Images from This Particular Happiness

At the Shannon ranch

My first home. "Leaving doesn't mean you're gone from it. Leaving doesn't mean it's gone from you."

"My great-grandparents left Kansas for the west three days after they married. . . . They had eight children, including my grandfather and my great Aunt Lena."

Dad & Mom out on the town

Pat & Brad & Leanne welcoming me home

That cat was almost as big as me

Me & Dad

Hairdo by Mom

Pretending my sister was my own baby

Pat, me, Cris, Leanne, Brad

Cris & Mom

The calves came every year

Us kids on the front porch.

Age 18, holding my first niece, Tawna

Leanne's wedding day

Nana holding her first grandchild, Tawna

Mom and I on the day of my first wedding

Dad and I just before we enter the chapel

My brothers Brad & Pat with Mom

Playing horse with Tawna

Falling in love with Annilee

Aunt Lena with J.D.

Leanne and her girls

Leanne and her family

With Annilee at the Oregon coast

With Shannon & Annilee

Home for harvest, and to deliver news to Dad

With my friend, Amy. "This was the terrain under us. I'd seen her at her best and her worst. I thought she'd seen me at mine."

Bill with his little brother. "I look for what's missing, what a staying father could have given. What I see are the features of the man Bill will be."

Bill, on a vacation with his dad

Bill & his brother, Clint

Falling in love with Bill

Amy and me on day I married Bill

A cake with real flowers

Holding my niece Alyson for the first time

At our wedding, the nieces and nephews gathered around

Honeymoon in Mexico

His place of big sunsets (Bryce Canyon)

Hiking the Virgin river, Zion national park

Getting groceries in Greece

Waiting for sunset in Greece

That first trip to Switzerland

Where we became the American in Switzerland

Bill and his mom

With Alyson

Shannon & Annilee come for a visit

Holding Amy's son

I was the cheering on the sidelines (with Jared)

Making each other smile

Holding M'ari

Me with M'ari

Patti & Jeff & Amber

Devin

Yoga pose in the desert

Heavy lifting

Dad & Mom at their 50th anniversary

I loved the wheat before it was cut

Mom preferred the stubble

The "American parents" at a Swiss wedding

Jan & Alan with their babies

Bill and I with Dylan

Bill with Poppy

Bill & I holding Dylan & Poppy

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