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How to Swing Ahead

How to Swing Ahead

by MarianBeaman | Sep 14, 2022 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Family / Nostalgia, Literature, Memory, Quotations, Reflection

Do you remember being pushed as a kid on a swing? Maybe your Mom or Dad, or a big brother or sister gave you a big push. And then another. And another. After a while, your legs started pumping on their own.  Sitting on my mother’s lap, I heard the cadence of a...
Peaceful Pose: Wordless Wednesday

Peaceful Pose: Wordless Wednesday

by MarianBeaman | Jun 8, 2022 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, meditation, Reflection, Uncategorized

          Beginning this week, I’ll be taking a short blog break. See you again soon!  
Wordless Wednesday: Find the Plain Girl

Wordless Wednesday: Find the Plain Girl

by MarianBeaman | Mar 9, 2022 | blog, Coming of Age, Education, Mennonite History, Reflection, Uncategorized

Sophomore Class, Elizabethtown High School 1957 Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania         Have you found (or kept) an individual or a group photo from your school days? School snapshots are available online. Have you discovered a digital copy of a school...
Secrets of My 9-Year Blogging Life

Secrets of My 9-Year Blogging Life

by MarianBeaman | Feb 23, 2022 | blog, Cliff Beaman artist, Coming of Age, Literature, popular culture, Quotations, Reflection, Uncategorized

  The cartoon is right! I have been blogging nigh onto nine years. Also right: My hair is often a mess when I blog. (I don’t see myself at the computer, so I have to trust the artist’s rendering here.)   Blogging is fun for me. I don’t hate blogging, as the...
February Photos with Tulips and Chimney Smoke

February Photos with Tulips and Chimney Smoke

by MarianBeaman | Feb 16, 2022 | blog, Gratitude, Literature, Memory, popular culture, Quotations, Reflection

Find the Colors in this Urban Afternoon Reflection   February A chimney, breathing a little smoke. The sun, I can’t see making a bit of pink I can’t quite see in the blue. The pink of five tulips at five p.m. on the day before March first. The green...
Stop, Look, and Listen with a Lego Figure: Snowy Woods at Dusk

Stop, Look, and Listen with a Lego Figure: Snowy Woods at Dusk

by MarianBeaman | Feb 2, 2022 | blog, Family / Nostalgia, Literature, Neighborhood / Environment, Quotations, Reflection, Uncategorized

If you arrived here harried and harangued, or feeling hollow. . . .   YOU ARE INVITED TO SLOW DOWN AND STOP. . . . . . to contemplate Frost’s Stopping by a Woods on a Snowy Evening. This rendition features a Lego character with a German-speaking narrator:  ...
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