!!!!!!!!!! COME ONE, COME ALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Annual Spring Art Show is Friday , June 8th.
Check out the amazing display from the Art Studio's 2011- 2012 collection.
Join us for a BBQ dinner from 4-7 , create some art and make some friends.,,,
Our theme this year is CONNECTIONS . We are stonger and have more choices when we reach out and connect....what a great idea to celebrate!!
Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Look Where We Started By Tyrone Woodward
Look where we started, in the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
When you walked up to me, I look back on my memory
Look where we started, in the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
Of all the lovers in the world, who knew where they'd find their girl? Look where we started
In the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
You're the best love I've had in my life, one day I will make you my wife
Look where we started, in the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end look where we started
Just like Jack and Jill, will make it up the hill, look where we started
In the land of the lost and the broken hearted, look where we started
Will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
You take my hand and I'll be your man
Look where we started, look where we started, look where we started
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
When you walked up to me, I look back on my memory
Look where we started, in the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
Of all the lovers in the world, who knew where they'd find their girl? Look where we started
In the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
You're the best love I've had in my life, one day I will make you my wife
Look where we started, in the land of the lost and the broken hearted
Look where we started, will we be friends until the end look where we started
Just like Jack and Jill, will make it up the hill, look where we started
In the land of the lost and the broken hearted, look where we started
Will we be friends until the end? Look where we started
You take my hand and I'll be your man
Look where we started, look where we started, look where we started
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
Changing Our Lives By Tyrone Woodward
What has changed my life most has been my long term educational goals. I Tyrone Woodward graduated from Simon Gratz High School, in 1972. It was the greatest twelve years of life and it all ended with our graduation ceremonies being held at the newly built Spectrum, in South Philadelphia. I was then hired as a general laborer, along with ten other Simon Gratz grads by Gulf Oil Company. Unfourtunately, not only I but, all ten of us from Simon Gratz, who were hired permntly by Gulf Oil Company, were fired before the end of the summer of 1972. I'd like to say that I got into the wrong group of people but, that would be far from the truth. I was one of the leaders who would come to work late and leave early. One of those who got cought smoking marijuana in the company's oil tanker. It was all our faults and we made our 1972 grauduating class of 928 look very bad. That will forever be a personal dark spot on my employment record.
I then held jobs as a Child Care Worker, a Speech & Hearing Techncian, also a Security Gurad, a Dishwasher and a C.N.A. In 1987, with one son and my daughter on her way after just two years of marriage, I returned to school and became a Certifided Nurses Assistant. Those six months of study at the Philadelphia Career Institute, were also a highlight in my educational history..I worked non-stop in the nursing field for four years before going to jail for simple assult. After I came home I did very little or nothng living mostly off my wife. After doing temporary work at Labor Ready, Centrix, and Unique, I received a Certificate in Customer Service from a six month school called Imagineers. Those were some of the things I did from 1991 to '97. From 1997 to 2003, I worked for Parkway Corporation, in the Customer Service Department. During that time I enterted Community College of Philadelphia, in 2001 and received an Associates Degree in 2004, majoring in Behavioral Health & Human Services.
Upon graduation from C.C.P., I became a Junior at Alvernia University. Ready to receive my Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services in 2006, I was sentenced for another three years for simple assult on a security guard and groping a female classmate. I was dismissed from school just six credits shy of graduation. It took two years for me to be found guilty. I returned home in April of 2011, and am now back in school trying to prove what has already been proven, that education can change your life.
In December of 2012 I plan on having two B.A.'s, one from Lincoln University, in Human Services, and one in Business Administration/Marketing, from Strayer University. At that ime I plan on starting a Boxing Magazine for all true fighters. At that time I won't be done. I plan on going on to get my Masters Degree in Sports Management and then my Ph.D in the same field. My long term educational goals have changed my life since high school for the positive.
I then held jobs as a Child Care Worker, a Speech & Hearing Techncian, also a Security Gurad, a Dishwasher and a C.N.A. In 1987, with one son and my daughter on her way after just two years of marriage, I returned to school and became a Certifided Nurses Assistant. Those six months of study at the Philadelphia Career Institute, were also a highlight in my educational history..I worked non-stop in the nursing field for four years before going to jail for simple assult. After I came home I did very little or nothng living mostly off my wife. After doing temporary work at Labor Ready, Centrix, and Unique, I received a Certificate in Customer Service from a six month school called Imagineers. Those were some of the things I did from 1991 to '97. From 1997 to 2003, I worked for Parkway Corporation, in the Customer Service Department. During that time I enterted Community College of Philadelphia, in 2001 and received an Associates Degree in 2004, majoring in Behavioral Health & Human Services.
Upon graduation from C.C.P., I became a Junior at Alvernia University. Ready to receive my Bachelor of Arts degree in Human Services in 2006, I was sentenced for another three years for simple assult on a security guard and groping a female classmate. I was dismissed from school just six credits shy of graduation. It took two years for me to be found guilty. I returned home in April of 2011, and am now back in school trying to prove what has already been proven, that education can change your life.
In December of 2012 I plan on having two B.A.'s, one from Lincoln University, in Human Services, and one in Business Administration/Marketing, from Strayer University. At that ime I plan on starting a Boxing Magazine for all true fighters. At that time I won't be done. I plan on going on to get my Masters Degree in Sports Management and then my Ph.D in the same field. My long term educational goals have changed my life since high school for the positive.
Children of the World
There's been many times when older adults in many parts of our country see children playing, black and white, and immediately think it's wrong But, what I'll try to convey in my story today, is that the children seem to know more than us. There's been Polly's and Billy's holding hands, and Billy's and Johnny's playing together, since time began. It seems when they get older, like the message I've told yah, things begin to change the way they veiw each other. And the two who were friends in the past see the broken glass put down on the ground from their forefathers and it changes their feelings towards each other. As a young boy I was always told by both my mother and father to be kind to my fellow man and I say it again since my time began, I've always been that way.
So to young ones I say, remember to pray and love one another as you love yourself. And, keep in mind to always be kind and your days will surely be longer. For we have proven that it's within our youth that the future of the world belongs. And, if one day we do meet, I can say to you on the street when we look at each other face to face, that indeed we both helped turn the world around and we can be proud as we say out loud, that we are Children of the world.
And every boy and girl from Pennsylvania to California, can say that they truly believe that it's the "Content of their character and not the color of their skin" that has changed the world that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dreamed of and it will be that world that we'll find ourseleves in. And, if not in my lifetime, hopefully in your, race relations will change in this country. Not just for me but, for Orientals, and Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans, too. Will all be free and there won't be a racial clash. When all can say, that the division of races is now a thing of the past.
By
Tyrone Woodward
So to young ones I say, remember to pray and love one another as you love yourself. And, keep in mind to always be kind and your days will surely be longer. For we have proven that it's within our youth that the future of the world belongs. And, if one day we do meet, I can say to you on the street when we look at each other face to face, that indeed we both helped turn the world around and we can be proud as we say out loud, that we are Children of the world.
And every boy and girl from Pennsylvania to California, can say that they truly believe that it's the "Content of their character and not the color of their skin" that has changed the world that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., dreamed of and it will be that world that we'll find ourseleves in. And, if not in my lifetime, hopefully in your, race relations will change in this country. Not just for me but, for Orientals, and Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans, too. Will all be free and there won't be a racial clash. When all can say, that the division of races is now a thing of the past.
By
Tyrone Woodward
Thunder & Lighting
Thunder & Lighting, to little children can be most freighting
Cause they don't know what's causing all this fear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
You know it's strange the way children find
The litttle things that upset their minds
Like day and night, wrong and right
They since the fear in the atmosphere
When are we gonna teach them right?
To love each other black or white
Thunder & lighting, to little children can be most freighting
Cause they don't know what's causing all this fear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
You know it don't take long for spearks to burn
When they get older they began to yearn
Cause Billy's got a brand new toy
And Johnny's the one they call the ghetto boy
When are we gonna teah them right?
To love each other black or white
Thunder & lighting, to little childern can be most freighting
Cause they don't know what's causing all this fear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
By Tyrone Woodward
Cause they don't know what's causing all this fear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
You know it's strange the way children find
The litttle things that upset their minds
Like day and night, wrong and right
They since the fear in the atmosphere
When are we gonna teach them right?
To love each other black or white
Thunder & lighting, to little children can be most freighting
Cause they don't know what's causing all this fear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
You know it don't take long for spearks to burn
When they get older they began to yearn
Cause Billy's got a brand new toy
And Johnny's the one they call the ghetto boy
When are we gonna teah them right?
To love each other black or white
Thunder & lighting, to little childern can be most freighting
Cause they don't know what's causing all this fear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
The thunder & lighting is all they hear
By Tyrone Woodward
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Good-Bye By Tyrone Woodward
I was sitting in my room
When the thought walked through
The door
It sat down next to me and introduced
Itself as the answer to all my problems
After we had finished talking it handed
Me a package saying that inside it I would
Find the peace and serenity I had for so long been searching for
At first I was afraid but then the thought
Became so persistent I could nolonger refuse
Good-Bye
When the thought walked through
The door
It sat down next to me and introduced
Itself as the answer to all my problems
After we had finished talking it handed
Me a package saying that inside it I would
Find the peace and serenity I had for so long been searching for
At first I was afraid but then the thought
Became so persistent I could nolonger refuse
Good-Bye
Do Colors Make Sounds? By Tyrone Woodward
Hey Baby! I thouht I'd drop you a line
In case you haven't noticed I've been gone for two months or more
I'm the woman you said you loved not just some drug store whore
So whatever your doing, just stop and turn your music down
I want you to know I'm writing from the maturnity ward
Where your son last night was born
Since I've got your attendtion have you noticed that I'm writing in crayon?
How some of the words are in blue and some of them brown?
I've got a question for you before you put this letter down
I just want to know
Do colors make sounds?
As I lay in this warm and well lit place
I can clearly see the dum look on your face
And it leads me to ask you with your head held down
If I throw red and yellow pant on a canvas
Would they just lie there then run to the ground?
Or would they be heard like my next words
Do colors make sounds?
In other words when orange and purple clash
Do they make sounds?
For instance does black make the sound of two cars crashing?
And is white the sound of a hourse in full stride?
And will it be the sound I'll make when I become your bride?
And does brown make the sound that makes me want to run and hide?
I'm asking
Do colors make sounds?
Baby is green the color of a new beginning?
And is that the color I'll see in the sky
As I ride on a plan back to your arms with your son in mine?
Or will I be the one lost in the rainbow as you walk away like Clark Gable?
To spread your seed and enpragnate another
Or are you the man who's gonna really love me?
Then all our colors run together again and another be born as I surrender?
Tell me now
Do colors make sounds?
Well, I've got to go, your boy wants to eat
Just remember I told you I'll be back in a week
If you don't have an aswer yet, then I think I do
By the sound of your son I think it's true
Yes
Colors make sounds, colors make sounds, colors make sounds
In case you haven't noticed I've been gone for two months or more
I'm the woman you said you loved not just some drug store whore
So whatever your doing, just stop and turn your music down
I want you to know I'm writing from the maturnity ward
Where your son last night was born
Since I've got your attendtion have you noticed that I'm writing in crayon?
How some of the words are in blue and some of them brown?
I've got a question for you before you put this letter down
I just want to know
Do colors make sounds?
As I lay in this warm and well lit place
I can clearly see the dum look on your face
And it leads me to ask you with your head held down
If I throw red and yellow pant on a canvas
Would they just lie there then run to the ground?
Or would they be heard like my next words
Do colors make sounds?
In other words when orange and purple clash
Do they make sounds?
For instance does black make the sound of two cars crashing?
And is white the sound of a hourse in full stride?
And will it be the sound I'll make when I become your bride?
And does brown make the sound that makes me want to run and hide?
I'm asking
Do colors make sounds?
Baby is green the color of a new beginning?
And is that the color I'll see in the sky
As I ride on a plan back to your arms with your son in mine?
Or will I be the one lost in the rainbow as you walk away like Clark Gable?
To spread your seed and enpragnate another
Or are you the man who's gonna really love me?
Then all our colors run together again and another be born as I surrender?
Tell me now
Do colors make sounds?
Well, I've got to go, your boy wants to eat
Just remember I told you I'll be back in a week
If you don't have an aswer yet, then I think I do
By the sound of your son I think it's true
Yes
Colors make sounds, colors make sounds, colors make sounds
I'm Gone By Tyrone Woodward
I picked up the phone but refused to deal
Some how I feel it's my only way out
To never return would be the best thing for me
She hirt me so much as she can see
I'm left all alone with no wear to go
And now I feel I must let her know
I'm Gone, I'm Gone, I'm Gone
At first she said we'd always be together
She came in from the cold and the December wheather
She made me feel complete again and again
Now the only thing I can say to win in the end is that
I'm Gone, I'm Gone, I'm Gone
What I can't believe now that we've parted
Is how she could change and be so dishearting
Maybe that's what makes this love continue to burn
For within my heart there's a hirt that I didn't earn
So I must let her fly like a bird
Just let her go without saying a word
Somehow she'll know when I don't return
I'd really like to see her face when she feels this burn
On the second she knows
I'm Gone, I'm Gone, I'm Gone
She don't know why I'm leaving or what to do
Rigth now she ani't even got a clue
That in the morning I'll be starting a new
Being in this relationship has took it's told
This whole hook up is starting to mold
What I can't understand as I take out my parting list
Is how and why she could be so heartlist
As I look at her picture and remember our first kiss
If things go right she won't need a plan
Cause God made sure to leave her on demand
And for her I've done all that I can so
I'm Gone, I'm Gone, I'm Gone
Some how I feel it's my only way out
To never return would be the best thing for me
She hirt me so much as she can see
I'm left all alone with no wear to go
And now I feel I must let her know
I'm Gone, I'm Gone, I'm Gone
At first she said we'd always be together
She came in from the cold and the December wheather
She made me feel complete again and again
Now the only thing I can say to win in the end is that
I'm Gone, I'm Gone, I'm Gone
What I can't believe now that we've parted
Is how she could change and be so dishearting
Maybe that's what makes this love continue to burn
For within my heart there's a hirt that I didn't earn
So I must let her fly like a bird
Just let her go without saying a word
Somehow she'll know when I don't return
I'd really like to see her face when she feels this burn
On the second she knows
I'm Gone, I'm Gone, I'm Gone
She don't know why I'm leaving or what to do
Rigth now she ani't even got a clue
That in the morning I'll be starting a new
Being in this relationship has took it's told
This whole hook up is starting to mold
What I can't understand as I take out my parting list
Is how and why she could be so heartlist
As I look at her picture and remember our first kiss
If things go right she won't need a plan
Cause God made sure to leave her on demand
And for her I've done all that I can so
I'm Gone, I'm Gone, I'm Gone
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
January in the Art Studio
New paintings will soon be on display....we are having great fun with some clay that Bob from the Abington Friends Meeting has donated . We are sculpting and creating small masterpieces - thanks bob!
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