Image

Rule 5: Taylor Edwards

Train tickets

Bought our end of April tickets to Oklahoma City. Trying again to get within range of Higgins in the Texas Panhandle and OCS comrade Russ Wheat’s grave. At least we can expect no ice storms this time.

AfterlifeTV

This is one of the best interviews on this topic that I’ve heard. Believe or don’t believe. Know or don’t know. Terri Daniel is amazing.

Found a brown feather

“Brown is the color of earth – comforting, nurturing, stable and fertile. It has a feeling of the comforts of home, being cozy, safe and warm. A brown feather may be a reminder to keep a balanced perspective, to live life in moderation and to set healthy boundaries.

“It reminds you to stay grounded, to connect with the Earth and stay present in the moment.”

Via Feather Finding

UPDATE: Later, Bar had a dream in which her departed mother told me the feather was from an angel, telling me I was watched over, protected, empowered and on the right path

Image

Rule 5: Ashley Graham

Named for a Greek goddess….

…Charis, for beauty and elegance. Must say the front end of the Toyota Yaris isn’t beautiful or elegant but the number one daughter liked the whole well enough. So, with her Chevy Sonic in death throes at 170,000 mostly highway miles (are all American cars shit?), and Covid (and our Dimocrat mayor’s lockdowns) having rendered her almost broke, we bought her a used 2020, the last year the brand will be made in the USA.

But with only 30,000 miles on it it’s predicted to last another 270,000 miles—Car & Driver, I think it was. It is black, the most dangerous car color, and most costly to insure. But, as I say, she liked it. Even got a bit cheeky about it, saying “If I have a choice….” So all’s well as ends well.

Cookie Jill

It was a nice gesture on Dr. Biden’s part, bringing fresh-baked cookies in wicker baskets to the National Guard across from the WH to make up for the cold garage cement they went through the night before. For all Melania’s sophistication I can’t quite imagine her doing cookies. But then Trump wouldn’t have allowed the garage bit to begin with.

The First Lady may be a little frumpy (as Yahoo lifestyle saw it) but she’s attractively so and who doesn’t like cookies?