by Rick | May 10, 2021 | Blog, Leadership Series
When Sadie, our 12-year-old Golden Retriever, wakes up each morning, the first thing she does is bring me one of her toys. She’s a retriever; that’s her purpose. She starts her day doing what she’s made to do. The starts her day on mission to fulfill...
by Rick | Apr 30, 2021 | Blog
Well, here goes the most nervous post I’ve ever written but what happened in the last year is something I still can’t figure out. I don’t know how to tell this story without it making it look like I was a cool person that made it happen. We all...
by Rick | Dec 11, 2020 | Blog
Have you ever been so moved by a painting or sculpture that you can’t take your eyes off of it or, upon leaving, can’t quit thinking about it? That happened, again, to me recently when I went to Bethel College to contemplate the works of Denise Brueggeman....
by Rick | Nov 27, 2020 | Blog, Grandpa Harry Stories
Harry grabbed a leather glove to open the firebox on the wood cook stove. He poked the embers into an even arrangement, then threw bacon into the cast iron skillet. He had begun each day frying bacon and eggs on this same stove a for the last 60 years since the first...
by Rick | Oct 4, 2020 | Blog, The Burly Log Blog
A burl on a tree looks like a wart, but it’s actually scar tissue. At one point in time, the tree has been damaged by an object hitting it or some kind of insect or disease. If you cut off the burl with a saw, you will find a mass of colors, grain directions and...
