Melissa Bendiksen:  

CLASS OF 1966
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Ball High SchoolClass of 1966
Galveston, TX

Melissa's Story

Melissa is from Houston, Texas. Melissa is single. Melissa's schools include Ball High School. Melissa later attended Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ~ Glassell School of Art for Adults (Enameling with Jan Harrell: we play with fire, hammers, saws and metals.), Galveston College (ADN in Nursing), SFASU, Nacogdoches, TX (BA: Sociology & Politcal Science), Lon Morris College (Religion). Melissa works(ed) at Houston Independent School District, Texas Children's Hospital, University of Texas Medical Branch. Music Melissa likes includes John Prine, Yo-Yo Ma, Carrie Newcomer. Books Melissa likes include The Love Lives of the Artists, Kissing Fish, Calvin and Hobbes. Movies Melissa likes include HUMAN, The King's Speech, As Good as It Gets. TV shows Melissa likes include Horace and Pete, The Late Sho...Expand for more
w with Stephen Colbert, This Old House. One of Melissa's favorite quotes is:"Instructions for Living Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. Mary Oliver This is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don''t be afraid. Fred Buechner". More about Melissa:"... have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. Rainer Maria Rilke, 1903 in Letters to a Young Poet".
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Yearbooks

Ball High School 1966 yearbook cover photo
1966 Yearbook
Ball High School
GALVESTON, TX
Ball High School 1965 yearbook cover photo
1965 Yearbook
Ball High School
GALVESTON, TX
Ball High School 1964 yearbook cover photo
1964 Yearbook
Ball High School
GALVESTON, TX
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Reunions
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Oct 21, 2016
Melissa was invited to the
Ball High School Reunion
245 invitees
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Jun 10, 2011
Melissa was invited to the
Class of 1966-45 year reunion
251 invitees

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Melissa Bendiksen's Classmates profile album
Ceramic post cards from the Edge.
HEY WORLD! Love is all around.... and...We're gonna make it after all.
Melissa Bendiksen's album, Timeline Photos
Thank you Lucy Wells Riggs for teaching me how to make a geli print. Thank you Laurie Lyons Buchsbaum for working for me so an old dog could learn a new trick.
It seemed appropriate on Earth/Science day to begin making an ivory billed woodpecker. They are believed to be extinct now because we cut down their timberland home in the south. Sigh....when will we ever learn..
Melissa Bendiksen's album, Timeline Photos
Ok Lauren Phelps Bendiksen here is a black and white pic of one of my favorite self portraits.
Melissa Bendiksen's album, Timeline Photos
Melissa Bendiksen's album, Timeline Photos
Melissa Bendiksen's album, Timeline Photos
I was worried life was going to be boring in retirement. This afternoon i was at Public Storage looking at a unit to rent. I smelled gas; we heard gas escaping. Construction guys on the site had cut a gas line. We call
Do we ever stop missing our Daddies.
New series: Creatures of the night. (Plate fragment, copper, jasper, yellow quartz)
"If I get a fortune cookie in a Chinese restaurant, I mean, of course, even I have a tendency... I mean, of course, I would hardly throw it out!" from my favorite movie of all time, My Dinner with Andre. this quote with the
This is one of my core beliefs that guides my personal life, my job and my art.
Finished today.
My work from this past week. Loved this workshop. I learned so many new things!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c4mW9MRe-k if this you tube link doesn't work just you tube search for carrie newcomer singing Leaves Don't Drop they Just Let Go.
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