Archive for June, 2007
Ruth and Erwin Thompson’s 65th Wedding Anniversary, No Matter What!
June 6th, all my natural-born life, has been my parents’ wedding anniversary. Mother died last year on May 1st, 2006, very close to what would have been their 64th wedding anniversary.
June 6th is one of the few dates of the year that I have not only memorized, but have etched in some deep recess [...]
“NESTING,” a poem of life-long love between my parents Erwin and Ruth Thompson
Following a major stroke in 2001 up until the last few weeks before my mother’s death in 2006, we were able to care for my mother at home. Many families would not have made this choice or had the resources to carry out this choice.
My father, supported by a strong family team, was my mother’s [...]
A Land Full of Stories: A Conference & Celebration of Writing about Place and Personal History (June 7 - 9, 2007), Southwestern Writers Collection, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas
The Story Circle Network, in cooperation with the Alkek Library’s Southwestern Writers Collection at Texas State University, is planning a weekend writing conference to mark the publication of What Wildness is This: Women Write About the Southwest—Story Circle Network’s new anthology of writings by women celebrating their experiences in the landscapes of the Southwest.
The [...]
Deborah Tall’s wisdom on the cherished places of our lives
Maybe we need different places for different phases of our lives. Maybe cherished places remain alive inside us even if we have to move on—our attachment to the earth not thinned, but widened.
~Deborah Tall , “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place” ~
“Up Under the Pine Rows,” a poem from “Sightlines: A Poet’s Diary” on the themes of ecology, memory, place, love and loss
I’ll be going to San Marcos, Texas next week to participate in the LAND FULL OF STORIES conference presented by the STORY CIRCLES network. The theme for the conference is PLACE and that’s what pulled me to respond to a call of papers. I’m honored to be chosen to present a break-out session there. My [...]
Day 41, Final Stop on Ten Zen Seconds Blogtour–Daily Focus for Visual Artists
Anne Marchand is a full-time artist who creates colorful, energetic abstract paintings with poetic connections to life. Anne’s cityscape, public art murals adorn playground walls in Washington, DC. Her blog, PainterlyVisions, showcases talented artists in the Washington, DC metropolitan area as well as other artists. Anne comments on life in the arts from her studio [...]
Down on the (Riehl) Farm, Evergreen Heights, with Erwin A. Thompson–chestnut history in America; the rise and fall of the cut flower business
When my father read at the Alton, Illinois library this Spring, someone in the audience asked him, “Did you work the farm during the years you were at Union Electric?”
My father responded as follows:
We worked it, but not as a working farm. Evergreen Heights was founded by my grandfather E. A. Riehl, at one time [...]
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