Cogitation 11 Saturday 17 March 2018 St Patrick's Day reigns green today with parades, parties and religious festivals, both in Ireland and across the Irish diaspora. Use of the Irish Gaelic language is one marker of the celebration. This religious and civic holiday marks the day Ireland's patron saint died, some say in 460, …
Featured image: The raindrop dabbled sign says 40 minutes to Porthleven; double that in mud. Cogitation 10 Saturday 10 March 2018 "Isn't it wonderful!" exclaimed the raingear clad woman, her dog on a lead, of the rain and sleet we encountered on the walk to lunch last Sunday. Our party of four going to the …
Featured image: Carbis Water, a stream in the valley, a five minute walk from our flat, flanked by the rarest of winter dress. Cogitation 9 / Saturday 3 March 2018 From green fields and early blooms to a spot-on Met Office forecast of country-wide heavy snows, ice and wind-driven blizzards--we've experienced it even in …
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Featured image: Ancient cross on Church Lane, between Carbis Bay and Lelant. Cogitation 8 Saturday 24 February 2018 It was a pleasant surprise to find our Christmas letter published in the New Contact magazine of St Anta and All Saints Church, Carbis Bay, Cornwall, UK. We wrote: "For seven winter/spring seasons we've hopped across …
Featured image: The ubiquitous primrose, growing in cultivated flower beds or wild in drystone walls. Cogitation 7.2018 Saturday 17 February Look right. Clear? Cross to the refuge in the middle of the road. Look left. Proceed when clear. The absolute importance of first looking right, then left to cross a street in the UK …
Featured image: Here's where geraniums will bloom. Cogitation 6.132 Saturday 10 February 2018 The buzz on Friday was mostly about the weather. On Saturday snowplows were buzzing all about town. This morning we attended a memorial service for Brent Eash (1959-2018) at church. It was such a fitting time of worship and fellowship for …
Featured image: Marty poses with Simon Gingerich at Simon's 95th birthday open house at Greencroft Goshen Continuing Care Living Community. Cogitation 5:131 Saturday 3 February 2018 Ever been between times? Such as in that space between an old and a new normal? The never, never land of time almost standing still? A moment that's …
Featured image: Wildlife preening in Ox Bow Park. Cogitation 4.130 Saturday 27 January 2018 Reader Mary K. Mishler responded to a photo of St Ives in last week's post: "I'm reminded of my childhood riddle, 'AS I WAS GOING TO ST IVES,'" she wrote. Not everyone we know has heard that nursery rhyme. Here …
Cogitation 3.129 Saturday 20 January 2018 Home on the farm growing up we had an English hired hand whose capacity for drinking tea never ceased to amaze us youngsters. Featured image: Snuggles, whose domain is sister-in-law Doris Mast's home, knows her way around a lap, sunny spots, and contemplation of mysteries unknown. "Tea …
Cogitation 2.2018.128 Saturday 13 January It's a game character, an idiom, a biblical parable, a home remedy for chest congestion, and a condiment. It all relates to mustard. Colonel Mustard appears in the mystery game, Clue. As an idiom, the modern sense of the word is to succeed, as in, "He cuts the mustard." …
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