Featured image: These goats and a flock of wild turkeys were finding good pickings in this harvested field of corn in Westfield. All around Westfield, subdivisions, shopping centers, hotels, restaurants, and a big sports complex--one building with three regulation size soccer fields--are sprouting up in former corn and bean fields. You don't say #8, Saturday 29 …
You don't say #7--Saturday 22 October 2016--It's morning. Not at all early. The sun shone on trees across the river before being hidden by clouds. I've opened the two greatroom shutters to bring more of the outside in. The bales of straw that Christina and Ricky used last Saturday as seating for their backyard wedding …
Featured photo: Last days of blooming for our Gerbera daisies. You don't say #6, Saturday 15 October 2016--"Corn, corn, corn, it makes me feel forlorn, on the farm, on the farm; corn, corn, corn, it makes me feel forlorn on the hinky, dinky Double D Farm. "My eyes are dim, I cannot see, I have …
Featured image: Sunrise over Mackinac Island, Tuesday 4 October 2016. You don't say #5, Saturday 8 October, 2016--At lunch on Monday in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, the waitress seated a young family of four at a table near us. They were subdued. The dad told the waitress their pop-up camper failed to pop up Sunday night. …
You don't say #4, Friday 30 September, 2016--I love fall. Ah, Autumn It's a time to gather in. Clean up. Breathe the pungent air. Watch the squirrels. Give thanks for the summer past and the future in the wings. Autumn's here. I savor the moment. I call this blog Past, Present, Future: Live It Now. "Now" has both before and …
Featured image caption: Women at Prairie Street Mennonite Church stitched a quilt for the Michiana Mennonite Relief Sale, 9/24. They named it Magenta Kaleidoscope Wonder. It's a wonderful gift for the relief, development and peacebuilding work of MCC. It sold to a member of our church for $400. The Prairie Street children's My Coins Count offerings …
You don't say #2, 19 September 2016--From medieval mystic Meister Eckhart: "If the only prayer you ever said was 'Thank you,' you would have said all the prayers." I can hardly fit in all the "Thank you" prayers of the week. I'll try. Thank you for houseguest Marcia Parker and visits with "old" friends Marcia currently lives …
You don't say #1, Saturday 10 September 2016--With my blog series theme, "You don't say," I'm using neither an exclamation mark nor a period. The "!" usage denotes amazement or disbelief. The " ." usage denotes an ordinary, "that's right," response. Let the reader decide. I'm aiming to err on the side of toned-down, conversational speech. We've got more …
Summer Stage #15, Saturday 3 September 2016--I like the sign at our dentist's office: "Four out of five dentists recommend hockey." Happily, for me hockey came and went without any major mishaps. It was never serious league stuff, mostly games at school. I shake my head at the time in the days before face masks, I played goalie …
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Summer Stage #14, Saturday 27 August 2016--An old bookmark from the Elkhart Public Library has the title, COURTESY CAN PAY ... TWICE! By returning books promptly, it says, the borrower will benefit those waiting in line and also one's pocketbook, given a 10 cent fine per day for each book overdue, adding, "$12.60 could be charged …
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