Author: Jennifer Hartnett-Henderson
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Dearest Freshness and Ah! Bright Wings
God’s Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared…
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The Space Between Them
When you’re trail running, sometimes you don’t see people for a long time. It could be miles or an hour or two. And when you finally happen upon one or two, it’s almost shocking. Every sense is concentrated and every detail about this person or people in the landscape is absorbed. When there’s more than…
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When You Don’t Feel Like It
I really didn’t feel like going. Truth be told, I whined to myself on the 40-minute drive up to the top entrance to Wunderlich Park on Highway 35, though driving there was much easier than running up. I knew because I had done that before. On the topo map, the Skyline Trail looked gently undulating,…
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Sketchnotes for NBCC Published
It’s great when you find a use for your gifts in service of others. Four of my sketchnotes of sermons at New Beginnings Community Church Bay Area have been published on the NBCC Facebook page. People seem to enjoy them so I am sharing them here also. All of the sermons and sketchnotes relate to a…
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Portrait of the Artist in Red Ink
Things change. Eleven years ago I created a body of work called Portrait of the Artist in Red Ink. Each of 16 digital paintings showed a financial portrait of the income and expense trajectory for an individual artist based on his or her goals and dreams. The results at that time were not encouraging. Changes However, since then,…
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Monte Bello Open Space Preserve
My visits to Monte Bello Open Space Preserve in the golden hills of the San Francisco Bay Area on two consecutive weekends couldn’t be more different. Whether walking or on a trail run like I was, both were intriguing. The first weekend was cloud covered with low hanging fog that gave the golden grass at…
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Scenes from Lake Garda Italy Part 3
Lastly, we took a drive up the Lake Garda coast. The views of the water were gorgeous. We stopped in Gargnano to take in one of the beaches where a group of gonna-be windsurfers were learning to stand up for the first time: And we stopped in another town, quite possibly Toscolano Maderno, because of…
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Scenes from Lake Garda Italy Part 2
If you are a garden fan, (and I am) it is easy to spend 90 minutes even in 27C heat exploring the Heller Garden in Gardone Riviera on Lake Garda. If you are an art and garden fan it is easy to enjoy this garden for even longer. Numbers painted in Venetian blue mark the spot…
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Scenes from Lake Garda Italy, Part 1
No visit to a city is complete without going for a run through its streets, paths, and environs. Our stay in Gardone Riviera by Lake Garda was no exception. I rolled out of bed to run up to the Via Panoramico to see what delights might be in store for me. Going up was quite steep and…
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Scenes from Padova Italy, Part 2
Our guide-book warned that visits to the Capella degli Scrovegni in Padova are by reservation only. We didn’t have one on Thursday morning but, at our guide-book’s suggestion, we showed up anyway and asked if there were any spaces left. Fortunately, we were able to get in one hour later. At the appointed time of 12:40 we…
