Post 2/2025 Goshen IN. The week included: Martin Luther King Day. Inauguration. Frigid temperatures. Looking Back, Looking Forward, Anabaptism at 500. Death of my sister-in-law Doris Mast at age 92. Ducks on the pond again. Soup. On January 21 area Mennonites gathered at College Mennonite Church in Goshen for a worship service celebrating 500 years …
A sniffle start
Post 1/2025 Goshen IN. What misery colds carry. Sniffles. Cough. Blahs. Concerns. Is it really just a common cold or one of the other superbugs that have a thing for our airways? Decaf tea with lemon and honey. Some OTC meds. No fever. Recovery seems afoot, even as worries linger. That’s my welcome to early …
Ready or not, a new year awaits
Post 45/2024 Goshen IN. Since my last post on November 4 . . . what to say . . . life has moved on. This week we bid adieu to dear President Jimmy Carter who died on Sunday at age 100. The tributes and reflections are heartwarming and true. September. The potted Gerbera daisies did …
Taking a break
Post 44/2024. I've no breaking news, no bombshell report, no polls comment, no recap of what I've read in various media outlets about the 2024 US election cycle; I have only one word: Harris. That said, I add, I'm taking a break. Tasks to do and we have travel plans where our tablet stays home. …
From Massachusetts to Maine to home
Post 43/2024. Acadia National Park, Maine. Spent three fabulous nights here with niece Jan and great-niece Jenny and their husbands John and Rory (Jenny and Rory live in MA). Fine weather. Engaging walks. Tasty home-prepared meals. Trail picnic of cheese sandwiches, chips, chocolate, apple, water. Sunsets. Lighthouses. Maine features what's rugged and wild. Coast. Winters. …
By road from Indiana to Massachusetts
Post 42/2024. Boston MA. Marty and I are soaking up east coast vibe with niece, great niece and their husbands. We rode with Jan and John to the home of Jenny and Rory in a Boston suburb. Left home at 5am, arrived a bit after 7pm (850 miles). We were met with a grand welcome, …
Long, long ago
Post 41/2024. Goshen Indiana. Once upon a time, in my teens, I dreamed of starting my own business. A coffee shop on the new Ontario 7&8 Highway that bypassed New Hamburg, Baden and Petersburg. The dream faded, other businesses, large and small, filled the strip on both sides of the new bridge across the Nith …
Touched by tranquility
Post 40/2024. Goshen, Indiana. The state of being peaceful, calm and untroubled. Serenity. Tranquility. A sense of peace and quiet. How can that be in these storm-tossed, fevered, splintered October days, like similar onslaughts of September, August, July, ad infinitum? I do venture that a smile--and a spot of beauty--helps. The October Club The October …
Make mine a tranquil week ahead
Post 39/2024, Goshen, Indiana. I've reduced my diet of news reading, especially US election related. I have definite opinions and hopes related to the voting on November 5. I'm hopeful that what's better for the vast majority of people that make up the country will come to pass. I'm drawn to the First Testament book …
Moon, summer’s close, Cornwall, friendship
Post 38/2024. Goshen, Indiana. THE HARVEST MOON glowed softly as I peered at it from our driveway and snapped it handheld. Of late I've been testing my old, assumed no longer functional, point and shoot pocket camera, a Nikon Coolpix S7000. I retired the camera some years ago because of cloudy (moisture?) spots on the …
It's About Now 