Continuity

Years ago, in 1941, I had a playmate named Ann Marie.  We lived a block apart in Chilton—the small Wisconsin community where I grew up.  Ann and I were buddies for nearly a year, when Ann Marie’s family moved to a farm and I never saw her again—until . . . Fast forwarding exactly 60 years [...]

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Mother and Me

Photo:  circa 1937.  How I love the vintage furniture, doors, and carpet!  But most of all, I love the lady pictured there beside the chunky little kid whom I once was.  My mother was a Victorian, born in 1896 and she lived to age 93.  I cherish memories of her, and think of her every day [...]

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My Classic Look: vintage, time-worn, and rich in stories of life!

I’ve always celebrated vintage, old, torn, tattered, rusted, and falling apart in home furnishings.  To me, the timeworn look represents high end elegance due to that priceless mystique of memories and stories.  In the case of inherited treasures, we sentimentalists frequently think of the people who formerly enjoyed the object in hand.  And when we decorate with stuff culled from a rummage sale, antique shop, [...]

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“Sea Fever”

   ”Sea Fever” by MLB– watercolor on Yupo paper ↑ Since it is National Poetry Month, I’m including some poems on this home page, as well as in the “Ekphrasis” section.  Especially when the wind howls (as it does most of the time around our home), poems rock in my head—other poets’ verses, that I’ve learned and loved [...]

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December 7th . . . remember Pearl Harbor, but move on!

Every year at this time, since I began blogging, I’ve commemorated Pearl Harbor with a photo of the disaster.  This year, I can’t bring myself to feature the photo.  Recently, whenever I think of Japan I think of the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  Necessary from a military standpoint?  Yes!  Unthinkably tragic from a human standpoint?  YES!  We need [...]

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Remembering . . .

September 11th, 2001:  We had just recently settled into our Northern home.  It was one of those “perfect days” in that seasonal pause which is not quite autumn, but not quite summer. The sugar maples were turning.  The day was warm/cool.  We had a house guest, our friend Bud.  Joe and Bud were fishing in the bay, just [...]

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A Flash of Light

In a degenerative society, the world of mainstream entertainment may be the most dissolute of all.  We have written off the movie houses because few films are even halfway decent, and the previews of coming attractions are unfit for viewers of any age.  Super Bowl half-time antics consist of girlie shows once limited to disreputable theatres of burlesque. Yet once [...]

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He Will Return!

The events of Christ’s death and resurrection are as familiar to those of us who know God’s truth as if they had happened only yesterday rather than nearly 2000 years ago.  These events were prophesied many times in the Old Testament, and fulfilled down to the last detail in the Gospels. How much closer in [...]

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A nightmare–at least for me!

  Last night I had a dream which nearly woke me up crying.  I dreamed that our entire nation was spanned in all directions by high speed railways with overpasses—and that all the old fashioned tracks with freight trains, crossing barricades, flashing lights, and shrieking whistles had been done away with:  forever banished from the American scene.  I [...]

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Computer Cords, Blood Wrath, Badgers, and Kum Ba Ya . . . .

Family members have been telling me that wonderful family photos are continuously posted on FACEBOOK.  Since many of our family members do FACEBOOK, I decided it might be fun to join and see the photos!  So I went through the steps, and joined. My first glimpse of FACEBOOK provided a list of several people whom I know.  [...]

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