by Robin Farnsworth | Jan 30, 2014 | Hope, Loss
I watched an interview with an earthquake survivor recently and I was intrigued by something she said; “If an earthquake wakes you up, you never think This is an earthquake. You’ll think it’s anything else.” We are reason-able creatures. Therefore, a dog probably...
by Robin Farnsworth | Jan 12, 2014 | Hope, Loss
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Ecclesiastes 3:1 KJV (also the Byrds 1960’s) The ground was soft, giving way under my steps. I couldn’t help but think that this same path was covered by snow, drifting up to three feet,...
by Robin Farnsworth | Dec 28, 2013 | Hope, Loss
Christmas was chaos this year. I kept trying to escape it, to climb up higher, where I could see far over it all and find perspective but I failed. A couple of years after Spence died, I expressed to my mother, who had also lost a child, how hard Christmas was now....
by Robin Farnsworth | Sep 26, 2013 | Hope, Loss, Redemption
From the hill where I stood looking down at the small city of Cohb, Ireland (pronounced Cove) I could just make out the harbor and the sea, which was a light green, spattered with a few small boats. It was Irish weather; a fine mist gave the colorful town an opaque...
by Robin Farnsworth | Aug 29, 2013 | Dementia, Hope, Random, Women
“Ama, are you shrinking?” The question was posed by my five year old granddaughter, and it made me stumble a bit at first. Could you tell? Was it THAT noticeable? When I mentioned our conversation to my son, he tried to comfort me by saying that she had been asking...
by Robin Farnsworth | Aug 10, 2013 | Hope
August 11th marks the two year anniversary of this website and the very first blog I ever wrote. I still think “blogging” is a strange exercise of 21st century mankind, but it’s grown on me. A couple of years later, it’s become a routine. A writer friend of mine...
