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The Virginia Tech Ripple Effect

My heart sank when I first read the news of the Virginia Tech incident.

When events like this happen I immediately think of the ripple effect of the primary event. In this case, the gunman took the lives of innocent students sitting in their dorm or their class rooms.

Certainly those students lives are irrevocably changed...those who died definitely, but even those who were injured and will have to live on with the memory of what they witnessed.

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Aspen's Favorite Things

In the last four months that Aspen has been a member of our household, we've learned a bit about his favorite things. It's such a quirky little collection I thought you'd get a kick out of them as well.

1) Anything with a motor...he loves to watch airplanes fly overhead, will sit down on his walk to watch a car back out of a driveway, and was completely mystified by the gas powered leaf blower that a gardener had left running in a yard. He looks at the object in question with a focused tilt to his head...as if trying to figure out what it is, why it is, and how it works.

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