Friday, January 11, 2008





















Gretchen and Denis welcomed us into their home in Salem Oregon.
The experience leaves me stumbling and fumbling for words.

We stayed with them for three nights which included the transition between 2007 and 2008.
wow

We were introduced to their beautiful home in the remote countryside, their shops, mouth-watering food, thousands of local birds, Margaritas, coastline, crab eating, their best friends, a very interesting car and wondrous depth of conversation.
It had been 20 years since they disappeared from our lives. The catching up was like a google search of all those years - and some.

One evening I had just bathed Joy.
Then the ritual of watching Tom and Jerry on TV together.
Then, a knock on the door, and Denis C stepped into our lives for the first time.
He invited me to go and work with him.
So began the first step into work with the YMCA.
We saw it a divine intervention.
Still do.
It was like a calling.
It was.
Certainly an answer to prayer.

That was decades of years ago .....................


I continue to stumble for words .......... so I have posted a few Pipturesque here, some in the past days, and more forthcoming ........ I trust that will interest some.


I have lots of scribbled notes in my life book, and on my soul, - I must try to pump out some of them over the coming days - before I get captured by 2008 life on the frontiers ............





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