Lois and I this evening by the river in Fenton
Green Mountain Farm
This is the kind of book I would like to write someday. Delightful. Delightful. Merrick has ties to Sir Wilfred Grenfell…. what a story. Elliott Merrick’s wife Kate Austen worked in Labrador in Grenfell’s mission. He then wrote the story of her experience in NORTHERN NURSE…. According to Elizabeth Elliot in the preface to the Journals of Jim Elliot, Grenfell inspired a whole generation of missionary adventurers.
Impossible to Ignore
Our first-born is an especially diligent young man. Even when he was just a lad you could count on him to attack a job and bring it to completion. One summer afternoon I asked him to vacuum out the van. He eagerly ran, got the vacuum and an extension chord and went to work. He did a great job, but that was not the end of the story.
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Fly-Fishing
For years I have studied and read about the art and skill of fishing for trout with dry flies. I have read beautiful artful books on the subject. Some of the best outdoor writing ever put on paper is about the ancient art of fishing with flies.
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Show and Tell
Starbucks is taking over the planet. We serve it with our Character Lunches here in the Character Inn. Last week I was in the Meijer Department store on 28th Street in Grand Rapids. They have a Starbucks in the front of the store.
Since I would be driving back to Flint in the night I decided I would pick up a big black coffee for the road. The young lady working the stand was wearing a cast on her arm. When people are wearing a cast you know they have told the story dozens of times.
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Stuck!
We have just enjoyed another Michigan snowfall. It is beautiful outside. All the pine trees are holding snow. I spoke to a group of men last Saturday morning. On my way to the meeting the snow was falling thick and beautiful. I don’t know why people would want to live in Arizona or Florida when they could enjoy such beauty.
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