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Web Notes When We Are Scattered – August 21, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Connected While Apart Butterfly P.S. Dear Mayfield, Last evening a group of us enjoyed Peggy’s second Mayfield Nature Talk by Zoom, “Butterfly Basics.” This morning a male Hackberry Emperor joined me as I rounded Belmont Harbor on my morning walk. Since there are hackberry trees at Mayfield, you might indeed see a Hackberry Emperor in […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – August 19, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Connected While Apart Icon of Joy my water Dear Mayfield, I walked to the lake early this morning on a mission. I knew the photo I wanted to record for our upcoming weekend reflection and worship materials. On the way I met this black dog.  But let me step back for a moment. This morning […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – August 14, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Connected While Apart Gap Year The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit’s one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can discover itself like a once-blind man unbound. The gaps are the clefts in the rock where you cower to see the back part of God; they are […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – August 12, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Connected While Apart Tree Talk Dear Mayfield, Winter 2019 was rough and long. Added to the usual winter winds, snow, and low temperatures, was a large quantity of ice. The ice meant it was a winter littered with pieces of trees on the ground.  Theresa referred then to these downed portions of trees as tree […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – August 6, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Story Power Dear Mayfield, Seventy-five years ago today, August 6, 1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima in Japan. Sadako Sasaki was two years old at the time and living with her family about a mile from Hiroshima’s ground zero. The force of the blast threw her through a window. When her mother […]

Web Notes When We Are Scattered – August 4, 2020

by Martha Brunell

Surprise Buds, a new beginning, the thrill of spring, on the Anne Frank sapling, Sonoma State University, Sonoma, CA, late February 2019. There are thirteen saplings from Anne Frank’s chestnut tree planted on twelve sites across the United States in addition to all the others now flourishing near and far. Surprise 76 years ago today, […]