I used to pick oranges on Kibbutz Einat, in Israel, in my early twenties. It was my most demanding physical job. It makes me sweat and ache just thinking about it! I showed my pampered lifestyle and inexperience when I worked with the other volunteers who were mainly from Europe. I know I didn’t carry “my load.”…
Over Coffee
No deep reason to post this now, other than I came across it. I wrote it in Cyprus about a week ago.
‘They Trembled and Stood at a Distance’
It is growing. It is out of control. The California fire rages. As the title of this post suggests, “trembling and standing at a distance,” is a natural way to react to raging fire. I can’t imagine what it would be like to evacuate my home, fill my car with a few things, and later see my world go up in flames via…
‘howmanyofme.com’?
My daughter often uses my laptop, so I am always finding her cyber footsteps on my computer. One led me to an interesting sight: http://www.howmanyofme.com/.
Some Analogies are Better than Others
My mother-in-law’s sister found an analogy I had written a few years ago when they were going through an “analogy” craze–getting a kick out of some of the bad analogies or metaphors that people sometimes write. They had a list of several that actually were written by high school students. Here are a couple:
Footsteps of a Journey
Just reflecting on this trilogy in poetry I wrote on the Sea of Galilee after a day visiting the ruins of Caesarea. trilogy: to a roman god
The Moon Tonight
Nice to be under the moon and stars of North America again. I wrote this post in the still of early night, under the moonlight of home.
More on Einstein and Jesus
About a month ago, I posted a couple of comments about an interesting interview on Einstein. The interview revealed that the most brilliant man in the world showed a glimmer of passion and interest in the person of Jesus Christ or as Einstein called him, the “luminous Nazarene.” Mike Rizzio at The Bread of Life has an interesting post on Einstein. It seems that Einstein’s curiosity…
A Father’s Look
Wayne and I have been away from our daughter for over two weeks now. We talked to her on the phone this morning. She said she was missing me so much that she read every post on my blog! Ha! Something she would never do if we were home and crossing paths each day. I…
Bonnie Saul Wilks 