Summer fest presented with panache

POST 25/2025 GOSHEN IN: It was a doozy of a week, hot days followed by a welcome downpour bookending Greencroft Goshen Summerfest 2025. Shade, breeze, sunhats and water kept us tolerably comfortable for Summerfest, July 15. Resident volunteers, in tandem with Greencroft staff and off-campus participants, presented the third Summerfest with, what better word than, …

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Blueberry Pie and Christmas in July: a sweet summer tradition

POST 24/2025 GOSHEN INDIANA: Blueberry season has started. I searched among our cookbooks--those left after multiple purges in recent years--and found only two recipes for blueberry pie. One of the recipes called for 4 cups fresh berries, 3 T. flour, 1/4 tsp. cinnamon, 1 cup sugar, 1/8 tsp. salt. I wanted to prepare an open-face …

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Love and loss

Post 22/2025 Goshen, Indiana: In the introduction to The Book of Joy, (Avery, 2016), by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, with Douglas Abrams, Abrams notes, "In this book I have tried to share with you their intimate conversations, which were filled with seemingly endless laughter and punctuated by many poignant moments of …

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Goodbye

Post 16/2025 Cornwall UK: Goodbye, friends. Goodbye, footpaths. Goodbye, fish and chips (Becks). Goodbye, goodbye, Cornwall. At Coffee Morning at St Anta & All Saints Church on Saturday, one person commented, "When Marty and John come, we know it's Spring." We come in mid-February, considering our stay including parts of winter and spring. At least …

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