Comments on: Love Those Birds and Blooms http://ingridschlueter.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/love-those-birds-and-blooms/ Ingrid Schlueter's Personal Thoughts and Encouragement Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:59:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Caleb http://ingridschlueter.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/love-those-birds-and-blooms/#comment-2082 Caleb Thu, 08 May 2008 04:57:08 +0000 http://ingridschlueter.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-2082 The simplicity of the country is one of the major reasons that I love visiting my "Uncle" Chris, "Aunt" Audrey (the sister of one of my aunts by marriage) & their boys out on the farm. It's like a totally different world, one of simplicity, charm, reverence for the Lord Jesus Christ & they have something about them that makes you feel you've went back in time about 80 years. I think fondly of the days passed there on their old farm in western Illinois: my mother & I helping with the chores, picnics on the big wraparound porch, watching the cows, pigs & chickens, playing outside with the boys & the farm fresh milk. Aunt Audrey's the proud home-schooling mom of 4 boys & she got her lifelong dream to marry a farmer & have cows. They (my aunt & uncle & the 3 younger boys) recently moved to a much larger farm near Rochester, New York, where they'll be doing beef, sheep & chickens & I had the privelege of taking the train to see them over my spring break at their new place. So, the spring always makes me think of my dear Uncle Chris doing planting. The simplicity of the country is one of the major reasons that I love visiting my “Uncle” Chris, “Aunt” Audrey (the sister of one of my aunts by marriage) & their boys out on the farm. It’s like a totally different world, one of simplicity, charm, reverence for the Lord Jesus Christ & they have something about them that makes you feel you’ve went back in time about 80 years. I think fondly of the days passed there on their old farm in western Illinois: my mother & I helping with the chores, picnics on the big wraparound porch, watching the cows, pigs & chickens, playing outside with the boys & the farm fresh milk. Aunt Audrey’s the proud home-schooling mom of 4 boys & she got her lifelong dream to marry a farmer & have cows. They (my aunt & uncle & the 3 younger boys) recently moved to a much larger farm near Rochester, New York, where they’ll be doing beef, sheep & chickens & I had the privelege of taking the train to see them over my spring break at their new place. So, the spring always makes me think of my dear Uncle Chris doing planting.

]]> By: Elizabeth http://ingridschlueter.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/love-those-birds-and-blooms/#comment-2081 Elizabeth Thu, 08 May 2008 01:48:03 +0000 http://ingridschlueter.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-2081 I was happy to discover this magazine, from your post! Can't wait for my first issue, and the email newsletter was fun to read, as well. This sort of "restorative" is badly needed, in my view, given the glut of negatives we face in the general culture. I need, personally, to focus more on the good, less on the distressing/evil. On a side note, here in rural NW IL, I had some wonderful bird visitors this week: black and white warblers, rose-breasted grosbeaks, western meadowlarks, goldfinches, chipping sparrows, and the glorious barn swallows with their acrobatics! Good bird week for us. Plus the apples are all blooming, the early garden is growing. Oh...if only we could keep our minds more on our daily blessings, which are so numerous, rather than the evils which seem to surround us.. I was happy to discover this magazine, from your post! Can’t wait for my first issue, and the email newsletter was fun to read, as well.

This sort of “restorative” is badly needed, in my view, given the glut of negatives we face in the general culture. I need, personally, to focus more on the good, less on the distressing/evil.

On a side note, here in rural NW IL, I had some wonderful bird visitors this week: black and white warblers, rose-breasted grosbeaks, western meadowlarks, goldfinches, chipping sparrows, and the glorious barn swallows with their acrobatics! Good bird week for us. Plus the apples are all blooming, the early garden is growing. Oh…if only we could keep our minds more on our daily blessings, which are so numerous, rather than the evils which seem to surround us..

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