January 2009
16 posts
Lunch at IGH
I attended a retirement luncheon for Karen Lucas, my physician colleague, at the clinic I helped start in 1991, and retired from in 2005. It felt good to enter the lobby and see Dan’s beautiful painting we initially hung for the opening of the clinic. Everyone seemed very happy to see me, many of the same staff were still there and I spent time catching up with each one. David, the new...
I am so grateful the U.S. Airway Flight did not...
Exerpt from a letter written by my friend, Harvey,...
Thank you for giving birth to me. From what I have heard it wasn’t easy. I was born prematurely and you were pretty sick when I came, but I am grateful for the care and love that pulled us both through those first days.
A few years later you saved my life when I almost drowned in the Trent swimming hole. You pulled me out by grabbing a foot and yanking me up. For that I am truly...
Received word today that our house appraisal was...
“i thank you god for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes.”
— e.e. cummings
Harvey Leuning's Mother, Evelyn Sieps
Word came from Harvey Leuning, that his mother, Evelyn Sieps, 94, passed away peacefully in her sleep today, in Dell Rapids, South Dakota.
From Anna, on her first day back at work:
How does vacation feel? I forgot already.
This is so beautiful
It’s the birthday of the man who said, “All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost,” the man called “the father of modern fantasy,” the writer John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, J.R.R. Tolkien, (books by this author) born in Bloemfontein, South Africa (1892).
His mother taught him Latin and Greek, and then one day he saw Welsh names on the side of...
San Lucas party last night
Last night we had a group of 12 over for a pot luck dinner at 4924 for people who went to San Lucas either in 2007 or 2008. We had a remarkable selection of food and good stories. Dan made a slide show for the occasion with music featuring the children singing in the church. Unfortunately, Harvey and Cheryl could not attend, and they were greatly missed. I am so glad we had the...