Featured image: A cake fit for angels, and it's gluten-free. Cogitation 31 Saturday 13 October 2018 We observed Thanksgiving in Canada. Thanksgiving falls on the second Monday of October. Over the course of four days we had three Thanksgiving meals; one hosted by Sandy and Joy, the second by Mark and Christa. On Thanksgiving …
A tree has fallen
Featured image: The maple had to go before it fell. Cogitation 30 Saturday 06 October 2018 The maple tree in our back yard needed to go. Two arborists examined our dear maple. One of them injected it with two dozen vials of medicine in the spring, but the leaves on the failing side did …
The Celtic Cornwall Legacy
Featured image: Celtic Knotwork in the windows at St Clement Church, near Truro, Cornwall. Cogitation 29 Saturday 29 September 2018 “Silent meditation on symbols and patterns can produce more spirituality, evangelism, social engagement, than a thousand words.” So wrote Martin Wallace in a booklet, Celtic Reflections (Tim Tiley Ltd, Bristol, U.K., 2005) If you …
Recapture the glow?
Featured image: A cozy fire outside our cabin in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Cogitation 38 Saturday 22 September 2018 As i look back over my week and the week before that, can I recapture the glow? Recapture it, that is, before whooshing all-too-madly on. A week ago we were winding up the last days of …
Embracing Michigan’s vastness
Featured image: "Bear! Bear!" shouted our guide above the din of our ancient trolley train that took us to the boat on the Tahquamenon Falls journey. The bear disappeared as we got close. Cogitation 37 Saturday 15 September 2018 "Embrace our vastness" could be a slogan for the State of Michigan. The state …
A strangely wonderful world
Cogitation 36 Saturday 8 September 2018 If truth were a serum, what a strangely wonderful world we'd have. It would be a world where fact and fiction would have their proper place. We use the term, "Truth is stranger than fiction." That means that if I happen to run into someone at the Museum …
For the children
Cogitation 35 Saturday 1 September 2018 We visited the new Children's Garden at The Wellfield Botanic Gardens in Elkhart. We did everything but crawl through the tunnel. It's a go-to place for people of all ages. Go children of every age! Mishawaka-Shiojiri Children's Sculpture Earlier in the week we visited the Japanese Garden …
I know a little
Featured Image: Passionflower, along the St Joseph River, Elkhart, Indiana. Cogitation 34 Saturday 25 August 2018 I know a little about plants, trees, birds, insects and other living things. So last Sunday I was one among five people who showed pictures about birds. It was the last of our church's monthly summer informal …
What August tells me
Featured image: It's the season for roadwork in parts where snow and ice seem far away. Cogitation 33 Saturday 18 August 2018 August flows on like a river, each day a tributary of the ever-flowing, changing, sometimes churning stream. People connections stand out in this coursing month. Such as coffee and a donut …
Seeing history in the ‘labours and passions of flesh and blood’
Featured image: The cardinal, Official State Bird of Indiana. Cogitation 32 Friday 10 August 2018 Historians dig deep into political, economic, intellectual, or other past markers to shed light on what human beings did in creating the world we live in. For sure, big personalities or heroes from the past have much to teach …
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