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Crossing Cultures Memoir

Blue sky

Images of blue sky and a raging torrent of destruction fill my screen in recent days. 

Bringing back memories. 

There was blue sky when a tsunami roared into Aceh. Then pulled out. Taking with it precious lives along with whole buildings.

Today these scenes are not a coastal city, but a mountain haven. 

Nepal. Villages built along the meandering river wiped out in a matter of minutes.

Image by Sushanta Rokka on Unsplash.
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Crossing Cultures Devotional Memoir

Best-laid plans

My mother’s response when things didn’t go as planned? 

I can hear it now. 

“The best-laid plans of mice and men…” her voice trails off. Not completing the quote from the poet, Robert Burns. 

But I know. And the words run through my head.

“…often go awry.”

Best-laid plans go awry. Image by Robert Linder on Unsplash.