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I’d Rather Be Wet By Rain Than Perspiration

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                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 –...

Crosswalk Workout

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                It was quite dark yesterday morning even between 7:00 and 7:30.   I was able to drive myself to work yesterday as my shift didn’t start until 8:30 and the elements had lightened by then.   I thought that Roland might have to drive me today as my shift started an hour earlier, and probably would have had him take me in if I hadn’t gone with him at 6:00 this morning when he dropped Jenna off at the church.   The darkest part of the commute was getting out of my neighborhood onto the main drag.               I had given myself 20 minutes for a 6 minute drive and so I had plenty of time.   Yesterday I was in the detention room (or in-school- suspension  as it is called at that particular school) but today I had crosswalk duty which I have only done at that school one time before.     ...