Before tonight, the only time I’ve been on tv was a horrible experience. I was a sophomore in high school, our baseball team had a big game with state playoff implications, and the television cameras were there. We were losing late in the game, I was on first base, and somebody on our team hit [...]

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I’ve been out of the regular routine for this month of February, some of it leave time, some of it working on long range stuff. This past month has been a respite of hope and healing on a journey that I think will be long. My hope is that it is like when Frodo and [...]

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Got a travel bug.

Originally uploaded by gkoskela.

This really was a great day with Aubrey and Hayley (by the way, Talli is at Jr. High Jamboree, and Elaine deserved a day at home by herself.) The last cache of the day was up on Bald Peak. The view [...]

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Find number 4

Originally uploaded by gkoskela.

Tricky one, but not tricky enough to stop us!

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Our third find of the day was all Hayley

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This one was in a park next to the Willamette River, and was a creative one. First we found a tiny, hidden “microcache” that had the coordinates of the REAL cache. It was hidden under some [...]

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Our second one was called “Sherwood Entmoot“, so of course a Tolkien nut like me would have to check it out.

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Our first find of the day!

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Today is beautiful in the ‘Berg, so Hayley and Aubrey and I decided to go geocaching. This was our first find of the day, right outside my own doctor’s office! You can see the info about his cache here.

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What’s in the picture, you may be asking? That, my little bloggettes and bloggites, is Jars of Clay. Taken by me. On my camera phone. Tonight.
Why was I there with my wife, you might ask? Because Marta and her husband showed us love. She called Elaine last night and said, “We want to get [...]

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My songs for today came within minutes of each other.
A friend sent an e-mail reminding me of U2’s Yahweh, in particular these lines:
“…always pain before the child is born – why the dark before the dawn”
And then a few minutes later, while jogging, it was Switchfoot’s Learning to Breathe on my iPod:
Hello, good morning, [...]

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I’ve been naming the things I’m thankful for today, naming them as signs of God’s grace, little pieces of God’s grace that sustain me.

The gift of parents who never let me doubt that I was loved, which means I am better able to see God’s love.
The gift of the woman I married and the [...]

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