The theme of the fourth week of Advent is love. Love is a funny thing – we love coffee, we love to travel, we love our cat… it is a word that we use for a lot of concepts. Love as taste, desire, or even lust. Love as affection or friendship. Much love is self…
Author: Terry Christopherson
I sketch, I paint, I travel and eat, that is what my sites are all about.
This week in The Pearl – December 19, 2025
A good week in The Pearl, quite rainy, but we had nothing like our friends to the north in the Seattle area, nor in areas of Oregon that were hit pretty hard with power outages and flooding. We stayed close to home except to venture out to visit friends and go to a birthday party….
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday – Joy
The theme of this third week of Advent is anticipating and experiencing joy. These days, joy is frequently frightened away by the turmoil around us – in our world, our country, even with friends and family. Cynically, joy is relegated to some fantastical fairytale. We find it tempting to agree with Herman Melville: “There are…
This week in The Pearl – back from Seattle
We spent last weekend in Washington. Friday was our 38th anniversary so, as I reported in last week’s post, we went to La Conner for a few days, then the rest of the trip was with friends and family in Seattle. Be sure to check out Tricia’s post this week for some great photos and…
TheTravelsketcher’s Tuesday
Thoughts for the season – Week two of Advent, seeking peace. “Peace on earth…” This was the angel’s message to the shepherds on the first Christmas Eve. It was the time of pax Romana, the 200 year period of relative peace thanks to the iron hand of Rome’s military. Yet there is much more to…
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