Northport, Michigan is home to a number of amazing people. Among them is Phil Thomas. On Thursday, he spoke to around three dozen of us about his life journey and what he believes to be true regarding our economic situation in the US. I encourage you to take the time to read his life wisdom.Continue reading “Phil Thomas: Life wisdom . . . economics, where we are”
Category Archives: Grand Traverse Bay
Signs of Spring in the woods of Michigan
So many shades of brown on the forest floor after the snow has melted and we await the delicate grace of thousands of trilliums in their orchestra of vibrant green and effusive white. This is the Leelanau State Park woods on the Cathead Trail today. As we walked, a few leaves were lifted quietly on aContinue reading “Signs of Spring in the woods of Michigan”
Martha was at the heart of things
Today a wee bit after 5:00 pm, little Ella, who is a Girl Scout in the troop that meets at Trinity on Tuesdays, was headed for home. She had just finished working on a sewing project with Marie Elena. I asked her if she had sewn something fun today. She said, “I sewed seven rows onContinue reading “Martha was at the heart of things”
“a humble partner with”
Today Northern Michigan’s Magazine “Traverse” arrived at our PO Box. It is a very cool (no pun intended) journal. Today’s issue includes articles titled “I Come in Praise of Snow,” “Breathtaking Winter,” and “Witness to the Land: 80 years on a Leelanau Farm.” In “Witness to the Land” I encountered the story of a manContinue reading ““a humble partner with””
did you notice?
Wellsofwellness.org has a new look. The site has been updated with WordPress’ Watermark Theme. Each blog is now displayed with an image. Scroll over any image on the home page to see the title of the post associated with that picture. Take your time to take a look at these pictures . . . thereContinue reading “did you notice?”
“on the pulse of the morning”
Someone on Sunday asked me if we were going to have the opportunity for further conversation about Maya Angelou’s poem that we heard and saw via video on December 27 at Trinity. https://youtu.be/xUuTig9kavA The answer is, YES! That morning we heard the story of the gifts that were brought by the folks-of-SofiaContinue reading ““on the pulse of the morning””
so much kronos, such magnificent kairos
Today, January 1, 2016, Patricia and I went skiing, cross country skiing, on a trail just north of Woolsey Airport. If you flew into this airport you would see Mud Lake, to the north. Mud Lake is just east of the trail we skied today. Woolsey is the Northport, MI, airport. Here are threeContinue reading “so much kronos, such magnificent kairos”
“I am the wave upon Grand Traverse Bay”
Matthew Fox recently published an updated and revised version of his autobiography, “Confessions.” I’ll be posting a brief review of the book here on December 26. Two previous wellsofwellness posts, and this one, are invitations for you to his book. In chapter seven, Fox quotes a seventh century Celtic poem that Patricia and I first heard fromContinue reading ““I am the wave upon Grand Traverse Bay””
“Christmas Sticks” of Florida and Michigan
Back in the early days of our love, Patricia and I used to roam the forest roads of the Nicolet National Forest in Vilas County of Wisconsin and look for a small, scrawny pine growing in the ditches, by the side of the road, to bring home for our Christmas tree. We always found oneContinue reading ““Christmas Sticks” of Florida and Michigan”
an invitation to prayer
Patricia went for a run this morning and got these two great pictures of Grand Traverse Bay – the one with the magnificent watery pathway of light – and the other, a closeup of the water and the sand that she said looked to her like watery petosky stones. While she was doing that, IContinue reading “an invitation to prayer”
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