Randy picked me up at Greg’s office and we headed of to CU at Boulder. My Granddaughter had just been interviewed by a group similar to Dr.s without Borders. She would volunteera in Ecuador next summer if accepted. They seemed to think that she had no many advance courses and labs to find the [...]
I joined Lisa, Greg, Sam and Benjamin for a Chinese dinner. It was delightful. I promise that this is the last post of the day.T’his dinner occurred about 37 years after this picture was taken of now Dr. Greg,D.C.
Thanks to Court, I am, among all men, most blessed.
Greg was not featured in the last article because he wasn’t even a twinke in his father’s eye. That twinkle appeared when we when we were camping with the Craigs at Borrrego Hot Springs in California.My cousin Selma Sundem was married to the Rich family member in Sioux Falls, S.D.They owned the Sioux Falls Fireworks [...]
We traveled fromCalifornia many summers to spend time with farm friendly cousins and relatives. Our children coming from afar were treated like royalty. Pictured here are Angela, Randy and Dan with cousin,Emily Helgeson.
The question is, did our children always act like royalty? I know there were stories of jumping in the hay loft and swinging [...]
” Without realizing it, we fill important places in each other’s lives…Good people who are always “there”, who can be relied upon in small important ways. People who teach us, bless us , encourage us, support us, uplift us in the dailiness of life. We never tell them. I don’t know why, [...]
Angela recited this poem for a Mother–Daughter’s banquet at the Lutheran church on Magnolia avenue,Riverside,California
MOTHER DEAR-unknown
Dear Mother, you are part of me…And I am part of you…And you are part of everything…I ever think or do..And outof all the parts of life…I am or hope to be…I need to tellyou,Mother dear …you are the [...]
(Dan,1967,10years old.)
Dan’s letter of July, l987……..
Dad,
I wanted to tell you how much I have enjoyed the tapes containing our old family traveling songs. I remember how many good times we had as a family singing these songs. So many of the songs are from a time when life was much harder and cruel. Thanks to [...]
“See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver,and an instrument of giving,For in truth it is life that gives untolife–while you, who deem yourself a giver,are but a witness.
And you recievers–and you are all recievers–assume no weight of gratitude,lest you lay a yoke upon yourself and uponhim who gives.Rather rise together with the [...]
I flew into Denver from Phoenix(generosity of Dan, Brigid and Summer) and arrived at Dr.Greg’s office at noon just in time go to lunch with Greg and his son, Benjamin, who just turned one year old on September 26th. He is one great person as is his brother, Sam, now in first grade. (Liza is [...]
The grand piano is now in the Mcdonald’s care center in Denver.Angela played in a recital at the Mission Inn in Riverside.The other children took lessons for a while and we couldn’t part with the piano by selling so we donated it to theMcDonald house.At Christmas time one Denver TV station showed various clips incuding [...]