Featured Image: Yes, it was a rainy week. Got some winterizing tasks done. Cornwall Cogitation (North America) #5 Saturday 28 October 2017 Midway through a concert by the St. Joseph Valley Camerata last Sunday this thought came to mind: I am breathing in a blessing. Title of the fall concert was MASS THROUGH THE …
Whish, whist, whisk–how I ‘whoosed’ through the week
Cornwall Cogitation (North America) #4 Saturday 21 October 2016 Three words describe my week. Whish: An elevator whishes up or down to the another level. Whist: Quiet, silent. Whisk: A nimble, brisk movement, as in beating eggs or whisking the kids off to bed. A reminder before I get to the point Here's a …
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Less me, more others: reflections on a fall
Featured image: Visiting preacher Doug Kaufman has an adult audience, too, at the end of Children's Time and sermon on The River of the Water of Life. Cornwall Cogitation (North America) #3 Saturday 14 October 2017 I fell last week. Short story, I'm recovering well. Long story, my gratitude wells up for those at …
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A moment of silence
Cornwall Cogitation (North America) #2 Saturday 7 October 2017 I think of lines from Catharina von Schlegel's (b. 1697) hymn, "Be still my soul," as I reflect on recent natural and human-made tragedies that stretch from the Caribbean, to Puerto Rico, Mexico and Los Vegas. Stanza 1 begins, "Be still, my soul, the Lord is on my side, . . . …
Ode to September
Cornwall Cogitation (North America) #1 Friday 29 September 2017 For the foreseeable future I've incorporated "North America" in the tag I use to track my partial year blogs from Cornwall, United Kingdom. The tag, or slug in newspaper lingo, helps me be "thoughtfully" present in a couple places at once. Whether I'm in the …
I respectfully disagree that the world is entering its final tribulation
Featured image: I can't figure out what I was trying to photograph. I'll just call it the Thursday Mystery Picture. Close-Up #8 Saturday 23 September 2017 We've had doom mongers predicting the end of the world throughout history. The latest one claims that today, Saturday, 23 September 2017, marks the start of a 7-year …
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Where’s home?
Featured image: Sundown over Lake Huron at Goderich, Ontario. Close-Up #7 Saturday 16 September 2017 Home again. Just in time to mow the yard and water the flowers. Home, yes, it's sweet to be home after a fine time in Ontario. We had a pleasant visit with a relative who had been in hospital …
Mixing it up on Labor Day
Close-Up #6 Friday 8 September 2017 Labor Day marks seasonal rituals at Gerald and Mary Miller's cottage on Oliver Lake. It's the weekend the pier gets taken in, the fridge gets cleaned out, the AC turned off, and summer memories stored. It's a day for extended family to gather, grill and chaw. What a pleasant …
Gratitude for bees and birds and a fairy garden
Close-Up Saturday 2 September 2017 I'm grateful for what's been around me this week: summer blooms, friends, faith community, books, walking paths, day trips, Epic Art Adventures, wildlife, blueberry muffins, sunshine, heartening stories of government, private agencies and individual's rescue efforts in response to Hurricane Harvey. Thoughts and prayers for all, and gratitude. On …
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Basking in the solar eclipse; tale of a horse named Eclipse
Close-Up #4 Saturday 26 August 2016 With all you have seen and heard about Monday's solar eclipse, that at 1,500 miles an hour swept in totality across a swath of the USA and caught the rest of us watching at various percentages, here's a quick unrelated tidbit: "Eclipse, one of the most famous of …
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It's About Now 