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Getting "Unblocked"

 Roadblock.  Find an alternative route.  Artery block. Get a stent.  Drain block.  Try Drano.  Dig out the hair.  If all else fails, call a plumber.  Writer's block.  Pray.  Ask God for inspiration.  And simply try again.  I've been praying.  Let's see... Thirteen years of overseas work have clicked by.  Leaving us behind on all the modern lingo in our country.  Our young adult say phrases that we have no idea what they mean.  We don't know how to use our credit cards: where to tap, which way to insert.  It is quite embarrassing. Things keep developing, while we are away, and we are left behind.  Simple things, small things, but it is always a bit of an awakening to the reality that life changes in countries.  Recently, I was driving through the town where we resided prior to moving to Indonesia and then later Lebanon.  The question went through my mind, "Ruth what if you still lived here and had never left?" I thought about still living there.  Just over the