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A starving 5-year-old girl in Nicaragua changed my life 20 years ago when she asked me to feed her. Since then, I’ve traveled to desperate places of poverty and starvation in the world providing hunger relief and development. Why do these places suffer from prolonged famines and starvation and we in America don’t?

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Here we are already in the 11th month of 2023. This year has had a lot of hurdles; but, yet it seems to have flown by. As a child, I remember hearing “the older you get the faster it goes” and that seems to be true. The balancing act continues and notes are vital. It seems that although I didn’t need lists in the past to remember all the things; after turning 40 this year it is a necessity. I apologize for not getting to all the things. Time may not have allowed, or I simply didn’t get the reminder to the note.

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Lately, I have been thinking about the role anticipation plays in life. I suppose my thoughts have been one dimensional because I was only considering the anticipation of joy. I have no doubt pleasure is more fun to think about than pain, than being fearful.