Ella receiving her award

In midst of preparing for the Memorial Service for Lorenzo, the visit from our friends from India who led our Pilgrimage of Peace, helping out my friend Ella, whose husband is in the intensive care unit of a local hospital, working on my home gardens and the DMZ Community Garden and everything else going on in my life in Milwaukee I am taking a week to go fishing.

Actually I am going up north for the week to my son’s home to watch my grandchildren, Graf Kids, since they are out of school and their mom, a teacher, is not. The week will be active, going to soccer and baseball games, going fishing with the grandchildren, working on their garden and turning cow dung to vermicompost, it will not be the same.

In a small rural community things move slower but with cell phones and laptop computers and multiple children’s activities it does not seem so at times. I guess it is slower because in the country with cows and nature around you life seems slower. The perception of reality in the country makes life seem more relaxed. And since relax is what I need now, I am glad I am going. It will be a slow week in a hectic time period.

This morning we went to the hospital to pick up Ella of Ella’s Patchquilts and her daughter, and took them to another Catholic church where she was being honored in African-American day for her contributions to the church by making prayer clothes, patch quilts and sewing. With her husband, whom she loves so dearly, in the hospital, where she lives day and night at his side, it was good timing for this honor. While another daughter kept watch at the hospital she proudly received her award after Church. As friends of Ella we also were treated as special guests. This was another slow moment in a hectic week for her and her family.

As Martin Luther King Jr. and others have pointed out, the busier life gets and faster it goes the more we need to stop and slow down. When we cannot seem to slow ourselves down, award events, watching grandchildren or something comes upon us to slow us down.

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