For Wilshire Baptist Church
After taking a long break we’re back at the jigsaw puzzle table. During the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic we completed approximately 40 puzzles, but we stopped for several months when the masks came off and life got busy again. I’m not sure what got us back to puzzling, except perhaps the extreme heat of this summer has created its own pandemic-like response and we aren’t getting out much.
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Sitting at a red light, the man behind me in the blue BMW beeped his horn as soon as the light turned green. Apparently, I wasn’t moving fast enough for him. He eventually zipped around me and raced ahead. I so wanted to scoot in behind him at the next light and provide him with the same guidance. But I didn’t. You never know the mental state of the person in the other car. More than that, I’m too old for these games. Or at least I should be.
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Ken knows tires, but more important, he knows people.
Ken is a manager at the Firestone near my parents’ house. I went there on a recent evening to fix a slow tire leak and check out a few other things on my mother’s SUV. We were taking turns staying with my father in hospice care and I stole away for what turned out to be a couple of hours. I’d called ahead and Ken said they could do the work before closing time, but the line for service was long so I’d better get over there.
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