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https://hymnary.org/text/i_look_not_back_god_knows_the_fruitless_#pagescans There are so many changes to this “new and improved” WP site that it is basically useless to me at this point. But this New Year’s Eve, I am going to go ahead and simply post the link (above) … Continue reading →

Psalm 8:3-5 When I consider Your heavens, the work of Your fingers, the moon and the stars, which You have ordained, What is man that You are mindful of him, and the son of man that You visit him? For … Continue reading →

This photo includes primary features of my childhood memories. One unique aspect to it is that, as arranged, the large farm house completely obscures the even-larger barn! As is, it helps provide a record for sons, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Documenting … Continue reading →

A bunch of grape hyacinths is blooming as it should, looking a bit luxurious A decent sized flock of migrating birds moved south to north (they’re still playing at migrating) around noon – looked to be Canadian Geese and sounded … Continue reading →

After I was diagnosed in March of 2016 I realized that a cancer diagnosis, like a new car, an old house, a bad road, or an overgrown garden, is sort of like a card board box that has stuff in … Continue reading →

Undeniable Truths of Life # 2,384 and # 2,385. Or maybe they are # 802 and #803. I can never remember. Everyone is owned by someone Everyone serves someone There is a third related truth: We choose who the Someone is. … Continue reading →

Whatever has been my habitual problem-solving pattern over the years will tend to be the pattern to which I turn in the presence of a new problem. Conscious acknowledgement of that tendency makes it more likely that eventually (now would … Continue reading →

~Either is able to function as instructor with regard to the other~ Hands-at-the-side-humility bows before what is, and makes it more likely that the eyes can be lifted to Reality’s wide-as-the-sky horizons. If we dare stand with opened eyes on the edge of life’s ripening wheat field, … Continue reading →

In January of 2014, Grant and I were well into our walk in the deep woods when I began to realize that the tears I was shedding seemed to be a bit never-ending~~in my opinion. I commented to him one afternoon that … Continue reading →

(Originally published in February of 2014) About six weeks before he left us, it occurred to me that Grant and I must sometimes look a bit like those kids tucked into the back seat of the family car heading out to … Continue reading →

(First published in January of 2014) Hospice came today. And they came yesterday. Today we met our nurse who will be walking with us. She left with a bag of homemade cookies and a couple of big hugs after 75 minutes … Continue reading →

(This was originally published in November of 2013) On October 18, 2013, Grant had a routine hernia repair. For several weeks following that in-and-out surgery we were on what sometimes looked like a wild goose chase. I imagine that some days we have … Continue reading →

Among the nuances that govern daily life in cold country during October and November is the distinction between a freeze and a hard freeze. A freeze simply means the temperature was at 32 degrees Fahrenheit for thirty minutes or an hour. … Continue reading →

Ten days before Christmas in 1941, Dad paid $2 for two tons of coal for the furnace. He also spent 19 cents for food – perhaps a bag of his favorite lemon drops – on his way to the coal mine south … Continue reading →