Featured image: Marty poses with Simon Gingerich at Simon's 95th birthday open house at Greencroft Goshen Continuing Care Living Community. Cogitation 5:131 Saturday 3 February 2018 Ever been between times? Such as in that space between an old and a new normal? The never, never land of time almost standing still? A moment that's …
Featured image: Wildlife preening in Ox Bow Park. Cogitation 4.130 Saturday 27 January 2018 Reader Mary K. Mishler responded to a photo of St Ives in last week's post: "I'm reminded of my childhood riddle, 'AS I WAS GOING TO ST IVES,'" she wrote. Not everyone we know has heard that nursery rhyme. Here …
Cogitation 3.129 Saturday 20 January 2018 Home on the farm growing up we had an English hired hand whose capacity for drinking tea never ceased to amaze us youngsters. Featured image: Snuggles, whose domain is sister-in-law Doris Mast's home, knows her way around a lap, sunny spots, and contemplation of mysteries unknown. "Tea …
Cogitation 2.2018.128 Saturday 13 January It's a game character, an idiom, a biblical parable, a home remedy for chest congestion, and a condiment. It all relates to mustard. Colonel Mustard appears in the mystery game, Clue. As an idiom, the modern sense of the word is to succeed, as in, "He cuts the mustard." …
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Cogitation Saturday 6 January #1.2018.127 I've made a small change in nameplate or masthead, most notably selecting Cogitation as the standard name henceforth for each post. While not earthshakingly new or newsworthy, it's my way of simplifying and organizing my blog for the new year. I've posted 126 blogs. This, then, is number 127. …
Cornwall Cogitation (North America) #14 Saturday 30 December 2017 Yippee! I say Yippee! to the transition from the old to the new year, Yippee! I lean on the words of Isaac Watts in the hymn, O God, our help in ages past (1719). "O God, our help in ages past, our hope for years …
Cornwall Cogitation (North America) #13 Saturday 23 December 2017 Big chaos skitters about the world, that's certain, but there's a bigger cosmos that was, that is, that will be. Featured image: The Advent banner at Prairie Street Mennonite Church, Elkhart, Indiana, shows the promise of Love breaking into our world of chaos. The darkness …
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Featured image: Sky over Oliver Lake on Saturday morning, 16 December. Cornwall Cogitation (North America) #12 Saturday 16 December 2017 A season of cold and snow has arrived for many of us. Gotta love it, somehow. What's to love, though, with the prospect of hazardous travel, changing to snow tires if you live in …
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Cornwall Cogitation #11 Saturday 9 December 2017 The first snow on Thursday sent notice that we're facing honest winter in northern regions. Late week snows across a wide swath of the US caused woes for cities, travelers, and probably animals. Good time to be a child--or like a child. On Friday we traveled to …
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Thursday 7 December: Somehow this post came up as a draft (not daft) in my index. Some of you saw it, maybe others did not. In any case, here it is again. New one coming on Saturday. Featured image: Along M-60, west toward Three Rivers, Michigan, 11-27. Cornwall Cogitation (North America) #10 Saturday 2 December …
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