The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 Oct 27th- A few of my favorite things...

~Connecting to the past through hand written notes in an old textbook,

~Speeches that scholars through the years have examined, and...

~Doodles, both small and large, left by students long ago

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 July 14th- A few of my favorite things...

~An evening concert in the park with the Jordan-Elbridge Community Band

~A unplanned military flyover in time Sousa's "Semper Fidelis"

~Seeing a fimaliar name from the past in the program and on the stage

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 June 29th- A few of my favorite things...

~Traveling past farms

~Traveling past fields

~Traveling to see trains

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 June 12th- A few of my favorite things...

~The power of color to make a cluster of blossoms stand out

~The power of a group to magnify the cheer

~The power of the present to accentuate the past

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

 May 19th- A few of my favorite things...

~An evening spent walking around Skaneateles Creek in rainboots with the youngest girlie

~Trying out magnetic "fishing" to find treasures from the past

~A plateful of finds, some non-magnetic, as a reward for looking

The Habit of Thankfulness: A Few of My Favorite Things

Sept 18th- A few of my favorite things...
~Stepping back in time and learning more about how people lived at and around Fort Stanwix long ago
~Trying your hand at coppersmithing and coming home with your own ring
~Coming home with a better understanding of how the past and the present come together