Seeing the Light

When I was in college someone introduced me to a photographer who was trying to capture people's auras.  He insisted on photographing me.  He actually took a great shot with red and green vaporous lines around me.  When my mother saw the picture, she said:
"Your aura looks like the Italian flag.  Were you thinking of shopping at Gucci's or ordering a pizza?" 

Sounds like a buncha New Age Crapola, but it is intensely covered in Kabbalah, and has been studied, with amazingly keen results, for over five thousand years ....... May seem strange, but just imagine how the fellow felt, who was first to watch an Egg come out of a chicken's ass, and said, "I think I'm going to crack that open and eat whatever is inside ..." Aura is very real, and colour plays a very significant part in the development of Humankind, from the Id on out .......  Rorschach started it in the late Teens, but quickly devolved into Shapes rather than Colour ... Leuscher came along, with an entirely new a different set of Scoring parameters from those of Rorschach and his proponent Exner, and got even closer to 100% flawless predictability in his assessment of Human Beings' "Type" and Psychologic tendencies ... Colour Me Royal Blue to Purple , with stops at different Rods and Cones along the way ...

I have seen Krillian photography,and the earlier Kirlian photography. It was,is,a kind of photo that shows an aura, and can even show a missing digit- - that was without a doubt something really erie- - a man's hand left the aura on film of all five of his fingers,while not all five remained on his hand, due to an accident...yes Virginia, there are things strange and true,or really good effects...but the tings I saw were way before photoshop,and there was no time to manipulate the results...although I have seen doctored daguerreotypes,but that took a lot of skill and time...like the coloration of old classic movies

Aura reading sounds a lot like Minority Report...predictive crime with the ability to see ones emotions before they even know. Makes me scratch my head but I can't write it off out of hand. Neither do I write off alien visitation, shadow people, electronic voice phenomenon or the JFK conspiracy. Everyone knows these are real so why wouldn't Aura reading be just as real. Seriously, there are things men have not dreamed of but most things are what they are. No need for crystal balls or clairvoyance to see what is in front of you...

Jalopkin: The new flathead, although a bit seedy, is just as purty!

A  PhD    in  laser  holography?     All  I  know  is  that  in  a  deep  recession  this  "expert"  had  better  hang  onto  his  day  job.....
  
That  having  been   said,   and  with  absolutely  no  science  to  cite  in  support  of  my  thesis,   I  actually  do  believe  that  this  phenomenon  exists.    We  only  use  about  ten  {10%}  percent  of  our  brains,   meaning  we  have  much  unused  capacity  to  find    and  ultimately  understand  many  things.    My  mutt  hears  lots  of  sounds  that  are  undetected  by  me,   but  that  doesn't  mean  they  are  nonexistent.....

KY: A thing of Beauty is Forever ....... There she sits, off to the side, waiting to be Loved ... One of these days, between Projects, we'll strip her down, clean her up, smooth and soothe her innards and make her all new again ... Goose her and juice her a little and she will belch and roar back to life, and then we'll get her properly mounted (I prefer the BullDog Mount, myself) ... She's Post War so we've got a few more inches work with, and can put her into a little heavier piece of Iron ... Kinda thinkin' about a Rat Rod Truck ... Right now, we're doing whatever pays first, and seein' if I can get a head start on the umpteen-Trillion Dollar Debt my Grandkids are gonna hafta pay off, while still keepin' a little Coldbeer around here .......

Why not aura reading?  Be a neat way to catch that mood before the eruption.
 
I like to think that my aura is all of the above at times though I think I'm orange-yellow a lot there needs to be a color for a dreamer; a believer.

Andy:  Welcome,  fellow  dreamer.   When  not  orange,  I  lean  towards  cranberry  or  burgandy  red......obsessive-compulsively  trying  to save  the  world,  single-handedly.

KC:   Jalopkin  was  the  person  about  whom  the  50's  song  "Hot  Rod  Lincoln"  was  written..
 
Georgetown,  Kentucky?   Hello  from  "suburban"  Georgetown,  Ohio.     Your  town  thrives  while  ours  painfully  dies,  the  small  stores  around  the  county  courthouse  are  mostly  vacant,  or  underutilized  {flea  market  or  storage  usage}.    Same  thing  in  my  "other"  venue,   "suburban"  West  Union,   county  seat   of  Adams  County.    I  am  certain  that  I  am  a  man  born  in  the  wrong  era,   mostly  I'm  comfortable  in  England  just  before  WWII,   but   should  that  be  unavailable,  your  beautiful  Blue  Grass  State  would  come  tied  for  a  close  second.   

While in college some friends and I went to a remote field where they proceeded to consume some special mushrooms while I worked on a few Little King's Ales. They saw many auras while I wrote bad poetry and listened to Pink Floyd. 

Auras?  Yeah, sure!  I wonder what the auras of Martians and folks from Jupiter and Venus look like? Maybe the Iluminati are behind auras -- if not the international Masonic conspiracy.  One thing is for sure, if you have an aura, it's a result of thermisol in your drinking water.  The John Birch society explained auras way back in the 1950s: it's an Islamic attempt to impose socialism on the little people!

Andy & Bert:  I think dreamers are supposed to have blue auras.  Of course, purple is supposed to  be the best.

Bert -- I think in my last life I was on a donkey waving a sword at windmills -- my husband calls me defender of the underdog -- but yes, I am fair to a fault and believe, believe, believe in the ultimate goodness of people -- I would be Charley Brown continually kicking that football.

Julia -- blue and purple would be nice -- but I really like your red and green shopping at Gucci better :)  Pizza is good too.

off subject - ps -- pizza is great, but I'm making Irish Soda Bread today

Sadly for this poetic soul, orange has no rhyme

O.T.(off topic),in the corner of my screen I have C-SPAN on, and there is a convention of the most self-important people I have ever seen....If the Aura camera was available, I would love to see if they shimmer with the warm fuzzy colors of truth,and altruism....

I love my many colored hat from the J.Peterman co.

I have seen Krillian photos. But how do you get one made or make one of a subject of your choice. A special lady with STRONG electric reactions to and from electronic devices.

Many depictions of divine and revered people are shown with aurae.  Christ, Mary, the saints, Buddha, and other religious figures are shown with radiance.  Not Mohammed, for the Moslems do not make any representations of humans in their art.  Did they actually have an aura?  Could be.  I don't know. Some of the more interesting photography I experimented with was in the range of infra-red.  Heat sensitive film, as opposed to the more light sensitive film, produced some really thought-provoking images.  I dearly wish I could share some in this forum, but, alas, they were all destroyed by a vengeful ex... I do honestly believe that we all have a vestigal sensitivity to people's aurae.  There are some folks we just plain like when we first meet them.  Others we do not like at all.  It may be that there is a disturbance in their "force" that is disquieting to us.  I went to a gathering of fellow motorcycling enthusiasts last night and met several new members.  One guy just rubbed me the wrong way.  Nothing overt, just an itchy feeling between my shoulder blades that made me not want to be around him, on or off a bike. Serenity has a "blue" feeling for me.  When I have time, inclination, and opportunity to work in my pottery studio, the clay just flows through my fingers in a contemplative hush.  I feel at complete peace.  I disappear into the hum of the wheel and the circular movement of the wheel, and the pieces seem to make themselves.  At those times, my Muse, fragrant with the faint aroma of violets, skips merrily through the studio, teasing me, then laughs over her shoulder as she leaves. Then my feeling is more toward the yellow end of the spectrum.  

BERT:  You're just saying that cuz its true ....... Actually, I have a '47 Lincoln Club Coupe, with the V12 Engine ... The same Engine in the Song ....... She rests beautifully on her own little Stand in the back of the Engine Shop, and I replaced her with a 312ci from a '57 T-Bird (The Second Best Engine that Henry ever built) ... The "Little Nash Rambler" in the Song, was the Rambler Metropolitan, which was a dinky little 2-Seater, with a removable Top and Thirteen inch wheels, about the size of the Original VW Beetle ... Designed by Bartolomeo Nicoletti, a Janitor in Rambler's Kenosha Plant who had worked for Ghia, and the entire Drive-Train of the little Car was from, MG/Morris Garages ... of Post War TC, TD, and TF fame ... Lotsa Army Air Corps boys brought MGs back ... Started the, "Sports Car" craze here in the States ... The little Nash Rambler was a hit, but it's basic impracticality made it short lived, and when someone my size gets into one, which is a trick in itself, it looks like he's wearin' it ....... Charley Ryan, an old Country Music Star and Song Writer , who wrote the Hot Rod Lincoln Song for Commander Cody and the Lost Airmen(I think thats all of it) owned a 1930 Model-A with a V12 Lincoln Engine stuffed into it ... I'm not sure if the Inspiration for the Novelty Song was really a Little Nash Rambler, but it was one of the few Novelty Songs that caught on and hung around a few Generations ... Johnny Horton's  Battle of New Orleans  was another one, and Robert Mitchum's Thunder Road ... Nowadays, any Song you can understand the Lyrics to, hasn't got a chance ... You'd never see Mel Torme doin' KISS .......

Andy:  Your  good  inner  self  sticks  out  {but  not  like  a  sore  thumb}.   Don  Quixote  was  RIGHT,  the  windmills  ARE  evil.....
 
Julia:  Today  my  color  is  flat  black.   Then  @ 2:00 our  time  I  get  to  call  my  appellate  client  on  death  row  in Ohio Supermax in  Youngstown.   My  dark  humor  wants  to  whisper:   "So,  Mrs.  Lincoln,  other  than  THAT,  how  did you  like  the  play?"
 
Jalopkin:   I  was  RIGHT  about  the  "hot  rod  Lincoln?"    OMG.....scary.   Commander  Coty  was  addressing  your  history  chasing  women...

Strange thoughts upon reflection of Tig's missive....what aura may pervade as the ground beef passes between my fingers as I mix in the red & green peppers,and garlic...before I form the patties...

Jalopkin~ I hope you are not anywhere near that tragic plane crash

Julia:  Andy  said  early this  morning  that  Orange was  for  dreamers,  believers....that's  orange,  leaning  towards  yellow,  and  away  from  red.  

Kindlee!!!    I'd recognize  that  "simple  black  dress"  anywhere.....   Where  have  you BEEN???

Bert: Yes our little corner of the world is hard to beat. My son took his first cross country solo flight from our airport to the G-town, Oh airport. Promptly blew out a tire upon landing his Cessna 172. Fortunately, the farmer mowing his field next to the airport had a spare tire and wheel in his barn. As the airport there was unmanned at the time. I guess the old farmer had seen that before. Pretty soon he was back in the air and on his way home...at which point upon landing back in our G-town...blew out the other tire. He has had quite a flying career...now he plies his trade for the US Navy. Many good stories there but none I can share...

ROADYACHT:  I am proud to say, that I have never chased a woman in my life ... Before the Explosion I didn't have to, and since then, it wouldn't do me any good if I did ... But, you wuz right about the Hot Rod Lincoln !!!

I don't know about you bert, but I'm using as much of my brain as I've got.
 
 
 
And Jalopkin:  what you said about cracking open that first egg and deciding to eat what's inside?  Yep.  That was one brave Whomever.  Now, think about the first Whomever to see a live lobster and say, "I think I'm going to have me some of that." and "I bet it tastes good with drawn butter."
 
We don't know who it was but we know their aura was not one bit Dirty Gray. 
 
 

KC:   Roger  on  the part  about  not  being  able  to share  the  best  stories.   Not  only  that,  movies  make  lots  of  stuff  glamorous  that's  just  plain  hell.....  So  true  heroics  connect  to  quiet  former  participants.   
Love  your  little  airport,   one  of  my  cousins  owned  half  interest  in  a  2  engine  Beechcraft.  We  would  occasionally  fly  together,  if  he  had  an  extra  seat...he  took  kids  in  need  of  emergency or  special  medical  relief  to their  destination.   Seems we  scraped  a  few  power  lines  in  your  venue...   People  who  buy  red  planes  are  as  crazy  as  people  who buy  red  sports  cars... 
Julia,  in  chanel  surfing  on  tv,  I  learned  that  purple  was  the  color  of  royalty...The  dye pigments  were  extremely  rare .

I am desperately seeking cuukoo.
 
Has anybody seen her lately?

ROADYACHT:  Thanks for the Thought Bubba, but I am way deep in South Texas and at least three Six-Paks away from Austin ... We're so far South down here that the Rooster out back crows with a Meskin Accent .......

PARK4:  You are Right !!! about that Lobster too ... That poor devil ... it'd be like he was in a Fritz Lang version of New York City, doin' Frazetta, on Acid ....... 11811 ...

Bert:  If your aura's black its just because all of the colors have run together because you are using much more than 10% of your brain.
 
I checked with my college friend and she confirmed that blue was the creative thoughtful type.  Purple is the best.  Unlike me, she knows about the metaphysical stuff.       
 
  

EDOTECH: Is there a museum of halography near you?  That would be the first place to check if you want a Krillian portrait done.  I think that the guy who took my picture usually worked at Health Expo's and  Alternative Medicine convention.
 
Sorry. I don't have any better suggestions.  My interest in Krillian photography was short lived.  My hypothesis  -Could Krillian photography, and the energy fields emitted, help detect genetic mutations in the body? ,  was never tested as my friends thought it was too weird.    

Jalopkin: The V12 is just too sweet...what kind of tri-pack carb system is that? How hard were they to synch? Inquiring minds want to know...

KY:  The Manifold  was a special design done by Barney Navarro in the late 40's ... He was VERY BIG in Hot Rodding from it's very begining ... a Grand Fellow who really enjoyed Hot Rodding and learning, doing, and inventing some of his own Tricks with cars ... Barney became much, much more than a kid with a hopped-up Junk Yard Death Trap ... NAVARRO Engineering is still today a driving force(you should pardon the pun) in the Automotive Industry, particularly the After Market, producing replacement and High Performance Parts, such as Heads, Manifolds, Body Parts and Trim Replacement, Flathead Conversion Kits to turn Flatheads into OHV, but ARDUN sorta swallowed up that niche, and Racing Cams, that were excellent performers, but Ed Iskenderian reached the Top in that area and held onto it ... but all the rest, Navarro Engineering leads the pack ... Barney even fielded an Indy Car for three or four years when I'm a kid, with a most amazing Double-Blown Rambler OHV Inline Six ... Not only was he competitive, but he was eating Offy's on a Regular basis (OFFY is NOT something that one pluralizes with, i e s)  Very little Speed Equipment was ever made for the V12 Flatheads, because while they developed considerable Torque, they were not all that powerful, and the Post War Flathead V8s were running circles around everything ...  Pancake Manifolds for 2, 3, or 4 Stromberg 97's were made by Navarro and Weiand(I believe) and in 1949, the last year a V12 was available in the the Lincoln, Navarro's 2X2 Set-Up and his New Single 4-Barrel Manifold was available too ... The 2X2 's were fine for racing around and more rapid acceleration, but were constantly open and constantly feeding ... the 4-Barrel had only it's Primaries open under nominal acceration, and sustained speeds under 60 MPH ... Better performance AND better Economy ... that is, until you stuck your foot in it, and she would wail like a Banshee, fire that Iron forward like a Bullet, and suck Gas like a six year old kid given five minutes to eat all he can for free in a Jelly Bean Factory ....... Puts me to think about the day I saw a Sign at a little NO-NAME Gas Station in IdaBell , Oklahoma ... that said, "Reglur Gas .03 cents ..."  I'd give a hundred dollars for that Sign, if i could have it today ... We've entered a whole new aura in the MobilGas Economy Run .......

JALOPKIN--  I bet that Bartolomeo Nicoletti had an utterly rockin' Italian aura. His name flows off the tongue like liquid poetry.....
 
I have a garlic aura....

When I think of auras, I equate them more with how a person's mere presence in a room, a hallway, or perhaps even a stadium, depending on the strength of whatever it is that they project from themselves; can totally change the dynamics and atmosphere of that place.... simply by being there. 

I'm not just talking about recognizable people; persons of fame or influence. I mean the effects that total strangers can have by simply entering a place; without saying a word or even making eye contact.

Perhaps it is merely projected by how they feel about themselves; how comfortable or uncomfortable they are in their own skin?

Yet how many times has just the mere presence of a person where there isn't any prior knowledge or exposure to the people around them; unconsciously altered the atmosphere of those they simply pass by. Sometimes a calming influence is felt. Sometimes it's as if an electric energy is sparked that can create positive feelings and energy or perhaps trigger heightened anxiety, fear, or perhaps even raise the ‘hackles' on the back of your neck in anger. Just by being there.

Somehow I think that animals possess the ability to clearly see/sense/understand this ‘aura', this unconscious signal, that human beings project about themselves. It has remained part and parcel with their survival instincts which have not withered or atrophied for lack of dependence on them.

It would surely make our everyday interactions with each other way less complicated and vulnerable to misinterpretation if we still possessed or at least recognized this set of signals we all unconsciously project.

Something more definitive than ‘a funny feeling' we have around some people that we too often ignore.

Pay no attention to the man behind the keyboard. I'm just ramblin' on, needing to get out and enjoy the fresh air of a really beautiful (for this time of year) Midwestern day..... but maybe there's something to that...........

Under moonshine I'm clearly seen........

 
Both the aura topic and Doc Nolan's mention of the Birch Society caught my attention and I will tell you why: An opinionated old family acquaintance and a Bircher known to assert that we stole nothing from Native Americans because they had no deeds to anything or that the death penalty has never been wrongly applied because if it was a capitol case and you could not prove your innocence, it was probably: "Close enough" is in an assisted living facility and I planned a visit.

He is eighty-seven and had been, in his day, an avid hunter and outdoorsman.

I had called ahead just to make sure that he was available and was proceeding down his hall when an irate employee came storming up from behind  to say: "Sir, Sir, you cannot bring a dog in here!"

"Sshh!," I said while making dismissive gesture and she left to get muscle.

A pretty substantial and ernest looking woman came around the corner heading our way and looked, no kidding, to be rolling up her sleeves. She had about her a certain Ray Nitschke attractiveness and sense of purpose.

The dog and I were waiting in the hall for a nurse to finish up and clear out of the room. We were sitting ducks the dog half asleep on the floor and her person relaxing to take the hit.

About six paces away, the woman stopped, mellowed and said: "So, poppin' in to see Hugh are we?"

I nodded.

Her explanation to the surprised other woman was: "If you had the aura that those two have and you don't, I wouldn't be suspicious of you either."

The old fellow and I had a nice talk, he was pleased to see the dog and so were several others on our way out.

I don't know what kind of disarming aura we have but I hope it isn't blue. I haven't been able to read a blue neon sign in thirty years... just a blur.


KSS,

One of those it-comes-and-goes J. Peterman sale notices appeared alongside a Times story I was reading. I went shopping and scored the moleskin coat that you had suggested that I just shut up and buy months ago. It felt good.





 

Ok, I'm new to 'The Eye' and have a really good friend who comes here everyday and hangs out.. So today she told me I needed to check 'The Eye' out and here's why...

  A few weeks ago I was having my yearly eye exam and they dialated my eyes and therefore I had to remove my contacts and be 'blind' for a bit so the good Dr. could check my eyes out..As I was waiting, and waiting (the nurse said he skipped me for some reason, so I waited a while.  Anyway, as I was waiting I began gazing down at my hands-that were fuzzy (Yes, I am that blind) I noticed that around my hands- almost as if they had been traced-was a yellowy hazy color...I had time to think about this because I had been forgotten- so I wondered..is that my aura?

I saw this because I didn't have my contacts in, then I took my cell phone in my lap and held it up in the same way I had my hands and there was no hazy color surrounding it..the same yellowy hazy color was also surrounding my blue jeans...hmmm so maybe- since my eyes had been 'fixed' with contacts..My eyes were too good now and I could only see the sharp edges on things and not their aura???

So, I went straight to my friend and told her my story and we pondered this until I had to leave...

Just a thought-I'm still pondering..

  

Bert ~ A couple of dearly loved people in my life had some medical problems and procedures. I felt the overwhelming need to spend more time with them, temporarily putting some of my other diversions aside for awhile. I am very happy to say that they are doing well. Bit by bit, also in the midst of a busy high school competition schedule, I am resuming my usual pleasant pastimes, such as visiting the Eye. Perhaps it might be time for a new dress...
Spur Flower ~ welcome!

Spyr Flower: Please allow me to also welcome you...as a newcomer myself I can honestly say you will be scratching your head in no time wondering how on earth you came to this place. And pondering the question...how do I escape? As for me it's too late...

Sorry...Spur Flower...the "y" is perilously close to the "u". Did I mention I don't type?

STONEY-- great dog story, absolutely uplifting.
 
PL-- Animal lovers know that dogs can especially ferret out creepy people. Some dogs really know when someone is not a good person & they will growl. Pay attention- they are trying to tell you something.... How a person treats waitresses, animals, and random people tells everything you need to know about their inner being. Watch out for the people who dogs cower or growl around, very careful......
 
Welcome SPYR FLOWER....

Welcome Spur Flower - enjoy some really interesting people and conversations -- could it be that we all need to have our eyes dilated to find our aura -- or is it a feeling?

What do you see in that picture up there by our Host's commentary? 
 
It's better than looking at clouds:  I can see a lot of images, a baby, the shoulders and neck of a large sized man.
 
I've had dreams that look like that picture.  Sober, I swear it, I was sleeping soberly, and along comes something that looks like that. 
 
On those nights I'd welcome insomnia.
 
What do you see -- if anything?

Park4:   Would  you  by  chance  be  seeing  these  visions  AFTER  visiting  the  club  car?   
           Inquiring  minds  want  to  know.
 
Kindlee:   Just  checking  that  we  didn't  inadvertently  drive  you  away  in  a  snit. 
             No  body  language  or  eye  contact,  and  we  all  are  "multitasking,"  for
             some  reason  I  was  concerned.   Welcome  back.
 
Spur  Flower:   I  hope  your  time  with  us  is  as  comfortable  of  a  fit
                    as  those  "old  friend"  jeans  you  are  wearing...   
                    Find  a   good  seat,   enjoy.....

Peter  Lake:    Recently  there  was  a  clip  on  the  news  about  a  cat  who  has  been 
                     "adopted"  by  the  staff  of  a  nursing  home.   Tabby  senses  when  a
                     resident  is  beginning  the  transition  to  the  other  side,  well  before 
                     the  medical  people  detect  any  change.   The  cat  stays  close,  and
                     seemingly  is  of  great  comfort  to  the  fading  resident......
                     Animals  also  sense  earthquakes,  before  our  most  precise 
                     instruments  pick  up  anything,  and  pace  anxiously... food  4   thought.

Bert ~ It's very kind of you to be concerned. Thank you. I didn't mean to worry anyone. I'm just not very adept at too much multitasking.
 

PETERLAKE:  You got Moonshine, I'll see you for sure !!!


BEBE:  My Aura is altered by whatever it is I am cooking each day ... But regardless of what Country I choose to visit culinarily, there is always the spectre of Chicken Soup ... Growing up in a Dago Neighborhood, being the only Yid, it didn't take me long to find out that Chicken Soup is Good with Ciabatta and Chianti, and chunks of Provolone ... Of course, there have always been Italian-Jews, so it was no big stretch for me ... My favorite of them was, Niccolo Machiavelli ... a True Mix of Cultures and Economy, and he delighted in being bounced around among all the Crowned Heads of Europe, and rewarded outrageously for managing their Accounts to the point that they were not only in the Black again but ahead by considerable sums and Holdings, all because of Niccolo's serpentine skill at playing Politics ... Until the Tail End of the Powerful Borgias(Geoffrey, I think ... the youngest son of Pope Alexander) decided to send him early to his Final Reward, so's he couldn't help anybody else again, incase they decided to go to War for whatever gain there might be, and of course, a Financially weakened Adversary has great difficulty rounding up an Army ... A fractious bunch, the Lot of them .......

 
Kindlee,

There is a lot of care taking going on around here and though I watch more of it than I do, the most noticeable thing about it is that at day's end, there isn't much left in terms off resources to get back to being yourself.

No doubt you were very good and your absence is excused.
 

Bebe -- I have to add children to that list -- but I as well, judge people that way.

 
I never tire of racking this up:

http://www.damninteresting.com/chuck-bonnet-and-the-hallucinations

 
Came across this while reading a little more on today's topic:

"The sense of wellness. A varied and loosely formulated term.
Although those who experience energy healing are changed.
What is wellness? By definition its a noun and goes like this
A healthy state of well being free from disease.
Wellbeing by definition :: A contented state of being
happy and healthy and prosperous. Contented by definition::
Satisfied or showing satisfaction with things as they are.
So taking those three steps says to me that Wellness is
defined by your sense of self contentment.
Contentment is Happiness with one's situation in life.
True contentment is not wanting what you want.
True contentment is wanting what you have.
Discontent by definition is A longing for something
better than the present situation"

If they had squeezed chicken soup in there somewhere, it could have been the: JALOPKIN MANIFESTO.

ANDY- You are soooooooo right!!!! I'm a teacher & yes children, like dogs, can ferret out  creeps. I knew I adored my love when we first went out to eat & he was so kind to the waitress. I always knew  that I loved him, that cemented it.

AMEN  STONEY ... AMEN !!!

 
Bebe,

Thanks and you are right about kids: Four of them were acting up in a waiting room and got too involved to continue because I pretended the crossword I was doing had asked: why is a cob of corn called an ear? They felt like big shots. Even more when asked: What happens if you don't love Raymond? 

It didn't matter that I didn't know either answer... or maybe it did.

 
And, speaking of children, is that P&G we-support-mom's spot with stern-faced little kids as olympic competitors great or what?

Stoney ~ yes...care taking and wellbeing...balance...thank you. And speaking of crosswords...I smiled at Sunday's puzzle when both our names appeared. That and 78 across.

 
Kindlee,

And so they did. Good eye.   That was kind of like a homework assignment the difference being... I did it.