September 24, 20*** Letter Withdrawing My Forty Year Membership from My Church September 24, 2020 Grace Community Church Chairman of the Board of Elders Dear Chairman Board of Elders, I am writing to withdraw my membership from Grace Community Church. With great sadness, and at times...
Prologue: I sent my letter withdrawing membership from my church on September 24. On September 25, I received a short response from a friend in leadership acknowledging my leaving, then a longer one from him on September 26 expressing concern and offering to talk. What follows...
Dedicated to All the Children I Thought of When Writing This About My Grandson - Those Separated From Their Parents at the Border Second Grandson – 12/31/20 …and when he was young, and really not so long ago it seemed, his parents would leave him at times for just some hours few – an endless...
January 7, 2021 Dear Senator , In light of the tremendously troubling and violent criminal assault upon the US Capitol and the chambers of Congress - the seat of the Legislative branch of the US...
Written Late 1990’s The January sun was warm upon my back as I drank my morning coffee and contemplated the new garden area. Its design was still in process, but I had already laid out a wagon wheel design in the center with...
Claude Monet | Rouen Cathedral: The Portal (Sunlight) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) Fourth Sister – 10/26/20 …of course being the bright, intelligent, and sophisticated traveler that she was, she understood and appreciated how sunlight and even moonlight, changes the view, the...
Vincent van Gogh | First Steps, after Millet | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (metmuseum.org) (In Public Domain) Second Daughter - 09/28/20 ...and it seems like so many years, but maybe just four or so, that out in the garden when her daddy, who she loved so well…she a little hurt, but...
Blackboard (nga.gov) (In Public Domain) Oldest Granddaughter –06/30/14 …and, yes, she knew facts, she knew figures, she knew a circle from a square and how to figure the area of both. And some said this was a great accomplishment for a girl, but she wasn’t any longer a girl, for now her father...