reflections – Page 5 – wells-of-wellness

the limp that led me to God

Phil’s daughter, Jennifer, sent this link. It is good. Check it out. http://rachelheldevans.com/i-love-the-bible

Today Patricia and I head back to Portland around noon for an overnight there and an early am flight on Thursday, October 11, for Sarasota (by way, of course, of Atlanta). I continue to be awed by the majestic beauty we have encountered over these weeks of our lives. Patrick Kavanagh, in his poem, “ToContinue reading “The Pacific – 2”

A kinder way

Writing about aging with vibrancy, beauty, tears, and grace includes, of course, thoughts on mortality. Here is an editorial from today’s NYT that resonates from many yeas as a hospice employee. Let us know your thoughts.

Helens, Hood, Rainier

Time with Jennifer, Jeff, Eli is wonderful. We are here in Oregon, savoring the minutes and hours and stories and people and . . . well, those three mountains:

60 in Duluth

We woke before dawn to begin the transition (clean up, sort, and pack) for the next part of our journey. Today we fly to Portland for a week with my daughter, Jennifer and her husband, Jeff, and son, Elijah. It will be good to be with them and to be on the Pacific coast afterContinue reading “60 in Duluth”

Scenes you can reenter

In the July issue of “The Sun’” there is a summary of several interviews with the psychologist, James Hillman, who died last year at the age of eighty-five of bone cancer. The article is wise . . . about aging, and other things too. The last paragraph affirms: “Another thing that old people often reportContinue reading “Scenes you can reenter”

Fall Colors

Shel Silverstein penned this poem, “Colors:” My skin is kind of sort of brownish Pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, But I’m told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, But it’s silver when it’s wet. And all the colors I am inside Have not been inventedContinue reading “Fall Colors”

Cinnamon, Cyprus, CIW, Clay & Courage

Cinnamon can carry 18,311 tons. She is from Limassol in Cyprus. Cyprus is situated in the northeastern corner of the Mediterranean, at the meeting point of Europe, Asia and Africa. Since the dawn of history, Cyprus has been one of the most interesting areas of the region and has a rich and visible cultural history.Continue reading “Cinnamon, Cyprus, CIW, Clay & Courage”

Sony NEX

Did you ever have fear? Did you ever have fear of something happening . . . and then it did? Not long before the beginning of this magnificent time of sabbatical made possible by St. Andrew UCC and the Lilly Endowment, Patricia and I and a couple of others had lunch with a St. AContinue reading “Sony NEX”

driftwood labyrinth

Our time in Duluth has been filled with family and food and fun. When we first got here, I attempted to make a labyrinth in the Park Point sand – but it is too soft to carve as we carved the labyrinths in Ireland on the beach that was cleared each night by the tideContinue reading “driftwood labyrinth”