What is the creative spark, the unstoppable drive, the “der Wille zur Macht,” that compels 91 year old Anna Taylor to write her first church play?
“One fellow said ‘I don’t associate Jesus with Christmas,’ ” Taylor said. “That just bothered me.”
Okay. Read more of Eric Heisig’s article on houmatoday.com…
A few days ago, Taylor said she had a dream. The church was filled with people to watch the play. And while she is not directing the production, she has attended rehearsals. From what she sees, the play will be a good one.
I was assigned to photograph the work of a decorator, one who even hired a Santa for a photo shoot to better represent her work. To reiterate, I had no role in the Santa.
I like working for a newspaper because it forces me to embrace challenges. Depicting a subject like this isn’t my forté, or what I practiced especially hard when I was in college, but it what was going to be done this day.
It started with a photograph (below) taken by my co worker, Julia Rendleman, at a Relay for Life event sponsored by the American Cancer Society.
From this introduction, John and Carolyn shared their story with Julia:
Carolyn Crochet’s great nephew was photographed delivering his Christmas wish list while perched upon Kris Kringle’s lap last year at Coteau-Bayou Blue School.
Carolyn, who saw that photograph a few weeks later, quickly realized that the jolly man with the white beard was the childhood friend she had last seen some 54 years ago.
“When we were children, we were best friends,” Carolyn, 67, said. “The love I had for him as a child never died.”
She and John, also 67, reconnected in January, quickly making up for lost time.
He proposed on their second date.
She said yes.
In full spirit of their reuniting, John and Carolyn held a Christmas themed wedding, complete with elves, gift giving and a christmas-tree cake. More photos at houmatoday.com.
St. Matthew’s Episcopal kindergarteners perform in the school’s annual Christmas pageant at Grace Lutheran Church. St. Matthew’s is using the Houma church after a November 2010 fire destroyed its own.
A nativity scene made out of Christmas lights on Bayou Black Drive in Houma.
Meanwhile in Thibodaux… people take Halloween very seriously here.
