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Hello James.
Greetings from the Land of the Midnight Sun. Love this page. If the following is of any interest, feel free to post.
I am a 1967 graduate of LPHS. The very next week I started classes at
Sawyers Business College.
In December of that year I married Tommy Hagen a '66 LPHS grad.
We had an opportunity of a life time and grabbed it.
We moved to Alaska and arrived in Palmer March 15, 1969.
We started the first motorcycle business in this little farming community,
and started the motorcycle association, which is still going well now.
We also started motorcycle racing on ice here.
Our only child was born 11/26/69. Things got tough and we moved to Anchorage,
the largest city in Alaska. Tom and I didn't survive his drug addiction and
divorced in '72.
I loved Alaska on sight and learned to do a lot of things I thought I never
would. I hunted, shot and dressed out my first moose in '72. I learned to
cut it, grind it, preserve it and cook it. (It's delicious).
I thereafter learned duck hunting and bear hunting for food.
(The bear was awful, but looks great on my wall along with the stuffed duck
and moose horns).
My son is 32 and is just now getting ready to settle down and get married to
the girl of his dreams. (Brings back lots of memories doesn't it?)
At 50 I became disabled and could no longer work or drive. Now at 53 I enjoy
doing things at home with my lovely view of the Knik River and Pioneer Peak
along the secluded Old Glenn Highway in Palmer, Alaska. I volunteer time
teaching old folks at a day care center crafts and doing music therapy
with them with my harp.
My harp playing has brought me a great deal of joy and others too. It has
also taken my places I thought I would never be. For the last 12 years I go
to a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and play my harp for the little babies once
a week. The doctors say that with the proof of the monitors during my playing,
it actually strengthens their little hearts and causes them to feel less stress
and pain.
So with that, I played for psychiatric institutes, mental retardation centers,
birthings, and while a person is dying. They go much more peacefully and with
less pain. I also play for the hospital emergency room. They say that it
makes the shift less stressful, it calms the people waiting for loved ones
and the ones hurt.
I hope you enjoy the pictures I'm sending.
How you touch the lives that are all around you
is what will make you happy - For making
money is not hard -- To live life well is an art:
How people love you, how they regard you,
Is all in the size of your heart
Terri M. Potter
ontrack@mtaonline.net or
sunshineinalaska@hotmail.com
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