Subs and bureaus

Volunteer shift of two and a half hours for Patience and myself that morning – passes in a wink – and while I'm busy stapling papers for First Grade... Patience successfully leads the young ones through their Spanish vocabulary and games... “She was just wonderful” the sub tells me later... “I could just sit back and be the TA”...

Back home Puck is now determined to conquer the license bureau... he requests an alternative branch... drive west while discussing the God of the Old Testament fallacy...

Sit for an hour across from a young Jewish man in a yarmulke reading a book and several adults speaking Hindi in conversation... then after about ten people ditch the line... Puck's name is called and after I sign approval he receives his renewed driver's license with Real ID... smooth as butter... walks out satisfied with the experience... until he looks at his temporary license paper and realizes the signature he added on the touchscreen is the one he's stuck with for the next three years... “Noooo! I forgot it does that! My signature looks like a 7 year-old's!”...

Home again to call back the skydiving center... weather looks significant for the weekend... need to reschedule...

Then bookwork with Patience... about fall asleep over her highly detailed research pains during creative writing...

…which is lightly interrupted by Puck and Yali smashing a small beachball back and forth across the living room... “Here Yali” Puck grins maniacally pulling out a pizza slicer... “lay down and I'll give you a back massage” … Yali laughs and runs away, probably running into a wall or something... (Mama takes an ibuprofen)...

Studio for set dance practice... sit on the parking lot windows rolled down sweatshirt sleeves rolled up reading about “The Arian Controversy” over a Hershey's chocolate bar...

Home for dinner... Puck and I discuss parents who allow their kids to attend college while they're still elementary-aged and how damaging that must be to their social/emotional psyche... while Oxbear and Yali explore deep into VR worlds together... wind-whispered honeysuckle in evening light... storms coming...