Post 22/2025 Goshen, Indiana: In the introduction to The Book of Joy, (Avery, 2016), by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Desmond Tutu, with Douglas Abrams, Abrams notes, "In this book I have tried to share with you their intimate conversations, which were filled with seemingly endless laughter and punctuated by many poignant moments of …
Tag: family
Celebrating generations
Post 13/2025 Cornwall UK. Extended family connecting in Cornwall started a few days ago. Niece Jan and her husband John and John's daughter and her husband arrived on Thursday. Jan's daughters and their husbands arrived on Friday. Surprise of surprises to Marty and me, and slow to dawn on us, Jessie and Mike walked unnoticed …
Remembering Doris
Post 3/2025 Goshen IN. Sister-in-law Doris Mast died 12 days after her 92nd birthday. At the visitation many people remarked on how Doris was the queen of hospitality. Her memorial service took place on January 27. Fifty chairs were needed to seat her children, 12 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. As a youngster Doris begged her …
What, awash in weather again?
Post 14/2024 Cornwall UK. BBC Breakfast weather presenter on Friday noted "There's a storm coming." Kathleen, the 11th named storm of the year. Friday: Flashes of rain, some sunshine and showers, cloudy, windy. Saturday: strengthening winds 60-70 MPH, same for gusts on Sunday. The good news: temperatures of 17-19 Celsius, 62-66 Fahrenheit. Unsettled, spells it …
Memories came flooding back
Post 50/2023. Rather than write a Year in Review blog, I've opted to comment on memories that were biding their time among a collection of things stored in a box. With almost each item memories came flooding back, along with questions of "What now with the stuff?" Sorting through boxed memories Assorted items from a …
It's About Now 