Praise the Lord!  Heather had her surgery yesterday and today, is up and walking!  She also has full mobility of her arms and legs!  God is sooooo good!  Please continue to pray for her complete recovery, especially her speech and anything else I don't know about.  Her website is   http://www.especiallyheather.com/ .  Thanks for your prayers - she and her family are so grateful for the outpouring of prayers being said for them.  May God get all the praise and glory!

This is my 101st entry.  Not significant.  Maybe a bit silly.  You see, the number 101 holds special meaning to me.  I grew up in Southern Calfornia and Hwy 101 was THE highway.  101 means the beach, the coast.  It was my favorite road to cruise in my VW Bug and later, my Karmann Ghia.  And the beach was of major importance to me when I was growing up.  These days, I live on the coast (well, 11 miles from beach and just over the hill from the Columbia River that dumps shortly into the ocean, close enough to say I live on the coast, I suppose!) and guess what followed me up here?  101.  My highway.  It runs all along the coast of Oregon and up into Washington, where it ends, sadly.  No where else to go.  It's still my favorite highway.  It still means the beach, the coast.  I really never want to move away from the ocean, and especially 101.  Staying close to it feels safe, familiar.  When we first moved to this place, I was lonely.  It was a comfort to me that the same highway I grew up on, was only 6 miles away.  Now, since we moved into town, it's just around the corner.  (Hey, it's just past the DMV, remember that post?!)  Yes, yes, silly, I know.  Just a bit of home, you know?  My kids may be true Oregonians but I'm still emotionally connected to my birthplace, even though I've no desire to move back. 

I had a really stupid thought today.  I was listening to a Depeche Mode CD and I thought that I don't want to get too old to enjoy Depeche Mode!  Isn't that a stupid thought?  101 is the name of one of their albums, a live album that I really like.  So that's today's theme - 101.  The planets have aligned.  All is right with the world.  Don't you wish?