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Dreaming of summer
It’s cold. Really cold. Like, frostbite cold. I confess, winter is NOT my favorite season and January is definitely NOT my favorite month (at least weather wise). Don’t get me wrong, I like to see snow once or twice in the winter but let it snow over a weekend where I sit inside next to a…
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Epiphany
Epiphany, with a capital “E”, is celebrated on January 6th and is the festival commemorating Christ’s coming into the world for all people through the homage paid by the Magi. It can also mean (when spelled with a small “e”) a sudden insight or perception into the essential meaning of something usually triggered by the…
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Blogging 101- New ideas amidst the old
Even though I’ve had this blog for a while now, I’ve yet to complete a blogging 101 course with WordPress.com. Something has always come up in the past; either work or family situations take the focus away from completing the assignments. Well, it’s a new year and with a new year, the resolution to have a…
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Watchwords
Every year our church participates in the Moravian tradition of pulling watchwords. If you don’t know what a watchword is, it is a motto or slogan (in our case a Bible verse) that is supposed to lead you throughout the year. Sometimes, it seems to make no sense at all what you pull out of…
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Comfort Food
We just got home from dinner with the guests at the emergency homeless shelter. It was our turn to provide the main meal so we decided to make beefy mac and cheese as it was their favorite meal last year. Good comfort food on a cold, snowy day goes a long way to making someone’s…
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Hope of the Sycamore (or Sweet Gum)
[Update: January 4, 2015. Marsha informed me today that what I mistakenly thought was a sycamore seed pod is actually a sweet gum tree pod although the bark of the tree it was sitting under looked suspiciously like the sycamore tree and not the sweet gum tree. Marsha was kind enough to bring one of her sycamore pods…
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New Year, New Life, New Beginnings
It’s that time of the year. A fresh start, a new beginning, a hopeful presence in the air. Yes, it is still the dead of winter. Yes, it is cold (damn cold, actually in some parts of the country). Yes, it is dark, dreary, and seemingly soulless. And yet, today I took a walk in…
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On death and dying
“Never seen a hearse with a trailer hitch.” –Kristian Bush “Trailer Hitch”
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Architecture
Well, I’m very late with a number of posts this month so I’m trying to get caught up. Here is a photo of Martin Towers, former headquarters of Bethlehem Steel and now abandoned. In my mind, it stands as a reminder of greed (management and union). Had both sides been willing to adopt sustainable development…
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The Golden Key
What would you do with a golden key that opened a whole new world to you but to which you really weren’t supposed to have access? Would you keep it secret that you had it? Would you use it? Would it scare you? Would you get rid of it? I think how one responds to…
Kat Lehman 