Wrapped in Our Lady's Mantle

 

It was a day today. My phone should have been charging all night, but when I went to do Portuguese on DuoLingo this morning, it was at 20%. Fortunately I have the old charger cord that still works, so I brought that with me and charged my phone at work. I worked on campus, and after we walked at lunch, Hardingfele showed me a tool they use in her division to find funds by the people who own them, which was easy to do in the old system but hard to figure out in the new one. I mentioned this to the Hive Mind and got all kinds of pushback about how people in my position don't need to know this information, even though we're the ones people go to when they want to know what money they have available. My boss even private messaged me to see if I was still confused about how this works. Ah well, I have the tool, so I can do it. Then after leaving work, I realized I'd forgotten to lock the mailroom door, and when I got to my car, I'd forgotten to put my parking tag on my rearview mirror. There was no ticket on my windshield, but maybe they're going to send it to me later.

In the evening Travalon and I went to our old church to be wrapped in Mary's mantle. I had done it back in December, but while some people had gotten their photo taken, I hadn't. Hockey Girl said we could do one after their Intercessory Prayer group tonight, so here are some photos of Travalon and me wrapped in Our Lady's mantle.

Thanks to Richard Bonomo for taking these photos. Weirdly, the parking lot at the church was full except for the part right in front of the church, so we assumed at first that something big was going on upstairs, and we thought the Intercessory Prayer Group met downstairs, so imagine our confusion when we saw they were meeting upstairs, and there were maybe a dozen of them. So why were so many cars in the parking lot?

Remember a couple of weekends ago when Travalon saw all those people out on the ice of the lake by the Memorial Union? They left a huge mess behind, lots of beer cans and stuff, that would have gotten into the lake when the ice melted. But then other people connected on social media about this, and a bunch of them went out and cleaned up the mess, so the story has a happy ending.

I looked it up, and it was St. Patrick's Day 2009 when that man asked my band to play "Coconut Grove." The older song is actually called "Cocoanut Grove," which may be why I couldn't find it back then. This was almost twenty years ago, so the man who made this request may be long dead by now. The song he wanted is from the 1930's, so it makes sense that his in-laws were listening to it. It's so old that even my octogenarian bandmates hadn't heard of it.

Let me end by saying I want this blockade of Cuba to end now. The people are suffering so much. They have so little fuel that they can't even do surgeries. This is pure evil.

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