May 13th

A little retro salsa to start the morning... sit down to my laptop where the first two emails read : “American Girl : gift ideas for your grad” and : “Desiring God : do you see demons?”...

Meanwhile Yali is walking around with the glue gun like he's shooting up bad guys robbing a bank...

Drive Yali and Patience to Yellow Bird in warming air... waiting at a light Yali imagines with animation what it would be like to unleash a stampede of guinea pigs the size of cars...

While they spend five hours with friends running around under sun amongst bright garden flowers...

Mama catches up at home as a summer cloud-scape eventually floats in packed with those almost-Pixar clouds...

By evening Puck is at work for four hours...

...Yali dresses for battle in the yard... cowboy hat and cycling gloves included...

...while I drive Patience to the studio for a two-hour class...

...and Oxbear leaves for a two-hour elders meeting at church...

Puck waiting on the Schnucks curb with a bag of butter lettuce and tomato at eight o'clock... waiting for a fat double BLT back home...