I am back in KC. Some folks I met along the way today (I did not meet this group of nuns, but there's something about the picture I like:
--A scarily irate mom and her two pre-adolescent children at the security gate at JAX. The mom SCREAMING at her daughter about losing her boarding pass (one of the Transportation women had it) her daughter WEEPING at the top of her voice, and everyone looking. See, Cana and Caleb, it could be worse!
--Getting a blog comment from a United Methodist in St Mary’s Georgia about me blogging from the Panera’s from which he often works. He said I might have passed by his house today in my rental car on my way to the airport.
--Having a rather pointed discussion with the rental car agent about charges. She understood my plea and all ended in peace.
--A woman next to me on the flight from JAX to Memphis reading Ann Lamott. She gave me her card; I promised to email her my blog address
--Caleb calling me during the short wait at Memphis asking for my credit card number so that he and Cana could order out Chinese. And then him realizing I was in a public place and he didn’t want my identity to be stolen by my speaking my card number aloud in public…(not at least by that woman in the security line at JAX)…he found some cash to use.
--A very irate 30ish some-would-call-handsome man in the waiting area in Memphis yelling into his cell phone expletives about some friend who was bugging him and then settling down in his first class seat to read How To Win Friends and Influence People by apparently the still-popular Dale Carnegie (I kid you not)…I was not in first-class but was right behind and saw it with my very own eyes.
--The Somalian shuttle driver who you just had to have been there to appreciate. He’s been in the States three years and his wife is 7 months pregnant, and he had to work hard to get his chauffeur’s license and he was very nice to me and though he spoke English a whole heck of a lot better than I would speak Somalian, I mostly guessed at what he said and made appreciative sounds.
Back in the office tomorrow, after a quick visit with my dentist, Karen Rethmeyer. Prayers for the jaw, all. Two months and we are still not out of the woods yet.
--Getting a blog comment from a United Methodist in St Mary’s Georgia about me blogging from the Panera’s from which he often works. He said I might have passed by his house today in my rental car on my way to the airport.
--Having a rather pointed discussion with the rental car agent about charges. She understood my plea and all ended in peace.
--A woman next to me on the flight from JAX to Memphis reading Ann Lamott. She gave me her card; I promised to email her my blog address
--Caleb calling me during the short wait at Memphis asking for my credit card number so that he and Cana could order out Chinese. And then him realizing I was in a public place and he didn’t want my identity to be stolen by my speaking my card number aloud in public…(not at least by that woman in the security line at JAX)…he found some cash to use.
--A very irate 30ish some-would-call-handsome man in the waiting area in Memphis yelling into his cell phone expletives about some friend who was bugging him and then settling down in his first class seat to read How To Win Friends and Influence People by apparently the still-popular Dale Carnegie (I kid you not)…I was not in first-class but was right behind and saw it with my very own eyes.
--The Somalian shuttle driver who you just had to have been there to appreciate. He’s been in the States three years and his wife is 7 months pregnant, and he had to work hard to get his chauffeur’s license and he was very nice to me and though he spoke English a whole heck of a lot better than I would speak Somalian, I mostly guessed at what he said and made appreciative sounds.
Back in the office tomorrow, after a quick visit with my dentist, Karen Rethmeyer. Prayers for the jaw, all. Two months and we are still not out of the woods yet.
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