Home & Garden, Events & More! Play It Again Under The Sun, Sam


By Daniel Sullivan • danielsullivan.speech@yahoo.com


UPBEAT TIMES • April 2013 • 13


...Continued from page 12 Your Pond


tered. This allows us to use a smaller filter. However, since we are turning the water over frequently, we still get plenty of filtration. For anyone who has a pond or fountain or is considering getting one, I will be teach- ing a course at the Santa Rosa Junior College. See ad pg 16.


SANTA ROSA, CA. ~ A com- mon saying, and one that has always plagued me with ques- tions, is: There is nothing new under the sun. I’ve never been quite sure how I’ve felt about that topic and so more than a few sleepless hours have been lost to coming to terms with it. Speaking from the only per-


spective I know, when writing a new idea for a film, short story or any narrative, there is a looming pressure for complete originality, the possibility that in one body of work you could leave your mark on history. Rarely does this happen. My desire for original- ity can leave what I’ve created so esoteric that I come to it the next morning and assume that a madman has broken into my home, fixed himself a drink and wrote a couple of pages while I was asleep. It’s been said by many that there is only a finite number of plots and even fewer charac- ter archetypes. With these odds pressing against the modern sto-


ryteller, the pressure to be com- pletely original makes being on the bottom of the ocean feel like a slight discomfort. A direction some movie makers have openly taken and one that I think serves a great purpose, the re-envisioning. Remaking a film, or rebooting a franchise is something that has had a relatively negative recep- tion until recently. The three pri- mary examples that always come to mind are: Star Trek (2009). Taking some- thing that has meant so much to one generation and applying that into a fan made collage for the next, that they might see what we saw before. 3:10 To Yuma (2007). Taking a


movie nobody cared about then and even less about now, dusting it off, and realizing the potential in the foundation of the story to make a great western for today’s


audience. 10 Things I Hate About (1999) A retelling


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Flower Show, 2013


“From the Redwoods to the Sea”


GRATON, CA. ~ The Graton Community Club will hold its spring flower show on April 26 & 27, Friday and Saturday, from 9-4. The show will be at the historic clubhouse at 8996 Graton Rd. in down- town Graton. The show will feature floral exhibits and dis- plays that are based on the theme “From the Redwoods to the Sea.” The show is free to the public, and gardeners will have the chance to pur- chase home grown vegetable starts, native plants,


perenni-


als, and many other plants that grow in Sonoma County. Also featured for sale are hand- made crafts, collectibles and antiques, unique garden art, and a raffle for special items. Homemade lunch is available from 11-2 for $10, and coffee/ tea and dessert are served all day. Proceeds will benefit the non-profit club’s scholarship program and building fund.


FUN Facts & Trivia - 5


April Fools' Day is celebrated in many countries on April 1 every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when people play practical jokes and hoaxes on each other.


In Italy, France and Belgium, children and adults


traditionally tack paper fishes on each other's back as a trick and shout "April fish!" in their local languages.


The earliest recorded association between April 1 and foolishness can be found in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (1392). Many writers suggest that the restoration of January 1 by Pope Gregory XIII as New Year's Day of the Gregorian Calendar in the 16th century was responsible for the creation of the holiday, sometimes questioned for earlier references.


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