MEANDER #9 Saturday 8 July 2017 Some say a picture is worth a thousand words. Given that sentiment, this week I'm posting 10,000 words worth of pictures, plus featured and bonus images. Don't get me wrong. For me, words carry as much currency as do images, especially words that show more than tell. Words that can be exhaustive, …
Featured image: Wild roses at Spicer Lake Nature Reserve. MEANDER #8 Saturday 1 July 2017 Half a year behind, half a year ahead. Actually, my thoughts go back more than two decades to the time when our long-lived cat, Miss Kitty, first came to live with us, the happy and occasionally head-scratchingly mystifying times we had, and the day she left …
MEANDER #7 Saturday 24 June 2017 Four days does not a summer make, yet here it is. Here's a quote from James Thomson, Scottish poet and playwright (1700-1748): From bright'ning fields of ether fair disclosed, Child of the Sun, refulgent Summer comes. --The Seasons Ya, I had to look up "fields of ether" and "refulgent." The latter means radiant, …
Featured image: Sycamore trees in the heart of Elkhart's Island Park. MEANDER #6 Friday 16 June 2017 My dad, Lloyd Bender, would be approaching his 105th birthday. He died in 1998 at age 85. Thanks to enterprising niece, Amy Harder, our family has a wonderful record of Dad's life. Amy put together a Creative Memories publication that includes …
MEANDER #5 Saturday 10 June 2017 June, the sixth month, is named from the Roman Junius. In old Saxon it was called Seremonath (dry-month) and Lida aerra (joy time). How about that. Did you know that the names of months derive from the Romans and the days of the week are of Anglo-Saxon origin? I …
MEANDER #4 Saturday 3 June 2017 Flesh out the word "eat" in a phrase and you get quite a literary feast. I've taken selection of "eat" phrases from The Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Wordsworth Editions, 1994). "To eat its head off. Said of an animal (usually a horse} that eats more than it is worth, or whose …
MEANDER #3 Sunday 28 May 2017 We're just home from seeing four productions at the Stratford Festival of Canada, a visit to the New Hamburg Mennonite Relief Sale, and a visit and feast with family. The 2017 Stratford Festival includes14 shows, ranging from Shakespeare, musicals, family, classics, and modern. We have been going to the …
Featured image: Overnight in London on 10 May broke up our hop across the pond. Besides a fine cup of tea (a lift in its own right, feet up in our hotel), we enjoyed a super-delicious Indian dinner. A couple from Spain at the table next to us chose the restaurant because of the tantalizing aromas …
MEANDER #1 Saturday 13 May 2017 CORNWALL COGITATION wraps up for the present, replaced by MEANDER. Wrapping up even a brief chunk of time in Carbis Bay/St Ives, Cornwall, UK, as you might guess, is bittersweet. But it's onward. Outward. Upward. Forward. Meander-ward. I use meander as a metaphor in the sense of a turn or winding of …
CORNWALL COGITATION #14 Saturday 6 May 2017 The Revelation to John, the last book of the New Testament, has a fascinating posit on the present. Chapter 21, verse 5: "And the one who was seated on the throne said, 'See, I am making all things new.'" That's present tense. Right now. Today. This hour. God is making all …
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