Cornwall Cogitation (North America) #2 Saturday 7 October 2017 I think of lines from Catharina von Schlegel's (b. 1697) hymn, "Be still my soul," as I reflect on recent natural and human-made tragedies that stretch from the Caribbean, to Puerto Rico, Mexico and Los Vegas. Stanza 1 begins, "Be still, my soul, the Lord is on my side, . . . …
Cornwall Cogitation (North America) #1 Friday 29 September 2017 For the foreseeable future I've incorporated "North America" in the tag I use to track my partial year blogs from Cornwall, United Kingdom. The tag, or slug in newspaper lingo, helps me be "thoughtfully" present in a couple places at once. Whether I'm in the …
Featured image: I can't figure out what I was trying to photograph. I'll just call it the Thursday Mystery Picture. Close-Up #8 Saturday 23 September 2017 We've had doom mongers predicting the end of the world throughout history. The latest one claims that today, Saturday, 23 September 2017, marks the start of a 7-year …
Continue reading I respectfully disagree that the world is entering its final tribulation
Featured image: Sundown over Lake Huron at Goderich, Ontario. Close-Up #7 Saturday 16 September 2017 Home again. Just in time to mow the yard and water the flowers. Home, yes, it's sweet to be home after a fine time in Ontario. We had a pleasant visit with a relative who had been in hospital …
Close-Up #6 Friday 8 September 2017 Labor Day marks seasonal rituals at Gerald and Mary Miller's cottage on Oliver Lake. It's the weekend the pier gets taken in, the fridge gets cleaned out, the AC turned off, and summer memories stored. It's a day for extended family to gather, grill and chaw. What a pleasant …
Close-Up Saturday 2 September 2017 I'm grateful for what's been around me this week: summer blooms, friends, faith community, books, walking paths, day trips, Epic Art Adventures, wildlife, blueberry muffins, sunshine, heartening stories of government, private agencies and individual's rescue efforts in response to Hurricane Harvey. Thoughts and prayers for all, and gratitude. On …
Continue reading Gratitude for bees and birds and a fairy garden
Close-Up #4 Saturday 26 August 2016 With all you have seen and heard about Monday's solar eclipse, that at 1,500 miles an hour swept in totality across a swath of the USA and caught the rest of us watching at various percentages, here's a quick unrelated tidbit: "Eclipse, one of the most famous of …
Continue reading Basking in the solar eclipse; tale of a horse named Eclipse
Close-Up #3 Saturday 19 August 2017 Of the central role of relationships in our lives, Joan Chittister wrote, "At its core, life is not about things, it is about relationships." That takes me back to a repeated comment from my first boss, Boyd Nelson: "Communication is a function of relationships." Relationships, rah! rah! for …
Note: I thought this posted on 12 August. Just checked. Not posted then. My thought is not to ask why not? but to say, right now. Close-Up #2 Saturday 12 August 2017 Last Sunday (6 August) Prairie Street Mennonite Church celebrated the legacy of John and Salome Funk, founders of the congregation in 1871. …
Close-Up #1 Saturday 5 August 2017 Goodbye Meander. Hello Close-up. There's nothing earthshakingly important about the change of name for my blog series. It's just that 12 posts seemed long enough for the former. The overall title remains the same: "It's About Now. Past, Present, Future, Live It Now." In the Close-Up series, I'll …
It's About Now 