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Daily Gratitude Summer pleasures – kids & dogs & ice cream! What’s not to love?

Daily Gratitude Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. Albert Einstein

If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things of nature have a message that you understand, rejoice, for your soul is alive.  ~Eleonora Duse We are surrounded by the beauty of nature every [...]

We have made it through more than a week of our deployment journey! There have been highs and lows already, some laughter and some tears, but I have been thinking about some of the advantages of experiencing a long separation from one’s spouse. So, as I went through this last week, I started noting some [...]