Hope everyone is having a splendid summer! I just got back from a week hiking in Yosemite. There is nothing more perfect than a hike to Nevada falls or Mirror Lake to remind you of the beauty God has created.

"Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more?" - Bev Adams

"Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language." - Henry James

For my first book of the summer, I am reading a 600 page biography of Robert Francis Kennedy, personally, my favorite of the Kennedy clan (no offense JFK and Jackie).

So I thought this one might be appropriate:

"There are those who look at things the way they are and ask, why... I dream of things that never were and ask, why not?"

Happy Summer everybody.

In honor of Earth Day, lets all take the time to think about how amazing our God is who created such BEAUTY, and work on ways to show our GRATITUDE by protecting it.

"I think the environment should be put in the category of our national security. Defense of our resources is just as important as defense abroad. Otherwise what is there to defend?"

-Robert Redford

In the words of you know who..

" we

are

l u c k y

count-your-wishes-and-stars-lucky "

- Ryan Adams, Fruit-Rotting

I know sometimes it doesn't feel like it. And sometimes thinks are sucky, beyond sucky. But out of the most impossible, unhealthy situations, sometimes something so beautiful and blessed is born that you could not have even remotely imagined it before.

Pray.

Pray hard.

Because God provides for us, more than provides, he spoils us.

We are so so so lucky. Because we are spoiled with his love, and thus by those around us who also love him.

Seek him. Trust him. Love him.

And remember how lucky all of us are.

Alice : "There is no use in trying; one can't believe impossible things."

The Queen: "I dare say you haven't had much practice. When I was your age, I always did it for half a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

Sometimes, with the stress of midterms, school activities, and lack of sleep, it helps to just sit back and let your imagination run...

Fantasize about your wedding, or meeting a celebrity, or getting your dream job.

Those couple of minutes can help remind us that there is and will be more to life than this.

We have so much to look forward to!

Optimistically yours, Strawberry

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty." - Ghandi

Please send out prayers for the students and faculty at University of Alabama-Huntsville.

Optimistically yours, Strawberry

One of the places I have always wanted to visit is Jackie Robinson's grave.

Apart from being a Dodger (Go Blue) he was one of the most inspirational men in US history.

The stone says it all "A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives "

Optimistically yours, Strawberry