Where is it you find joy?
                                                                                           Where is the beauty in your heart?
                                                                                            Who is it that touches your innermost soul
                                                                                             Where does the love of God start?
                                                                                               When will we seek to know
                                                                                                 Where peace and love begin
                                                                                                   We're here as wind does blow
                                                                                                     With each new loving start.....
                                                                                                                         Kristi Haertl



                                Kristi's Friends and Family Page.. Edition 2

As the years come and go, we each find our innermost places of beauty, love, sensitivity, happiness, sadness, vulnerability and humanity. ....  Yet I am mindful it is in the journey as we seek to love and be loved, seek to learn and grow, that we create and paint the pictures of our lives.  May each of us find a beautiful picture in our hearts and souls, and may we paint beautiful pictures in the lives of others....

                                 

                            The beauty painted by a recent snowfall... on one of my favorite running trails close by

                           

                Flashback......


       
 

           Brian, Dad & Grandpa Kep                                                                                    Christmas past  :-)

In memory of Brian Keplinger (March  8, 67- July 4, 97)
and in memory of Grandpa Kep (1908-2002)

 

                       

                        In Memory of Mel "Tuffy" Rausch, 11-21-1915 to 8-9-05


 
 Mikaela's Youngin Years....

           
                Mikaela's self portrait at age 14

                Aerobics Pics!!!  I am forever grateful to still be teaching aerobics... over the past 25 years we have truly developed an "aerobic family"... many of us have been together in friendship, through joys, challenges, births, deaths, triumphs and tragedies, but the beauty is that through friendship we transcend it all!

       

                    My dear friend and Soul Sister Julie and I... the two of us have taught aerobics together for over 10 years...

           
                Bosu Party!!!  :0)
           

                    Some of the Aerobics Instructors at the old Hwy 100 club

       

        After 20 years... Lifetime Fitness bought out Northwest and closed the Hwy 100 club... the club is gone, but we have remained strong as a group ... I continue to teach at New Hope and Moore Lake, I am grateful for the coordinators who opened their doors to our group and for all those who have sinced joined us!



            Travels!!!...


        Up North... Family Camp and the Cabin!!


       

            Up at Itasca (by the cabin)... Mikaela and I spent years traveling up to family camp and to the cabin to visit my dad along with her best friend Jodi...
   Sadly all non-natives had to sell back their cabins to the White Earth Indian reservation in 2006... we had the cabin 40 years

       

           
                                              
                                                    Mikaela plays guitar for vespers

                                   
   
               

 Travel Fun!!

        

                   
                    San Francisco

           

                         


The beauty of Australia...
I was fortunate to have the chance to present my research in Australia, it is a beautiful land and one I'd love to travel back to!
                       
                                  Bondi Beach... Beautiful beach yet Manly beach was just as picturesque

       

                                       Darling Harbor

                                       
                     
                                                        The Chinese Friendship Garden

                        The Dominican Republic:

                   

               
   Miscellaneous Outings And Friends!!  


            Biking!!  


                Purple Pumpers X , 2006  (just some of the crew)
       


                Purple Pumpers XI... 2007   Enjoying dinner out the night before the big ride!!!

           

        The Beauty of New Mexico... Society for the Study of Occupation

               

                        Sandia Mountain Peak

                        SSO Friends and Colleagues...

                           

                        Are they all native to the area?

                               

                               

                                                   I'm not sure... no wine and I still have that dazed look!

                       

               

Other Places of Solace, refuge and fun!!


                   


                        Reunion of High School Running Buddies!!!

                       
       
                             Girls Night Out... Melting Pot!!!



                                 
                                            Valentine's Day Breakfast with Friends!!
                                                   
                                                           

                                                                        A beautiful place in Anoka County




                       

                    A favorite Running Trail ... Beautiful Sand Creek in the winter...

                   

                                                The Joy of the Beauty and Exhileration along Minnesota Bike Trails!

                                     

I wish you joy
I wish you peace
I wish you love
and sweet release
May you know
beauty within
May your journey bring
a tender grin
May you grow
along the way
and share with others
day to day
the Lord graced all
with moment'grace
May you feel His love
every place

Thanks to each of you for gracing my life
Kristi


                                           

                   

                                       
           

                   
               

                   

               








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