spelled Verizon wrong. Its marklamkin@verizon.net
Thanks,
Mark
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ANOTHER VERY IMPORTANT CORRECTION FROM THE LAST NEWSLETTER:
For some reason, the photo of Sonny Wooten and his fish did not get attached properly so I’m trying again. I’m pretty jealous (Sandra Brown Wellborn, newsletter editor) considering the only fish I ever caught was a rainbow trout in Lake Arlington about 6 inches long. I got so excited I tore the mouth off trying to remove the hook. Poor fish.
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UPDATE TO THE LAST NEWSLETTER FROM JANE FAVOR:
Attached is the photo of the ENTIRE group that was in San Diego. I think we are a pretty good looking bunch of people, don’t you? ; )
Best Regards,
Jane Favor jane@trainagents.com
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TRIP TO CHINA FROM DEEDEE MOSBY WINTER:
Hi!
I am not much of a picture taker...but here are a few along with a short story of the trip.
China is amazing. I thought their history would be the outstanding impression of the trip, but to me their present FAR surpassed the glories of their past. The building that has taken place there in the last 10 years does not compute mentally that it is even remotely humanly possible.
Me in Tiananmen Square where the massacre of the students took place in the late 1980’s
The tour I went covered a large part of China...Beijing, where the feeling of Communism and the cultural Revolution is still very visually strong in the grimness of their buildings...then to Xian, where the terra cotta soldiers were discovered about 30 years ago and the farmer who discovered them sells and signs books about them and lets you take his picture for $1...then to a three day river cruise along the Yangtze...then to glorious Shanghais where each architecturally phenomenal building competes with the one next to it, and these by the thousands! Our last stop on mainland China was Guilin , beautiful and verdantly green...then on to Hong Kong for three days of shopping and sightseeing before flying home.
Lunch in a typical Chinese home.
In the last few years western commercialism seems to have become firmly rooted. Every place you turn someone is beseeching you to buy what they are selling. One day our Chinese guide said to us, “This all looks very free, but don’t let it fool you. It’s not.”
My roommate, Betty, and our rickshaw driver, Joe
Their population is huge and the amount of foreign money pouring in there is stunning. My main impression about China was that the whole world will have China to recon with at some point...a beautiful country, really lovely bright people...but still very Communist.
Chinese playing cards with police watching
A farm along the Yangtze River
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Hi Everyone!
Just a quick note to let all of you know that I broke my back this last Sunday, due to my own stupidity. Bending, lifting, twisting turn, then the loudest crunch of bone I’d ever heard. Naturally, I fell to the ground back in the forest behind the house. No one could hear me screaming for help; finally, I told the Lord He would have to help me get up and out of there. Well, no surprise, for He did!
I experienced a compression fracture to the 4th vertabrae; anyway, just below my waistline. The doctor gave me two choices: either a nursing home for rehab or pain meds so I could walk and care for myself. Well, it had to be the latter because of my babies (ferrets) and no one around who could care for them. Maria, my daughter, cannot get up here for another week or two. Praise the Lord, He is in control! For I am moving slowly but able to feed myself and my babies. *grin*
And, already I’ve decreased the pain meds to once early AM and once late PM. The pain is bad but it is more due to the nerves in that area damaged from MS. God is sooo good and faithful! Please keep me in your prayers and know that I love each of you very, very much!
Much love and hugs,
Bonnie Lindsey Ques1nberry
unicornhaven@earthling.net