Bearfort Ridge June 25, 2017

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departure date

Less than a week now to the departure date

Going far away to where you have never been before

The adventure of a lifetime perhaps

Excited but anxious what unknown awaits.

Having a companion makes the journey shared

Romantic when experiences are wonderful

Challenging when difficulties may present

Depending on each other to figure it out.

I hope that you remain flexible and cheerful

Finding beauty and meaning wherever you are

Learning from the people who live there

Expanding your knowledge of the world we live in.

I applaud your courage to explore distant lands

To get outside the familiar safe local places

Happy you have a person you trust to go with you

To seize the opportunity of summer and youth.

You will be so far away it will be the next day

Tomorrow already if I talk to you after noon

Here where I am by the forty-first parallel north

Near the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.

You will be on the opposite side of the earth

Seeing Southeast Asia where I have never been

Traveling for twenty-four hours to get there

Such is your hunger to know the world you live in.

Go and find out everything you can

Meet the people who live a different life

Immerse yourself in their culture and monuments

Come back whole and tell me about it.

Foothold Family Day

The Place
Penny Park album

The People
family and friends album

open book

Rosie tells me I am an interesting and open book

A compliment I cherish coming from her

She who will be my reader as long as I write

Even when only fond memories remain.

As she cares for her ailing husband Milt

Adoring him as ever seeing the one she loves

How she told us the story of their getting together

When she first saw him like an eagle soaring.

Born long before the polio vaccine arrived

No complaints about wheelchairs get voiced

She takes in the good as much as she can

Having fun and enjoying the life that she has.

Nothing lasts forever but I really hope

Rosie lives to see one hundred years or more

Viewing my photos and reading my words

Giving me her comments on what she sees.