Happy mail, still and angel

- Happy mail in the form of a book parcel from friend Jannie, accompanied by a beautiful card of Claude Monet's Three Trees. She is generously loaning me her signed copy of Thomma Lyn Grindstaff's debut novel, Mirror Blue AND included a bonus book. How fun is that? And smiling at Thomma Lyn's upside down inscription on the cover page to Jannie, with the explanation that it is upside down because she is left-handed.

- A young lady who works at my gym sharing with me her college saga that has lead her to attend a nearby community college coming up this fall. She started out at my first school, Georgia College & State University, in my home town. I tell her that I loved it because of the green lawns under leafy trees and that my English professor would take our 20-member group outside to sit in a circle and have class. She says they still do that.

- Working with students by email at the University of Wisconsin Upward Bound program to have a couple of yearbooks printed for the group excursion that landed them in Atlanta this week. Wanting to deliver them myself so I can finally meet them, I get a little lost in busy downtown Atlanta (big GPS failure); finally asking a cab driver where the hotel is. He leads me down city streets, pauses in front of the hotel, lowers his window and points. He drives away with a wave. There are angels everywhere.