Expressions



Expressions

PGC’s Monthly Newsletter

Personal Growth Center

3000 41st Street Ocean, Marathon, Florida 33050

Telephone 305–434–9065

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June / July Edition 2008

Director Lisa Marciniak Photography by Wayne L

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|PGC outings for June / July |

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|June 6th: Local shopping λ June 13th: Bahia Honda λ June 20th: IHOP λ June 27h: Sombrero Beach |

|July 11th local shopping λ July 18th Sombrero Beach λ July 25th Bahia Honda |

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|Director’s Desk |

|I would like to dedicate this space to the memory of some very special people we have lost in the past few months. |

|Patty J, who worked for us as a Behavioral Health Tech, passed away on 5/23/08. we remember Patty for her amiable personality and can-do attitude. |

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|Rosemarie Smith also worked as a Behavioral Health Technician at PGC. On 5/30/08, Rose left behind three children and a new husband. Rose will be remembered for her|

|pleasant disposition, a beautiful smile, and youthful spirit. |

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|Mary G (photo not available) passed away on 6/28/08. she had been a member of PGC since it’s inception in the 80’s. Mary was a long time resident of Heron House and|

|loved by all her peers. Mary will be remembered for her playfulness and intelligence. |

|You will all be missed…. |

|June MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: |July MEMBER SPOTLIGHT: |

|Michael M. |Lori J. |

| |Lori Jones was born on August 2, 1952 in Winsted, Connecticut, where she grew |

| |up. She went to Gillert High School and graduated from there in 1970. She |

| |then went to Data Institute in Hartford, Connecticut for computer and data |

| |entry and graduated. Her profession was data entry at Waring Products. She |

| |also worked in the school system as home teacher for preschool learning |

|Interview By: Tony M. |disabled children. She also worked in the school system as a teacher's aid. |

|Michael was born on October 24th, 1951 in New York, New York. He is 56 years |She also owned her own business as a women's clothing store. |

|old. He grew up in Great Neck, Long Island outside of New York City. He |Lori loves all types of music except country music. She likes action movies, |

|attended Great Neck Elementary School, Great Neck North Junior & Senior High |mystery and documentaries. Lori likes gardening, riding bicycles, and spending|

|School. His favorite pastimes are watching television next to the palm tree |time with her boyfriend. She was married for 28 years and is now divorced. |

|and listening to the radio. His favorite music is a band called Moby Grape. |She has one daughter, who is 33 and three grandsons. |

|For a while he delivered groceries to apartments. He has lived in the Florida|Lori needed help applying for Medicaid and Social Security because of a brain |

|Keys for over 15 years. He came to the Heron House from the Streets of Key |injury from a bad accident ten years ago. That is what brought her to the |

|West. He likes it at the Personal Growth Center. |Growth Center. She loves coming here and loves all the people here. |

| |Interview by Tony March |

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|June Birthdays |July Birthdays | |

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|June 2nd- Elizabeth C. |July 4th- Mary G. | |

|June 2nd Billy Ray M. |July 24th- Patricia R. | |

|June 29th John W. |July 26th- Matthew A. | |

CONGRUTULATIONS TO THIS YEAR’S ABC MEMBERS!!:

Lori J- Chairperson

Adrian S- Vice Chairperson

Judy B- Secretary

John W- Treasurer

Estelle L- Member at large

New board members took their seats on Wednesday July 2nd

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(((((SMALL BIZ NEWS(((((

PIES PIES PIES!!!! Small Biz Department has pies in stock.. Don’t miss out on your opportunity to purchase our signature dish. Whole pies are $8, or by-the-slice for $1.50.

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PGC holds new Nami Connection.Recovery Support Group. The Personal Growth Center is holding the meetings on Tuesday’s from 1:15 -2:15 pm . This group is for those in recovery from mental illness or caregivers of the mentally. For more info call 305-434-9063.

|Blueberry Muffins submitted by Lori J. |

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|Makes 3 dozen. Preheat oven to 350. |

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|4 eggs |

|1 cup melted butter |

|2 cups sugar |

|4 cups flour |

|2 cups sour cream |

|2 Tablespoons baking powder |

|½ teaspoon baking soda |

|2 cups blueberries. |

|Beat butter & sugar together, add eggs & sour cream. Mix together flour, baking powder & baking soda. Add dry ingredients slowly to wet ingredients. Stir in |

|blueberries. Sprinkle top with cinnamon & sugar, if desired. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes |

|THANK YOU GINI LEE HAFFNER- Associate Director of Programs for the Ohio Office of NAMI |

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|Gini spoke at the Personal Growth Center June 2nd. Mental illness first impacted the Haffner family in 1977. With numerous family members having varying degrees|

|of functionality, she has personally experienced the ramifications of chemical imbalance She got involved with NAMI programs in 1996 and has been working |

|continuously since then to help individuals and their families who are struggling with the effects of mental illness. |

|MESSAGE FROM Brandy |

|Hello again!  My other email address is not working, so if anyone responded to my last email I can´t access it.  I´ll be using this address from now on.  I hope that |

|all is well.  Next week I´ll be going to the site that I´ll be living at for the next 2 years to meet the people that I will be working with and set things up for |

|when I move there in June.  Things are continuing to go well, I´ve been spending a lot of time with my host family near Panama city and learning Ngbere, which is the |

|indigenous language of the area I will be living in.  Today I´m in a bigger city near where I´ve been living for first aid courses and finally got to get on the |

|Internet again.  I´ll be sure to write again after I´ve been to my site and have more to report. Ciao! |

|Brandy |

|Scalloped Potatoes -------- By Judy B. |From Tony’s Jokebook… |

|8 Potatoes | |

|1 Onion |“What’s the first thing you did when you got to New York?” I took a cab. “What’s the |

|1 Cup of chopped Cheese |second thing you did?” The police made me return it. |

|1 Cup of Milk | |

|Salt & Pepper to taste | |

|Bake in 9 by 10 pan at 350 For 1 hr until the potatoes are tender. | |

Personal Expressions

|By Josepa! |

|My mother was a psychic and it turns out I am too. I had a lot of psychic experiences when I was a child. Dreamt I was a freedom fighter in the Spanish Civil War!|

|Then at the state hospital, I connected with my boyfriend by being psychic. Now I had an incredible psychic dream. It took place in Sanduak. There was a man that|

|was in prison there for attempted murder. 5 years to life. For trying to kill Arnold Swartzenager, the governor of California, with a shotgun. The man in prison |

|was tall with one tattoo on his chest that says, “Mom.” And it's all true! |

|July is Independence month. The birth laws of our nations month. The month of the birth of a new and self-owned America. The month of self-motivation and |

|self-discipline. Th month of self-indulgence and self-value. The month of beginning and self-leadership and self-rule. July is the birth month of a new life and |

|a new international self-image. |

|…James D. |

| “Does anybody stay here?” |Dark Deer |

|“Does anybody leave?” |By Mark M. |

|An article by Josepha W. | |

| |The molecules of oxygen I was breathing were so abundant, I leaped minute by |

|They come and they go. Tennis shoes, khaki shorts, Loud shirts and money. They |minute, exasperating the nature of my own hope. The water I stepped in on the edge|

|buy everything from diamond rings to real estate. They stay for 3 days or 3 |of the river, sparkled and neutralized the essence of my energy, revolving to and |

|years. They come by boat or they buy a boat. And then they tire of the place and |fro, waves crashing across the shore, shimmering sounds, not easy to forget and as|

|leave. |the gulls flew over, I watched and observed. Fish sporting across the level, down |

|The others come to escape another place, or face, or problem. They find the |beneath. Where do I begin? What sounds do I hear, existing positively, or not |

|cheapest housing they can. They find jobs (none up to their resumes) Then they |penetrating things at all. |

|try to leave. But lack of money imprisons them amongst the palm trees between the|I waded into the water, of course the sun would shine constantly during the day. |

|seas. |At night calm and darkness. The moon was the only light at dark , surmising the |

|They can’t leave and never do. |power of the solar force to begin it’s rotation once in a while, always setting |

| |good nurturing power from within and outside of the reflection of infinity. Why |

| |darkness is a good memory of a minute, measure of time, additional to the |

| |calculation moving forward, minus the shining forth perpetuation true to |

| |completion somewhat in an imaginary fashion, engulfing possibilities. Why I am |

| |consistently above the nature of what matters. |

| |And so the entire picture of this creation is fading across the air, moving |

| |slowly, always continuing, never released nothingness at all. So the times weave |

| |through, satisfactorily. |

|Home | |

|An article by Josepha W. | |

|There is a place, nestled among lawns and trees, where the mentally ill are not | |

|treated like fools or witches. They come by bus or on foot and stay all day – | |

|creating beauty out of nothing. They cook elaborate meals for each other. They | |

|operate a shop and sell everything from potato chips to clothing. They operate | |

|computers and produce the Daily Newsletter and the Monthly Newsletter which | |

|contain some of the best prose and poetry you will ever read. | |

|This is their home away from havoc – the place where they prove their humanity | |

|and their excellence. | |

|Visit, if you are ready to have your preconceptions overturned. | |

|To Whom It May Concern, |(Non-Alcoholic) Pina Colada Logic |

|Because of deaths, car accidents, and bad things happening to people, I used to |Edited and Submitted by Michael M. |

|curse and call God “murdering scum.” Then I started to think about what the |based on Songs by Jimmy Buffet |

|elders at the churches I go to say. Bad things that happen to us are not God's |It’s these Changes in latitudes |

|fault. Then who is responsible for all this death, sickness, and disease? It |Changes in attitudes |

|was Satan who tempted Eve through the snake to eat the forbidden fruit. When |Nothing remains quite the same. |

|Adam discovered she had, he took a bite to get her off. Satan abandoned God's |All of my running and All of my cunning |

|word. If it was not for Satan, there would be no sickness, death, disease, |If I didn’t laugh I just would go insane! |

|poverty, corruption, wrong-doers, and all this mess we are in. There would not | |

|even be age. No living thing or anything else would become of age or grow old. |Don’t know the reason |

|Curse not God, curse the Devil. |Stayed here all season |

|One time when I was about to go somewhere, I accidentally brushed my brand new |Nothing to show but this brand new tattoo |

|shirt against a charcoal grill and got a black smudge on it. I made a curse. |It’s a real beauty |

|Then I thought to myself, “maybe God did that there than for me to be run into by|A Mexican cutie |

|a car or get hurt by some way. That makes sense because God is a just, fair, and|How it got here I haven’t a clue. |

|loving God who intends us no harm, though is not a soft touch by any means and | |

|who means business. He is slow to anger and can be disobeyed for some time, but |Wasting away again in Margaritaville |

|when finally angered we have something to deal with and had better straighten up.|Searching for my lost shaker of salt |

|We are all in danger of being devoured by Satan. The whole world lies in the |Some people claim there’s a woman to blame |

|power of the wicked one. |But I know, it could be my own fault. |

|Some people turn to God when times are hard and when things lighten us up again |Havana day dreaming, |

|they abandon God until times get hard again. Faith is not like a comfortable |Boy he’s just scheming his life away. |

|shoe you slip on when you need it and slip off when you don't. Faith has to be |I blew out my flip-flop |

|kept all the time. |Stepped on a pop top |

|Tony M |Cut my heel |

| |Had to cruise on back home. |

|onya |But there’s mix in the blender |

| |Soon we will render |

| |That frozen concoction |

| |That helps me hang on. |

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Recovery in it's respective way is loving, caring and understanding. That makes life simple for all of us in a creative way. ---- Joe D. June 30th 2008

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