Image by Airgil Daviss from PixabayThe wreck of the Mephistopheles kept claiming victims. Tales of the fabulous wealth on board were a ruse, a subtle revenge taken on a greedy island nation that kept scattering the wealth of adventurous lives on the terrible rocks.

Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay“OK, no. You can't build fiber optics with Legos. You need cereal for that, because you can see the fiber – optics is what you see.”Nine-year-old Vertran Stepforth had followed through on what he thought would be awesome, talking with master-engineer-in-the-bud-next-door Grayson Ludlow about Lofton County's internet infrastructure needing upgrades and maybe Grayson, who was 6, building it with Legos.

When I go to San Francisco General Hospital, I enjoy walking through the mini-park areas, and on my second-to-last visit I finally discovered the name of one of them.Indeed I have slowed my progress in heading home many times, and seen lovely things here, even in mid-winter. This was a single bloom, popping out early in a warm week in January...

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay“Hey, Uncle Major!”To the Trent children, Uncle Major was Maj. Thomas Stepforth Jr., elder brother to Mrs. Trent, but to the Trents' little cousin nine-year-old Vertran Stepforth, Uncle Major was Maj. J.P.P. Dubois, by virtue of Vertran at eight-and-three-quarters-years-old having proposed to Major Dubois's nine-year-old niece Louisa Dubois Chennault, and Louisa having accepted. This was hilarious to both the Duboises and the Stepforths, but both Louisa and Vertran were living with their grandparents and had become so much like them that they were just modeling what they saw.

SourceWhat I see: a person, possibly a woman, carrying vegetables both in a tray on a stick and also in a bag, on a rainy day.What I feel: The rain is not disturbing the person's routine at all; it is an accepted part of life.

Image by Uwe Dahlke from Pixabay“But basically, monk mode is unnecessary for those of us who had good fathers – we ain't gotta pretend girls don't exist. We just gotta watch how our dads did right by the ones they are or were with.”