Happy birthday to my favorite MidBorn

Who better to spend your 32nd birthday with
than Uncle Fun?!

Weekend Ohio visit

Danielle with her Uncle Dan and Grandma Marge.
At first glance, Dan looked so much like Robert, it startled me.
I love that Danielle and Aaron spent the weekend in Boardman, Ohio
with Robert's family.  We hardly ever see them.
Good times!
They even got to see Cousin Christina play her viola on the worship team.
Wonderful!

Words matter

And demagogues know it.

Our schools and colleges are laying a guilt trip on those young people whose parents are productive, and who are raising them to become productive. What is amazing is how easily this has been done, largely just by replacing the word "achievement" with the word "privilege."  Thomas Sowell

Read more at http://jewishworldreview.com/cols/sowell123014.php3#JErOyJgIirPf8Mdz.99

Christmas beauty and Beauties

John Read's glorious photographic capture
of the Nadler pasture.  

Danielle's skilled eye snapped this Paso Robles vineyard.
Terry Hoage Winery, I believe.

Now for the Beauties!

The MacMurchy darlings celebrating Christmas in Gregory, SD.

Blurry - but clear as a bell -
I miss Suzan Houser!

Sadly, I missed the one family photo of all!
In the Blue Room.  MIA.  So predictable.

Healing in 20 Fifteen

"(I) was feeling left out, alone, different. I understand now why people desperately seek an identity, whether it’s Japanese American or African American or an Adult Child of an Alcoholic, or any of the other countless groupings and categories. But, ultimately, it is only through God that we can feel connected to each other and to ourselves."  Robin of Berkeley

The colors in the Kingdom

Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. Colossians 3:11