Last summer, I lost a brother to RUSSIA.Ken and his wife are overseeing the LDS missionary work in that smoke-filled part of the world.
This summer, I'm losing a sister to CHINA.Wendy and her husband Byron heading out to teach English at a university in Nan Jing.
I don't know a THING about Nan Jing.
It just sounds very far away.
Wendy & Byron are highly energetic and up for a challenge.It's hard to believe this very FIT sister of mine birthed 9 children
and then raised another one, to boot!
Byron is nearing 70, but he's not too old to compete in a 110-mile bike race,
hitting the finish line in 6.5 hours.
Currently, W & B are picking up Chinese in 'Crash Course' style.
(Three sisters, together for the last time in a long, long while.)Wendy and Byron leave.
Others come.
Today,
CARLOS & CARLA
visiting from Madrid, Spain.
(Shot taken a few short hours ago.)
On Friday,my cousin Jim and his daughter, arriving from Texas
On Monday,my goddaughter Vic and her sister Brianna, blowing in from Calgary, Canada.
I believe they'll be staying for a week or two until they head back to college.
Life seems to a constant interplay between losses and gains.Or is it just MY life?
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Mine is not so dramatic and exotic. And death is playing a roll, both with people and animals. But in the end, as I see and read you, I know that the losses are actually counted as gains - you would never thrive in a static environment - dynamic for you, and when the changes mean that someone, half a planet away, may have his or her life changed forever for the good, I don't think you count the vector, even having left you behind, as a loss.
Well said - and I think this "losses and gains" thing is especially poignant in your life because you care so much about so many! Love you
Bree and I are a gain right???
:)
we will stop in Logan and unload our PACKED car in Logan, then come on down. I am really excited to see you!!!
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