How's everybody doing welcome back to my channel this week my client is flying in from New Jersey to get a cover-up done He's getting married this year, so I gotta make sure that he looks good for that special day You know so without being said let's get this day started Let's go So the project that I'm gonna be doing on him is I'm gonna be covering up this tattoo here So the first thing so that I'm gonna put on is King Tut just so I can Have a better understanding of where if all the stencils are gonna go just let it happen There you go Second sense. So I'm gonna do the pyramid perfect And then the last time so I'm gonna be applying now that I have King Tut on the top the pyramid on the bottom now I can kind of determine okay, where do I really want the The galaxy the light source is coming from this side here because if you look at King Tut This whole entire part of the face is it's the glare of it So we gotta make we gotta make sure that it makes sense So if you look at the reference from King Tut you have the highlight on the forehead the nose The top of the bottom lip and in this lip is the darkest point So that's telling me that the light source is from this side So with that being said now we got to make sure that all the light source is hitting this angle. Whoo. All right Go ahead and check it out make sure you like the placement Niggi niggi niggi All right, so now that I what I did here. I just added a little bit of texture on the on the smaller planet here and The reason why I started off with doing the planet first Because I want to make sure that the background is not just solid black. I want to add some gray tones I want to add some dimension. I want to add separation between The darks and the lights So here I ended up adding a lot of Solid black with some gray tones to create texture So I want to make sure that this right here the end of this the the circle here the planet I want to make sure that it's solid black okay and once I start doing the background I want to navigate to where The way I'm going to approach it is adding light grays here Because I want this to glow Once I get to the top I'm going to add darker tones that way this is going to glow And the bottom is going to be light grays and that's going to glow as well So you got to make sure that everything is legible and be able to navigate and pay attention to your like your contrast Just that's the most important thing you got to pay attention to your contrast at All times when it comes down to cover-ups because you don't want a piece just to look dark Because once somebody sees it it's going to be like that was a cover-up and you don't want that You want to make sure that the the whoever's looking at your tattoo Doesn't even know it's a cover-up and that is the goal So I'm gonna go ahead and start doing the background here and time-lapse that real quick So I do want to show the way I pack Solid colors solid black. So I have my 14 round liner And I'm running my machine at 5.0 and uh The reason why I like using this needle Is because I I cause less irritation on the skin And uh I move faster for some reason if I was using a Mac. I feel like it slows me down my for me using my 14 round liner Is the best approach that I can take to packing in solid black And it allows me to create texture as I'm doing it Also, I like to uh Get a lot of uh ink in my cartridge so I can just do Uh a lot of coverage in a single pass See that single pass boom I do the same thing here The way I know that I'm packing in the solid black is I feel this vibration on my hand that lets me know that I'm Packing it in at the right speed Right needle depth And right voltage Just everything feels right, you know If I was using a nine round liner, I'll still do the same thing if I was using a 14 round shader round liner Um, I'll I'll keep the same movement, but I definitely Like uh my favorite needles or my favorite cartridges are round liners and round shaders Those are the two that I use the most in every single tattoo if I'm doing like a a really soft face and I'll maybe I'll start using like a 11 curved mac or a 17 curved mac even a A 27 curved mac But since most of the time I'm doing texture. I'm always using uh round shaders and round liners And you know as you can see it's probably been no more than um than two minutes and I already got a lot of coverage Also using this uh low voltage with this cartridge The skin doesn't get irritated as fast. So um You're not going to see any swelling anytime soon. It's probably going to start swelling up in the next Probably like two hours or so. That's when you start noticing Um the skin getting a little swollen and me using a 10 a 10 voltage and a nine voltage I'm probably going to scar the skin because I'm so used to a low voltage that switching uh to such a high voltage I'm going to cause some damage but uh for me when I see artists using that You know that voltage of a 10 or nine I I'm just like, how are you doing that? I can't do it bro. I can't Yeah I cannot use that. Yeah, no I used to though when I was when I first started tattooing I was uh experimenting, you know what I mean using like a Like a seven I was using an eight and nine and I was tattooing in different ways But I could never get comfortable until one day. I was like, you know what my tattoo like a six And I noticed a big difference and then after that I I was like if I can tattoo a six and I got these results I wonder what would happen if I go lower. I feel like it was almost an accident when I first tried it I don't remember me wanting to try a 5.0 voltage, but it just happened, you know So I don't I don't know It was meant to be I feel like when I tattoo texture on faces, I feel like it looks like I don't know what I'm doing It's got to you just got to be You know, relax Texture is It's just Something to have fun with The technique Is everything And if That song it's like in my head right now And if I ever fall in love again How was that? How was that? That was perfect You liar You're lying to me All right, well after this mini concert that I just um That I just did I'm gonna go ahead and continue tattooing now. I hope you learned something from this video Either you learned that I don't know how to sing Or maybe you learned a new technique I can watch in this brand new video I've been getting a lot of the amps of my instagram from artists using my techniques and using everything I teach on my videos And definitely makes me really happy to see that i'm helping in some way And it motivates me to keep sharing all my techniques with you guys So if you're a tattoo artist, I hope you learned something from this video And if you're a tattoo enthusiast, I hope you were entertained. Thank you guys for watching. I'll see you guys next week peace


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My name is Emmie Ortega Anderson and it is a privilege to come to you and present Pinoy Power Hawaii here on the beautiful studio of Think Tech Hawaii. I want to thank the staff and of course the entire Think Tech Hawaii for giving us the opportunity to have our show of empowerment. Our mission is we aim to enrich, enlighten, educate, entertain, of course the big word for us is to empower. Today we're going to do just that with my three wonderful guests and they all have their own stories to tell. It is a pleasure to have two queens enter trying, well three if I may lift my own banquito or bench and I say I am a former Mrs. Hawaii Filipina also. Today we're going to highlight the reigning queen Sarah Luz Hosaka and of course 2018 queen Janet Duhasheck, I'm having problems with these last names that are foreign to me but it is a pleasure to have you on Pinoy Power Hawaii. Welcome Mabuhay. Mabuhay, thank you for having us today at the Emmy, it is an honor. Thank you for taking the time out to join us on your very busy schedule and as a former UFCH Mrs. Hawaii Filipina your plate is full, yeah? Very. But it's fun. Yes. It's very fun. It is the highlight of your reign as a queen and I'm sure that Janet can relate to the exciting year. Yes. So I told her it's just the beginning. Yes. Enjoy it while you can and it's great to have a buddy, a support system, that's where King Jimmy comes. Supporting cast. Supporting cast. Supporting cast. So let's talk from the beginning, tell us about your growing up and how you met Jimmy. I was born in Manila, Pasig City, Santa Island to be specific and I was raised by my grandma and my mom, we came from a very simple life, humble beginning or life and growing up with raised by mom and grandma, we pretty much educate, education for us is a key to success. They instill with me, not just being generosity to others, but to help other less fortunate people, neighbors, you know, remembering growing up we have this called fiesta and Christmas day where we cook everything for the entire barangay so we invited everybody. Sure, ten a month, no? Yeah. Whether you have it or you don't, my grandma always think that you have to give back to the community. So that's your ongoing motto, to help one another and those that are less fortunate. That's something, it's been passed on by your grandmother, so tell us about grandma a little bit. My grandma is, she was half Chinese, in Czech, in Czech and Spanish and then my grandpa is half Spanish and American, so he was US Army, so we're very, very blessed and fortunate to have someone like them, very solid foundation. My grandma is a person where she will buy like five sacks of rice for the community and then give, you know, to everybody and very humble, very humble and, you know, and I think that's something. So you instill your values of sharing. Yes, very much so. Great lola. Very great folks, raised by Catholic family and very, I think it's, we're just blessed to know a lot of people in our community, in our city and we give them that food or anything, service, I think it's more service. That's why I chose one day at a time because when you give, when you help others, you take it one day at a time, right? So, King Jimmy, what's your role? Supporting role. Tell us. Supporting role. Supporting role. This whole journey has been very, very humbling but very exciting, so I'm so proud of her and her accomplishments and, you know, what she wants to do with this title is to do better things, you know, and I guess with the title and the crown, I guess your voice becomes louder and, you know, she can make a bigger impact and I'm so proud of her. You have a platform. It's pretty busy. Yes. My platform, sure platform, yeah. My platform is wherever she's going to go, I've got to go. That's my platform. Yeah. What time and where and is it? Or what time or is it? A lot of time. It's telling you to know. You look good in your baron, by the way. Thank you. Yeah. First time. First time. I didn't insist that you were a baron today, but I've seen you baron. Thank you. Which was crafted tailored just for you, yeah? Yes, that custom made this. And, by the way, speaking of tailor made, your turno was very elegant. Who was the designer of your turno? His name is Jerson Demavivas and he is the fashion designer of Katryonica, who is the Miss Universe. Oh, no wonder. Yeah. You could spot right away. I mean, my winning gown was designed by Edgar Madamba and, you know, it's how you wear it. I'm going to flip to Janet. Tell us about your role as 2018 Mrs. Hawaii, Filipina. That was a busy year for me and, at the time, I had my own business shop at their home. Your head? You talk like a spastant. Yes, I had. At the time, I had a difficulty going out and attending stuff, but I managed it and I managed to go to Philippines and outreach some children in there and participated in one of the town festival. It was awesome. In Isabella. In Isabella. Yes. It was nice. It's an open, a lot of doors for me, like reaching out these kind of community services. It was a great experience. So, tell us, you can speak Ilocano here. I do. Thai language, yeah? Italish. Ilocano, Tagalog. Yeah. So, growing up. Oh, no. Nakorapai po. Nakorapai kami. Nakorapai. Nakorapai po. Nakorapai kami. I was 19 when I lost my parents. I mean, my dad. And while growing up, na pinta si Tim, pae dakada kami nga, what do you call that? Sursuro. Sursuro, like, manag dolong titao. Jihara pantibalai mei desangabalai mei. Pagurorai negiti kataong. Pagurorai tiluganda mapanili. So, na. Pusma dadapunan. Yeah, pagdadapunan. So, abang agurorai dano ka luganda, mabisi nan danon. Na danon dati pangal dawin. Tanda penangan. Ayaban mei suda, ilot pa mei suda. Pakanan mei. Tani inang kui deoran nam amon punan na. That's wonderful. Yeah. So, I grew up that way. So, it brings our... The values. Yeah. Hospitality. Yeah, hospitality. Yes. Yes. And I'm sure you've felt that all around, Jimmy.  Actually, culturally, I've become more Filipino than my heritage is Japanese. I've become more Filipino. I'm really immersed in the culture. I really appreciate the Filipino traditions and the cultures and family. The Japanese one would say maybe it's a little more rigid and more proper. So, I really embrace the Filipino culture around me. Yeah, we dive right into it. Yeah. Oh, gosh, yes. I've seen you.  Thank you. Because whether it's the farm or a formal setting, are you going to have a chance to go to Malacanyan and visit our president's residence? Yes. We're excited. We're looking forward to that. Yes, we are. Next month. Next month already. Next month, we're so blessed that we're going to an ambassador tour. And so, I'm really excited for that. That's awesome. Yes. So, how did you prepare yourself? I know that you might have had a lot of reservations. Like, I didn't know what was my platform going to be until, you know, I got closer. Yes. In fact, last year, I was approached by one of the, I would say, like a pillar of the Filipino community at the Maggie and at Jesse's restaurant. And I think that was made off last year and she goes like, hey, would you like to join Mrs. Hawaii Filipina at the time? And I said, oh, not for, I don't think so, Paul. But more and more, I'm meeting with a lot of, I'm attending a lot of organizations, events. I started with Moharlika, the Famas. And me and Jimmy were one of the tabulators at the time. So, I was introduced to different people. And I started liking, oh, I, you know, it's giving back, not just giving back to the community, but I wanted to meet a lot of Filipino in Hawaii. I've been here for 18 years, but never attended any. 18 years? Yes. It was only last year that I've seen you. Yes. I mean, we attended a lot of events. In fact, we would compete in a lot of these, right? Yeah, before. So, I'm not sure. It's just like, I think I just wanted to be with the family, quality time. We have a son who's 24 years old now, I think. Oh, drop it. Yes. So, our focus is more like him and our job and our quality time. And I think we have more time now just to, I guess, me, just spread my wings in a different level. And meeting more on the Filipino, attending the Filipino events, it's giving, it seems like I'm in the Philippines. And I'm loving it. I feel like backwards, you know? I want to learn more about the history. I want to learn about the culture. I want to learn about the diversity of the Filipino here in Hawaii.  Why not? Because I wanted to really give back to the community. You finally agreed to run. Yes. And from there, you took off running. Yes. Yeah. From there, I didn't really expect what I'm getting into. Yes. I didn't know what I'm getting into until I'm there. Like, okay, it's not all about the crown or sash. It's all about, like, knowing the Filipino here in Hawaii, getting to know them, getting to know me and the purpose. And it's not just about how I look. I just want them to really know who I am. What's my, not just my platform, it's just my ongoing goals and ambition and mission. I know, yeah, when you had agreed to run, you were determined to do what it takes to live your goal as far as continuing to help others. Yes. That's why when you asked me, Ate, would you help me? They asked my daughter to run. So, remember, I kind of looked at you and just kind of smiled. Oh, yes. Yeah? Oh, yes. So, I told my daughter, maybe it's not this time, Anak, you have to wait for your time to come because certainly this is your year. Yeah. And you had the whole community helping, really giving you full support, right? Yes. Very evident. Very supportive. Very supportive. And I, it's really like, I can't believe that everybody is in one roof and everybody is so supportive. They open their arms and they're so embraced. And like what I said, I'm so new to the Filipino community and I can just feel the love. They really welcome you with open arms. Open arms, yes. Janet, I don't know if you had the same overwhelming experience because for us it was different, right? Yes, mine is different. Yeah. We're going to come back and talk about that because everyone have different experiences but at the end, it's always a win-win situation. It is. It is. I want to thank my guest for taking the time to be with us and share the success. It's a way of empowering others when we share the stories of trials, triumph, tribulations, but overall it's an experience that will carry us for a lifetime. We will be back on Pinoy Power Hawaii here and think Tecawaii. I am your host, Emmy Ortega Anderson. We'll be right back. Aloha. I'm Sharon Thomas Yarbrough, a host here at Think Tecawaii, a digital media company serving the people of Hawaii. We provide a video platform for citizen journalists to raise public awareness in Hawaii. We are a Hawaii nonprofit that depends on the generosity of its supporters to keep on going. We'd be grateful if you go to thinktecawaii.com and make a donation to support us now. Thanks so much. Aloha. I'm Gwen Harris, the host here at Think Tecawaii, a digital media company serving the people of Hawaii. We provide a video platform for citizen journalists to raise public awareness in Hawaii. We are a Hawaii nonprofit that depends on the generosity of the supporters to keep on going. We'd be grateful if you go to thinktecawaii.com and make a donation to support us now. Thanks so much. Welcome back to Pinot Power Hawaii. I am your host, Emmy Ortega Anderson, and it's a wonderful show of empowerment. In fact, I have to act regal because I am among the queens and King Jimmy is sitting right in the center, center of attraction. How are you liking it so far? I'm enjoying it. It's been exciting and meeting some wonderful people. It's just been an incredible journey. Just to see the generosity and the support of people that you'd never expect. It's amazing and it's really empowering. We want to take that energy and refocus it and do something good with it. Jimmy, not to put you in the spot, but are you a yes man flow with or do you carry your manager your role? I'm the manager.  At 5 p.m. that rule switch is over when I go home. Obviously, she's very strong personality, which is good for her, but you have very understanding and very fair. So I kind of let her take over a little bit until a certain point and then I make sure I'm kind of co-authoring certain decisions. So it's all about balance. We're a great team. We're so balanced. Good. That's important. I'm glad you mentioned that, because it's really, really important in order for you to succeed. You have to have that winning team and attitude.  I know my role and make sure I don't go overboard with that and step on his ground. Because he was a vice president for 50 years at the Prudential Financial Services. He was a check-in balance for you. When it comes to finances, he is the man. I spent it. Let's get back to Janet. I noticed that the whole community really came out in support and really supported you for your year. It was different in our time. It was very competitive. Tell us. It was because what happened is that I wasn't really planning because it was my third time, actually. But one of the contestants declined. That's the time that they approached me again. Probably the third time, I said, maybe I'm going to get this crowd this time. For a short time, they supported me, but it's not as much as they supported Sara. Sara was overwhelming. Sara was flooding with support, which is great. I think part of it was to also support Jimmy, who is not Filipino, but acts like one. He's so Filipino. Jimmy, what's your favorite Filipino dish? Adobo Senegal. Adobo and Senegal. Kare-kare. Wow, kare-kare. Cici gives up there, too. You know your stuff, man. Good stuff. With what sauce? Alamang. Alamang. With that and all that stuff. To me, that's the Filipino caviar. Yeah, that's good stuff. Caviar. That's a good flavor. So everything that you see in the Filipino community, can you relate or were you born with the gold platter or silver spoon in your mouth? Growing up in Hawaii, I've already kind of already a melting pot that we are here in Hawaii, so you've already seen it. I've had friends that were growing up when I was in grade school, Filipino and all the Asian cultures, Vietnamese, Chinese, and spent time in their households. I was really accustomed to a lot of diversity in terms of cultural and traditions and things like that. So no, that's not a surprise from what I've seen, but definitely I'm really immersed in that now. So if there's one trait that would stand out, Jimmy, what would that be? Oh, just the caring and giving and selflessness of a Filipino person. Yes. It's in line with Sarah's. Yes. Tradition of caring and generous. Blessing others. Yes. And you're going to have the opportunity to do that like we have had every year where I made it my mission to go back every year. It didn't just stop when my reign stopped. It continued. Now we support St. Joseph orphanage in the Philippines where there are 19 orphan residents that depend on us and others are also requesting. So perhaps the children are the hope of our future and I'm sure you agree with that. Right. Yeah. So you might want to carry the other orphanages that I can support. Yes, of course. Of course. That's one of our goals anyway just to continue to have, you know, supporting the Philippines back home. I mean, we're more fortunate here to not give back to our homeland. Great. So with the remaining time let's talk about the legacy or the traits, characteristics, values that we want to pass on to our children, our future generation. What would you leave your son? I think just to, I want, not just for my son, but for everybody just to take care of ourselves. Going to, to take care of ourselves, going to the doctor for any preventative. You know, that's my, one of my mission and goal. One of my platform is to, to have a life that we can, we can look back saying that, you know what, not like we help the homeless but also to take care of ourselves, to take care of others. You know, I think that's really important to be healthy. I agree with you in that sense because health is wealth. If you don't have your health how could you go out and help others? You are sickly. And to have, I'm sorry, and to have the healthy lifestyle, you know, you can balance your, between your family, your work, but at the same time you take care of yourself, you know, those three. I'm glad you mentioned that because, you know, there's a great example. Filipinos are natural caregivers, right? Yes. We spend the time, we take our patients, the clients, to the doctors, but yet, when it comes to us, the caregivers, we forget to, forget ourselves. We feel our cup. You're surprised. I've been there.  Why? She was a caregiver.  Neglected themselves. Yes, she neglected themselves. Neglected themselves, yes. That's really important. Really important. Really important, you know. And it goes to show, how much care we receive when we get vaccinated. Yes. When we get vaccinated, when we get vaccinated, when we get vaccinated, when we get vaccinated, when we get vaccinated, when we get vaccinated, our overall health, yeah, just works. Yes, yeah. Okay. All right. So, as a former caregiver, you think you'll ever go back to doing that, or? I'm not so sure, because I don't mean I'm sorry, okay, I won't do that. Okay, I won't, I'm so sorry with the words. I don't mean I won't do that. I saw a video about an active family. Mm-hmm. I want to timing a rumor, mm-hmm. About the goals, mm-hmm. What breaks my heart, I'm going to go there, and then... Bye-bye. I'll attend the Gita, because I'm full of school, and I'll be attending the awards, to attend the Pan. Mm-hmm. When I enter the GUB, I feel hurt. Bye-bye. When I watch the I'm not so sure about that. Mm-hmm. I focus on the family. Family. Yeah. It's so... I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. Yeah. Yeah. Because the monetary reward kind of spoils you. Yes. To be able to just, hey. Oh, okay. I can afford that. I don't see the Gita, but it's okay. The quality. Yeah. The quality of the family is very important. Very good. I'm glad you came here to share that. Sometimes you get so wrapped up because you can afford it at the Mercedes, at the Jaguar, at the Palacio, you know. It's all material things. Yeah. It's all the worldly material things that we all get caught up with. But when it comes to family values, what are the messages that we're sending to our children when we cannot be there for them and they build that resentment? Mm-hmm. Yes. Good, right? Mm-hmm. I'm so focused on my children, my family. How many children do you have? How many? I have one. I have one. I have one. Yes. I have one. When is the girl coming? Sarah. Jimmy. Oh, no, no, no, no. You're coming. No. I'm 47. Hey, miracles have happened. My auntie gave birth when she was 50. Wow. Yeah. So there's hope, Jimmy. Oh, no. You're going to create a princess. Oh, goodness. I'm calling on my son for that one, too. Oh, okay. Add to the family. Grandfather. Yes. Okay. All right. So let me start with you, Janet. What's the legacy that you want to leave behind then, that very important message? To the community. Mm-hmm. I think the way family into the community as well. I think it's the value of family that a material thing is only a second, you know, or a third. God is the first and family is the second. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. So, you know, as long as you're at work, you'll have a family. Where do you have a family? One team has a different family. Mm-hmm. Well said. Couldn't have said it any better. Yeah. Uh-huh. I totally agree with you on that. Money's not everything, but it's close to first. Money's not everything. Yes. Oh, you need it to survive. Yes. I mean, it's the survival. Okay. With the one minute remaining, I'm going to leave it to you, Sarah, to close our episode. What's the value that you would like to stop? Value, just be yourself.  And like what I said is like, balance, you know, you have to balance yourself between health and your family. Live life to the fullest. Live life to the fullest. Awesome. You said it all. Jimmy? Live, love, laugh is my advice. Wow.   Love and give back because that's all we have, you know, is each other as human beings and in laugh means enjoy your life and do the things that you want to do and don't go back because Jenny lived once. Yes. I couldn't agree with you more. Thank you for sharing from the heart and adding to our empowerment because these are the type of messages that we need to be reminded each day. And with that, thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you again for joining us on another empowering episode of, you know, Power Hawaii. Thank you, Queen Janet, of course, Jimmy, and the reigning 2019 UFCH, Mrs. Hawaii, Filipina, Sarah, Luz, Hosaka, much Mahalo. Thank you. Thank you very much, and thank you again with that, Mabuhay, Mahalo, and God bless.


Good morning, everyone. Dr. Saul here in Beverly Hills. We have our lovely patient here. She's an amazing shape I was just going over. She looks amazing. She's a mom.  One is lower than the other. She understands that We're going to do silicone breast augmentation. We're doing periareola She doesn't want any scars, so we're going right there and we're going to go under the muscle and we're going Approximately 375. I put in blue where the implant is going to be Initially the implant because she doesn't have a tight tissue is going to be higher But when it falls down, it's going to fall right in there You can see her native breast tissue. The highest is right here. Even when I push her breast up It's right there again. You can see where it is. This height is determined by God Not my air plastic surgeon So, you know some people come and say I want a real high, but they don't have the right anatomy in her She has to write anatomy Because this is a short distance. It's going to be a beautiful case. Stay tuned while we then capitalize our patient Hey, everyone. Dr. Saw here in the OR. We're doing a breast augmentation periareola approach I make sure the incision fine lands right exactly Where the dark and the light need So ladies and gentlemen at home, so this is the skin epidermis then we go to deep dermis Then we go to the fat then we go to breast tissue and this right here is the muscle watch it facilitate So now we're going to go between the muscle under underneath the pectoralis major muscle So as I'm as you guys are watching opening up the muscle going with the fibers of the muscle which go transversely And we're going to get underneath the muscle so we can put the implant So we have the sizes in I think she looks good with the three seventy five There are your breasts are a little different this one looks like it's going to project a little bit more But I'll adjust for that, but I think this is going to be a great size for I didn't want to go with what we talked about pre-operatively as a three seventy five So we'll take this out and put it in the real implants now So here we are with the califunnel here. It is the pocket. We gently put it in It's a no touch technique Once it's in all you have to do is like a icing on a cake just put on the cream and boom no touch From the box into the patient. So we're about to close we put the implant in with the califunnel We're closing a good closure is very important after a breast dog It's not just a placement, but also a closure So in order to do that you need about a four-layer closure You get the breast tissue together the bath together to eat dermal and then after dermis the skin goes back together So I usually take my time to a four-layer closure To make sure that the patient gets the optimal result. So we're done. She got what she wanted We put in the three seventy moderate profile. She's got great projection nice cleavage Nice lateral fullness. She looks fantabulous. We're done. That's quick


Today we're going to be fishing with this $25 budget fishing kit. I went by Dick Sporting Goods a few weeks back and I ran upon this juicy looking bad boy right here. We're going to go ahead and open it up get into it and see what we got inside. So this is actually the Strike King Rage Imperfect Plastics kit and we have a bunch of different baits inside guys. This is a good variety and I think it's going to be perfect for the fishing today. You know the spring time is here and we're ready to catch some of these big fish.  So let's go ahead and pop this thing open real quick and see what we got inside. Before we get deeper into this video only 27% of you all watching these videos are actually subscribed so if you could take the time hit the subscribe button. It really helps the channel. I'd appreciate it. All right let's open this bad boy up and we have a wide variety of soft plastics and we're going to go ahead and go down the line and figure out what we want to use first. So the first bait here we actually have one of these Rage Swimmers and this is a Kai Tech style bait by Strike King. It's got a little bit of white on top and it's got a little bit of sparkle little bling bling. Coming up second we have a Strike King Ocho and I believe this is the either a five or the six inch Ocho and this is in watermelon flake really good natural color. That bait right there can catch fish any time of day. You can put that on a Texas rig. You can rig it up on a wacky rig. You can do just about anything with that Sanko. The next bait we got is probably my favorite out of the whole batch guys. We have a Rage Crawl here and this is in I want to say sapphire blue. It's got a darker blue flake on top and on the bottom it's got that sapphire brighter blue action but the Rage Crawl is by far one of my favorite soft plastics of all time and this bait is going to get smoked today. 100% that has to be probably my favorite out of all these baits. Next we got a Rage Bug in Green Pumpkin. Another similar bait to the Rage Crawl. This is just more of a beaver style bait and this bait right here is going to get smoked as well and it's got just a standard natural color. It's pretty cool that we have a natural in the Rage Bug and we have more of the darker watercolor in the Rage Crawl. Moving on we got the Rage Menace and this is a little natural color. It's got some blueish swirl on the bottom, a little bit of green on top. I don't use menace as much but back in the day when I fished a lot of tournaments I caught a ton of fish on the old Rage Menace. That thing should get munched as well and moving on to the final bait this is super exciting guys because we have not topwater fished all year and we got the girdle toad right here by Strike King and this is actually in the summer crawl color. It's got chartreuse on the bottom, green pumpkin on top and we're going to get to throw a dang topwater today and attempt to catch our first topwater bass of the year. Our plan is to catch a fish on every single bait in this box. There's six baits so our goal is to catch at least one fish today on every single bait to complete the Strike King fishing kit challenge. Let's hop into it boys. All of these I think are going to get munched pretty good today. The frog I'm a little concerned about but I think we're going to have some crazy stuff happen and I want to save this until the end of the video guys so make sure you stick around. We're going to catch a bass on topwater today and lock in our first topwater fish of 2024. I just feel like it would be a disgrace if I don't start off with my favorite bait of all time which is the Rage Crawl. By the way I'm pairing this up on my Kicking Their Bass TV X Lose combo. If you guys want to check them out KickingTheBass.com. They'll be linked down below. Springtime is on its way. Head over to KickingTheBass.com guys. Get yourself a combo and start catching some fish with me now. So we have a standard Texas rig. This is a quarter ounce bullet weight on a three-awd extra wide gap hook. As simple as it gets and that is the perfect thing to throw for this Rage Crawl. Simple Texas rig. It's the springtime. You can't go with a better rig right now so there we go. That is our first bait of choice out of the tackle box and we're going to get the casting and see what we can do. So when I was out fishing two weeks ago these fish were pushed up pretty shallow getting ready to all be up on bed. So that's what I'm hoping is the pattern still. We did have a little cold front blow in a few days ago and that's a little concerning but I still think these fish should bite really good and hopefully still be positioned up on this bank. Let me walk a little bit right down here. So on this side of the bank there's only a few little crevices you can really get in. I just feel like this bank with all these trees there's got to be some big bass pushed up here. It just looks so good.  It just looks like a prime spot for some big bass to be sitting. It's so pumped right now boys. I've been dying the fish. I went to the Bassmaster Classic met a lot of y'all. It was an awesome event. It was a great time.  I'm telling you got that dog coming out with these big old bass they don't even know. This bank looks really good. So the weird part about this guys is when I was fishing this pond you know six months ago this whole bank had trees and they totally wiped it out. I mean it's completely gone but I can still kind of feel a bunch of the laydowns up on the bank. There's still a lot of wood here and I was afraid to come back to this place recently just because of them cutting all this down. I didn't know how it was going to affect the fishing at least for a while. So hopefully it's all primed back up again. This spot right here I mean all these divots in the bank little bit of wood, some laydowns. I mean this is just prime for some big fish to be sitting. I was hoping to come out here and just be like oh my god they're on bed everywhere but it doesn't look like that's the case. I'm convinced there is not a single bass in this pond. They're all dead. They're all gone. This appeared. All right new pond knew me. First time I fished this pond I ended up putting a 10 yonder pounder on a spinnerbait so maybe today would be the day. I do not think the rage crawl is going to be the hardest bait today which I definitely don't think it is. I know what's going on here there guys we're not getting bites because we got a plan of catching a dang 10 pounder. I'm hung up. Big old tree man. What in the world? Well there we go. That was our first catch of the day. It's a dang giant. Thank you sir. Thank you for biting. Beautiful release. It was a biggin dude. Oh my gosh I was literally hopping that bait in. I just came up and grabbed it and I stuck that fish too man. Well that's our first bite of the day right there guys. Pretty dang shallow and I was just thinking about it. I've never seen this but you see these little like flowers here. It was right in front of that man. Maybe this bank's going to be loaded. Let's hunker in right here. I'm going to be honest too I was at such a weird angle for a hook set. It was like one of his left hand hook sets and it just I don't know. That's got me feeling pretty good about this though. A couple times I've gone out here obviously the first fish I caught here was just a megalodon of a bass. I threw all the way across the lake. There he is. Oh my god dude what is going on they're hitting it. Oh these fish might be on bed in here man. The way he just hit it was exactly like any bed bass. Please dude. Gosh that was a good bite too. It was just such a far cast. I don't think he had it all the way. Or in that springtime weird biting phase I'll tell you that. The first fish I missed and that one. That was a gator. That freaked me out man. I got a fish. He's running. He's running. He's running. That fish was on bed on that bank and that was a freaking megalodon of a fish. There's no way that just happened dude. I couldn't catch up to him. I literally couldn't catch up. These bed fish are crazy man. He was right where that gator jumped off too. I'm talking right where he jumped off. All right we just got to lock it in guys. We got to lock it in. We've had two too many mistakes on this couple bites man. That was a giant. Giant. Eat that bait. Oh my gosh. Dude I thought I had a monster right there. When I leaned up he did not move. I think he was stuck in the tree. Oh my gosh guys. Well that was a dang grind to get this dang fish. That's just a little male bass right there. And that is our first fish of the day on the Rage Crawl. And that is one bait knocked off the list. Heck yeah. Thank you for biting buddy. There he goes. Let's go man. All we needed. Just needed to get on board right there. But let's go ahead and go back and get our other baits. All right boys so we've got our first bait knocked off the list. Got the tackle box with me. It's time to pick out bait number two. Keep this rolling boys. I'm feeling good about it. We've had three good bites. We said to keep on fishing. Let's go back in the box and see what we want to work with. So the Rage Crawl was a success.  That's what I thought. I mean that bait is just a money bait. I think we're going to switch up to this beaver bait here which is the Rage Bug. This is in green pumpkin. This water in this pond compared to the first one is a little more clear. So the Rage Bug is going to be perfect for this place. We're still going to be putting it on the Texas rig. It's pretty simple. Go through the head of the bait. Rotate it all the way up and give her a little weedless hook. One thing about the Rage Bug you can unpinch these arms, unpinch the tail so you can have all that flutter action. That is going to be our second bait of choice. I'll tell you the Rage Crawl I'm more of a fan of. But this Rage Bug here, a little beaver presentation I'm telling you is a really good bait especially right now too. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. I snapped my rod. I snapped my rod. But I got a fish. Oh my gosh dude it's a good one too. And I can't catch up with him. I literally just snapped my rod. Good one. Oh my gosh. Come on baby. Oh my gosh.  But oh my goodness we just caught us a almost a three pound bass all the way across the dang pond man. Oh and there she goes. Oh my gosh. What just happened dude? He was all the way on the other side on that tree. And I threw all the way out there with my slack line. I could feel that fish hit it. And it instantly just reeled up and torqued down on him. Unbelievable. That sucks about my rod though and I'll tell you guys I actually had this wedged in between my dang truck bed the other day. I was praying that it wasn't gonna break but I was already anticipating it and sure enough it freaking happened. With that being said guys that's our only bait caster with us today. We have a spinning rod in the car so we could definitely go back and get that thing and keep on fishing. So I'm gonna take a little break go grab this rod and we'll get back after it. All right boys and girls we broke our rod but that is not gonna hold us back today man. I got my mock jacked out spinning combo and I have a whole idea on what I'm gonna do for this next bait here. So we got the rage bug done on that last fish. We got the rage crawl done on fish number one and now we're gonna move on to the ocho. And this is a green pumpkin ocho. We're gonna be throwing it on a spinning rod. This isn't the most ideal wacky rig hook but it's not bad at all. It's actually one of my drop shot hooks. And we're just gonna throw this thing wacky rig. Now I'm gonna tell you guys in the spring time here there is not a better bait than a dang wacky rig because it's just about anything on that. So any of this cover that we see along the bank we can throw this wacky rig up there and just work it super slow and we should have a lot of bites here. Yeah that's very unfortunate about the whole rod situation. I had a feeling I was gonna break that rod and I guess today was the day man. All right boys and girls we are out at a new spot and we're ready to get this dang thing started here. I'm ready to start smoking some fish now. We got our Senko on our spinning rod and I actually ran back and got a new rod so we are chilling now and I'm actually gonna put the menace on this Texas rig. So we're gonna have the Senko on the wacky rig on the spinning rod and then we're gonna put the menace on the Texas rig here and we're at the old hidden 10 pound pond baby and I'm hoping some of these fish in here are pushed up on the bank and there's some big old bass in here son. So we're gonna see what happens in here. I'm glad I had some time to go grab this other rod because I need a bait caster with me today. I'm kind of worried about my mock jack too because I after I was just talking about it I didn't have this rod stuck in my tailgate too. I would hate to break up another rod today. Now that would be a big mess. But we're gonna start off with the Ocho here and make a few casts and see if we can get something rolling. Get back on board. I was also stuck in traffic for an hour guys. I've been I've been fiending man and I gotta bite. We're hooked. We're hooked. Oh my gosh baby. First cast man. Oh my gosh it's a big one. Oh my gosh I didn't think she was big. Oh my gosh. Come on. Come on. Stay pinned baby. Stay pinned. Oh it's a really good one dude. Let's go. She's putting up a ridiculous fight right now. Come on baby. Oh yeah come on. Stay pinned for me. Looks like a three pounder. Come on. Come on. We've lost our Sanko. We just caught us a dang three pounder.  Absolute football.   That is what we're looking for guys. Let's freaking go baby. Well that is bait number three knocked out the list. I guess I had a good feeling in coming here and first cast. We caught a dang three pounder man. Beautiful bass. Thank you baby. There she goes. That is a way to kick it off right there. We had a slow start to this video and ended up breaking our rod missing some fish sat in the hours worth of traffic. We didn't let it get us down man. We kept on pushing. Came out to a new spot and boom first cast caught a dang three pounder. All right well we're going to put the spinning rod down for a minute. If we get a little I don't know we get a little excited man. We might put another one of those Sankos on that wacky rig and throw it back out there but I want to throw those minutes for a second. So this is that natural color. It's got like a little blue sparkle green on top. It's on the Texas rig. If these fish are on bed on this bank which they very well could be with us getting that bite right away. We might be smacking them here guys. Beautiful shade line. Good bit of lay downs right at the mouth of this pocket. Let's see if we can get some more bites here. I really didn't think that fish was big guys. I thought he was like a pounder ended up being like a three pound fish and she jumped I was like holy cow. Put up a great fight. I just feel like there's some more fish right here man. That ain't going to be the only bite we get here. I'm about to say we're going to catch another tree pounder. I'm trying to be nibbling man. A little bit of chomp chomp. I know I'm actually having a truly. Oh my gosh. I just about got sniked boy. I can hear the dang wind breaking dude. That puppy about smacked me in the rear end. That would have left a mark for sure. I literally bit my hook out holy cow. Today's been a day man. It's been one a damn day. Boys and girls we're going to leave this pond. I thought I don't feel it. I felt like we could spend a good bit of time here and possibly get another bite. It's just I think there's better spots for us to hit and the fact that we just caught one on the first cast and haven't had another bite kind of makes me want to just go to a new spot. So we're going to pack up this tackle box pack up our rods and I will catch y'all at the next spot. All right new spot and we ready to rock and roll lost a complete tank a couple weeks ago while I was fishing here and then before that ended up having the craziest fish catcher in my life. I know you guys probably saw that but we'll run it back one more time. Adam pretty crazy guys had a fish dang hop out on the spina bait but it's time for us to catch another fish in this pond. It's the only one that I've got in here and I just know there's some tanks. I mean I missed a crazy bite. We just need to take our time here and we might end up catching a really good one. So let's just throw along this bank or some of these laydowns is a little crevices in this grass and we might get lucky. That's where I got bit last week or two weeks ago. Dude that fish was running. He hammered it a hook set and he was just I couldn't catch up to him. Sticks are biting today man.  I don't understand the crazy stuff that can happen. I literally envisioned that. I manifested that whole bite dude. I popped it off that tree over there my bait landed. I let it sink and I'm like you know what there might be a fish here. I'm just slowly working in. He bites it right there. I don't understand man.  That was a giant look at the boil. Oh my god what is going on dude. I didn't have time.  Like how does my line even get frayed that bad bro. How is it even dude that fish must have been a dang shark. I really don't even know what's going on. This pond is something man. I guess I need to come out here and fish more. I just get I get schooled out here though. I just get the weirdest stuff. Anything that you think that could go wrong or just go oddly good in this pond has happened. The fish that I lost two weeks ago the weirdest bite ever was running 2000 miles an hour. He should have been a track star. He shouldn't have been a fish. Then two weeks prior to that had the craziest fish catch of my life and then we about had the craziest fish catch I've ever seen again. Like three times and I have a feeling that there's a lot of fish right here. We were standing on the fish the whole time which is crazy. The fish are loaded on this bank. I think the first bite was a small male bass. That second one I think was big and the third one I don't even know what to think. That fish felt good too but totally broke that one off. I mean that one I don't see biting. The thing is with this fish biting like that you would think that they would be in this pocket. I mean the last couple times I've came here I didn't get a bite in this pocket. I just got hammered. I gotta stop this awkwardness dude. I gotta get on my right side and I gotta lock in. There's water pumping out of that dude. Giant. Oh my gosh. There's toes in here dude.  Oh my gosh. I literally thought I hooked it to the bottom man. That was like almost a four pounder. Oh it's a beautiful fish. These fish are freaking biting man. I just can't believe we could just hook everything that we're getting bit by. Oh my gosh. Thank you honey. Let's go boys. Guys I understand that we gotta catch fish on every bait but I'm gonna throw back in. How they're biting in this pond is crazy. We've seen some decent bites today. Some decent fishing but I'm gonna tell you I got another fish.  All these fish are doing guys you know here in the springtime this bass they'll just grab it. They won't really eat it and that's what they're doing right now. They're just grabbing this bait and you can feel them pick it up and you know you go to get ready to hook said and they're already spitting it out or you hook said and you end up missing the fish or losing the fish.  I saw his whole back come out of the water. Dude there is that might have been a seven eight pounder if not bigger. There's some monsters in this pond. Alright guys it is time to switch up. So we have got the Senko complete. The Rage Crawl complete. The Rage Bug complete. The Minus complete. And our last two options come down to the Swimbate and the Frog. The Frog we're saving for last because I'm excited about it and I just want to save the best for last. For the Swimbate we're gonna go ahead and rig this up and we're just gonna put it on a Texas rig man which is something I would never do but I think it can get the job done right now especially with how these fish are just up on the bank and we can work it a few different ways of this Texas rig. We can reel it if we want or we can hop it on the bottom just like the curl and the worm. I mean we can work it multiple different ways with that rig. It feels good to throw a moving bait for the first time today. You know we were getting all those bites on this little corner. You might be able to trigger a reaction bite right here. Now you want the yellow Swimbate. Oh my, biggin, biggin, biggin.   She is running so fast. Oh my god it's a tank. Come on, come on, let's go. Oh my gosh guys look at that. That is a good three and a half pounder right there. Smoked that Swimbate man. That is bait number five. Knocked off a list on almost a four pounder.  Let's go. Thank you for biting baby. There she goes. Wow. What a day this has turned into. We were throwing the Swimbate for five minutes. Not even, maybe three minutes and got clapped man. Totally smoked and I'll tell you guys we have one more bait today and that is the Topwater Frog. We have not caught a fish on Topwater all year and we're about to witness our first Topwater Bite of 2024 baby. Let's go. So I'm actually just going to use my extra Y gap hook for this. I hope it's all going to work out fine and dandy. That frog is not too big. It should pan out. First things first we had to take off our bullet weight. We're going to tie this extra Y gap hook back on here. Boom. You're all good to go right there. Cut that puppy. Now for our frog. We've been waiting on this the whole day and we're hopping right into it boys. Right into this thing. I'm going to be honest if we catch fish on this quick I'm going to keep fishing because the fishing just seems really good right now and we're just going to rig it up like that. It's been a long time since I've thrown a soft plastic frog and I would love to get smoked on this thing right now. This isn't the perfect rig for this frog and I would like to throw this on braid but we're throwing it on fluorocarbon because we don't have a braid set up at the moment but this thing should work perfect. You can get away with throwing this frog or a buzzbait on fluorocarbon just for the fact if you keep the rod high and you're reeling the whole time these fish are going to smoke this thing. All right guys this pond has been awesome and I would love to catch some more here but we're going to keep on moving. We're going to get to a spot that I just think that they could be loaded and they might destroy this frog. All right boys and girls we are at a new spot now. Got our frog and it is time for our first top water bite man. I have a weird feeling about this spot. When I came here about three weeks back these fish already looked like they were staging up on bed heavy. I feel like we could have some crazy bites right now. That's what I'm praying that happens. You have no idea how long I've been waiting to throw a frog and this isn't usually the frog like I like hollow body frogs but just getting a bite on a bait that's technically a frog. Well it is a frog. It's a different type of frog. I've been waiting months for this bite. I'm just praying we can get one to come out. All right there's two ponds of the frog still new bites but uh let's keep on moving. Next pond with the frog. I would love to see a frog fish guys. This is the one bait in the box that just seems like it could be a tough one but I think we can get it done. Oh no I missed him. I missed him. Gosh dang it guys. Well I got hit. Our first top water strike of 2024. Oh gosh dang it man. That was such a far cast and to not have braided to be on fluorocarbon trying to drive that extra wide gap through that frog. I mean that was near impossible unless that fish just totally swallowed the bait. Dang dude. Well at least we got a bite. That gives me some hope. Into the forest we go. Into the forest we go. I'm just swimming right out of this grass. Oh big bull behind me. Right back in there. Dang it man. My frog was like going sideways. I thought I was about to have it guys. I thought we were about to get her. I'm feeling good about this bank still. I can just get this frog to run right. Come on just one bite fish. Not asking for much. Give me one good bite. This is a shallow flat all right here. See I couldn't get my bait on top of the water and he just bit it right there. I couldn't get it on top man. Well we can say we've got our first top water bites of the year. We've had two fish try to eat this thing just not totally coming out of the water and smoking it. The first fish he came out of the water and ate it. He just didn't have it all the way but we're gonna keep on trying for a little bit longer. Let's go baby. Let's go baby. That is our first top water bass of 2024. Oh my gosh not a big one man. It is the smallest fish of the day but that completes the tackle box fishing challenge with the dang top water bass boys. First one of 2024 hopefully we'll have more to come.


what's up my digger oh digger you ain't looking so good i don't think you're supposed to do that at all and a lot of people in this circumstance would just get rid of their digger and go get a new digger the problem is if you get a new digger you might just have the same problem wobbly head falling off now if you don't give up on your digger and you repair it stronger than it was before then you can get a digger better than anything you could buy so i think i'm gonna go option b i do have another one of these with a not wobbly head although the handle part is wobbly back here so i can yank that out and put this there just like i did that before and then this one i think i've got to i've got to take more drastic measures yeah i should be able to make a shovel out of part of a shovel some chances of work trying to get the last one apart was any indication i don't really need the bolt in here i think i'll put it in anyway anyway all stainless now and hopefully this one has a better weld here than that other you are looking good get some back in business all right now that other digger canyon should i take care of the other digger now this one i have an idea i want to take a stainless steel pipe put it on here like flare the end out and then rivet it right onto this so i got these stainless steel shovels a while ago they did not have stainless steel handles so those don't last but the end part is really heavy duty like it's thick metal this one had a bad weld on it maybe when they ground it down they just ground it too far hopefully this one has a better weld regardless i am going to fancy up this one since it is stainless steel this part's all really nice and if i rivet something right onto there if anything goes wrong it would just be the rivets and i can re-rivet it unless i'm stupid and like to bend the handle or something anyway right now it's dinner time i've got one functional digger i'm going to eat all right it's tomorrow and i think i want to take care of that shovel i know i'm wearing the same shirt yesterday i only worked for like an hour yesterday oh it smells good all right shovel what what dirt i don't know do i need to cut off maybe if i just cut all that off i can just take this off because i think i think i can get a yeah you know i could obviously weld this back on but i want to try something else is that a crack there's a crack right there what urgh i'm just gonna ignore that oh it is a crack right there it's welded onto here it looks like it's welded on with stainless stuff but this is not stainless so it's it's not useful maybe i'll just cut it off here get rid of that all right i should be cleaned up enough i wonder if the person who invented angle grinders realized that they would become the tool for everything all right brain figure out this one you can cut and rivet but no welding i don't know how to do that all right two cuts i hope those aren't too far apart that should be all right take that sucker off my cuts still go a little further and that's basically gonna go like that with the shovel going into these slots which i'll have to widen a bit i need to bend that out flatten this yeah definitely could have made those closer together i definitely should have made these two cuts closer so this part would be thinner but then this would be taller because this was taller and had a lot more strength but i can either you know cut this off and do it again or i can just use it till it breaks and then do it again and maybe i'll learn something else i think a bit of hammering can rivets here up on the back drill the first hole and put a bolt in it temporarily make sure everything's lined up yeah looks pretty good i'll drill the rest of the holes and then put all the rivets in well this isn't the easiest thing the holes whoa nice dude that's awesome they were all in that came out better than i was thinking well i guess that is roughly what i was thinking it just seems like it's gonna be really sturdy especially after all that pounding i did to make it this shovel should be able to take a pounding the only issue might be you know dirt's gonna get stuffed in here as i'm kind of compact in there but might not be a big problem i was thinking this was kind of thin i don't know that is pretty strong and i hammered it this way so it would be taller this way to give it a bit more strength a little kid over here i better go help them there i can test both of them oh even old super shovel but you know what i like the one i just did it just feels good probably has something to do with not having this skinny part it's hard to see right now on the camera it was real sunny but you know shovels always have the the big head and then the skinny part where it breaks but this one the handle is just the same thickness right down to the shovel so yeah oh there's also something else i wanted i've been trying to think of something i could put on the bottom of this the wheelbarrow which is obviously upside down right now not really has legs but just to lift the handles off the ground in case i'm ever in soft ground right now it hasn't been a problem but i think i can get one of a piece of that thicker pipe and just put it right across there and use those two two bolts to hold it on yeah like that now that should hit the ground my handle should still be up i just heard a dolphin over here all right i got my two shovels done i got my wheelbarrow augmented size painted the bottom of kayak silver what else is going on today i don't know where's that dolphin yeah test them all right in your completely non-quantitative opinion what's a better shovel hold on i think i've got a verdict which one do you like better which one do you like more which one's that the magic one the papa made oh yeah i want this handle do you want a circle on the on that one no i like this oh like plastic coating ish plastic plastic you want plastic do you still want plastic if i say it like that


Greetings friends! Welcome to CTUCC Conference Cast for March 6, 2014, the regular podcast of the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ. Whoever you are and wherever you may be on life's journey at this very moment, you are welcome here. We begin this week's conference cast with this meditation from the Reverend Eric Anderson, Minister of Communications and Technology, and your podcast host. One of the revised common lectionary suggestions for Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Chapter 6 in Paul's letter to the church in Corinth. He entreats them to be reconciled to God who has done so much to reach out to us in Christ. As a result he says, we are as dying and see we are alive, as punished and yet not killed, as sorrowful yet always rejoicing, as poor yet making many rich, as having nothing and yet possessing everything. For some years I have taken on a special spiritual practice for Lent in the spirit of the traditional fast, and so one of my annual challenges as Ash Wednesday approaches is what will it be this year? In some years I have given up a pleasure or a stressor. I truly enjoyed the year I gave up anxiety for Lent. In other years I have taken on an activity or a discipline such as a daily exercise program. I generally hope that these will have an effect on my life in the rest of the year, and while they generally do, I can't say that they guide me as thoroughly then as they did during Lent itself. I still get anxious, even if it's less often, and I'm afraid there is sadly little evidence of an exercise program in my day beyond climbing the stairs regularly to the coffee maker. Two things I know about my Lent in practice. I cannot repeat a previous year's discipline successfully. It has never worked. Second, it is important to me that I don't make a big deal of my practice in public. I don't put on metaphorical sackcloth and ashes. I strive, as Jesus recommended in Matthew 6.17, to fast with a cheerful countenance. This year though, I will give my Lent in discipline to the public eye. Because my chosen task this year is to raise up, via social networking, surprise, surprise, a daily celebration of the grace of God. It's hardly new or original to me, and it runs the risk of false piety of the Pollyanna variety, but this is an important time for me to make this particular choice. My Aunt Sonia Kirk died at the end of January, and with the rest of my family and her wide circles of friends, I am grieving. There is a raw and painful gap in my soul, in our souls. It will take time, far more than the short month that has passed, to heal it. And that makes this daily celebration a real challenge for me. It will be an effort to see that it has not become a spiritual anesthetic, but to make it a deep appreciation of God's grace in the midst of a broken world. It will require discipline to move my eyes about from the all-too-present images of tragedy with which I, with which we, are so familiar. And it will demand my attention to the positive forces active in the world, those which confront the forces of evil. As a pastor, I always favored the Ash Wednesday formula, turn away from your sins, believe the good news, as my fingers made the cross with ashes on a worshipper's hand or forehead. And thus this year's Lenten Discipline. Because in brief, I challenged myself to believe the good news. Here is a prayer for this week. By whatever means, oh God, your children come to you in this season or in any other season. May each one of us find you and your grace at the close of our search. May we believe the good news in the blood and the bone, the heart and the soul, the hands and the feet. Amen. In the news this week. The Twitterverse offered a snapshot of last weekend's Super Saturday experience, which brought over 650 of us from both the Massachusetts and Connecticut conferences to Ludlow, Massachusetts for a day of workshops and the keynote address of author and historian Diana Butler-Bass. The adjectives included inspiring and amazing. One Connecticut pastor wrote, Diana Butler-Bass left me tweetless, didn't want to miss a word. And it certainly didn't hurt that the keynote speaker herself declared, thanks mass and C-T-U-C-C, you rock. Butler-Bass's address emphasized the new dynamics of the American religious landscape, which she believes indicate a fourth great awakening. In every awakening previous in North American history, and then really every awakening that you can find through church history over the last thousand years, they always have the same result. And that is the church or the faith community winds up with a bigger table at the end of an awakening than when it began. There are always new and different people who are sitting in a circle. An awakening has come through its progression and is fondly manifested in our communities and in our structures and in our politics. It's always bigger rather than smaller. At the close of her morning sermon, which had been accompanied by a set of images, landscapes and portraits on a great screen, the image changed to show one single blank slide. Like communities all over the state and the nation, there are plenty of residents of East Haven who find it difficult to make ends meet. Catherine Mallory, a member of the first congregational church UCC, better known as Old Stone Church, and now a member in discernment of the New Haven East consociation, did the head and leg work to bring a discounted grocery service to the town and then found herself having to do it all over again when the first ministry went out of business. Today the church is the first and only host site for family table food ministries, which allows members and residents to stretch their limited resources with reduced prices on food. Conference Minister the Reverend Kent J. Silotti returned to the video sphere yesterday with a new edition of Vantage Point. Be welcomed yours truly as the guest for the Ash Wednesday program, where we discussed what Henry Nowan called the gentle and demanding time of Lent. So we are finding ways to deepen our relationship with God during this season of Lent. There are various ways that's done, some in writing, some in reflection, some in prayer, some in giving alms, a word that we don't talk about very much, but a way of making contributions to those who are in need of some support. Among the topics we raised, the new spirited Wednesday weekly devotional, which premiered the same day, and will feature spiritual writing from clergy and lay people around the conference, and the Lenten carbon fast, which summons us to repentance and a new life of caring attentively for the planet Earth. Last Sunday the First Church of Christ in Farmington, UCC held a special afternoon service in remembrance and celebration of the Amistad event. When an American Revenue Vessel hailed the Cuban schooner la Amistad in 1839, they discovered that a group of formerly enslaved mendee had escaped their shackles and taken control of the vessel in an attempt to sail it back home. Connecticut Congregationalists were among those who rallied to the Africans' defense, and many of them were housed in Farmington before the courts affirmed their freedom, after which the Amistad Committee turned to the new work of raising funds to send them back to Sierra Leone. Are you committed to the partnerships we have together, to the call we have received, asked the day's preacher, the Reverend Dr. Maritza Angulo de Gonzalez, pastor of Mananciao de Gracia, UCC in New Britain? To promote God's justice, and to trust God in the process, our commitment will bring us to the final step. Visit our website for more stories, including an invitation to this summer's Craigville Colloquy, which in July will take up the topic of creation as theology and ecology. You'll find that along with all the current headlines at ctucc.org slash news. It's crazy cold out, Tim. I know, Ann. I can't even feel my toes. But you know what I'm really psyched for? What, sledding down the hill on an old camp mattress? I'm really totally excited for summer at Silver Lake. I can't wait for those kids to come down the driveway ready to take the plunge and spend a week at their new favorite place in the world. And even if summer, not so sure, I'm excited for them, too. Because they don't even know yet what a great time is in store for them. Oh, songs are going to sing, all the swimming. Toasting marshmallows, all the ways they'll just get to be themselves and be accepted. And make new friends. We can't wait for you to come to Silver Lake. So sign up today, www.silverlakect.org. Come to the place that can change your life. Really, this summer, Silver Lake. We can't wait. A workshop on community and church gardens will be held on March 8th in Vernon. A series of webinars on the new resource Children's Ministry in the Way of Jesus will begin on March 10th. Stepping Stones takes up the challenges of the pastoral care of youth on March 19th in Sutherington. Silver Lake's maple sugaring weekend for young people in grades 6 through 8 will be March 21st through 23rd. Tapping trees, boiling sap, and renewing a sense of the sweetness of God's creation. Stepping Stones holds a workshop on sacred dance on March 25th in Sutherington. The New England Women's Celebration will be held on March 28th through 30th in Portland, Maine, and you can register at uccwomencelebration.org. Learn about fossil fuel divestment on March 29th in Hamden. The Spring Women's Spirit Retreat of Yoga and Sacred Chant will be held at Silver Lake the weekend of April 4th through 6th. See the film Gasland, part two about the risks of hydraulic fracturing or fracking in Sutherington on April 11th. Spring Action Weekend, which prepares Silver Lake Conference Center for the summer program, is April 25th through the 27th. That's also the weekend of the Awakenings Conference in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The Farmington Valley Association and Simply Smiles are teaming up for a mission trip to the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Reservation in South Dakota, beginning May 3rd. Silver Lake will host an open house for those interested in learning more about its summer program on May 4th. And by all means come then, but make sure to visit SilverLakeCT.org ahead of time to find out about summer offerings and to register. Mark your calendars now for May 17th, the 4th annual Youth Revival, to be held this year at Dixwell Avenue UCC in New Haven. And golfers, go make sure your clubs are ready for the 8th annual Silver Lake Golf Tournament on June 3rd in Waterbury. You can always learn more about what's coming up in the Connecticut Conference by visiting us at ctucc.org slash events. We end today's conference cast with these words from the Reverend Maxwell Grant, Senior Minister of Second Congregational Church UCC in Greenwich. Receiving ashes can feel like a performance to some, but we need to remember how grounded it is in a truth we might just as soon forget. And that brings this conference cast to a close. Thanks to you for listening and to GarageBand for our music. Primary funding for conference cast comes from your congregation's gifts to our church's wider mission, basic support, changing lives to the United Church of Christ. This is Eric Anderson, the Minister of Communications and Technology for the Connecticut Conference of the United Church of Christ, praying that your days this week may be filled with the presence, the guidance, and the grace of God.