Alphabetical List of America the Beautiful (National Park) Quarters

I am providing this list as a public service because I couldn't find one like it on the internet. The U.S. Mint lists the quarters in their release sequence, but that makes it hard to track unless you keep up with them as they come out. I am just a very casual coin collector, so for me alphabetical is best. The release year is given at the end of each line.

There will be 56 ATB (America the Beautiful) quarters in all:

1.      Acadia National Park, Maine (2012)

2.      American Memorial Park, Northern Marianas (2019)

3.      Apostle Islands National Lakeshore Site, Wisconsin (2018)

4.      Arches National Park, Utah (2014)

5.      Block Island National Wildlife Refuge Site, Rhode Island (2018)

6.      Blue Ridge Parkway Site, North Carolina (2015)

7.      Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge Site, Delaware (2015)

8.      Chaco Culture National Historical Park, New Mexico (2012)

9.      Chickasaw National Recreation Area, Oklahoma (2011)

10.  Cumberland Gap National Historical Park, Kentucky (2016)

11.  Cumberland Island National Seashore Site, Georgia (2018)

12.  Denali National Park , Alaska (2012)

13.  District of Columbia, Frederick Douglass National Historic Site, DC (2017)

14.  El Yunque National Forest Site, Puerto Rico (2012)

15.  Everglades National Park, Florida (2014)

16.  Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine Site, Maryland (2013)

17.  Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument) Site, South Carolina (2016)

18.  Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Site, Idaho (2019)

19.  Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania (2011)

20.  Glacier National Park, Montana (2011)

21.  Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona (2010)

22.  Great Basin National Park, Nevada (2013)

23.  Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado (2014)

24.  Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee (2014)

25.  Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, West Virginia (2016)

26.  Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii (2012)

27.  Homestead National Monument of America Site, Nebraska (2015)

28.  Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas (2010)

29.  Indiana, George Rogers Clark National Historical Park, Indiana (2017)

30.  Iowa, Effigy Mounds National Monument Site, Iowa (2017)

31.  Kisatchie National Forest Site, Louisiana (2015)

32.  Lowell National Historical Park, Massachusetts (2019)

33.  Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Vermont (2020)

34.  Missouri, Ozark National Scenic Riverways Site, Missouri (2017)

35.  Mount Hood National Forest, Oregon (2010)

36.  Mount Rushmore National Memorial Site, South Dakota (2013)

37.  National Park of American Samoa, American Samoa (2020)

38.  New Jersey, Ellis Island National Monument (Statue of Liberty) Site, New Jersey (2017)

39.  Olympic National Park, Washington (2011)

40.  Perry’s Victory and International Peace Memorial Site, Ohio  (2013)

41.  Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore Site, Michigan (2018)

42.  Salt River Bay National Historical Park, US Virgin Islands (2020)

43.  San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, Texas (2019)

44.  Saratoga National Historical Park, New York  (2015)

45.  Shawnee National Forest Site, Illinois (2016)

46.  Shenandoah National Park, Virginia (2014)

47.  Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Site, Kansas (2020)

48.  Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota (2016)

49.  Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site, Alabama (2021)

50.  Vicksburg National Military Park, Mississippi  (2011)

51.  Voyageurs National Park, Minnesota (2018)

52.  War in the Pacific National Historical Park, Guam (2019)

53.  Weir Farm National Historic Site, Connecticut (2020)

54.  White Mountain National Forest Site, New Hampshire (2103)

55.  Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming (2010)

56.  Yosemite National Park, California (2010)

Alphabetical List of State Quarters (and Territories)

I am providing this list as a public service since I can't find one like it anywhere on the internet. These are the quarters issued by the U.S. mint for states and territories. All are already in circulation.

I've been trying to collect 6 of each (one for each family member), so I need a list to carry with me of which states I need to keep and which ones I can use for loose change.

Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

OTHER TERRITORY QUARTERS ISSUED:

American Samoa

District of Columbia

Guam

Northern Marianas

Puerto Rico

US Virgin Islands

Driving Home at Dusk on a Summer Evening

Few houses have sitting porches, and fewer still have people sitting on them. It is more comfortable inside with air conditioning. Porch furniture in place, unoccupied. Streets deserted.

A man sitting on a boat trailor in the garage surveying his newly mowed lawn, a can of beer in his hand. I feel like I've interrupted something just driving by.

A small boy helping his dad spread mulch in their flower beds from a five-gallon bucket, scooped from the bed of a large pick-up truck. A big job for such a little guy. 

Pink and blue stripes across the sky. A burst of orange on the northwestern horizon. Friends and family in far flung places renowned for their beauty, but I am the lucky one.

This Morning's Epiphany

This morning I woke up with the thought (apropos of nothing):

PEOPLE WILL DISAPPOINT YOU.

I have no idea what I had been dreaming about or what my sub-conscious mind had been puzzling over, but it did not strike me as a negative, foreboding thought at all, like something in a fortune cookie -- just a realization of truth, a nugget of wisdom I had not articulated before.

People will disappoint me, often without meaning to. Sometimes, even despite good intentions, I will disappoint others.Worst of all, and most painfully, I will disappoint myself.

Even some of the closest, most nearly perfect people in our lives will sometimes fall short, often in small ways not even worth mentioning. It's called being human, and it's universal.

I have been a tough customer throughout my life, a person with very high expectations of myself and others. I have been perplexed by human weaknesses, including my own. My expectations will remain just as high - I do not regret those - but I hope to be able to remember this epiphany when I experience disappointments and want to shield myself from them. Disappointments caused by human shortcomings are a natural part of life.

The acknowledgement that people will disappoint me has had a strangely liberating effect already in the short space of seven hours:

• I am free to love everyone, despite hurts.
• I can also feel worthy of their love, even though I'm not perfect. 
• I can love myself despite having disappointed myself over and over again.

I reserve the right to protect myself from future hurt, but I know that a certain amount of hurt or difficulty is inevitable and necessary for our growth and understanding.  As the poet Kahlil Gibran said, "Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."

I can forgive and love people anyway, and expect the same forgiveness and love in return. It is my right as a human being, and my obligation as a follower of Jesus Christ.

Our Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are the only ones who will never disappoint us -- that's why we can safely place our full faith and trust in them.

People will disappoint us, often again and again, but it is our task/duty/challenge/commandment to find a way to forgive them, to love them despite their faults, shortcomings, hurts and limitations. We can also hope that they will love us despite ours.

If we truly believe in repentance and the power of the Atonement, in which our sinless Savior paid the price for the sins of all mankind (not just for our own sins), we  forgive and love one another anyway.

In junior high art class, I made a poster with fluffy white clouds on a blue, blue sky (indicative of my idealism) that said:

LOVE IS THE ANSWER.

WHAT WAS THE QUESTION?

That's how we can resolve difficult interpersonal relationships in our lives. We can love, which is our most natural inclination as children of a loving Heavenly Father.

*****

One more quote and a poem:

It is to the credit of human nature that…it loves more than it hates. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

THIS I KNOW

by C. Margaret Clarkson 

I do not know what next may come
Across my pilgrim way;
I do not know tomorrow's road,
Nor see beyond today.
But this I know --my SAVIOR knows
The path I cannot see;
And I can trust His wounded hand
To guide and care for me.

I do not know what may befall,
Of sunshine or of rain;
I do not know what may be mine,
Of pleasure and of pain;
But this I know -- my SAVIOR knows
And whatsoe'er it be
Still I can trust his love to give
What will be best for me.

I do not know what may await,
Or what the morrow brings;
But with the glad salute of faith,
I hail its opening wings;
For this I know -- that my LORD
Shall all my needs be met;
And I can trust the heart of Him,
Who has not failed me yet.