Last week a 34 year old nephew died unexpectedly. The services are coming up in a few days. An old hotel at a whistle stop in the desert lets our dune buggy group use a patch of their desert garden to place memorials to deceased buggy friends. Friday we placed a remembrance for Jimbo. We returned home to a phone message that Aunt Mina is in the last chapter of life. I expect a phone call any time that she is gone. Her great desire at 88 is to go to her heavenly home. I know all the verses and comfort in Christ. But these losses still affect my soul.
Years ago April bought me a soaring bald eagle piece for a Christmas gift. It is titled "Amazing Grace" and a favorite of mine. The next year she gave me a pair depicted in free-fall. Then came an eagle head in the form of a bookend. Lastly a sculpture of an eagle crown. Somehow it sort of became an eagle collection and we have them displayed around the house. I decided to put the picture of an eagle sitting on the dock railing in the header for a while. They have a majesty few creatures can match.
A bit of wanderlust combined with a garage full of cool things. Beginning in April 2010 follow our cabin build history and other adventures in remote Gustavus, Alaska
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"Most of us live a cautious life on the principle of safety first; but to live the Christian life there is necessary a certain reckless willingness to adventure. If faith can see every step of the way, it is not really faith."
Wm. Barclay
“Few frontiers would have been settled without that special breed of women who have always followed the footsteps of their wandering husbands.” Wayne Short, from “The Cheechakoes”
"Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing."
Helen Keller
"...not all those who wander are lost"
J.R.R. Tolkien
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Samuel Clemens
"Truth is the cry of many but the game of few." --George Berkeley
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
Albert Camus
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. "Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do" "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gian Carlo Menotti
Langston Hughes
About Me
- Mel (AKA Dad, Papa Mel, Grampa)
- Not retired, just tired. Married 44 years. Viet Nam Vet (1st Cavalry Division). Enjoying life!
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