07 APR 26

“It's all done?” // “Yup... no more reporting to the brown hats”...

Puck thumps a blue folder of paperwork on the dashboard as we turn off Washington and drive for home... nearly a year after the first inquiry form was submitted and here we are again in another unexpected world... which is all futures...

“What's for lunch?” **it's a question on the sly and I know it** // “Well... what were you envisioning?”...

Puck plugs in an order for Chick-fil-A on my phone while we scoot west under cold-ish sunshine...

Twenty minutes later we're leaving a packed drive-thru with a paper sack and a spring-special diet strawberry hibiscus lemonade...

“Ew... you can have this...” **passes me the cup** “I forgot hibiscus was a flower...”