They had Simple Names,
Katie, Maggie. Their Lives Light
The Generations
Maggie Kaufman Shetler 1876-1932
Katie Cook 1935-2023
Archive for the History Category
Posted in Family, History, LIght, Spiritual with tags Light the Generations, Simple Names on March 12, 2023 by blglick
Posted in Architecture, Haiku'd Photographs, History, Rural, West, With Michele Gast with tags Hold onto the Sacred, Our Memories Blur on July 6, 2022 by blglick
The Great Plains Hold On
To the Sacred, Even as
Our Memories Blur
To the Sacred, Even as
Our Memories Blur
Posted in Flowers, Haiku'd Photographs, History, Hope, Joy with tags Every New Blossom, Full of Hope and Joy on October 5, 2021 by blglick
Every New Blossom,
Full of Hope and Joy, Recalls
Blooms That Came Before
Full of Hope and Joy, Recalls
Blooms That Came Before
Posted in History, Memories, Time with tags A Sudden Memory, So Different So Much the Same on September 16, 2021 by blglick
A Sudden Memory
A Time I Was So Different
And So Much The Same
A Time I Was So Different
And So Much The Same
Posted in Death, History, Memories with tags All Our History is Shared, More True Than Any Fact, We Cannot Breath on May 25, 2020 by blglick
All Our History
Is Shared. Each of Us Wants It
Unique, Ours Alone
We turn to Glory
And Away from Blood Until
We are Overwhelmed
Taken by the Chaos
Of Forgotten Memory
And We Cannot Breathe
As That Memory
Weaves our Shared Tapestry More
True than Any Fact
Full of Glory and
Our Bloody Hands, Survived By
Our Forgiving Hearts
Remembering Kent State
Posted in Death, Haiku'd Photographs, History, Hope, Memories with tags Remembering Kent State, Salvation is Our to Find and Craft, Trade Violence for Calm on May 4, 2020 by blglickNow Fifty Years On
We Still Argue in Guns and
Violence and Hatred
Will We Never Learn
To Answer With Something More,
Different, Beautiful?
Trade Violence For Calm, 
Hear Hatred With Love, Guns with
More than Blood and Breath
A New Kind of World,
Not One Gone All Blind In a
Furious Eye for Eye
Salvation Is Ours,
Found Only With Gentle Hands
Open Hearts, and Time
Posted in History, Love, Memories, With Michele Gast with tags First Things First on June 21, 2017 by blglick
This Day, First Things First
Surprise, Delight, Gratitude
For Our Connection
Posted in Architecture, History, Trees with tags All the Years, Tall Trees and Small Houses on April 19, 2017 by blglick
Walking Long Blocks with
All The Years Written in Tall
Trees and Small Houses
Posted in Death, History, Love, Memories, Philosophical, Spiritual with tags finding our way, Grief unpacks it's bags on July 30, 2016 by blglick
Grief Unpacked Its Bags,
A Sudden and Unwanted Guest
With No Plans to Leave
A Sudden and Unwanted Guest
With No Plans to Leave
Loss on Every Shelf
Sorrow in Every Drawer
Pain Beneath the Bed
We Could Not Quite Breathe
Wondering if That Moment
Might Not Ever End
But Time Does Still Pass
And Grief Turned Towards Us With
All Its Open Heart
And We Also Found
Among the Sorrow and Loss
A Shining Honor
The Consolations
Of Shared Memories, the Breath
Of Persistent Love
So It Turns Out That
This Life is not Perfect and
Grief is not a Guest
But Our Souls do Rise
To Every Occasion and
Our Hearts Will Reach Out
And We Will Carry
Honor, Memory, and Love
As We Find Our Way
Posted in History, Mountain, Sky, Tri-ku with tags Packing Water food and history, Wilderness beyond the grasp of visions on July 30, 2016 by blglick
Between Mountain Tops
A Broad Green Valley Stretches
Beneath Bluest Skies
We Will Cross Those Fields
Step by Step Packing Water,
Food, and History
After all is seen
Wilderness Remains Beyond
The Grasp of Visions
A Year in Haiku 