Karin invites you to join the conversation in this month’s reflection on Hope & A Future’s pioneering efforts. Valentine Month is here! My favorite picture of love comes from the movie, It’s A Wonderful Life, one of my favorites. Just like the character George Bailey (pictured left), I have ridden the teeter-totter between wonderful life and nearly intolerable hard life. I am guessing we have all had our moments. Where each of us ends up most of the time is informed by; our attitudes, internal beliefs, spiritual life, those we listen to around us, the status quo...
Karin Krause & Paula Reif’s Reflection As we begin 2019, we hope you are enjoying memories of time spent with family and friends during the holiday season! We are happy to report our days were filled with laughs and love! And now we enter the near hibernation months in Wisconsin—we wait for the days to get longer and we watch the winter weather. For us, highlights now become table talk around home cooked meals and reading books or watching movies by the wood stove. However, watching the news can bring an unwelcome chill. As a country, it appears we have a...