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My country through someone else's eyes

I have written several half blog posts and have been a little blocked on my writing..my apologies. But something has sparked a need to write yesterday. As I have previously written about the Shaws and one of my favorite people--Faith. She has such a way with words and through her eyes I have the opportunity to see things from an amazing perspective. On Friday, I had the opportunity to ride with Faith to the fish farm where the youngest children are now living (if you don't know what I am talking about, see the last 2 posts), hang out most the day and then ride back. There are so many stories that we insist that Faith must write a book someday, she insists that she is an artist, not a writer. On the way home, Faith described her experience of becoming an American citizen; standing in the room with people from so many different countries. She exclaimed, "Call it what you want, but there were so many of us from different backgrounds. There is no other place in this world that