I just read these little “words of wisdom” that an octogenarian widow sends out every morning to about 100 people in our congregation. She says they are words that God speaks to her each morning. In light of Skip’s beautiful picture of the falls, I thought they were perfect words to share with the TW family today.
“Let your heart sing today and be refreshed in the joyful sounds of nature and heaven joining in the chorus.
Let go of the cares of life for a little while and enjoy the freedom of the dance. The seasons of life are brief and must be grasped before they are gone. Let your thoughts fly with abandon to the goodness all around you. And let tomorrow worry about itself. Today is for you to be released like a bird from its cage.”
Claudette Knutson
Thank you
Monica
Thank you, Judi that was beautiful, and thank you Skip looking at the picture of the falls makes me think of the ocean
F J
I like how falls, lift us up.
The sounds that were hand made by God for our ears to hear.Those living sounds trickling and gushing ease hearts and minds, The wet air and earth fragranced by the master perfumer in the mists to become as a taste for the refreshing of our being. Stilled and lulled in arms without chaos and purer. In the stillness of a focused present without future or past. A breath breathed deeply, bringing closeness in the moving of our heart to overlay the intimacy of Creation and how we can…fit in peaceably .
Moments of preservation and the prevailing of sanity amidst the rushing of man’s madness.
Thankyou Skip and the Octogenarian.
FJ
Jerry and Lisa
Another beautiful waterfalls scene in my home state. This is in the midst of the Finger Lakes in Upstate Central New York, formed by the receding glaciers that came down from Canada. The Finger Lakes consist of 11 long, narrow, roughly parallel lakes, oriented north-south as fingers of a pair of outstretched hands. The one east-west lake, which is like the thumb of the The Finger Lakes, is Oneida Lake, which is close to my home town, Sherrill, NY. The southern ends of the lakes have high walls, cut by steep gorges. Two of the lakes (Seneca and Cayuga) are among the deepest in North America and have bottoms below sea level.
Maybe you will also be able to see the historic Erie Canal, if you haven’t already seen it, a man-made water system spanning the entire wide of the state, east to west. providing the early commercial transportation route from Albany (the capital) to Rochester/Buffalo.
Pete Seger sang a song called, The Erie Canal / Low Bridge – check it out on youtube dot com/watch?v=JxKy1_c6DeM . Better yet, a another version by Bruce Springsteen follows, which I myself much favor.
It’s a great time of year to visit Central NY! Thanks for sharing the experience.
Nope. Sorry, Skip. That would have been awesome though, to hook up and do something real “Upstate NY’, like eat some corn on the cob and watermellon. At home now In Smithfield, VA near VA Beach, actually hosting MY in-laws who just arrived today from South Africa for 3 months. Thanks for the thought, though. If you’re interested in some sort-of local (even religious) history, you could travel east down the NYS Thruway a bit (30-45 mins) to the Verona exit and then to Kenwood on the border of Oneida and Sherrill and see “THE MANSION HOUSE”, home of the historic, utopian Oneida Community (“The Perfectionists” commune) of the mid 1800’s (lasting just short of 50 years), who started what became a world renown silverware manufacturing company called, Oneida Limited Silverware (marketing icon – “The Silver Cube”), that was a very successful company lasting until the early 2000’s. My dad was the Superintendent of the Holloware Division and I worked there also, myself, on the 3rd shift during summers while in college. I would say they were a “Christian cult”, practicing selective breeding and a social exercise or discipline called, “Mutual Criticism”, credited for helping the group build and maintain such a cohesive community for so long. Very fascinating. Some of my best friends through high school were descendants of the founders – very bright and good people. You can call and schedule a tour of the property and mansion house (it’s HUGE!). Otherwise, you could visit Green Lakes, much closer to you, and take a nice walk in the woods around, or a canoe ride on, the lake. It’s really and beautifully green. Anyways….thanks again, Skip. Maybe someday…..Shabbat Shalom.
I just read these little “words of wisdom” that an octogenarian widow sends out every morning to about 100 people in our congregation. She says they are words that God speaks to her each morning. In light of Skip’s beautiful picture of the falls, I thought they were perfect words to share with the TW family today.
“Let your heart sing today and be refreshed in the joyful sounds of nature and heaven joining in the chorus.
Let go of the cares of life for a little while and enjoy the freedom of the dance. The seasons of life are brief and must be grasped before they are gone. Let your thoughts fly with abandon to the goodness all around you. And let tomorrow worry about itself. Today is for you to be released like a bird from its cage.”
Thank you
Thank you, Judi that was beautiful, and thank you Skip looking at the picture of the falls makes me think of the ocean
I like how falls, lift us up.
The sounds that were hand made by God for our ears to hear.Those living sounds trickling and gushing ease hearts and minds, The wet air and earth fragranced by the master perfumer in the mists to become as a taste for the refreshing of our being. Stilled and lulled in arms without chaos and purer. In the stillness of a focused present without future or past. A breath breathed deeply, bringing closeness in the moving of our heart to overlay the intimacy of Creation and how we can…fit in peaceably .
Moments of preservation and the prevailing of sanity amidst the rushing of man’s madness.
Thankyou Skip and the Octogenarian.
FJ
Another beautiful waterfalls scene in my home state. This is in the midst of the Finger Lakes in Upstate Central New York, formed by the receding glaciers that came down from Canada. The Finger Lakes consist of 11 long, narrow, roughly parallel lakes, oriented north-south as fingers of a pair of outstretched hands. The one east-west lake, which is like the thumb of the The Finger Lakes, is Oneida Lake, which is close to my home town, Sherrill, NY. The southern ends of the lakes have high walls, cut by steep gorges. Two of the lakes (Seneca and Cayuga) are among the deepest in North America and have bottoms below sea level.
Maybe you will also be able to see the historic Erie Canal, if you haven’t already seen it, a man-made water system spanning the entire wide of the state, east to west. providing the early commercial transportation route from Albany (the capital) to Rochester/Buffalo.
Pete Seger sang a song called, The Erie Canal / Low Bridge – check it out on youtube dot com/watch?v=JxKy1_c6DeM . Better yet, a another version by Bruce Springsteen follows, which I myself much favor.
It’s a great time of year to visit Central NY! Thanks for sharing the experience.
I’m in Syracuse for another week. Any chance you would be in the area?
Nope. Sorry, Skip. That would have been awesome though, to hook up and do something real “Upstate NY’, like eat some corn on the cob and watermellon. At home now In Smithfield, VA near VA Beach, actually hosting MY in-laws who just arrived today from South Africa for 3 months. Thanks for the thought, though. If you’re interested in some sort-of local (even religious) history, you could travel east down the NYS Thruway a bit (30-45 mins) to the Verona exit and then to Kenwood on the border of Oneida and Sherrill and see “THE MANSION HOUSE”, home of the historic, utopian Oneida Community (“The Perfectionists” commune) of the mid 1800’s (lasting just short of 50 years), who started what became a world renown silverware manufacturing company called, Oneida Limited Silverware (marketing icon – “The Silver Cube”), that was a very successful company lasting until the early 2000’s. My dad was the Superintendent of the Holloware Division and I worked there also, myself, on the 3rd shift during summers while in college. I would say they were a “Christian cult”, practicing selective breeding and a social exercise or discipline called, “Mutual Criticism”, credited for helping the group build and maintain such a cohesive community for so long. Very fascinating. Some of my best friends through high school were descendants of the founders – very bright and good people. You can call and schedule a tour of the property and mansion house (it’s HUGE!). Otherwise, you could visit Green Lakes, much closer to you, and take a nice walk in the woods around, or a canoe ride on, the lake. It’s really and beautifully green. Anyways….thanks again, Skip. Maybe someday…..Shabbat Shalom.