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 …
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 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 …
Traveling a long timeline, with a break for tea
Cornwall Cogitation #9, Sunday 5 April 2015--Easter crowns the day and every day. Blessings in the ways you've celebrated Easter 2015. Further on, I'll add a word on our celebration. Today's comments come as a random selection of topics that follow a chronological timeline. I say random as in finding interesting tidbits in newspapers, magazines, books, people, places …
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Palm Sunday
Cornwall Cogitation #8, Sunday 29 March 2015--This morning the two parish congregations, St Uny, Lelant, and St Anta & All Saints, Carbis Bay, joined for a Benefice worship at St Anta. Guest preacher was The Rt Reverend Chris Goldsmith, Bishop of St Germans. Chris is one of two bishops in Cornwall. Rev Carlyn Wilton was the communion celebrant and Rev Suzanne Hosking, …
Boots on–addendum
Cornwall Cogitation #7 addendum, Friday 27 March--I'm correcting information in last Sunday's post, related to St Patrick's Day. There are 33.3 million people living in the US who claim Irish ancestry. The book by Thomas Cahill is How the Irish Saved Civilization. The Irish during the dark ages held onto literacy, cared for books and …
It's About Now 