ease the mind. We will have colored pencils and pages to color, or you can bring your own book. Free and open to the public

Nature & Science Educational Hike | 1:00 PM-, 1/01 Friday | Taughannock Falls, Trumansburg | Start off the New Year by making a healthy resolution you will love to keep: a breathtaking hike at Taughannock Falls. Join the Finger Lakes Regional Educator for a hike down and back on the Gorge Trail, up to the Overlook, across to the multi-use trails, and back to the parking lot. Hot

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The Cortland downtown theatre will transform into a sweaty dance floor - and starting at 8:00 PM, hit dance songs from the 1950’s thru today will be played, with a different decade every hour. The 50’s and 60’s will play from 8:00 – 9:00, the 70’s from 9:00 – 10:00, and the 80’s from 10:00 – 11:00. Then from 11:00 – 12:30, a “Mega-Mix” of all the decades through today. This is a great choice if you want to bring in the new year dancing your butt off all night. Hits will be the norm!

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Chicago blues will be well represented this New Year’s Eve in the town of Trumansburg. The long running blues masters from Ithaca, Pete Panek & the Blue Cats, will be playing the awesome Silver Line Tap Room, and they’ll be brining the licks, the jams, and all the stops with them. If you’re looking for something classic, something rocking, something with that nostalgic year-end feel, look no further, you’ve found your New Year’s spot.

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drinks and light snacks will be available before and after the hike! We will meet at the start of the Gorge Trail by NYS Route 89. Pre-registration is greatly appreciated but is not required. To register, call 607-387-7041 or email josh.teeter@parks.ny.gov Guided Beginner Bird Walks, Sapsucker Woods | 9:00 AM, 1/02 Saturday | Cornell Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Rd, Ithaca | Sponsored by the Cayuga Bird Club. Targeted toward beginners, but appropriate for all. Binoculars available for loan. Meet at the front of the building. For more information, please visit http://www.cayugabirdclub.org/ calendar. The Cayuga Trails Club: Watkins Glen WInter Hike | 9:00 AM, 1/02 Saturday | The Cayuga Trails Club will lead a brisk winter hike (3.5-miles total) in the scenic Watkins Glen on January 2nd. For details, check http:// cayugatrailsclub.org/ or call 607-3395131.

Kids Intergalactic Fun and Games | 3:00 PM-5:00 PM, 12/30 Wednesday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | The library hosts a time for playing board games. This is for youth, tween, and teens and includes Magic, Dungeons & Dragons, board games, and snacks. Creating Sceince - Build a Coral Reef | Museum of the Earth | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM, Wednesday 12/30 | Museum of the Earth, Ithaca | We have learned about corals and fish and how they live together to create one of the most amazing ecosystems on Earth. Come by the Museum today and help us make a reef. We will be using recycled materials and items we made this week to build our reef. We will be telling stories about reefs and peeking in on our Museum tanks for inspiration. We will also have fossils of ancient coral reefs to learn about how reefs have changed through time. Winter Free Day | First Sunday of January, February, and March 2016, 10am-5pm | Museum of the Earth, Ithaca | 10am-5pm | Visit the Museum of the Earth and the Cayuga Nature Center on the first Sundays of January, February, and March for free! Tales for Tots Storytime | 11:00 AM-, 1/02 Saturday | Barnes & Noble, 614 S Meadow St, Ithaca | Every Saturday at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m.

Lego Build | 10:00 AM-2:00 PM, 1/02 Saturday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Make an awesome structure every Saturday at the library. Read to Leo | 3:15 PM, 1/04 Monday | Ulysses Philomathic Library, 74 E Main St, Trumansburg | Young readers can join Leo the friendly dog and his person Betsy at 3:15 every Monday afternoon in the children’s area of the library.

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Health & Wellness Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA) | 7:00 PM-8:30 PM, 12/30 Wednesday | NY | Meets multiple places and days. For more information, call 607-351-9504 or visit www. foodaddicts.org. Sacred Chanting with Damodar Das and friends | 7:00 PM-9:00 PM, 12/30 Wednesday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free every week. An easy, fun, uplifting spiritual practice open to all faiths. No prior experience necessary. More at www. DamodarDas.com. Adult Children of Alcoholics | 7:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/30 Wednesday | Community Recovery Center, 518 W Seneca St, Ithaca | 12-Step Meeting. Enter through front entrance. Meeting on second floor. For more info, contact 229-4592. Mid-week Meditation House | 6:00 PM-7:00 PM, 12/30 Wednesday | Willard Straight Hall 5th fl lounge, , Ithaca | The Consciousness Club, Cornell would like to invite everyone in the Cornell community (and beyond!) to experience a deep guided meditation in our weekly meetings every Wednesday on the 5th Floor Lounge. All are welcome. Alcoholics Anonymous | Multiple Locations | This group meets several times per week at various locations. For more information, call 273-1541 or visit aacny.org/meetings/PDF/ IthacaMeetings.pdf Walk-in Clinic | 4:00 PM-8:00 PM, 12/31 Thursday | Ithaca Health Alliance, 521 W Seneca St, Ithaca | Need to see a doctor, but don’t have health insurance? Can’t afford holistic care? 100% Free Services, Donations Appreciated. Do not need to be a Tompkins County resident. First come, first served (no appointments). Sunrise Yoga Workshops: New Year’s Day: Yoga for New

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Beginnings | 2:00 PM-4:00 PM, 1/01 Friday | Sunrise Yoga, 119 S Cayuga St, Ithaca | Start the New Year off on the right (and left) foot, firmly grounded and with clear intentions. This will be a two hour class to both introduce people who are completely new to yoga as well as for practitioners of any level to enjoy the peaceful atmosphere of the studio and be guided through a gentle practice which they can modify as necessary. This two hour class will be a combination of meditation, breath work, body work and relaxation. Sign up at the Studio or email astridjirka@ gmail.com Yin-Rest Yoga – A Quiet Practice for Women | 4:00 PM-5:30 PM, 1/03 Sunday | South Hill Yoga Space, 132 Northview Rd, Ithaca | Led by Nishkala Jenney, E-RYT. Email nishkalajenney@ gmail.com or call 607-319-4138 for more information and reserve your place as space is limited. Dance Church Ithaca | 12:00 PM-1:30 PM, 1/03 Sunday | Ithaca Yoga Center, 215 N Cayuga St, Ithaca | Free movement for all ages with live and DJ’ed music. Free. Free Meditation Class at Yoga Farm | 11:15 AM-12:00 PM, 1/03 Sunday | Yoga Farm, 404 Conlon Rd, Lansing | A free community meditation class for the public. Classical Yang Style Tai Chi | 7:30 PM-8:30 PM, 1/05 Tuesday | Sunrise

Yoga Center, 119 South Cayuga Street, Ithaca | Advanced students and beginners work in the same class; Beginners are helped by the instructor until they are able to follow along with the rest of the class. This class has a relaxed atmosphere; breathing exercises and some occasional meditation are included. The form was originated by the instructor’s teacher, Alex Kiupe, founder of the Fifth Dragon Tai Chi Institute. It is a classical Yang style long form employing a rarely seen medium frame. Nicotine Anonymous | 6:30 PM-7:30 PM, 1/05 Tuesday | Ithaca Community Recovery, 518 W Seneca St, 2nd fl, Ithaca | A fellowship of men and women helping each other to live free of nicotine. There are no dues or fees. The only requirement for membership is the desire to be free of nicotine. Support Group for People Grieving the Loss of a Loved One by Suicide | 5:30 PM-, 1/05 Tuesday | 124 E Court St, 124 E Court St, Ithaca | Please call Sheila McCue, LMSW, with any questions: 607-272-1505. Anonymous HIV Testing | 9:00 AM-11:30 AM, 1/05 Tuesday | Tompkins County Health Department, 55 Brown Road, Ithaca | Walk-in clinics are available every Tuesday from 9 to 11:30 a.m. Appointments are available on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 1:30 to 3:30 pm. Please call us to schedule

Art Ivy Stevens-Gupta: In Plane View: Skyscapes and Abstract Art Inspired by Aviation | 8:00 AM, 1/01 Friday | Ithaca-Tompkins Regional Airport, 1 Culligan Dr, Ithaca | Ten paintings on canvas that focus on air travel. Steven-Gupta’s work encapsulates the visual delights of flying – taking off from familiar locales, the vastness of open skies in-flight, or landing in exotic destinations. Through March 31. ongoing State of the Art Gallery |120 West State Street, Ithaca | “Lyric Visions: Artists Respond to Poetry” will open State of the Art’s 2016 year of exhibitions. Gallery members have created art work in response to the poetry of sixteen regional poets invited by Tish Pearlman, poet laureate of Tompkins Country in 2013 . The exhibition extends two months with half of the artists showing in January and the other half during February. Call: 277-1626 or Visit: www.soag.org For information: 607-277-1626 or gallery@ soag.org

EYE | 126 E. State/MLK St., 2nd, Ithaca | The Lustrous World of Giselle Potter. Artist Giselle Potter is like no other. Her colors are plucked from nature: her imagery, insanely appealing. She can take an everyday and make it extraordinary. A frequent contributor to The New York Times and The New Yorker, Potter has illustrated over 25 books for kids of all ages and has shown at the Society of Illustrators in NYC and the Eric Carle Museum in Amherst. | www. eyegallery.com Lot 10 Lounge | 106 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca | Dan Emerson, a recent BFA graduate from SUNY Cortland, will be exhibiting his work at Lot 10 during the months of January and February. Find out more about Dan by visiting http://www.ARTeFLX.com. Bi-monthly exhibits at Lot 10 are curated by Allison DeDominick for ARTe: Finger Lakes Art Coordination. For more info visit http:// www.ARTeFLX.com | 607-272-7224 | www.lot-10.com

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in Greene, NY Hillside Children’s Center (Stillwater RTF) is recruiting for various RN and LPN positions for our Greene, NY location! The Nurse works in a residential treatment facility in collaboration with a dynamic clinical team, providing exceptional health care services to promote physical and emotional wellness for our residential youth. RN Requirements: Associate’s Degree from an accredited Registered Nursing program and NYS RN License required. Bachelor’s degree and adolescent psych and/or pediatric experience preferred. LPN Requirements: High School or equivalent diploma, LPN license from an accredited program and a minimum of 1 year experience. Adolescent psych and/or pediatric experience preferred. Applicants must have a valid NYS driver’s license and must meet agency driving and insurance standards. Hillside Family of Agencies offers flexible schedules, excellent salary and benefits packages including medical, 403 (b) with employer matching contributions, generous PTO, 9 holidays, and more! Please send all resumes and our Employment Application Part A to jobs@ hillside.com. Please use the following reference numbers: 7731 - RN or LPN - Full Time - 3rd Shift - 11:30 pm - 8 am, Sun-Thurs.; 7444 - RN - Part Time - 16 hours (2 Openings); 3223 - RN Per Diem

Registered Nurse

$1,500.00 Sign-On Bonus, Romulus, NY Hillside Children’s Center is currently seeking a skilled Registed Nurse for our weekend position at our Varick Campus in Romulus, NY. Two 12-hour shifts, Friday and Saturday, 8 am - 9 pm. Based on scheduled hours, this position includes: Great benefits package (Medical, Dental, Life, Retirement 403b with match, Paid Time Off and Holidays) and Competitive salary with $1,500.00 signon bonus ($500 paid in first month and balance paid after successful completion of 4 months). Per Diem positions also available (note - Sign-On Bonus does not apply to Per Diem positions). Associate’s Degree from an accredited Registered Nursing program and NYS RN license required. Bachelor’s degree and adolescent psych and/or pediatric experience preferred. Resumes can be sent to rvas@hillside.com reference number 7372.

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AIRLINE CAREERS

NEW YEAR, NEW AIRLINE CAREERS. Get trained as FAA Certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call AIM for free information 866-2967093. (NYSCAN)

Heights) Salary-$58,000 to $69,000. Interested candidates may apply online through the Tompkins County Personnel website at: http://www.tompkinscountny. gov/personnel/Employment_Opportunities

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is now hiring for cooks, pizza makers and wait staff. Flexible hours, nights and weekends required. Call (607)272-3232 NEW YEAR, NEW AIRLINE CAREERS begin here - Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800-725-1563 (AAN CAN)

430/General Art Book Approval-Plan Coordinator

Leading distributor of exhibition catalogues and other art books seeks applicants for key position. Approval-Plan Coordinator has primary responsibility for providing collection-development assistance to some 150 academic libraries through the selection of appropriate artrelated publications. Candidates should have a broad knowledge of art and art history, excellent written and verbal communication skills, solid clerical and computer skills (particularly Excel and Word), and ability to interact effectively with clients and co-workers in busy work environment. Bachelor’s degree in art history or related field preferred. Previous experience in the book trade or library field a plus. For more information, see posting at www.worldwide-artbooks.com/ wwb_staff_list.html. Please send resume and cover letter by January 15th to Mr. Kelly Fiske, Worldwide Books, 1001 West Seneca Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 or by e-mail to coordinator@worldwideartbooks.com

Nurse RN and LPN Greene, NY Hillside Children’s Center (Stillwater RTF) is recruiting for various RN and LPN positions for our Greene, NY location! The Nurse works in a residential treatment facility in collaboration with a dynamic clinical team, providing exceptional health care services to promote physical and emotional wellness for our residential youth. RN Requirements: Associate’s Degree from an accredited Registered Nursing program and NYS RN license required. Bachelor’s degree and adolescent psych and/or pediatric experience preferred. LPN Requirements: High School or equivalent diploma, LPN license from an accredited program and a minimum of 1 year of experience. Adolescent psych and/or pediatric experience preferred. Applicants must have a valid NYS driver’s license and must meet agency driving and insurance standards. Hillside Family of Agencies offers flexible schedules, excellent salary and benefits packages including medical, 403(b) with employer matching contributions, generous PTO, 9 holidays, and more! Please send all resumes and our Employment Application Part A to jobs@hillside.com. Please use the following reference numbers: 7731 – RN or LPN – Full Time - 3rd Shift – 11:30 pm – 8 am, Sun-Thurs. 7444 – RN – Part Time – 16 hours (2 Openings) 3223 – RN Per Diem

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employment The City of Ithaca

PAID IN ADVANCE! Make $1000 A Week Mailing Brochures From Home. Helping home workers since 2001! Genuine Opportunity. No Experience Required. Start Immediately! www. ThelncomeHub.com (AAN CAN)

The City of Ithaca

is accepting applications for the following exams: Firefighter Exam No. 62-975: Currently, there is one vacancy in the Fire Department. Minimum Quals & Special req: Visit the City of Ithaca website for further info. Salary:n $39,153. Exam Date: March 19, 2016. Application Deadline: February 4, 2016. Residence: Applicants must be Tompkins County. Executive Assistant Exam No. 61-996 Currently there is one vacancy in GIAC. Minimum Quals: Visit the City of Ithaca website for further info. Salary: $42,115. Exam Dat: March 5, 2016. Application Deadline: January 21, 2016. Residency: Applicants must be Tompkins County. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850. (607)274-6539, www.cityofithaca.org. The City of Ithaca is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversifying its workforce.

is accepting applications until January 6, 2016 for the following position: Database Specialist: Currently, there is one vacancy in the Planning Department. Minimum Quals: Visit the City of Ithaca website for further info. Salary: $39,153. Exam: Given at a later date. Residency: Applicants must be residents of Tompkins County or one of its six contiguous counties. City of Ithaca HR Dept., 108 E. Green St., Ithaca, NY 14850. (607)2746539 www.cityofithaca.org

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There’s no time like your time Hypnotherapy with Peter Fortunato, (607) 2736637; www.peterfortunato.wordpress. com

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in Clinical Hypnosis Dr. M. Djafari, MC, FAAP, 1420 Hanshaw Rd., Ithaca, NY. Neurobiofeedback/Hypnosis. For Migraine Headaches and Irritibal Bowel Syndrome. (Pregnant women welcome) By appointment only: 607-753-3051

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Come experience the rewards of Adolescent Behavioral Health Nursing at Hillside Family of Agencies.

PIANOS

• Rebuilt • Reconditioned • Bought• Sold • Moved • Tuned • Rented

We are currently seeking a skilled Registered Nurse for our weekend position at our Varick Campus in Romulus, NY. Two 12-hour shifts, Friday and Saturday, 8 am-9 pm. Based on scheduled hours, this position includes:

• Great benefits package (Medical, Dental, Life, Retirement 403b with match, Paid Time Off, and Holidays). • Competitive salary with $1,500.00 sign-on bonus ($500 paid in first month and balance paid after successful completion of 4 months).

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Per Diem positions also available (note – Sign-On Bonus does not apply to Per Diem positions). Associate’s Degree from an accredited Registered Nursing program and NYS RN license required. Bachelor’s degree and adolescent psych and/or pediatric experience preferred.

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Resumes can be sent to rvas@hillside.com reference number 7372.

South Hill Business Campus, Ithaca, NY

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Full line of Vinyl Replacement Windows

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