POST 27/2025: I have a bookmark titled, In The Palm of Your Hand." It quotes the Old Testament book of Isaiah, 49:15: "I will not forget you . . . I have held you in the palm of my hand." The image of being held in God's palm makes me think of my brother-in-law, Gerald, …
POS 26/2025 TAWAS CITY, MICHIGAN: We're spending a few days along Lake Huron in Tawas City after. visiting family and friends in southwestern Ontario. More family reunion time awaits this weekend at home in Indiana. Time spent with family and friends nourishes what experts might call "relationship health." Ontario With family and friends we shared …
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, …
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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POST 23/2025 LAGRANGE COUNTY IN: Fast growing corn, haying with horses, scampering rabbits, an ostrich, neat gardens, Amish traveling in buggies and bikes, fireworks display, the early morning song of the Cardinal (Indiana's state bird)--that's what we saw and heard in the county next door last week. A baler that makes big round bales. The …
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 …
Post 21/2025 Goshen, Indiana: Summer solstice arrives tonight in the Northern Hemisphere. Longest day, shortest night. Fairbanks, Alaska will have almost 22 hours of daylight. The sun is still shining as I start this blog. It will be a short one. I haven't got all night. No 22 hours of daylight here in northern Indiana. …
Post 20/2025 Goshen, IN: Who would ever think of using the word "SASSY" in Wordle? Guilty. I must not have been thinking. I used it today as fourth choice before settling on "TAFFY" in the final turn six. I was rewarded with a "Phew!" Oops-a-daisy on that one. While I didn't lose the game, I …
Post 19/2025 River Preserve County Park, Elkhart County: We walked in the part of this park that starts in the village of Benton. The linear park of 358 acres follows the Elkhart River, adjacent canal and spillways. I wore my new pair of boots. Did my feet proud. The park includes historic canals, dams and …
Post 18/2025 Goshen, Indiana: What do you do when there's a traffic backup for miles before you get to the Blue Water Bridge crossing from Port Huron, Michigan to Ontario? On the morning of May 21 we came upon such a scene, unlike any we'd seen before. We had a split-second chance to divert to …
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