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A Ministry We Support. The story of an old Order Mennonite girl. A Memoir by Aleta Schrock. Teacher, Reader, Writer, Storyteller, Book-Lover, World Traveler, Woman Blessed of God. Yes, But We Didn’t Have Him. July 22, 2012. Six weeks after my dad had passed away, my mom wrote:. On June 8, you said, Soon will be Dad’s birthday. Mom told you it was yesterday. Then you said, Yes, but we didn’t have him. Then in July, a month later Mom recorded:. At Nellie’s funeral she stood real. While hypnosis has crossed...
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Photo Memories: The Final Snapshot | Circle Letters
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A Ministry We Support. The story of an old Order Mennonite girl. A Memoir by Aleta Schrock. Photo Memories: The Final Snapshot. June 11, 2012. After the funeral there is only one more snapshot. A dream. In this dream my dad has just stepped through the outside door into the kitchen and I am staring up at him. He’s wearing his denim-blue work shirt, suspenders and denim overalls. Our eyes lock. My heart cries, Why don’t you come home anymore? Because I wish to see him. ”. More than forty years later I cou...
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Photo vs Movie Memories: Aunt Emma | Circle Letters
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A Ministry We Support. The story of an old Order Mennonite girl. A Memoir by Aleta Schrock. Photo vs Movie Memories: Aunt Emma. April 4, 2012. All of my earliest childhood memories are merely snapshots in my head. The Old Order Mennonite Church I grew up in does not allow cameras and discourages its members from having their pictures taken. My dad’s family religiously observed this. Or rule; therefore, I have no tangible photo album of my early childhood. Newer post →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter y...
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Photo-Memories: The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado | Circle Letters
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A Ministry We Support. The story of an old Order Mennonite girl. A Memoir by Aleta Schrock. Photo-Memories: The 1965 Palm Sunday Tornado. April 8, 2012. I wondered if that was perhaps the moment my Dad had told my mom he had cancer? For years I suspected that was the scenario that had most likely occurred. Recently I stumbled upon the truth. Did I go with you? No, Dad wasn’t feeling well. He was tired because of the cancer and you and Eugene stayed with him at Grossdaudy’s house. I remember it was eighty...
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Photo Memories: Cold Mashed Potatoes | Circle Letters
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A Ministry We Support. The story of an old Order Mennonite girl. A Memoir by Aleta Schrock. Photo Memories: Cold Mashed Potatoes. May 14, 2012. One of my final photo-memories is of Eugene and me sitting at the kitchen table, still eating after all the adults had jumped up and left. I sat staring at all the white mounds of mashed potatoes thinking about how they were going to get cold if everyone didn’t come back and eat them. My Aunt Emma’s diary records that while the adults were waiting for my dad’s bo...
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Photo Memories: A Lego Nap | Circle Letters
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A Ministry We Support. The story of an old Order Mennonite girl. A Memoir by Aleta Schrock. Photo Memories: A Lego Nap. April 19, 2012. We are three quarters of the way down the stairs, our Legos balanced carefully in our hands. I am in the lead with my older brother by two years a few steps behind. We had supposedly been napping but our Lego creations tell otherwise. How could two people have opposite memories about the exact same incident? Were the photos taken from different angles? When I told my mom...
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Photo-Memories: Daddy’s Baby Girl | Circle Letters
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A Ministry We Support. The story of an old Order Mennonite girl. A Memoir by Aleta Schrock. Photo-Memories: Daddy’s Baby Girl. April 6, 2012. Throughout my childhood years, and even now as an adult, I have carried with me the feeling of being loved and special. This feeling may, in part, be due to a particular photo-memory of my dad. I have no timeline with which to gage this memory, except for the feeling of being the size of a little one or two year old girl enveloped in my daddy’s arms. Little Baby, b...
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Circle Letters | The story of an old Order Mennonite girl. A Memoir by Aleta Schrock | Page 2
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A Ministry We Support. The story of an old Order Mennonite girl. A Memoir by Aleta Schrock. Newer posts →. The Castle Dungeon continued. April 2, 2012. Continued from March 23, 2012. My feet clinked across the rough wooden floor as I left the cool, musty, dampness of the dungeon below me and entered the freedom of the sunny world outside. How did he get free? Is there some harrowing escape story that he never told? Did he recant in desperation to gain his freedom? Where did that idea come from? I do not ...
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Yes, But We Didn’t Have Him | Circle Letters
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A Ministry We Support. The story of an old Order Mennonite girl. A Memoir by Aleta Schrock. Yes, But We Didn’t Have Him. July 22, 2012. Six weeks after my dad had passed away, my mom wrote:. On June 8, you said, Soon will be Dad’s birthday. Mom told you it was yesterday. Then you said, Yes, but we didn’t have him. Then in July, a month later Mom recorded:. When we passed the graveyard on Sunday you said, When that pile of dirt goes down, Dad will have stood up. At Nellie’s funeral she stood real. While h...
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Photo Memories: Two Random Snapshots | Circle Letters
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A Ministry We Support. The story of an old Order Mennonite girl. A Memoir by Aleta Schrock. Photo Memories: Two Random Snapshots. April 20, 2012. I remember standing in the shop, located three steps from our house, watching my dad and a customer discuss an engine that sat on the large wooden table. The table wasn’t very tall, because I could see across it. It is a very simple memory of me just standing there in my dress, watching. A collage of photos superimposed into one. Newer post →. Enter your email ...
