repost | it helps if

I think it helps if we -

   smile at strangers

   ask people questions about themselves

   sit beside someone sitting alone

August 16, 2017

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Grampie Trites
1959

Textbook | Art

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Three cell phone things -

1. For years now, I've had notifications turned off. I only know if there is a message if I click and look.

2. I can send a text at 9:18 and be asleep by 9:18:10.

3. Having a camera so handy, and being able to share photos so easily, are blessings!

@missamykr | Instagram | Project 1,2,3

Quote | Hold Your Hand

 

Nothing in this world

compares to the comfort and security

 of having someone just hold your hand.

- Richelle E. Goodrich

Little House on the Ridge

Counting Blessings

Count your blessings, name them one by one;

Count your blessings, see what God has done;

Count your blessings, name them one by one;

Count your many blessings, see what God has done.

- Johnson Oatman, Jr.

family music 184

While sitting together at the cottage last summer, I asked Dad about the time he felt the call to go on the road. I love to hear him retell it. I recorded this moment and wrote it down for here. 

I was 20. I never played a Hammond organ until we were married and living in an apartment on Dominion Street.

Our friend, Neil, drove a bakery truck, but he got into selling Hammond organs. He worked part-time selling them up on Mountain Road. Once in a while, he would pick me up and take me there. Maybe after the place was closed. Anyway, that's where I started playing. 

Then Neil got me a key and I started practicing at the Wesleyan Church. I would walk down to the church on a Saturday morning. 

I didn't know what I was practicing for. I just loved the organ and wanted to learn how to play it.

When Annette MacCallum had a baby, I was asked to be the organist.

I was always into music and I seemed to be around someone who could sing. I sang with Bethany and then I was in a quartet in Moncton. We would drive all the way down to Beulah to sing and drive back the same night.

One night I felt the Lord talking to me. Maybe you should do that more.

I came to Beulah and I went to the altar and decided I needed to do it. 

I talked with Marina. 

It was 1959.

We sold our things, like the television and fridge.

We moved home to the farm. 

I was on the road full-time for ten years. 

After, we still travelled for camp and revival meetings when on vacation from work.

- Dad 

family music 183 | River Flows in You

 

Ethan

Counting Blessings

to be Canadian

to live in Canada

Stories from Home

I was at Bethany.

I walked to the doctor's office and he said, "I'm taking your appendix out in the morning." 

I think someone drove me to the hospital. 

I can remember snow blowing in around the windows of the old Yarmouth hospital.

Dad and Mom drove all night to see me before surgery. 

It was a 12 hour drive back then with having to drive through all the villages.

I woke up when Dad placed his hand on my head.

After surgery, they headed back to the farm.

I developed pneumonia and Dad and Mom flew me home to recover.

I didn't return to school until the next year.

- Mom

something I watched | Young Woman and the Sea

 

A movie based on the life of Gertrude Ederle, it is a wonderful story about family, courage, resiliency and persistence.

In 1926, Ederle proved that female athletes could compete in physically demanding sports and were not inferior to men. She was the first woman to swim the English Channel and she did it two hours faster than the men who had made the swim. Two million people welcomed her back in New York City.

"The challenge wasn't just to swim the English Channel, it was also to prove that it could be done by a woman." - Gertrude Ederle

You will find a documentary of her life with interviews here and here.