Archive for Personal Growth
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Love…
By Eloise Graham PUBLISHER’S CORNER A couple of months ago, a friend asked me why I didn’t write an article about love after 50. I pondered that for some time. What is love after 50? Well, what is love before 50? More pondering… What is love? “Love” is a word we probably use ever...
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The Joys of Gardening
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “We come from the earth, we return to the earth, and in between we garden.” Every year in April, our suburban yard would come alive with color. The tulips and jonquils would push through the soil and explode in the vibrant colors of spring. The buds on the tw...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Which is stronger, a blizzard Winter, or a robust Spring? As a broadcaster, I remained alert to daily conditions, in all seasons. Reports of what conditions might mean to exposed livestock, and in Spring, to planting the crops and the “growing season” follow-up. From Germany...
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Recovering from Resentment
By Bob Morrison Development Director of Ridgecrest Village “Love keeps no record of wrongs. … does not hold grudges.” 1 Corinthians 13:5 Most of us have learned everyone has issues, everyone has feelings, and everyone gets hurt fro...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Late in February, there was an article in the New York Times about “found” poetry of Rudyard Kipling. I dove into volumes on and of poetry to discover Kipling’s “Early Verse,” published in 1900, containing the known writings in prose and verse. The article claims 500...
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The Empowerment of Travel
By Mary Schricker Gemberling “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” - Mark Twain ...
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Max’s Musings
By Max Molleston Over the years, I have enjoyed relating how we are, sometimes with the poetry, and often with some of my own thoughts. I am fairly sure the column for April will begin my ninth year. During that time, you and your writer have done some maturing. Are we wiser than we were? I thi...
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Unchartered Territory
By Mary Schricker Gemberling Gary and I were having dinner with a couple on our tour in South America, and before I knew it, the conversation turned to concerns about caring for an aging parent at home in Canada. On a recent visit in Arizona, we stopped to see a friend, who had just been release...
