I meet my first angel Monday.

"ANGELS DON'T HAVE WINGS AND ILLUMINATED ROBES."

I was getting gas Monday on the way home and this guy gets out of his car at the pump in front of me an immediately looks me right in the eyes and points at me and says: "And how are you doing today?' in a loud and enthusiastic almost approaching aggressive tone, I was pulling my visor down and I stopped and looked him dead in the eyes and said

just and loudly and enthusiastically, "Well I'm doing great, how about you?"

He comes over and fist bumps me and says he is retired Air Force and we chat for a minute and he says in the same tone of voice he says,"Man, I'm just so glad to be here, everyday is Christmas, I'm so blessed", my jaw dropped. I said, "Aint that the truth?" Forty nine years old and I haven't ever experienced anything like it before ever.

I said 'You know what?", he was just standing there in the parking lot looking at me in the eyes and says

"What?",

I say "I give thanks for the three things every day, multiple times a day in one form or another for 30  plus years now", He stood there with his hands and his hips and looks at me all sassy like, "Lay it on me brotha."

"The roof over my head, the food in my belly, and the clothes on my back, every day, multiple times a day."

He just kinda shook his head approvingly and said "Man, you got it, that, and pray for patience, there are a lots of fools out there." and then he walks in the store and disappears from my life.

I ride off thinkin well that was a lil bit Daliesque.

The next day I found out somebody was writing, or has already written, a book on the two years of being chased and today (Tuesday) I see the wedding dress and I come to grips with the fact that this is becoming our reality now.

"Be humble, it keeps the door open."

David Lash gave me the best advice anybody ever in my life.

He has no idea how valuable that was and what it means to me...

My head is just spinning everyone once in a while.

Sometimes I get goose bumps. 

It doesn't flip me out that much anymore lol.

I've gotten used to it.

It's intense lol.

To doubt or ignore it at this point seems more unnatural than to just go with it, so I just do.

I'm just like "Okay, lets roll, just always keep doing what you are doing, that's the key, don't ever fuck it up, it wasn't your path, it was laid out before you for a reason that’s why you saw it."

Mom talkin bout following your dreams and a lady brings up the state of TN's new program for free associate degrees for high school students who meet certain criterion and moms lookin at me and shakin her heads nodding and sayin "MOVE!"

I just looked at her like

"Alright...righton..."

Every time I spend time with the three or four of the closest groups of people everybody is acting a lil more glad to be together especially when I am saying goodbye...

Be humble indeed...

Unreal.

Peace.