Connected While Apart Assurance in the Flow Kishwaukee River — November 2, 2020 Dear Mayfield, In any accounting of rivers, the winding, North-flowing Kishwaukee is in the watery minor leagues, especially in a state that hosts the likes of the Mississippi, the Illinois, the Rock, and the Fox Rivers, to name a few. I remember […]
Dear Mayfield, Happy Halloween. Below you will find our worship and reflection materials for this Memorial Weekend. Don’t forget to turn back the clocks if you have any that don’t reset themselves. One way by which I measure the length of this pandemic time is that this is the 100th piece of content that I […]
Connected While Apart Halloween Remembered pumpkins just east of Genoa, early Saturday morning, October 24, 2020 Dear Mayfield, In all of the upheaval of this year and with the cancellation or alteration of so many beloved Halloween traditions, I wanted to offer us a visual of what remains constant — it is October, and the […]
Connected While Apart Empowered A sampling of my masks — these were all made by hand for me — a favorite color in batik, mermaid scales, the big lakes, Eric Carle’s butterfly from The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and water-washed rocks with words of affirmation. Dear Mayfield, Most days I go through two or three masks […]
Greetings Mayfield Community, Attached below are the resources for this weekend. A couple of reminders about the musical links. If there is an ad at the beginning of the chant link, you can fast forward it in a few seconds. If you can’t hear any of the links, make sure the sound button isn’t muted. […]
Connected While Apart Leaves Again? Dear Mayfield, There is a joke I have heard more than once among amateur photographers. How many more pictures of sunsets do I really need? Well If you live by big water or broad land, in a city as the light sinking toward the horizon dances off tall buildings of stone, […]
Connected While Apart Autumn Within and Around The earth we are riding keeps trying to tell us something with its continuous scripture of leaves. (William Stafford) I am made of all the same stuff that makes the seasons what they are. (Heather Maloney) The notion that our lives are like the eternal cycles of the […]
Hello Everyone, See the link below for our weekend materials. Please note that I need the names for the memorial list and reading on November 1 by Thursday, October 29. Thank you. Stay well and warm. Peace, Martha 10.18.20 Pentecost 20
Connected While Apart Food for Thought Bees — the heavy lifters in the great congregation of pollinators Dear Mayfield, When I was a child, I was allergic to bees. Nobody knew that until the first time I was stung. And that first time and on several other occasions I was not stung by a single […]
Connected While Apart What We Love Already? Dear Mayfield, The photo above might make you wonder if I am trying to compete with retailers for rolling out all things Christmas as early as possible. Actually, that is not what this photo is about. I have a friend whose family is divided among several states in […]