Tag: Family

• Observing Grandpa’s Footsteps Through a Story…

  Being a Granddaughter of a prisoner of war never took hold of me until his death. Most of my decisions to be a curator of history including the Bible as well as Grandpa’s service time is because of his death when I was a teenager. As I observed each day my story of the day…

  Garnetjewel

  July 26, 2023

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Bible Reflections, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  Bible stories, Esther, Family, love, old testament, sacrifice

• My Thoughts…

  Since last Thursday I feel like a scatter brain. I was able to plan and organize my series and have them straddle each other. All of a sudden I have this one big problem and then vegetables to be canned. Today we canned another dozen jars of pickles. Unfortunately, we lost one jar to a…

  Garnetjewel

  July 25, 2023

  Are These American Ideals Gone?, Family, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  300th, article, batch, cucumbers, Family, garlic, my thoughts, pickles, taste-tested, thank you, time, vegetables

• Unconditional Love

  What does love mean to you? How is it shown in your family? Lately, I have experienced many various forms of love. The love of family from my elders and vice versa love from my niece. Even love from a varied group of my standing communities called Facebook. God’s love gives me peace and comfort…

  Garnetjewel

  July 25, 2023

  Family, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  communities, elders, experiences, Family, love, nieces, online, photos, special, the one, unconditional love

• A Week of Observing Grandpa’s Footsteps

  Each day this past week on Facebook I shared a photo, some thoughts or information like the Operations Map. I have shared stuff before, but not quite like this on Facebook for an entire week. I finally understand the idea of the Facebook ‘Story’. The response was pretty neat to see from day to day.…

  Garnetjewel

  July 24, 2023

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  brief, each day, Family, freedom, friends, Grandpa, Leo, letters, maps, obwervations, photos, POW, stories

• Marty

  Time is amazing and ongoing. On a pace that everyone has to catch up to regardless of a person’s circumstances. Marty was my mom’s cousin and two years ago the Lord took him home. Like I said, it doesn’t seem like it has already been 2 years… time has just ticked onward. He was a…

  Garnetjewel

  July 22, 2023

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  aunts, cousins, death, events, Family, farmers, grandparents, kidney failure, kids, laughter, life, love, surgery, time, uncles

• Community

  Who has been watching or observing the supposed controversy over Jason Aldean’s new song debuted in May? Most of regular America loves this song and the sense of American Small Town Communities. Today I personally witnessed my Community comforting and praying for me after I was afraid of not getting my writing done at all…

  Garnetjewel

  July 20, 2023

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Extraordinary People With Common Sense, Family, Musical Glory

  comforting, community, Country, Family, God, Jason Aldean, love, music, prayer

• A Prayer of Praise

  Heavenly Gracious Lord, You have given us a miracle. The heart is so fragile and meticulous to fix and yet when the doctors have no answers you have shown through their gaps. Nothing about life has been promised to be easy; you have never given us such a promise. Prayer is a powerful tool, Lord,…

  Garnetjewel

  July 18, 2023

  Family, Unique Prayers

  Church community, Family, fragile, grace, heart, love, mercy, miracle, praise, prayer, thankfulness

• 1903

  This man was brought into the world at the turn of this new century. So much was happening and on the cusp in this 20th Century. This young boy ended up being in the newspaper quite a bit while growing up into a young man. To make this easier, today is my Great-Grandpa Arla’s Birthday.…

  Garnetjewel

  July 18, 2023

  American Heritage, Bible Reflections, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  120 years old, birthday, Carlisle News, Family, life, love, memories, newspaper articles, old articles, photos, Pleasantville Items

• Walking Through History In Letters

  Dates are always going off in my head. July 23, 1944 is one of those ‘days of infamy’ in my mind. So this year as usual dates of the letters come to mind when the dates circle round. Today Monday, 17, 2023 is on a Monday like it was in 1944 when Grandpa penciled two…

  Garnetjewel

  July 17, 2023

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  1944, Family, grandparents, history, letters, love, memories, time, writing, WW2

• Summer School at OCU

  My college life was really unique. I began college right after graduating from high school, but realized a Catholic Campus wasn’t right for me after all. So then working a job for most of that semester and saving up I was able to start college for the Spring Semester. Maybe this course a year later…

  Garnetjewel

  July 17, 2023

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing

  campus, college, cousins, Dr. Cutchin, Family, Geography, Mr. Gee, Oakland City University