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Let’s see if you can properly parse this: I love the areas of view on the way home that don’t have any billboards. Know what I’m sayin’?

I just gotta say that as parents, Cyndie and I try to contain ourselves with a modicum of restraint, but every so often let it all go and gush over our children’s accomplishments. I don’t know what others will think of Julian’s latest musical endeavor, I hope to let it speak for itself, but we are enjoying it maybe a little bit too much. Therefore, it is getting shared with others, maybe sometimes for no other reason than so we get to see it again. I hope you will have a moment to watch and listen to the video he and friend, Dave Marshall, have produced across the distance between Chicago and Stockholm, “fhmseotu” which you can find at this link: http://www.youtube.com/EpicerMusic (4:53 in length). Well done, I say.

At the same time that Cyndie and I were doing a few chores at the lake and then power lounging in the bright spring sunshine, daughter Elysa was home doing a little construction and then hauling dirt to create a wood-framed raised bed for a vegetable garden at our home. A great demonstration of getting into a project and making good progress on her own. I can think of enough obstacles to reaching the level of completion that she has, that I would likely have not been able to accomplish what she did. Maybe she hasn’t taken on all of my more difficult personality traits. I can tell you that it sure felt pleasant to arrive home from the weekend away and find things all tidied up from the work she did. Bravo!

After spending the weekend with a gaggle of nieces and nephews, plus all the many young children of the families of our lodge club, I’m left with plenty of hope for the future because these kids sure all seem to be strong, good looking, and above average! And as we grow toward optimal health, mind-body-soul, they will, too, and then go on to raise even healthier children of their own. The dysfunctions of the world are bound to decline when we focus on the healthy and the good and wrap it all with unconditional love, as opposed to the opposite. Know what I’m sayin’?