After a long dormancy I’m set to revive this blog. In the interim I walked across the country along the American Discovery Trail, speaking about the abundance of kindness, virtues of community and issues of humanity. I also observed and reported on kindness, community and humanity. I continued to do so on a separate blog [...]
More about Gram Ferrin. There’s also a discreet but rather embarrassing reference to me. The other story concerned “cabbages.” Not “kings and cabbages” just plain ole cabbages. In those days we grew most everything we ate, or picked the berries, salted down fish, made preserves and jelly, killed a “beef” or hog. We perhaps did [...]
In Pop’s last letter to Newton that I posted he made reference to starting work on a family tree. Fortunately, I have those writings as well. As one single document it’s long so I’ll break it into two parts. I guess that sometime or other in their lives most everyone wants to write a book. [...]
Pop refers to a “Family Tree” he worked on. I have that and will insert that into this series on Pop’s Letters next time. Pop mentions the benefits of the “War Economy” back in the sixties. We experienced similar benefits in the new millennium and is a reason why the 2008 crash did not come [...]