Tag: kind strangers

• A Vacation Filled with Kind Strangers

  Last week Mim and I returned home from our third vacation of the year. We’re making up for the past 16 years of almost no vacations while we were doing assisted living in our home. This vacation had lessons for us to learn just as our earlier two vacations this year had. Our July vacation…

  Marian

  November 8, 2019

  Book Recommendations, bucket list, Nature, Reflections, Vacations

  Cape Cod, Cape Cod National Seashore, Cleveland, fall colors, fall foliage, Finger Lakes, Indiana Dunes National Park, kind people, kind strangers, kindness, kindness of strangers, Lebanese restaurant, make someone’s day, Mike McIntyre, National Women’s Rights Historical Park, October vacation, paid for dinner, Penniless across America, Plainfield CT, random act of kindness, school security guard, Seneca Falls, Sturbridge Village, The Kindness of Strangers, timeshare, vacation, women’s movement

• Awful August – except for …

  Does it ever seem like your world is shattered? That life is suddenly broken? For some of my family members, that’s what August has been like this year. I guess I would describe August 2014 along two tracks of events. One track is affecting my broadly extended family. The other track is affecting Mim and…

  Marian

  August 26, 2014

  God’s Love, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  93-year-old, amazing transformation, broadly extended family, car accident, change in my life, condo sold, Conrad Bender, Ecclesiastes, extended family, family, farmhouse, For everything there is a season, friends, friends and family, funeral, getting organized, God at work, God will take care of you, God’s comforting love, God’s love, God’s presence, God-given gifts, hospice, kind strangers, kindness, life challenges, life changes, life of the farmhouse, listening for God, love your neighbor, next phase, oven cleaner, reflections, retreat, sadness, Sandy Bender, self-cleaning oven, sister-in-law, spiritual retreat center, spirituality, talking with God, time to die, time to mourn, time to weep, track one, whispering winds, Whispering Winds Retreat Haven, will to live