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Today we visited Multnomah Falls and took Djai up to the top for the very first time. Man that was a good workout on my legs having him strapped to me! He slept the entire way up and then was quite playful on the way down, wanting to stop and pull at all the plants on the trail. We’re all going to sleep well tonight!
Shae opened The Columbian today and lo-and-behold! There was an article that a campaign had been started to help save the funding for our withering public transit service in Clark County! I’ve thought to myself that I should start one up if one didn’t come along… so I’ve already contacted them and I hope that I can help! This will be my first foray into any type of active campaigning for a cause. Should be a great learning experience. More to come.
Allow me to be the first to welcome our new Secretary of State.
You can decide if I’m being sarcastic or not… 
Dear family and friends,
Hello and happy New Year!
Most of you know, 2004 has been a very exciting year for us. It marks the first whole calendar year of our marriage and the birth of our beautiful son Johnathan Isaac Cecka. We are excited to start our own new family traditions and carry some the old.
As the nights of winter shorten and days become longer we are more aware of the changing of seasons in our lives and remember to savor every moment given to us. We are reminded that there will always be light after a period of darkness, even if we do not see it. (And that one day we might have a full night of sleep again.)
At the turn of a new year we are thankful we can enjoy the riches of Christ all the time and appreciate the constant outpour of love from our family and friends, even from a thousand miles away.
In 2005 may your memories be fond and your hearts be open.
Love and light
Ben, Shae, Ji & Durin (meow)
The thing about journaling is you have to write about what happens, when it happens. If the task is put off for too long, more things to write about come along, and the things that you wanted to write about before have become too many and now you’re left with a headful of ideas to write down, but it doesn’t get done.
Too many special and new things have occurred this month to not share them with you all fabulous and fine people. So, in light of all this, here is a brief overview of things that have happened this month in cronological order.
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The trip was a mild success for everyone. I needed a lot more time to accomplish what I needed to do. The remote access tools I installed have already come in handy on my first day back home though! That should be test enough that they were needed. With the holiday shipping season coming up I have a feeling that it will be even more important for me to be able to access this systems directly.
I have never really thought of the desert as anything but desolate space. A barren land for the vultures. On this excursion I think I felt how Alice Walker must have felt when she “saw” the desert:
I am so thankful I have seen
The Desert
And the creatures in the desert
And the desert Itself.The desert has its own moon
Which I have seen
With my own eye.
There is no flag on it.Trees of the desert have arms
All of which are always up
That is because the moon is up
The sun is up Also the sky
The Stars Clouds None with flags.If there were flags,
I doubt the trees would point.
Would you?
It was beautiful.
Poem from – Beauty: When the Other Dancer is the Self
