WATERFALL

Rocky Fork, Indiana

GOALS

It always bothers me a little when people don't update their blog much...but I realize I'm the most guilty of doing that. I have a co-worker who made it his personal goal one year to blog every day. I didn't have a blog at the time, and thought that should be pretty easy. Now that I've had one for several years, I understand that's a pretty big task. I don't think I'd make that my personal goal because it would become legalistic for me to do, and I hate legalism. Lately, I've had to remind myself what my blog is for...it's for me, a journal per se. I just let others peak in. Of course, I don't put all the real private stuff on here, but generally, I do put the things that interest me, my photos, my thoughts, articles that speak to something I care about, and to practice writing in a semi-intelligent way. So, if you do happen to check here on any regular basis, my apologies for not having anything up lately. You can rest assured, if I ever decide to stop posting, I'll let you know.

With that, here are several goals I do have, and assuming blogger.com doesn't go away, I hope to check back in ten years to see if what I wrote came about.

In ten years, I hope to be doing one of the following:
1. Living in the Phoenix, Arizona area
2. Be involved in cross cultural ministry, hopefully in Asia somewhere.
3. Own my own business, being blessed with enough success that I can have extended time overseas (see #2), while at the same time, helping others who have a desire to extend Christ's love but who don't have the funds to do so.

SENIOR PORTRAITS

I just finished shooting my first senior portrait session with Liz's friend Allysa. I think we had 5 locations, all outside, and man, was it hot.Not July hot, but hot enough. I wish we had more time. There are some cool places around Wooster to use as backdrops, including a cemetery. I think we rattled off almost 400 photos, so I'm hoping they'll be something they can use and like.

A BEAUTIFUL WEED

SEAN'S HEART CATH

Everything went very well with Sean's heart cath. today. Of course, he was pretty nervous leading up to the procedure, and cried terribly when the nurse came to take him away. I can only imagine how terrifying it seems to him. Still breaks my heart. But as we've learned about Sean, he cries about it, but willingly lets the doctors and nurses do as they wish with him.

During the two hour procedure, the doctor put in a "plug" or coil into the fenestration to seal the whole after first putting a balloon in to see how the pressures and blood flow looked. We were able to see video of the heart cath at work, and it was absolutely amazing to see how the heart works. Sean has two pretty strong ventricles, so that is a plus for him, and the doctor said, though making no promises, Sean will have a pretty good heart now. Before the procedure, his O2 levels were 90. After-94. Tomorrow they may reach 96 or so. He will no longer be on blood thinner, but will take a baby aspirin along with blood pressure medication. Hopefully he'll be off the diuretic sometime soon (makes him pee a lot, and being in diapers still, that's a lot of diapers to go through).

Anyway, all looks good for now.

A DAY AT THE ZOO

QUOTES OF THE DAY

"I don't want to play it safe by just waiting on the future."
"If we are not intentional, we become people who 'wish we had' instead of those who are 'glad we did'".
"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." (Diane Ackerman)

-all quotes from the yet to be published book, You're Stronger Than You Think, The power to do what you feel you can't. by Dr. Les Parrott and Bill Dallas

FUTURE PHOTO BACKDROP