I've just arrived home in the Philippines from our trip to Montana for Dennis' final memorial services. We met out in the fields where Dennis grew up, and scattered some of his ashes there to symbolize his homecoming.

It was the first time that the Gunderson family has been all together out in Montana for twenty years. Aubrey said at some point over the weekend, 'If grandpa hadn't died, we wouldn't be all together.'

My parents were able to come down from Canada for it as well, so it was a very precious opportunity for our families to be together. There's no time when you more need nor more richly experience the value of family togetherness.