It is a New Year!

Here's hoping we all have a wonderful 2011!!

Me, Mom & Sydney

Afghanistan:Graveyard of Empires

Afghanistan used to be a relatively peaceful country with a centralized but weak government. Problems arose with the boundary with Pakistan demarcated by the British. The disputed border -- the Durand Line (after the foreign secretary of British India who established it) -- divided the Pushtuns between two countries. That left the world's largest tribal group (over 40 million strong) without a politically unified homeland.

If the war is winnable, the answer lies with the Pushtuns ....

David Isby

KEEPS ME GOING EACH DAY!

"In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."

John 14:2-3

Thermostats

There are two types of people: There are those who are thermometers - they record the temperature. There are those who are thermostats - they change the temperature. A true leader is a thermostat - changes the temperature to where it should be.

Dr. Martin Luther King

History

"If you do not know your history, others will provide it for you, often in a version that is wrong, belittling, and misleading."

Don West (cofounder of the Highlander Folk School)

Great concert opportunity

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