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Offerings

Rich Brimer — Sat, 03 May 2008 04:34:36 +0000

Below is an embedded book called Offerings, from the Soil. It is published by the Brehm Center at Fuller. They have included my story “Planting Seeds” that I wrote about my grandmother, Lucy Brimer. Click the middle of the book to open it full size in a new window. (Disable [...]

Passages

Rich Brimer — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:36:56 +0000

In some ways, my recent trip to Assisi was a passage into a new realm… a new reality for me. A realm that allowed me to be far away from all of the things that collect my attention. Passages are like thresholds in that it is what you pass over or go through to [...]

Planting Seeds

Rich Brimer — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:32:36 +0000

From the time she was born — and throughout her century long life — Lucy Brimer knew quite a bit about planting seeds. Her parents immigrated from Germany at the very end of the 1800’s to Chicago where their first two children were born. From there they moved to what is now Wilmington Avenue, [...]

Lucy Brimer – 101

Rich Brimer — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 17:07:13 +0000

Last week I went to Templeton Hospital to say goodbye to my grandmother the day after her 101st birthday. She had been in the hospital for over three weeks and her health was failing. Her last breath was yesterday, March 9th – the same day her husband left us in 1981. My good [...]