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- Hanging out in Jacksonville, Ore with Aunt, Uncle and cousins – great backyard in a historic town.
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- Yep this trailer tire is worn out. Good thing there is a good bike shop here to get 2 tires, 4 rear gears, new chain and a really cool red tail light.
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- and another great dinner with Uncle Carroll and Steve, Joanne’s husband.
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- Joanne, the lovely host of this lovely home and times.
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- Great photo of Aunt Marylou and the most recent advertising jingle creator Bernadette.
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- Catherine – our new retired 30 yr school and gourmet cook for two wonderful dinners, delivered.
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- Now Uncle Carroll does drive a little slower than the traffic – someone placed this flower on the top of the Van – Driving over to Medford from Jacksonville, we didn’t go fast enough to blow it off
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- Uncle Carroll and Aunt MaryLou going into 5 pm mass and me.
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- Beautiful Church in Medford, Oregon.
Those ties in our formative years – up to about 16 years old stay with us our whole life time. we either have them or we don’t. The family ties are strong some remembered as good and some as not, but still strong and influential our wholelives. Guiding us in what to do and what not to do. Some times for benefit and sometimes for naught. Perhaps as we age and our perspective broadens we see the ties clearer, different, from both the guiding and the result of the guiding effect they have on us. If we are quite and look and listen in the present we see and feel what has been there all along both for good and naught.
This visit with the John Carroll and Mary Lou has been both wonderful, refreshing and inspiring. I am really proud to be a part of them.
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