1 September 2015--Onekama, Michigan. Little Eden on Portage Lake. Lake Michigan lives over the treed sand hills to the west. Morning sun tackling the dew on the picnic tables. Quiet except for a water spout spouting off in a small pond outside the lodge dining room. Staying in a cabin, Pine Circle. Spending the week …
Author: John Bender
Hi, my name is John Bender, retired and loving it. I'm writing to help interested people cross bridges to and from the past. Stories from the past can shed light on life in the present and illuminate the future. We've got a lot of living to do. Let's do it!
A flower, a book, a five-year-old cheddar
8-8-2015--It looks like a petunia, but what is it? It's a flower that has grown where only weeds tend to grow. I think of flowers of the field, but here it's flower of the avenue. As I write rain has started to fall; drink up curb-side bloomer. For a few years I've worked off and on …
A Very Good Coffee Day
Saturday 11 July 2015--I usually drink coffee daily. So what's with A Very Good Coffee Day? The headline captures today's very good day, as well as any other good day, and in the long ago past, the good memory of a few days in Paris in 1968. This morning we walked to Coffee on the Piazza …
Fireworks
I Marty (foreground) and I did this walk in April with the Southwest Cornwall Footpath Preservation Society. Location is Prussia Cove on Cornwall's English Channel side. Glorious! Preserve the path! t's July 3, 2015 and some neighbors are having a blast. The city's fireworks takes place at dark, but some folks are in the boom business …
A May Memory
Up-To-Slow-Speed, 30 May 2015--It happened a long time ago. On a May 24 Canadian Victoria Day, Grandfather Solomon loaded some of us on his milk truck and took us fishing in the Nith River; the location might have been at Haysville, Ontario. Other siblings or cousins might be able to pinpoint the location …
It’s a wrap . . . home after Cornwall
Cornwall Cogitation #14, Sunday 10 May 2015--In the UK it's called a takeaway; in the US it's a takeout. Applying the terms to more than food or drink, what do we take away from our three months in Cornwall? Monday, 4 May, we attended May Day events at the Guildhall in St Ives. the noon event included …
On sea, land and soon the sky
Cornwall Cogitation #13 Sunday 3 May 2015--So soon our sojourn in Cornwall ends. But not yet. We have Monday and Tuesday to wrap up locally and then we take the Night Riviera train to London and fly across the pond on Wednesday. We're looking forward to May Day events in St Ives on Monday and …
Lines from a poem
Cornwall Cogitation #12, Sunday 26 April 2015--We've just over a week left to wrap up three months in Cornwall. It's so tempting to pick up the pace in our last week, but the preacher today said to slow down, to look to Jesus to be our pace-setter. We've kept a fairly steady pace this past week, …
Ready, steady, go! Day by day,13-19 April
Cornwall Cogitation #11, Sunday 19 April 2015--What buzzed this week? Day by day entries, instead of the usual Sunday summary, show some of it. So, ready, steady, go! Monday 13.04. I have a t-shirt, a gift from Rachel and Allison who spent two weeks with us here last year, with the slogan, "Anywhere is walking distance if you …
Oh, no, not another timeline
Cornwall Cogitation #10, Sunday 12 April 2015--Is there anything of interest beyond last week's entries? Time will tell. Stay calm, read on, imagine you're eating a Cornish pasty . . . a Cornish cream tea . . . or Cornish fudge. June 1215. Magna Carta. My spell corrector insists on "Carat," obviously oblivious to the Latin term for the …
It's About Now 