Tag: imigrants

• Your Perspective?

  Yesterday morning my dog Floey and I went for a long walk and a long talk. It was already a hot day, but I figured if we walked on country roads rather than sidewalks, we might catch a little breeze. I was right. As soon as we turned off Water Street onto Highland Drive the […]

  Marian

  July 16, 2018

  Blogs, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  asylum, bicyclist, Buddy, Casita Copan, Central America, Copan, different perspectives, Ellen Finn, Ellen Lippman Finn, Emotional Witness, Floey, Honduras, imigrants, little white dog, long talk, long walk, perspective, tourism, violence, walk, What can I do?, world traveler

• Let Me Introduce My Neighbors to You

  

  When I was a little girl growing up on a Wisconsin farm, I thought of four families as being our neighbors: the farmers across the road just west of us – the Henry Henderson family; the farmers who lived on the farm immediately south of us – The Mulcaheys; the farmers just east of us […]

  Marian

  February 9, 2016

  God’s Love, Jail Ministry, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  Cabrini Green, Catholics, Chicago neighbors, David Mahoney, different churches, dorm living, double cousins, Dulce Maria, God’s love in action, Good Samaritan, growing up, healing, healing environment, homeless, Honduras, housing project, imigrants, inmates, jail ministry, LaSalle Street Church, Methodists, neighbor, neighboring farmers, neighboring farms, neighborly, same church, Sandburg Village, Sheriff Mahoney, Stone Meadows, Wheaton College, Wisconsin farm