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Walking or driving around, one pays little attention to small rises and falls in the landscape. In Waseca, I am aware the library is significantly lower than the courthouse and the downtown area. In New Richland, had I been asked, I could have described that the city park and Highway 30 past the...
I know where Waldo was last Saturday. As anyone who recognizes the allusion will expect, he was wearing a red and white striped shirt and hat and mingling among a large crowd of people dressed in every color imaginable and each carrying or wearing items that helped represent who they were and...
aI wish to express my congratulations to the members of the Eustice family who organized and carried out the event at the fairgrounds last Saturday, Sept. 5. There really did seem to be “something for everyone,” in the community-focused way meant to memorialize who Don Eustice was and how he...
GREAT MINNESOTA GET-TOGETHER - Deb volunteered at the Education Minnesota booth at the Minnesota State Fair this year. It was her first time attending the state fair. Star Eagle photos by Deb Bently
A couple months back, I decided to take a step outside my comfort zone: I signed up to volunteer at the Education Minnesota booth at the Minnesota State Fair.
You see, I have long harbored a deep dark secret: I had never before attended the state fair. Perhaps you remember my jokes about...
Someone called me “famous” the other day. It was meant as a compliment and I was grateful for the generous assessment, although I was so taken by surprise I stuttered somewhat as I expressed my thanks.
The exchange got me thinking though. What are the criteria for “fame,” anyway?
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SAYING GOODBYE- Trinity Lutheran Church of Wilton, the church Deb has attended her whole life, is closing.
The church where my parents were married, where I was married, where my children were baptized and confirmed and where I taught Sunday School for more than 20 years, is closing.
The membership of Trinity Lutheran Church of Wilton is down to somewhere around 20 active members, and keeping...
BLENDED BEAUTY - There are three painted lady butterflies in this picture, but only one is readily visible. The other two have their wings closed and are blending in with the sand and pebbles of a gravel road. Star Eagle photo by Deb Bently
After a recent rain, there was a puddle at the end of my driveway. Now that the water has drained and evaporated, a patch of mud remains.
I cannot be unhappy about it, because hundreds of butterflies are using it as a place to get water. In numbers I believe I have never seen before, they...
I love the pieces of shaped glass that bend light and create rainbows.
One can never learn enough about light: It seems perfectly appropriate that God created it first.
Science tells us that even at its inconceivable speed of 186,000 miles per second, light takes a bit more than eight...
MOON OF MUCH RIPE FRUIT - These apples on a tree in Deb’s yard got her thinking about time, and the ways we refer to it. Star Eagle photo by Deb Bently
I am fascinated by the Native American way of dividing the year into “moons.” That is, they did not designate weekdays or assign them names, but simply referred to the four weeks between one full moon and the next with a single name. What I enjoy is that the name for the “moon” creates a picture...
Deb “borrowed” teenagers (from left) Montgomery, Alex and Juniper Revermann for a trip to the cabin, and then insisted they had to visit the Mississippi headwaters at Lake Itasca. Star Eagle photo by Deb Bently
I spent a few days this past week up at my family’s cabin near Akeley. With the warm high temperatures we’ve been experiencing, it was the perfect time to be “at the lake.”
Astoundingly, our thermometer in the lake claimed the water was about 83 degrees–although that was in shallower water...