There are many people in your Life Justin- that you have affected and that have affected you… Each picture below is a tiny ripple in the waters you are swimming now- but those ripples turn into waves, and splashes, and pools of wonder, and rivers of dreamz. You reflect on them as they reflect on…
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These are our Indian Names: She Drives with Abandon- A Warrior Emerges- From Adolescence to Rico Suave- Climbs Trees With Courage- The Godson Miracle- The River Returns-
It was the brutality of the collision that affected the reporting.
Every parent’s worst nightmare- is to have to somehow visualize that level of trauma that their child experiences- and reconcile the moment you realize they faced that terror all alone for that one brief second that you weren’t there to protect them.
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Naya is that hero that we go to the movies for. Naya is the bravest individual I’ve ever encountered. And in her last four months, she was off her medication, and I am very glad about that. I told her that I needed her to be able to feel pain so that she would know what love was. To be angry so that she could recognize kindness, to make mistakes so she could understand forgiveness.
There are so many things to say- I just need time to figure them out.
Presented By: Frank Aprile, HM2, USN Length of Service: 4.7 years / Honorable Discharge Stationed: Navy Medical Regional Center, San Diego CA Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base, Ocean Side California U.S. Naval Hospital Emergency Room, Subic Bay, Republic of the Phillipines Operating Room Techincal School, Navy Regional Medical Center: Bethesda, MD Naval Hospital, Charleston, SC…
And regarding love 🙂 I’m not sure that love is something you find. It comes and goes, emerges as things unfold in front of you. If love is compassion, then yes, it is always there. And there are days when you see the total loss of love, and that makes you want to cry out,…
Congratulations to Argentina & Germany, the country of my birth! This one is for my mother!!!
VINTAGE CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC SAINT PRIESTS WALL PLAQUE MADE IN SPAIN: DIEZ-HIMMELSBACHSpanish Icon Diez Himmelsbach 1 Spanish Icon Diez Himmelsbach 2
A snapshot- Well, it has been a long journey- piecing my mother’s life together… Not easy- to say the least. She died December 7th in 2013- Pearl Harbor Day. It took me until May to get to Indiana to take care of everything and her affairs. That’s a long time to wait- to put things…
123 E Oak Street = John Travolta Baybeee! = 1975 Frank off to the Prom = Dad & Mutti- Having a good time = More of same = Nonna, Dad, & Mutti = Little Frankie = Playing Football = Not looking Happy = Typical grade school pics = More of same =…
In April of 1980 I was 18, and living in a $55 a month room, next to another room in the a boarding house that was filled with 5-6 winos & street people, in Portland, Oregon. I had arrived two months earlier, hitchhiked from Indiana to stay with good friends Kathy Glade, and Susan Roudebush,…
Volume 1, 1975 = Volume 2 German Art Masterpieces 1959 Published 2000 = Published in 1886
This was the period when my mother found and connected to my eventual father, James B. Herndon in Paris France 1955 James B Herndon James Herndon (1926–1990) was an American writer and educator. He is best known for two memoirs of teaching, The Way It Spozed To Be and How To Survive In Your…
Diether Heinrich Life Goes On
This maybe Goebbels- up close and personal = Rudolph Hess = Possible Hess Signature- will have to double check- = German War Parade =A squad of German soldiers
123 E Oak Street The Arrival 🙂 = Bedroom/Study Desk = Bedroom – Dining Room = A View to the Front Porch = Mutti’s Outdoor Garden Place = My Grandfather was an orchestra conductor- Picture is over the piano- = Mutti’s Garden @ Purdue Horticulture Center = My mom loved to hang out on the…
= Dad & Mutti & Me (1957) = Dad & Mutti & Me (1957) = Yeah- Right…. FA = Kinderheim = Nonna’s garden = Frank Aprile
1957 1957 = Germany 1957 =Dad & Mutti & Me (1957) = Dad & Mutti & Me (1957) = Nonna’s garden = Dad looking like Jimmy Deen Dad- not looking like Dad (with the hair) = Nonno & Nonna = Nonno & Nonna = Mutti & Dad = Kinderheim = Looks like Dad…
1918 Napoleonic Wars: Prussian 1813Iron Cross 1st Class Iron Cross 1st Class. The Eiserne Kreuz (Iron Cross – often abbreviated EK or IC) was instituted on 10 March 1813 by the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. It was awarded for bravery in the field – without regard to rank – during the Befreiungskrieg (War of Liberation also called…
Her Rocks & Things
Her Artifacts VINTAGE CHRISTIAN CATHOLIC SAINT PRIESTS WALL PLAQUE MADE IN SPAIN: DIEZ-HIMMELSBACH Spanish Icon Diez Himmelsbach 1 Spanish Icon Diez Himmelsbach 2 Unknown Artist = Various Items of Interest A Large Metal Box
Volume 1, 1975 = Volume 2 German Art Masterpieces 1959 Published 2000 = Published in 1886
Editor’s Note: I think fear of the unexpected is a normal human reaction. I also feel that conditioning people to be fearful is an art that seems to be a well worn tactic by those who have no conscience, or hide behind the lies of their confidants- the people they hire to be a buffer…
Ingeborg Maria Hinderschiedt: June 18, 1929 to December 7, 2013 = To put it mildly There is dissension in the ranks when finalizing the death of your mother. What the question marks consist of- become themselves the question. There was nothing pretty about the house I grew up in, and had been essentially locked out…
This Book is Dedicated to: The Lost, the Orphaned, the Abandoned, & the Adopted… LoveJoy Avenue Spike & the Rat Dog There is a cartoon I remember as a kid, featuring spike (a large bull dog) and his side kick, some little rat dog that had attached itself to this great white beast with the…
This Book is Dedicated to: The Lost, the Orphaned, the Abandoned, & the Adopted… LoveJoy Avenue Out of LoveJoy … On my own finally. Here in Portland Oregon, a calling to which I had no clue as to where it was sending me. This was my second month in the city and I was definitely…
This Book is Dedicated to: The Lost, the Orphaned, the Abandoned, & the Adopted… LoveJoy Avenue Leaving Childish Things… I crossed the street because I was afraid. I was afraid to walk past this man in a black weather torn leather jacket who was with another woman, and a tall lanky dark tanned Indian, all…
This Book is Dedicated to: The Lost, the Orphaned, the Abandoned, & the Adopted… LoveJoy Avenue My Uncle, A tug boat, a large wave, a bad angle… and the cold water That thing where you see the women of Viking villages send off their warriors , reminded me of the very early sunrise morning as…
This Book is Dedicated to: The Lost, the Orphaned, the Abandoned, & the Adopted… LoveJoy Avenue A Freshman If there was ever such a thing as a “Year of Living Dangerously”, that would be me, in my Freshman year of high school. It had a cruel and unusual ferment to it, as during the summer,…
This Book is Dedicated to: The Lost, the Orphaned, the Abandoned, & the Adopted… LoveJoy Avenue Before LoveJoy : Odd Choices Is James Herndon my father? This story has it’s roots in post war Germany 10 years after the war to end all wars. My mother was a student at Heidelberg, my adaptive father was…
This Book is Dedicated to: The Lost, the Orphaned, the Abandoned, & the Adopted… The Kinderheim You can Spray Paint Over That There was an indication that life as usual at the Kinderheim was about to become a little different… And change it did- lo and behold- a child’s prescient intuition rears it’s head as…
This Book is Dedicated to: The Lost, the Orphaned, the Abandoned, & the Adopted… The Kinderheim I think fear is being unloved The mystery of being a child in the Kinderheim was unencumbered with fast food diners, videos or other such things, rather it was nurtured with the dread of wondering whether or not to…
This Book is Dedicated to: The Lost, the Orphaned, the Abandoned, & the Adopted… The Kinderheim The Tower The Kinderheim was an asylum so to speak. Nestled very neatly in the wrappings of Germany’s famous Black Forrest (Schwartzwald) in the southern corner so close yet so far from France and Switzerland. When I think of…
This Book is Dedicated to: The Lost, the Orphaned, the Abandoned, & the Adopted… The Kinderheim The Road to Fear Kinderheim in German means a children’s home. A home for kids basically. As well, it serves a respite for persons of means with adequate wealth to briefly forgive the responsibility of parenting and lend their…
The Aprile’sWell it was a really nice day for Justin’s 6th birthday celebration. The whole family, and the kidz on the block shared a bouncy house, some seriously rockin’ tunes, and a lot of freeze pops and ice cream. It was all good 🙂
My Mom, Ingeborg Maria Hinderschiedt: June 18, 1929 – December 7, 2013 Please say it now-click the underlined link > Love or condolences- in the “Reply” section below 🙂 A copy of the memorial resolution that was read at the last Purdue University Senate meeting on behalf of Ingeborg Hinderschiedt. =
My Mom, Ingeborg Maria Hinderschiedt: June 18, 1929 – December 7, 2013 Please say it now-click the underlined link > Love or condolences- in the “Reply” section below 🙂 Some of the great songs she loved- = = = = = = = Ingeborg Maria Hinderschiedt (Aprile) 1929-2013 Eulogy: Ingeborg Hinderschiedt Professor Emerita of…
We are not born alone … We are born amazed. A completely pristine white page of talent waiting to be uncreased and unfurled to the end of all that we can see that is that history of ours, yet to be heralded, yet to be written and a grand suggestion of a future history that…
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We are not born alone … We are born amazed. A completely pristine white page of talent waiting to be uncreased and unfurled to the end of all that we can see that is that history of ours, yet to be heralded, yet to be written and a grand suggestion of a future history that…
July 25, 2011 My Dearest Maria, Well you are headed back to Michigan to start 8th grade. I wanted to tell you that I enjoyed your visit to Texas this summer, and I hope you enjoyed your stay. We had a lot of good times, and as usual we had our “moments”. I for one…
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Click Below to Play Audio Thursday: July 21 Today is LaserTag Thursday (finally). Off to The Main Event ! We decided against Laser Tag– went for Glow-in-the-dark miniature golf… Some of the geographical features… The obligatory alien dude… Then off to some Air Guitar- Looking like Some Girl Band- And then the Apollo 13 Mission…
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Is James Herndon my father? This story has it’s roots in post war Germany 10 years after the war to end all wars. My mother was a student at Heidelberg, my adaptive father was an Army translator, and my biological father a (as told to me by my mother) was the author, James Herndon. http://en.wikipedia.org/……
Unwritten Feathers 