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Posted on 05/31/2008 11:14:27 PM PDT by JustAmy
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When I found that Normandy meadow scene a few days ago ..I could not resist.Thank you “Dita” and for the Ernie Pyle excerpt..
I spent my childhood listening to the war news on the radio every evening with my family.
I am stunned by the descriptions in Ernie Pyle’s reports.
The day lives forever in his words.
The radio was THE medium then, still was when I was a kid.
But I was close on the cusp of the television era.
He certainly wrote as one who saw it all...and knew how to pass that on to his readers.
Continued prayers for your recovery :)
Bless you!
Thanks! Things are slowing down!
#2 son graduated last nite—long, boring and stuffy right til the end. Woman principal wanted “dignified”. Kids and parents just wanted OUT! We won. What’s she gonna do? Suspend the kids and tell teh adults they can’t come back? BWAHAHA
Don’t have to do that again til the gbaby graduates in about 16 years! WOOHOOO!
Hope you and Marissa have a great summer!
Have a great weekend!
Thanks, Meg! The poppies are beautiful, and that pic says it all.
The first lighthouse is gorgeous! I want to be keeper there!
NC has beautiful lighthouses, but nothing like that!
It’s true. I don’t take compliments very well.
One of my greatest regrets in life has been not taking my wife back to Pompeii, Amalfi, Sorrento and Capri, places she had been before but experiences I longed to share with her—while she was still healthy or at least ambulatory. Now she is no longer capable of even enjoying your wonderful photographs. Susan was talented and loved to travel, to cook and to read, having participated in several book and gourmet groups. She relished music, opera, film and history, won awards for her pen & inks and for her acrylics, and wrote her college thesis on her present affliction, 30 years before it was identified by name. Susan came as close to self-actualization as anyone I know, a true renaissance woman with a Ph.D and two masters, a successful physical therapy practice (she was described by one doctor as an “icon” of physical therapy in New York), and nine years as president of the board of trustees of a local hospital. Now she is hospitalized and in a semi-coma, having suffered her 8th seizure on Thursday. Very sad. I try to be optimistic to compensate, and to cherish memories and photographs of our better times together.
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When Cristine Bouwkamp and Kyle Kramer got married in the spring of 2007, they did something most of us wouldn’t think of doing. Instead of hosting a “sit-down dinner,” they held a simple reception at the church and invited their guests to help distribute food to people in need.
They bought a truckload of food and had it delivered to the church parking lot. Then they and their wedding guests served the people of the neighborhood. Cristine and Kyle said the first thing they wished to do as a married couple was to serve others. Because God had changed their lives so radically, they wanted to “bless God for blessing us with each other.”
The Kramers chose a great start for their new marriage—blessing God by serving others. The apostle Paul encouraged the Christians of Galatia: “Through love serve one another” (Gal. 5:13). Some of them believed that the ceremonial practices of the Old Testament were still binding on the church. So Paul wrote that salvation is by grace through faith. It is by faith we live out our new life in Christ. He reminded them that the law was fulfilled in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself” (v.14).
As followers of Jesus, we’re here to serve Him out of love—to “bless God for blessing us.”
When Cristine Bouwkamp and Kyle Kramer got married in the spring of 2007, they did something most of us wouldn’t think of doing. Instead of hosting a “sit-down dinner,” they held a simple reception at the church and invited their guests to help distribute food to people in need.
What a beautiful, strong, talented, brilliant woman you have shared your life with, OESY! I am so very sorry to read about her illness.
Thanks, Amy.
Yes, I am praying for you and your wife, OESY. May God bless you both and take care of your every need.
God bless you with strength and courage, OESY. You have friends here who care very much. I hope that in some way, on some level, that helps a bit.
That was a lovely trip to Italy accompanied by a very nice piano rendition of the theme from The Godfather - one of my favorite songs. Just beautiful!
Thank you, gardengirl.
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