Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams – they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do – they all contain truths. Muhammad Ali I know you can’t see them in this photo, but the Mom, Dad, and baby goslings are on the beach at the other side of the pond….I was…
June 10: Thanks and praise
Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to be…
June 6: Climbing rose in full bloom
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. Rum I think that gardens and flowers are a lesson in patience. When ordered this climbing rose, Bantry Bay, online, I expected a fully grown plant to…
June 2: Art in nature
To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. George Herbert Mead This daily blog began as a gratitude journal, to help me on my journey in a new country to find something beautiful or amazing or…
June 3: Michigan sight-seeing
I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life. Jeff Daniels One of the reasons we have taken so long in getting our house on the market is that we can find nothing comparable where we are going.…