Featured image: These boots were made for climbing to the castle on St Michael's Mount, a happily shared physical challenge and spiritual experience. Cogitation 15 Saturday 14 April 2018 Fifty miles on foot made for a rewarding week with first-time visitors to Cornwall, Dean and Gwen Preheim-Bartel. Welcome to virtual, boots off, steps through …
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Featured image: Tulips, a welcome sign of spring. Cogitation 14 Saturday 7 April 2018 Some people read poetry. Many people read prose. Other people, though, it appears, read sparingly or nothing at all. A peek at poetry Someone has described poetry as the "chiseled marble of language." Even though poetry is more than …
Featured image: Good old St Ives and the "island" home to St Nicholas Chapel, where some churches gather for Easter sunrise. We gathered there in 2010, with Jerry and Becky Miller who were then hosts at the then London Mennonite Centre. We walked to the chapel in the dark, shivering mightily in the cold, and …
Featured image: Daffodil fields where the bulbs will eventually be harvested. Photo taken from a double-decker bus, bound for Penzance. Cogitation 12 Saturday 24 March 2018 Mystery is an event you can't explain. It's anything you see that, well, remains inexplicable. For me, mystery is present in both the material and spiritual realms--even if …
Cogitation 11 Saturday 17 March 2018 St Patrick's Day reigns green today with parades, parties and religious festivals, both in Ireland and across the Irish diaspora. Use of the Irish Gaelic language is one marker of the celebration. This religious and civic holiday marks the day Ireland's patron saint died, some say in 460, …
Featured image: The raindrop dabbled sign says 40 minutes to Porthleven; double that in mud. Cogitation 10 Saturday 10 March 2018 "Isn't it wonderful!" exclaimed the raingear clad woman, her dog on a lead, of the rain and sleet we encountered on the walk to lunch last Sunday. Our party of four going to the …
Featured image: Carbis Water, a stream in the valley, a five minute walk from our flat, flanked by the rarest of winter dress. Cogitation 9 / Saturday 3 March 2018 From green fields and early blooms to a spot-on Met Office forecast of country-wide heavy snows, ice and wind-driven blizzards--we've experienced it even in …
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Featured image: Ancient cross on Church Lane, between Carbis Bay and Lelant. Cogitation 8 Saturday 24 February 2018 It was a pleasant surprise to find our Christmas letter published in the New Contact magazine of St Anta and All Saints Church, Carbis Bay, Cornwall, UK. We wrote: "For seven winter/spring seasons we've hopped across …
Featured image: The ubiquitous primrose, growing in cultivated flower beds or wild in drystone walls. Cogitation 7.2018 Saturday 17 February Look right. Clear? Cross to the refuge in the middle of the road. Look left. Proceed when clear. The absolute importance of first looking right, then left to cross a street in the UK …
Featured image: Here's where geraniums will bloom. Cogitation 6.132 Saturday 10 February 2018 The buzz on Friday was mostly about the weather. On Saturday snowplows were buzzing all about town. This morning we attended a memorial service for Brent Eash (1959-2018) at church. It was such a fitting time of worship and fellowship for …
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