Beneath the Wraps

                 You think I may have learned from my last Greyhound excursion ( here ) that it wasn’t that great of an experience from Portland to Salt Lake.  But I decided to give them another shot.  I thought it might be a fun experience for Jaime to try.  It would be the first time I brought my own companion on the bus. I had never done that before.            I had purchased the tickets online. I decided the word “Flixbus” means “small”.   Searching the internet further leads me to believe it is the Flixbus that is the coach bus (with more leg room offered than on airlines) and the Greyhound is a petite upgrade from school bus. I have ridden coach buses before and I have ridden school buses.   The bus from Portland to Salt Lake was closer to school bus as far as the amount of space for passengers.   It was definitely smaller than three of the buses Jaime and I took to get to Sal...

               There are so many things I miss about my flip phone.  No accidental butt dials.  Not that I can actually butt dial as my touch screen is so LARGE that it will NOT fit into a human pocket.  Often it is too big for the provided pocket that comes with totes especially designed for the cell phone.  NOT my cell phone.           My last phone was an Easyfone which totally lives up to its name.  Turn it on and it is ready to go.  No waiting for the forces of nature to connect to cyberspace even though I don ’ t have all the so called cool features as apps and the internet.  Unwanted ads.  I already get that through texting – Thank you very much.  Never got the ads through my cell phone – not even Trump ’ s important message that went out to most cell phone owners.  Not me.  It was great.         I ...

                My Baby graduated high school last night. There were ten students representing the honors list.  If they had picked twelve – Jai would have been up front with them wearing golden sash.  Yet just having four year cords was pretty cool – again because she did not attend the school during 2020-2021.  But it sounded like a wasted year for all of them.        Without meaning to, I had compared her graduation to my own and the HUGE differences between them.   The only similarity I saw was with the weather.   Both were overcast – though I don ’ t recall as much rain at my graduation as with hers.          She had called to ask if we would like to be seated in the very back so that I could lean against the wall or if we wanted to be the second row in front.   I was visualizing the bleachers and not three rows of chairs added to the front –...

           Moses had been raised as a prince in Pharaoh’s court.   We don’t know how many there were in total but at least one.   There was at least one raised along side of Moses who would become the next Pharaoh.   It is possible that he and Moses were friends many years before Moses killed an Egyptian while trying to protect a slave. Rumor has it that the Pharaoh at that time got wind of what had happened and sought to slay Moses and Moses fled.           Forty years had passed before Moses returned to Egypt – a different man, a different Pharaoh.   Forty years is a long time.   The Pharaoh’s heart had hardened.   He no longer viewed Moses as growing up in the same palace as he.   He saw a poor shepherd and would not take Moses seriously – even with all the plagues.   Even with the killing of the first born.           The ...