It has been a particularly difficult beginning to the year in the South Pacific.  Australia has seen it's share of disasters with flooding and cyclones in Queensland, bushfires and other shattering problems.  Then there was the recent earthquake in New Zealand, bringing the beautiful city of Christchurch to its' knees and they continue to suffer from after shocks doing yet more damage.  Now there has been yet another devastating earthquake in Japan and we are being warned to expect tsunami's to follow in its' wake.  I'm certain that all of us are sending our heartfelt prayers, thoughts and well wishes to all of those who've been affected by these terrible disasters.

It does make one wonder just where the world and mother nature is going.  It also should, hopefully, make us all a little more grateful for the things we do have.  Things that cannot be measured in dollars and cents but those priceless treasures that are our families, friends and wonderful memories.  I've suffered on a personal level recently with a painful yet necessary divorce, health woes and money problems.  It can be so easy to get locked into looking at our own tiny world and our own trials.  I'm not by any stretch minimizing anyone's particular problems, trials or stresses - these are all very real to the sufferer.  I'm just wondering if maybe we shouldn't try to spend a little more time with the people we love, a little more time being grateful for the things we do have and a little less time worrying about small things which pass in time.

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Cheers all,
Trace