Glory Bee Attitudes

It's been a little over a week since our famous back-to-back snowstorms started. Last Saturday, Lloyd and I got a call from his son in the morning. It seems that his niece (my stepdaughter's son's wife) was on her way from North Carolina to New Jersey. She was to meet her mom for a weekend together. Her mom was travelling from Maine to New Jersey. But then around 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, Lizzie found herself stranded in Baltimore. Stuck in between a few tractor trailers with her little Mustang, there was nothing to do but strand the car. In a short time we received phone calls from Lizzie's mother-in-law (my stepdaughter) and husband as well. We only live about 10 or 12 miles from there, but it may as well have been the other side of the country. We had about two feet of snow by then. I couldn't move my little hybrid and Lloyd's 4 wheel drive was behind it. Plus with Lloyd's heart condition, he cannot shovel much and I certainly wasn't any match

We had a record snowfall this weekend. It will take a week for things to get back to normal, but at least in 2 or 3 days time we should be out an about. More to come later about our fabulous surprise visitor (not just the snow but a darling young woman and her puppy).

"However tall the mountain, there's always a road" - Afghan proverb I recently read However Tall The Mountain by Awista Ayub. It is subtitled "A Dream, Eight Girls, and a Journey Home". It is an account of an Afghanistan born American who had a vision to reach out to girls in her homeland and bring them to America to teach them soccer. The soccer team members come from backgrounds of heartache and disappointment, since they all lived through the Taliban regime. Most have not been allowed to play sports and especially not soccer. They come to America where they are the center of attention in their own little world of competition and then return home to their former lives as they reconcile the two. Their mentor has a homecoming of her own as she travels two years later to her native land and reconciles her own identity. I have always been interested in Afghanistan, although I don't know much about it. I know little about the Taliban except its horr