meanderings

homeland security?

Today a ten year old boy was eating a sandwich in his fenced yard when an Israeli bullet tore open his chest. The Israeli soldiers were responding to some other, slightly older boys who had been throwing rocks at them. After the boy was taken to the hospital, the soldiers came back over to see what the crowd of neighbors was doing. This boy's death was so casual that it could have gone unnoticed by the killer.
It will go unnoticed by the American press. It won't make the six o'clock news, or the eleven o'clock news or even a paragraph in my local newspaper. We believe this boy doesn't matter. But his family thinks differently. They just lost their loved one because some boys were throwing rocks. How do they feel about Israel's right to protect itself?
It's a no brainer.

time in a bottle............

i can't figure out how to post pictures on my blog... i read the directions but that's for downloading from your camera. i just need to move mine from a folder and copy and paste doesn't seem to work......... bummer

i wanted to talk about my trip... with pictures. guess not.

our first stop was st. louis, a place i have wanted to go for over 23 years. i can't express from this distance what i felt as i looked down on jeanne and cortney's grave. i can't explain why it hurt me that her body was buried so far from the ocean that she loved. i can't explain how it comforted me to take her a bit of sand, two shells and a baptism of water taken from folly beach. it should have been st. thomas but i'll probably never return to that little piece of paradise. it was a sense of closure that i have needed for a long time.

colorado was wonderful, a beautiful diverse state where we only touched the surface. i could spend a summer walking its trails from the tundra at rocky mountain national park to the harsh rock formations of garden of the gods... slowly... so i can breathe. i've gone on a lot of horse trails in beautiful places but the rocky mountains tops them all (up until this point it was bryson canyon in utah). but the greatest thing about colorado was the rare gift of spending it with all of my children. i don't know that we will ever share a vacation (nicholas says adventure) with all of us together again. i'm just thankful that we did.

we ended our trip in birmingham, alabama where roger baptised my baby. we had a great visit with roger and gayle and had taylor and shosha there to share it. it was another great blessing. i don't know what the future will bring, but these memories will bring me comfort and joy along the way. i wanted to show the pictures because words fail me.

oh well