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¿Que Pasa Tally? For Those Grieving This Holiday Season By Sheryl H. Boldt, www.TodayCanBeDifferent.net Losing someone you love is incredibly hard. And now the holidays are upon you. That empty chair, with all its memories and sentiment, now seems to be the largest piece of furniture in your home. Tasks, any tasks, especially holidayrelated ones, are overwhelming. You try not to allow your sadness to dampen the spirits of everyone around you, especially those who share your grief, but many days you fail. You appreciate the friends who want to be there for you, those who want to ease your pain – even those who don’t have a clue what to say. This includes me. What words can I offer to help you through this painful, “most wonderful time of the year”? I know some of you personally. Others, I read about your pain in emails and on Facebook. I’m desperate to lighten your sadness, but I fear my feeble words will sound glib and only add to your sorrow. So, I’m praying for God to show me how to be there for you. And when that’s not possible, how I can pray for you. I’m asking God what to do and how to pray when you can’t stop crying, when you’re tempted to scream out of anger and exhaustion – and when you actually do. Would it help if I were to also pray for you to experience God’s presence and provision as described in Psalm 23:1 (AMPC)? “The LORD is my Shepherd [to feed, guide, and shield me], I shall not lack.” As I pray, I’ll trust that our compassionate, sympathetic and ever-present Shepherd will help you make it through each day. That you’ll experience God’s compassion and love as He provides for you and guides you. And I will believe that at the end of every long, long day, you’ll be able to sleep, sensing His protection over you. God bless you, dear friend. Please let me (and everyone who loves you) know how we can be there for you – not just during this holiday season, but for as long as you need us. ANUNCIATE EN CONEXIÓN ADVERTISE WITH US! LLÁMANOS: Gabriel Vargas - (850) 261-2358 Erika Rojas - (305) 878-5573 (Tallahassee) Conexión Main: (850) 368-3505 conexionflorida@gmail.com PAEC Migrant Education Program Quincy/Mariana Area 315 N. Key Street, Quincy, FL 32351 Tel: 850-875-3806 • Fax: 850-627-9489 Chipley/DeFuniak Springs Area 753 West Boulevard, Chipley, FL 32428 Tel: 850-638-6131 • Ext.2328 6 | www.conexionflorida.com
Opinión - Columnistas & Blogs Opinion - Columnists & Blogs A Piece of the Puzzle America’s Road Trip in Florida on the Old Spanish Trail By Deborah Desilets, Tallahassee based Author, Historian & Architect I was raised in Tallahassee Florida, 6 miles down from the State capital on a section of farm land where the red clay road met Hwy 27 and the backyard bordered on the swampy edge of the Old Spanish Trail. The cow pastures beyond in all directions let me know I was on a farm. Mother let me roam these haunts and soon I walked to Nichols store where I could better see the road—feel her energy—and view license plates that held place names that became a living geography for me. People came here on a shared road like mine. And on that road people smiled waved blew a horn to my wave or gesture. The roads were alive and electric, they held energy. And I wondered – How did all these roads come to be? Over the years, road trips took me from Florida to Rhode Island, or South to Fort Myers. And Mom would take us on a summer vacation or spring break at Panama City boardwalk. The nuns took me to see St Augustine and Pensacola. As an architect I travelled to see Disney: more roads to follow and then interstates and by the mid 80’s when I took a job at ARQUITECTONICA in Miami, where we were working on the Florida Marriott turnpike stations! All these roads grew up as living arteries a blood line for me and kin and for all of us. But still how did it all come to be? Over a ten-year period, I met various men who helped me answer this. By 1995, in my Miami Beach office on Lincoln Road, my wise old friend Morris Lapidus, surprised me with, “Don’t forget Carl Graham Fisher!” Of course, he was talking about THE Carl Graham Fisher who following his success with the Lincoln Highway – the first transcontinental road in the North U.S. – Fisher began the making of Miami Beach, and his petite version of the nations Lincoln Road. He named his new city streets after his and his wife’s home town of Indianapolis. Soon a bridge to Miami from Miami Beach was finished and for the future www.conexionflorida.com avocado King John Collins could share his crop. By 1915, America’s need for good roads South was mounting interest. Carl Graham Fisher with “A Call to Patriots” at a Governors convention proposed the 5,575-mile beltway through Middle America. This ultimately would include the states of Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Florida. With two Governor Appointees from each state, they ALL planned together a unified route south. This road which might have been called The Cotton Belt, but instead was nostalgically named the Dixie Highway to honor President Lincoln’s favorite song. For America— The Dixie Highway –signified by “DH” between red and white stripe markers was placed on route telephone poles by the Boy Scouts of America. The Dixie Highway became the interior communication and transportation routes under the slogan “Making Neighbors of us all.” Entrepreneurs, general stores,” mom and pop shops’, mechanics, car drivers, industrialists, automotive suppliers, business men, car salesmen and hobbyists joined the race for Good Roads in America. At that time the World Almanac noted it a as the “worlds most pretentious project” a project that would impact 40,000,000 people and cross 163 counties through eight states. So clear was this vision of Carl Graham Fisher, that 10,000 people came from all over Florida to hear Governor Jennings speak in favor of it; Governor Trammel would support it and later Governor Martin endorse it with the Florida Road Department money paying for it from the new legislated gas tax. Now it is important to point out how did Carl Graham Fisher do this? America’s Road trip began with Ford and on every Ford were two of Carl Graham Fisher’s acetylene headlights. Perfecting with Jim Allison the use of compressed gas in headlights, Prest- O-Lite, led the nation in headlight continued page 26 | 7
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