Making baskets seems to be a good topic this close to Easter. I am re-reading the book "Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Kimmerer. I just finished the chapter where the author was learning to make a basket from John Pigeon, a Potawatomi basket maker. She described going with him to choose the black ash tree, felling it, followed by the hours of scraping and peeling long, thin … [Read more...] about To make a basket
2017
Musing again
I opened up my journal this morning, wrote in today's date, and suddenly remembered that I was ordained as a pastor 18 years ago today. Oh, how the world has changed! How the Church has changed! How I have changed! On that evening 18 years ago, I didn't know what I was getting into any more than Peter, Andrew, James or John did when Jesus invited them to leave their nets … [Read more...] about Musing again