by Rich Brimer | May 2, 2008 | beauty |
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...
by Rich Brimer | Mar 22, 2008 | General, memior |
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...
by Rich Brimer | Mar 10, 2008 | beauty, General |
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...
by Rich Brimer | Jul 30, 2006 | beauty, memior, Painting |
Last March, my grandmother turned 99. We had a BBQ in celebration, which is what we have done for the past 8 years thinking, “This may be her last birthdayâ€. This morning, I was visiting her and decided to do a painting of her while she watched the television. Her...
