Think of some happy childhood memories. Holidays, birthdays, vacations, playing outside, family meals, reading favorite books, visiting grandparents, going to a friend’s house. Some of these happy memories have something in common. Without this ingredient, the happy times wouldn’t have happened. Think of the memories that involve a group of people that included those who…
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Family
Happy 48th wedding anniversary to us! Those two young people in the framed photo are us once upon a time and that is our engagement picture. I’m ashamed to say that I’ve lost our wedding photos. Somewhere in our 28 moves the sweet snapshots my cousin took of our simple wedding disappeared. But photos or…
Listening
This weekend we were privileged to visit a landscape like no other we’d ever experienced. Steep mountainsides cut with waterfalls and topped with glaciers. Bare rock peaks wrapped in mist dropping into turquoise lakes. Not one peak, but hundreds standing shoulder to shoulder in every direction. The wind and the wildness pressed into us. There we…
Ponderings
This morning was the solar eclipse in our corner of the world. We got to watch it from our peaceful, rural front yard in the totality zone. Wow. So thankful we got to experience this majestic phenomenon right at home. Where did you view it? What struck you about the experience? Several things surprised me,…