Ode Magazine Volume 6, Issue 3, April 2008.

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I discovered Ode Magazine in mid 2000.  I can’t remember how I found out about the magazine, but I immediately ordered a subscription.  I had a job and disposable income back then, so I did things like that.

Ode (now called the Intelligent Optimist) is one of the most positive, enthusiastic and enjoyable forces trying to make the world better to live.  I highly recommend everyone bookmarking their website and following along.  The nuggets of information and positivity you will receive will change your life.

I’m not sure why I kept this issue around, but I just glanced through it, and I might give it a quick read before recycling.

When Deana and I got married, we asked Ode if they would donate issues of the magazine so we could give them as token gifts for the out-of-town guests in their hotels.  Ode sent us boxes of various issues that we distributed to our guests as well as local businesses around Tannersville.  A few months after our wedding, they wrote a small blurb about us and Ode’s involvement in our wedding.  I’m keeping that issue..

Empire BCBS Child Health Plus member benefits.

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This was Anabelle’s old member benefits information.  She’s updated, so we don’t need to keep this.  And I never used this. Ever.

Mug.

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This mug was used as part of my piece in the Blue Collar Blues exhibit last year.  It held the markers.

Get it while it’s free….

NY Jets rally towel.

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This must be from their “going green” campaign to encourage proper trash disposal and recycling.  Meh.

2010 NY Jets Thanksgiving rally towel.

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I think this was the game we destroyed the Bengals, not the one when we were embarrassed by the Patriots and Sanchez self-destructed again and we gave up a million points in :53 seconds.  No, not that game.  I chose not to attend that one.