Holding space is creating a safe, validating, and nonjudgmental place where a person may be vulnerable and experience their strongest emotions in a safe fashion. Holding hope is being able to say that, even if you don’t know when or how, things will get better.
Home-visiting programs in Lake County provide new and expectant parents with support, resources and skills to have a healthy pregnancy and baby. Bringing home a new baby fills your days with joys and challenges and questions.
Do you ever doubt God? Maybe it’s doubting that he cares about you, or that he’s powerful enough to help you or that he even exists. I believe that everyone, even the most solid Christian believer, goes through times of questioning God. There are the times we pray for something very specific; yet, it doesn’t happen. Or times we watch the news and see all the tragedy in the world and wonder where God is in all of it. Or times we feel lonely, ignored, or abused and seek comfort from the Lord, but we don’t seem to find any.
Hello Finland, Winning, Winter or Spring, I’m not quite sure which is which anymore, are you? I thought I saw a firefly! I thought I heard a frog the other night! I know I saw a mosquito out on my walk the other day! All parts of conversations I’ve had this past week. Warm up, cool down, snow, and repeat! Is this Groundhog’s Day, where is Bill hiding? These past few weeks I have heard there have been sightings in the area of; mountain lions, lynx, wild turkeys, wolves, and why yes, even a bear! I’ve heard rumblings of people thinking we will be ice fishing for opener, I mean c’mon, totally silly…….
We tend to notice our dogs the most when they do something wrong. Barking, jumping up, and nudging you while you’re working from home is a good example. Most people would agree that these behaviors are annoying. You might even scold or push the dog away for doing these things. On the flip side, if the dog is laying quietly on his bed or entertaining himself with a toy you ignore him. Because dogs are social animals, from their perspective bugging you works great to get you to engage socially with them. So, why wouldn’t they do it?
Katie Lancaster’s review of the book “Three” by Valerie Perrin (translated by Hildegard Serle), published by Europa Editions, 2002. This is THE read for Summer 2022! Valerie Perrin, author of Fresh Water for Flowers, has written another exquisite novel.
Editor’s note: Yes, the Great March for Community Newspapers still awaits the parachute jump signal from the very reluctant editor and Tony Xzcerlippy of Tony’s Underwater Limousine Service (Lake County Press- -editions 2-5). And yes, in recalling an earlier skydiving incident in which the reluctant editor was stuck flying an old plane that he didn’t know how to fly, Hell Yes! arrived and will assist in landing the plane and will be recruited as Grand Marshall of the Great March for Community Newspapers and reconnect with old friends.
There is a housing crisis in Lake County. In a sense, there’s always been a housing crisis for younger people starting out with few assets but with the booming market for home short term rentals the housing market is thin indeed.
Ten years from now I’ll wager that many or most of us will have heat pumps in our basements, electric cars in our garages, and electric stoves in our kitchens. I first heard about heat pumps from a friend, Eric Enberg, from Duluth.
To the editor: The Resign and Recall Committee would like to respond to Katya Gordon’s column in last week’s paper. We believe the time is now, for the citizens of Two Harbors to take action.