Significant women have made statements regarding the importance of 'table'. Barbara Bush said it this way: "The most important decisions in America are made around the kitchen table." As always, Barbara's wisdom was front and center. Grandma Warfel near pioneer drew a line defining: "True friends feet have been under your table and yours [...]
Leaves drifting down, early morning, as I pop out the door to snag the paper the air engulfs me like a big wet kiss! a wet air morning for certain. Soaking my world the fields and grass are laden humidity must be a hundred A pin drop would make it rain! Far to the [...]
High on my office shelf sits a sculpture done in love Albrecht Durer's Betende Hande a labor of love by a brother for his brother who loved Just this evening I came in weary from a day of labor hands smudged with grease and dirt from a day of farming Warm water flooded my [...]
randpa rolled out at 0330 to do the livestock chores Pitch the hay down from the mow shovel the grain into cow shined troughs slap the stantions on the milk cows necks and do the milking The walk to the barn only a hundred steps was lit by stars that twinkled and by the morning [...]
An Asian culture posits a greeting with hands at sides, and a bow Another culture folks fold their hands together prayer like, and do a head nod bow Somewhere back in our ancestry swords were often present firmly gripped in one's right hand Noted by their absence an empty hand was extended to grip [...]
Indeed, a long time ago, but just 'yesterday' in history... Great grandpa was a walking Tolono depot just behind Southwest into the prairie what he saw was not a goldmine but a 'blackmine' Soil soft on his footsteps speaking to him in farmer tones "This could be really good, really somethin'" "This could be [...]
Seattle, St. Louis... Baltimore, Chicago... waiting rooms the same hallways polished keen Great big buildings many floors folks in starched coats scurrying America's clinics hum along patients in; patients out patients, patients, all about secretaries by the score nurses on the phones and then, the doctors In Women and men so educated so focused [...]
I know a certain former congressman now president of some colleges whose trademark was a blue shirt button down Back and forth to Springfield then back and forth to Washington Blue shirt Monday and every other day Eastern preppies uniform, I note was khaki pants and blue shirts too although stripes of blue came [...]
Cold, they say, bitter cold! And right they are! The cold bites us, in many ways! Noses and toes fingers and ears get nipped and painted red Pay attention! Our bodies say this is not to my liking! Frost bite, they call it as winter chills and works on us seeping in to gloves and [...]
Planted on a prairie hilltop the highest spot around the college has to grow Engaging the community in learning! Firm foundations abound for buildings and for students minds are stretched and buildings sprout A wing goes here a wing goes there students slip in, and fly away that's the Parkland Way! A thousand students, two [...]