You Can't Get Lost

 Well, I accomplished it!  I got my Christmas Letter Completed in 2024!!  And at least, emailed to most of the address list.  In case you missed it.  Remember, you can left click on the image to blow it up to screen size.   Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!! YCGL - January 2, 2024 - A Mouth Full of Miracles!!! YCGL - December 20-26, 2024 - Portland, OR - Homes Away From Home

 "There are places I remember, Though some have changed." We have lots of homes, many physical, many mental.  Being at Liz's, like being at Erik's, certainly is a home for me.  I feel comfortable here, and there, as if it were my home in Laramie.  And its nice being here.   Getting here was not without its moments.  Actually, everything went fine on Friday morning.  I checked the parking situation on the Denver airport website to make sure that there were no problems with Christmas parking and everything was fine.  I woke up with the alarm.  I was 95% packed and ready to go.  Got the last 5% into the bag and was off and driving right on time.  Roads were clear and really surprising empty in my direction, great guns until I got to the parking lot at the Denver airport.  The Pike's Peak lot was closed.  It referred to a new lot that I had never heard of and was not mentioned in the DIA parking website.  Signs point...

 Whoa!  What a couple of weeks this has been.  \ _____________________ We celebrated our 140th Anniversary at my church, Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church on October 19th.  For some reason, I was on the organizing committee.  However, rather than being in charge of plates and silverware and such, I was asked to write and present a history of the Internship program which I helped start in  1995 and which lasted until 2014.  And since I was chairman of the Internship Committee for that whole period of time, it kind of made sense, and I really couldn't duck out of it.   And I volunteered to coordinate our keynote speaker who I've been in contact with in the last couple of years.  Kristin Johnston Largen was our first intern, who, after graduating from Wartburg Seminary, went on and obtained a PhD in Comparative Theology at Berkeley.  She taught at Gettysburg Seminary for many years and became the Dean of Students.  And she is no...

 Hello Dear Readers, Yes, I am alive, mostly well, and have a lot to finish and a lot to catch up on.  I'm just going to give some broad strokes and then fill in as I can.   Travel this summer and September, very briefly: June 13-19 - Texas with my brothers and families June 19-July 2 - Greece and Footsteps of St Paul tour July 2-5 - Bergen, Norway July 5-15- Hurtigruten Cruise up and down the coast of Norway July 15-18 - Trondheim, Norway July 18-24 - Vingelen, NO and Tore and Marit's Wedding July 24-31 - Martha's Vineyard, Boston and Home August 1-14 - Home, getting ready for next trailer trip August 15-27 - Fruita, CO, Afton and Cody WY August 28-30 - Silverthorne, CO Sept 1-3 - Home Sept 4-10 - Camping at North Fork Sept 11-18 - Home Sept 18-23 - Camping at North Fork July 25 - Martha's Vineyard after my flight from Trondheim .  I woke up that morning with a severe cold and sore throat.  I texted Erik and said "I'm quarantining myself until further noti...