Waiting for a decision!

We are on pins and needles!  Waiting here at home watching the case unfold on streaming tape on Southeast Missourian at 3:30.   The body of Jackie Waller was found this week after two years of not knowing where she was although everyone knew that her ex-husband killed her.  Today Clay Waller is going to plead guilty and be sentenced.   You cannot even get close to the Jackson Court House.   I went out to lunch with Cheryl Mothes, my Edward Jones person, and we got home in time to see this.   So I'm waiting along with everyone else.   I actually did not know either one of them but she was good friends with Joan Gohn's daughter and I have been drawn to the case.

So we will wait.   If I think I am tired of waiting, what about these two families!  How terrible for each of them!

 So we will wait and see and pray that justice is done for this woman who leaves behind a set of triplets!   And can they ever deal with this terrible loss to their lives!  They will, technically, lose both parents!   Just waiting!

OKAY!   HE JUST PLEADED GUILTY!   NO CAMERAS IN THE COURTROOM.  WAITING FOR THE PRESS CONFERENCE AT 3:30!       Fat is hitting the fan already -- he got 20 years.  It seems that he finally told them where to find the body.  Said he got mad, lost his temper and suffocated her!    

Another day and I feel a bit unsteady!

Don't like this feeling.   Just seems like I slept too hard and can't get it worked out of my system.   Maybe it is just getting old and I don't want to deal with it.   Anyway, I will sit here and deal with it today and try to think of something else useful I can do.     So I got out and walked around the yard!  It helps the soul and the body!

I Voted Today!

I went to the polls this morning at 7:05 with Meleia and voted in the Congressional race.   Laughed when I walked into Westminister --knew all the judges:  Wendell Wyatt, Carolyn Goodin, Edna Ruth Fischer, on and on.   That's why I like a small town.    This is a called Congressional election and Steve Hodges from East Prairie is running.  This is replacement for Jo Ann Emerson's seat!   I have a feeling that the Democrats will not gain the seat but I wanted to vote anyway and do my part.

Gloria came today and gave me a report about Jennie Cooper's condition.  She goes out there twice a week.  She says that Jennie won't take her medicine anymore and the Doctor says that they could take her home and call in hospice.  Who knows if this is true because it always is managed news or filtered?   She did have Gloria call Rose Marie Cooper Jordan this week.   I have a gut feeling that Jennie is checking out and I don't blame her --but you don't get to name your time unless you throw yourself under the bus!   I am way past wanting to get any further involved --believe me, after I paid $1300 a month for all of them out of my pocket, I am ready to pass on that gift to them and let some other fool pay it.  But no one steps up to that responsibility.

I got an email today from Joyce Penny, athletics, saying she was retiring after 31 years at Houck.   I know this is not an easy transition.  I wrote her a note back saying, "They will never know what hit them." and they won't.   Good luck, Joyce.  It is way bad when you work past the point that people take you and your work for granted!   You even said that in your email.  But that is the nature of the beast.

The rest of the day is easy.   Gloria is here cleaning the house and Kathleen is here helping me with invitations, work.  Then lunch with Tom Harte and dinner with Joan Gohn.   I will enjoy the day and look forward to dealing with sanity.
  

What happened to my mind?

Bierk, bill Prost and I went out for dinner tonight at Bella and we got into a discussion about what coach in basketball was successful but had a drinking problem and left!   I was blank and that makes me so mad!   I got up and looked all around the restaurant for someone who had instant recall!

I went. Outside and ran into Greg Deimund who googled it!  Yes!  Charles parsley!   Success, mentally!

Monday morning

Just can't get it together!  Had to have a confrontation again with Annie to get the junk heAp moved out of the garage at rent house and I hate to have these kind of discussions!  But I have no other choice!    Maybe the day will get better!  I hope so!  Maybe my back is acting up!

The last of the grandchildren graduates!

Yesterday, Nathaniel Colin Dyer graduated from the Savannah College of Design.

It is a mosaic of his life and footprint.   I'm proud of him.   He has stuck to his course of action and prepared for the rest of life to come.   I could not help but think of that little boy who came to visit every Saturday morning and we watched Sword and the Stone together in the big maroon chair.   I still know every line of that movie.    Way to go, Colin.  Life is out there waiting for you!

The Burning of Joan of Arc

Yesterday we celebrated a day in the life of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans, 1412-1431.  It was the day that Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen.

 Joan of Arc was a French peasant girl who claimed divine guidance directly from God and led the troops during battle in the Hundred Years' War to success and several important victories.   She was captured, burned at the stake for heresy when she was 19 years old.   25 years later the trial was declared a mistrial and she was named a saint by the Catholic church.   We still remember her today because of her devotion, her faith and her dreams.   She had courage.   She kept going to the forces, telling them that she heard the voices of three Saints -- Michael, Catherine and Margaret--and she could lead the forces.   Finally, someone either thought she was nuts but willing, she was nuts but she might not really be, or she might have divine guidance on her side.  In either case, how could they lose by listening.  So they gave her a small force and dressed her in men's clothing and off she went.

And she lived up to her word.   For a few years, or months, she gave hope to troups who were embattled, she gave hope to people who felt that God had nothing left for them and that the saints were silent, and she gave courage to the men around her who watched her go to that stake because she believed.   Needless to say, she gave strength to women who had seen little strength in women around them.   And, more than anything, she obeyed her inner conscience and paid dearly for the listening.

So, we remember May 31 and Joan of Arc   It's not just a date -- a French Ground Hog Day or July 4!  It's a day when a teenager in France was willing to give her life for something that she considered to be more important!  The flames remain!