- People are good. Terrible things happen and people step in.
- Guns are bad. Children having to deal with knowing they killed someone they love because a gun was too available remind us that guns DO kill people, sometimes unintentionally.
- Missions bless the missionary probably more than anyone else.
- Since "the family is of God," one senior mission away from the family should be an adequate offering.
- I believe in marriage between one man and one woman. I also believe that polygamy was once approved by God (for some reason!!) and that people who love each other and are in a committed relationship deserve the rights and protections that marriage provides.
- Knitting keeps me from killing people. Or from having a nervous breakdown on the highways.
- Don't ever say, "I would never want to go on a cruise," or you could find that you really do. The same goes for a cougar hunting or jumping off a 30' cliff into the Colorado River. You don't know what you really want until it is seriously offered to you. This bears thinking about. There is a whole world of possible experiences. What's on your 'bucket list,' and what might be if you gave it serious consideration? We met a 68 year old man from England biking to the tip of Chile alone, with a small tent and backpack. Why not? In the limited number of Wednesdays left in your life (thank you, Billy Collins--Just Another Wednesday) what will you do? What will I do?
- Bring on 2015! We get to see Liv and Colin and the more grown-up versions of the other grandchildren, have a family reunion at the cabin in July, enjoy six more months of beautiful Chile and its wonderful people, participate in the third harvest of olives, see the completion of the olive mill and hopefully some of the new houses here and..... speak a little more Spanish.... please?.......and go on AN ANTARCTIC CRUISE in a week!!
