by Robin Farnsworth | Dec 9, 2023 | Hope, Loss, Random
*** Dear friends, This is a repost, but also a timeless reminder to slow down this Christmas season! The internet went out on November 24th. At first I thought, No big deal. I can get around it. But one day and one hour with tech support turned into a week and...
by Robin Farnsworth | Jun 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
Big Sid must be dead now. I was a teenager when we first met and he seemed old. My parent’s age anyway. Like forties? He was big. I see him flopped into and filling an even bigger chair, his sleeves rolled up above his thick meaty hands. A white collared shirt...
by Robin Farnsworth | Jun 1, 2023 | Dementia, Loss
Aunt Lila was dying. She knew this, but often forgot. No one knew when it all began, the cancer that likely sprouted as first a small seed within a dormant ovary, a sleeping grain of terror. Then it grew, and grew, indiscreetly dropping more seeds into the dark womb...
by Robin Farnsworth | May 1, 2023 | Blog Post, Hope
How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble! We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear. Job 14:1-3 Somewhere after Abraham but before Moses, there lived a very good man named Job. Full of wealth...
by Robin Farnsworth | Mar 29, 2023 | Blog Post, Faith, Hope, Uncategorized
In the cross, in the cross Be my glory ever, Till my ransomed soul shall find Rest beyond the river. – Fanny Crosby 1869 Hard-boiled eggs.Jelly beans.Easter Lilies.Yuk. Add to that being stuffed into an ill-fitting Easter dress that my mother made, with a death...
