Yantzied 2026: Reinland
When I ventured back into the housebarn, I knelt by a chest to look at some old photos on display, and a petite elderly woman whom I assume is the Ens matriarch approached me and asked, “Did you see the tree?”
When I ventured back into the housebarn, I knelt by a chest to look at some old photos on display, and a petite elderly woman whom I assume is the Ens matriarch approached me and asked, “Did you see the tree?”
A film that hurts my heart with its mediative, quirky beauty. Watched at the MHV among garden club members. In the presence of the film’s very star. Aspirational. More thoughts here.
Yantzied adventure day: Neubergthal, Altona, Fort Dufferin!
Visiting the graves of ancestors in Kleefeld
Brewery Opens in Formerly Dry Town
When it turns out you’re wrong
Visiting the site of the fabled “Sandpit Farm”
Exploring the land of my great-grandparents in Spencer
Who was Maria Kroeker Neufeld?
A second Baerg-related rabbit hole: church splits
I went on a Ghost Signs walking tour!
Fungal, my birthday, and Montreal
Reading Brittany Penner’s “Children Like Us”
“On the Seventh Day” by David Elias
Excerpt from “Pinching Zwieback” by Mitchell Toews
Last Night’s Literary Walking Tour of Steinbach
“Piece of My Heart” by Mitchell Toews
