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About Me

calling all ... Capture Minnesota participants ...

you ... your friends and family ... and all reading this ... are invited:

to share your pictures with our group ... sitting in a circle ... we share ... we listen ... with music in between ... we meet every Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until noon ... from November 2011 til April 2012 ... at Joyce UMC, 1219 W. 31st Street, Minneapolis, Mn ... all our Saturday events ... sitting in a circle ... are open to the public ... are free

to sail with us on lake calhoun ... from afternoon til sunsets ... 7 days a week ... from may 2012 ... til october 2012 ... ... ... you may take pictures ... ... ... all our sailing events ... are open to the public ... are free

greetings from werner

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deep within
our inner child is hidden

with awe and wonder
we take pictures

with awe and wonder
we look at pictures

seeing
feeling

what the photographer
what the inner child

may have seen
may have felt

we are filled
with joy

with enthusiasm
with love

____________________________

about us:

1939 ... born in east prussia, germany ...

... first 5 years made in heaven ...

... on a farm with all the animals ...

1945 ... start of refugee years ...

mom put in forced labor camp ...

got typhoid fever ...

traumatic separation from mom for half a year ...

escaped across the oder river ... to east germany ...

to berlin ...

to west germany ...

lived for 10 years in one room in a refugee camp ...

father returned from pow ...

1954 ... finished 7th grade ...

at 14 ... went to work ...

for the railroad ... for two years ...

at 16 ... went to work an office near the hamburg harbor ...

at 17 ... learned to sail ... about the only joy in my life ... since leaving the farm in east prussia ...

at 19 ... took a small freighter across the atlantic ...

took 2 weeks ...

arrived in norfolk virginia with 100 dollars ...

and two addresses ...

learned english from tv ...

at 20 ... got an office job at a german company in nyc ... for 1.10 an hour ...

went to riverside church in nyc ...
saw a play in the church ...

fell in love with an actress that could sing and dance ...

1961 ... visited lake calhoun in minneapolis ...

1961 ... got married ... in riverside church in nyc ...

1963 ... started school where i left the 7th grade ... at the u of m in minneapolis ...

studied english humanities math physics engineering

1968 ... graduated and started at ibm in rochester mn ...

designing computers ...

volunteered at ibm,

teaching german ...

helping out the ibm explorer scouts ...

1972 ... studied short wave radio

got call letters wb0gsx ...

build radio and antennas ...

1973 ... returned to minneapolis to work for cpt corp ...

volunteered teaching ...

often one hour before work ...

one hour after work ...

german, math, physics,

engineering,

personal growth ...

nature photography ...

1977 ... designed a simple house

and build it ... with my own two hands ... in plymouth mn ... where i still live

helped raise 2 children and put them through college

1990 got separated and divorced ...

... it took many years to find the origin of my pain ...

that is
when i was traumatically separated from my mom

when i was 5 years old ...

... learned to live on 300 dollars a month ...

eating oat meal fish fruits
vegetables ...

wearing old cloths ...

driving old cars ...

... bicycled a lot ...

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2005 ... converted an aluminum canoe into a sailboat ...

made new friends ... sailing lake calhoun

in 2006 ... we got an xboat ....

in 2007 ... we started ... giving free sailboat rides on Lake Calhoun ... 7 days a week ... from afternoon til sunset ... from May through October ...

since 2008 we have taken and posted ... some 15 000 ... sailing Lake Calhoun pictures ... portrait pictures ... and nature pictures ... for free ... to download ...

in 2010 our dreams come true ... we are grateful to Will Winter for donating a boat ... named ... magic ... ... ... the boat seats about 10 people ... with comfort ...

we are grateful to Will Winter ... for paying ... the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board ... for our 2011 buoy ... on Lake Calhoun ...

we are grateful ... to Bill Morton ... for guiding us ... from the beginning ... through lulls and storms ... with his sailing skills ... with his words and songs ...

we are grateful ... to people ... sailing with us ... telling stories ... sharing ... listening ... making music ... singing songs ...

we are grateful ... to all volunteers ... taking people ... on free sailboat rides ... ... ... helping ... getting the boat ready each afternoon ... putting the boat away at night ...

we are grateful ... to people ... that want to help us ... pay ... the Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board ... the annual buoy fee of $ 450 ... in full ... or in part ... which will come due in March 2012 ... for our sailboat ... magic ... ... ... this is the only expense we ask for help ...

we are grateful ... that each year ... we can continue ... to invite people ... visiting the sailing dock at Lake Calhoun ... to go on free sailboat rides ... without any annual membership fees ... without any strings attached ...

we are grateful ... to people ... that bring us food and water ... on hot ... on long ... summer days ...

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it is magic
sailing lake calhoun

when we leave the dock
we leave the chit chat on the dock

we take a deep breath
we enter the precious present

the sounds
the wind ... the sails ... the water

the wind
fills the sails

the boat
glides through the water

it is magic
sailing lake calhoun

being
in the precious present

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... in the winter we started ...

sitting in circle ...

we share ... we listen ...

with songs and music in between

every saturday from october to april

from 9 am til noon ...

in a nice warm place near lake calhoun ...

upstairs at Joyce UMC

1219 West 31st Street,

Minneapolis, Minnesota

all are welcome

open to the public

again ... it is all free ...

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Sailing Lake Calhoun is more:

than free sailboat rides
than superlatives
than talking about other people

than complaining
than worrying
than chit chat

than any individual

We are becoming a community:
sharing stories
singing songs
soaking up the precious present

We are willing to meet the unexpected:
meeting new people
sailing a sailboat

We are learning the art of listening:
laying aside, own thinking for a moment, so we may enter the world of another person

We are passing on:
the unconditional positive regard we have for each other

Yes
all that, and more ... is what sailing lake calhoun is all about ... ... ...

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2011 ... we added some of our pictures in ... capture minnesota ...

2011 ... in november we celebrated
the completion of our 5th year ... giving free sailboat rides ...
and ... the beginning of our 4th winter ... sitting in a circle ...

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calling all ... Capture Minnesota participants ...

you ... your friends and family ... and all reading this ... are invited:

to share your pictures with our group ... sitting in a circle ... we share ... we listen ... with music in between ... we meet every Saturday from 9:00 a.m. until noon ... from November 2011 til April 2012 ... at Joyce UMC, 1219 W. 31st Street, Minneapolis, Mn ... all our Saturday events ... sitting in a circle ... are open to the public ... are free

to sail with us on lake calhoun ... from afternoon til sunsets ... 7 days a week ... from may 2012 ... til october 2012 ... ... ... you may take pictures ... ... ... all our sailing events ... are open to the public ... are free

greetings from werner

____________________________

we finish this sidebar with what we started:

deep within
our inner child is hidden

with awe and wonder
we take pictures

with awe and wonder
we look at pictures

seeing
feeling

what the photographer
what the inner child

may have seen
may have felt

we are filled
with joy

with enthusiasm
with love
____________________________

thank you
for reading ... for listening ...

greetings
with all our love and affection

from
werner

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