Archive for ◊ May, 2010 ◊

• Thursday, May 27th, 2010

This Iris Looks You In The Eye

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Author: Joe Grabill
• Tuesday, May 25th, 2010

Those standing first in society, Jesus said, will be squashed dead last.  Learn from snakes on their bellies, not priests up on their altars.  Wild mustard weed seeds, not 1,000 year old cedar trees, point to heaven.  In a two-garment society, if someone takes your robe, let them take your underwear.  Children nobodies, not scholars, are the greatest.  Jesus laughs.

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Author: Joe Grabill
• Wednesday, May 19th, 2010


Last Saturday I led a ceremony in which intergenerational teams planted 7 bur oaks and a variety of 16 other trees.  We planted bur oak saplings in Bur Oak Grove next to 12 mature bur oaks, including one over 6 feet in diameter and older than the US.

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Author: Joe Grabill
• Wednesday, May 12th, 2010


On Earth Day weekend I visited my home area of Ft. Wayne, Indiana.

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Author: Joe Grabill
• Wednesday, May 05th, 2010

When I was 9 in 1940 I fell in love with the mammoth sequoia, Grizzly Giant, in the Mariposa Grove in Yosemite.

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