Dear Reader:
While looking for a pair of loafers at the back of my closet, I found one of my favorite pumpkins… looking sad and forlorn… hidden behind boxes. I took it out… gave it a good dusting and set it on the place of honor…the dining table pumpkin plate. …the black and white design immediately made me think of Mary Engelbreit’s popular style of using black and white patterns in children’s book illustrations and home decor.
As I settled back in my cozy pumpkin haven… a damp misty day settled in around me. I was in for the count… or was I ? The mind is a funny thing… black and white…. zebra… ice cream cone!
I really tried talking myself out of this ridiculous temptation, on a cool damp misty afternoon- but it was too late… I had to have one… a Zebra ice cream cone… so off I went to TASTEE FREEZ! Yum!!! Yum!!!!
I splurged and got a waffle cone this time and then remembered a story about how ice cream and cones came to meet. It was 1904 at the St Louis World’s Fair. It was a stifling summer day and Ernest Hamsun, an immigrant from Syria, was having no luck selling hot Persian waffles to the sweltering crowds. But at the next booth, Arno Fornachau was dishing out ice cream ( selling like hotcakes 
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Then it happened… Arno ran out of plates… what to do? Ernest quickly rolled a cone out of a waffle and the ice cream scooped in… an immediate success!
Remember the other day… when we discussed the meaning behind the quotation ” Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” This is especially true when it comes to recognizing original inventors to their inventions. Immediately… on the same day… at the same fair other waffle and ice cream vendors appeared claiming to be the first that day to scoop ice cream into waffles.
Beginnings and endings … connections galore! One good idea spreads quickly… just like vanilla and chocolate are separately wonderful-together divine!
God has known this from the beginning… all His diversified children are beautiful in His eyes … combined with the love of others … the complete family of creation.
Here is a cute black and white combo-Winnie and George!
So until tomorrow… as beautiful as autumn is… if all the leaves were just one color-it would be pretty but…God uses autumn to teach us that it is the diversity of colors that make autumn the most magical, amazing season of all! How many examples must God give us… before we ” get it?” We are all, no matter race or color, beautiful in His eyes! Together… even more so!
Today us my favorite day -Winnie the Pooh
A shout-out to Anne Peterson…. Happy Birthday Anne! She is in the mountains this birthday weekend and she saw color ( besides the tree colors) … black bears!
