by MarianBeaman | Dec 30, 2014 | Family / Nostalgia, Literature, meditation, Mennonite Lore, Nostalgia, Quotations, Uncategorized
Happy New Year! My wish for you in 2015 and beyond is expressed in a card sent to Grandma Fannie Longenecker in 1913. And some fresh camellias too! Happy New Year ~~ Happy New Year ~~ Happy New Year Next post in January 2015: Who’s Coming...
by MarianBeaman | Dec 27, 2014 | Education, Gratitude, meditation, Purple Passage, Quotations, Uncategorized
Christmas: Time to Feel the Spirit Christmas is not [just] a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. – President Calvin Coolidge I will honor Christmas in my heart, and...
by MarianBeaman | Dec 10, 2014 | Family / Nostalgia, Literature, meditation, Quotations, Reflection, Uncategorized
What do Trayvon Williams, Michael Brown and the Little Match Girl have in common? Read on! The Little Match Girl – Hans Christian Andersen, 1846 On a cold winter’s eve, a poor girl shivering on the street tries to sell matches afraid to return home to her father...
by MarianBeaman | Nov 26, 2014 | book review, Family / Nostalgia, Gratitude, Lists, meditation, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, Nostalgia, Quotations, Uncategorized
My secret joys (and struggles) show up in my gratitude books. You can see some of them here. But my list this week has sprung from my 9-day trip to Pennsylvania to visit family and take care of Mother’s house in mid-November 2014. In her devotional book One Thousand...
by MarianBeaman | Oct 22, 2014 | Family / Nostalgia, meditation, Mennonite History, Mennonite Lore, Nostalgia, Quotations, Tips, Uncategorized
The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth, — The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity. Emily Dickinson was referring to the morning after the death of a loved...
by MarianBeaman | Oct 1, 2014 | Conflict, Family / Nostalgia, meditation, Quotations, Reflection, Uncategorized
Since my mother’s death in July, I have written several posts of her home-going including A Grief Observed: Missing Mother and Crossing the Bar. This time I’m focusing on a birth, our grandson Ian’s miraculous birth in 2007, seven years ago this week. According to the...
