Tag: memories

• A Tree, a 100-Year-Old Friend, and Lots of Memories

  Twenty-six years ago Mim and I left Chicago to move back to the family farmhouse in Wisconsin – the farm where I had grown up, also where my mom had grown up and lived almost her whole life. My brother re-modeled the farmhouse for us to make it our perfect home – doubling the square…

  Marian

  May 24, 2018

  Celebrations, Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  100 days, 100 years, birthday celebration, Chicago neighbor, hundredth birthday, Memorial Day, memories, Memories Day, neighbors, old oak tree, remodeled farmhouse, Ruth, Ruth Robbins, target practice, tree stump, two-flat, Uncle Helmer

• The Time Machine in my Mind

  

  I think it was Albert Einstein who postulated that time is the fourth dimension – after length, width, and height. That intrigued me when I first heard the idea. I think I was in junior high. About the same time, I watched a TV episode of the “The Twilight Zone” that played with that idea.…

  Marian

  September 1, 2015

  Life’s Challenges, Reflections

  Albert Einstein, baling hay, childhood memories, Ecclesiastes, Farmall, Floey, fourth dimension, fruits of labor, gratitude, hay wagon, memories, time machine, time travel, time zone, tractor, Twilight Zone

• An Odd Memory from 1961

  One morning last week, as I was trying to concentrate on my devotional readings for the day, an odd memory popped into my mind, totally out of the blue. My mom was buying groceries at the IGA on Main Street in Cambridge. The check-out clerk was a high school student, an older sister of one…

  Marian

  May 13, 2014

  Reflections

  Carol, check-out, cream, daily devotions, devotional readings, IGA, Jesus Calling, listening for God, listening to God, memories, messages from God, odd memory, out of the blue, reflections, sarah young, sour cream, spirituality, talking with God, whipping cream