Daily Connector | Finding my roots – St Anne Cemetery | Larry Less
Genealogy is all about discovering and telling family stories. I mentioned last week about “getting the genealogy bug” at my Aunt Beverly’s funeral in 2010. We started taking trips to visit cemeteries to take photos and record headstone information that wasn’t readily available back then. I started with St. Anne…
Daily Connector | Learning a New Art | Sarah Werner
One of the skills I’ve tried to hone this spring has been nature photography. I have loved taking photos of plants and animals for a long time, and it used to be a regular part of my job back when I worked in a plant ecology lab. On some of…
Daily Connector | Shared humanness | Roberta Gerlach
The brutal treatment and killing of the handcuffed George Floyd has set off protests and destructive riots in cities across the country. Would not an understanding of our shared humanness have caused us to pause and take to heart the words in this poem. UNDER THE SKIN Mary Spain* Come,…
Midweek Blog: What’s Before Us?
Staying at home during the pandemic has given me lots of time to do more reading. A few weeks ago I even stayed up past my normal bed time to finish a book about the Enneagram that I was especially enjoying. I pushed through to the end and went to…
Daily Connector | Arrows | Jenny Campagna
I have been feeling badly about not protesting for Black Lives Matter. I worry about my health issues, my twelve years’ older partner and her health issues. Dan Halterman, my neighbor, is a protest parade of one which seems fairly safe. He passes by my house and I’m not there…
