Hello world, So much has happened, internally and externally, since I've written here last. Maybe most significant (or hopefully somewhat significant anyway) is starting a facebook account. I really don't even know what I'm doing with this new phenomenon but a few people asked me to give it a try so, late one evening, I jumped into the unknown and tried. So many dear friends, and even my kids, have reached out to me through this medium I'm humbled at the response. What a world we live in!!

I remember a story my grandmother told me once. Now mind you, she only told me this little vinette one time and I don't don't even remember the context in which we had this snippet of conversation as she wasn't prone to waxing poetic about herself or her life. Gramma told me that she remembered a time when she and her dad would hitch up the buckboard, before dawn, in order to make it to town and back in the same day to purchase supplies. This same woman lived to see men walk on the moon! I've told this little story dozens of times to friends and family, marveling and wondering if there could ever be another hundred year life span that would include the same kind of progress my grandmother saw. Women could not vote in the year she was born (1906), they could not inherit or own property. If a woman were to be divorced, for any reason, the children would automatically stay with their father. We've come a long way baby!

The advances of technology might very well be the leap that marks this hundred years, but I'd rather it be the cure for cancer or aids and/or the end to world hunger and wars everywhere. Dare I wish for an understanding between we mere mortals that our (nearly universal) belief in God and our deeply seated need for religious connections could be a uniting factor instead of a dividing one. We still have time.

Today is a new adventure. Today is a new start. Today, I will not allow myself to wallow in self pity or engage in self doubt. Today is mine and I will strive to use it wisely (or at least, have fun with it!). Look for me on facebook. The adventure continues....

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