The cherry tomato plants in a container at our front door are bearing fruit . . . and wonder, occasioning gratitude. Cogitation 33/210 Saturday 17 August 2019 My bedtime reading this week included a couple cookbooks--a respite from history, mystery, biography, travel, and climate. One of the books is a small 78-page volume, Danish Cookery …
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On Tuesday evening we saw this hawk flying low over the Greencroft Goshen campus. Rodents beware. Cogitation 32/210 Saturday 10 August 2019 Last November we sold our home and moved to Greencroft Goshen, a continuing care retirement community. The physical distance from Elkhart to Goshen is short (12 miles); the psychical measure is less precise, …
Cogitation 31/209 Saturday 3 August 2019 Where's Shakespeare when we need him? Right at hand, actually. The Shakespeare who more than 400 years ago gave deep voice to the world's ills, its goodness and its hopes in works of tragedy, history, comedy and love--words that ring true today. William Shakespeare bust in the Shakespearean Gardens …
Cogitation 30/208 Saturday 27 July 2019 This morning we walked in warming weather to breakfast at Goshen Family Restaurant on the outskirts of town--four miles round-trip. What's nice about this destination is that we can walk there on the Winona Railway Trail. The trail runs alongside still-in-use train tracks but stays away from street traffic. …
Cogitation 29/207 Saturday 20 July 2019 This week it's been almost too hot to spend much time outside, though the large shade trees in our yard helped keep us cool. The Dean's List headlined the entertainment at Fernwood Friday night. Fernwood Gardens is 45 minutes away in Michigan. It was too hot to do the …
Cogitation 28/206 Saturday 13 July 2019 Activities of this week, thoughts of a year ago. A walkabout in Goshen, Indiana Blooming in New Hamburg, Stratford & Cambridge Ontario Part of the Cambridge Sculpture Garden.Untitled 1981, by Peter Powyer. Lunch in Paris Paris, where the Nith River meets the Grand River, where cafes overlook the water, …
Cogitation 27/205 Saturday 6 July 2019 Yesterday morning I made a cup of coffee and took it out on the deck. A mourning dove cooed in the distance. A robin sang. A fisherman sat on a pontoon across the lake, stillness and calm held sway in the early morning sunshine. In due time a speedboat …
Cogitation 26/204 Saturday 29 June 2019 This morning, fairly early, as we were walking to pick strawberries, we heard a train whistle, a factory humming away, and a motorcycle heading along 15th Street--and the welcome howdy-do of birds singing. There was peace and quiet in the patch. Today was the last day for the of …
Cogitation 25/203 Saturday 22 June 2019 Last Sunday, visiting pastor Oscar Sawali challenged listeners to dismantle "isms." Pastor Oscar Sawali (left) poses with Steve Wiebe-Johnson, Africa director for Mennonite Mission Network. The world is going backwards in terms of racism and religious intolerance, the pastor from South Africa said. He sees the church again being …
Cogitation 24/202 Saturday 15 June 2019 For the first time ever I'm reading The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. Victor Hugo, writing in 1830, placed his story in Paris, 350 years earlier. What a time travel. Slow, long, suspenseful, insightful, intimate, factual, frightening, engrossing, assertive, detailed, fanciful, spirited, funny. . . . Among other features of a …
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