Thanks for the visit today ! – David
Enjoy the captions ♥
The golf course there looked lush and the light was perfect for a few photos.
I was wearing a red coat and when I pulled my phone out for a photo a hummingbird appeared out of nowhere (or so it seemed).
A beautiful hummingbird hovered two feet from my nose, probably checking out my red coat.
A split second and half later, he zipped away like some overgrown bumble bee. So no photo, I’m sorry. I had my camera in my hand, and still I was not fast enough.
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Fortunately not all opportunities for photos are like that, I was able to take this photo (below) and there was no chance it was going to get away. ☺
Thanks to the sidewalk artist !
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Definition: A strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something.
Synonyms: Liking, Fondness, Preference, taste, appetite
In a sentence: Stuart had a penchant to reconnoiter dusty bookstores, he loved exploring the shelves to uncover undiscovered jewels of fiction.
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You may remember these competitors from Jour 13 – Peace In Our Hearts.
Sometimes when you see an opportunity – You have to be decisive – as shown here in this brief youtube.
Welcome ! This is the 3rd installment of an experiment in storytelling and a continuation of Jour 19 – Day 19: The day Ravi left – Part 1.
In the first post, it was the night before Ravi left home, so we know he moved but I thought it be nice to know what happened the day Ravi left home and conclude Part 1 above.
Before you get too far into the story, you might want to read it from the beginning. The very first post for Ravi is Spread Your Wings.
I hope you will enjoy from the beginning by clicking here. – David ♥
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It was a day that began hundreds of miles away.
Hikari, an angel, keeps Ravi from getting lost as he moves from home.
Marie lives in what will be Ravi’s new city and works at a bookstore just three doors down from his new job.
Ravi is starting anew. Leaving his parents home, and spreading his wings. He is also leaving behind his broken heart, distancing himself from sadness. He is too young though to not try again to find a girl who will make his heart soar.
Hikari, Marie, and Ravi were all thinking later that day the exact same thought:
What a day!
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Ravi walked down the street, he liked his new boss “Ernie”, and the office was small and everything was new, the job, the city, his home, his life.
If this was a game, he thought, I have completed level 1, and I am beginning level 2. He felt accomplishment and eagerness simultaneously.
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Ernie, his new boss, had told him to check into a hotel for a few days while he looked for place to live so he wasn’t worried about tonight.
Actually Ravi hadn’t felt worried, it felt like he was sheltered from worry. Worry was blocked, as if someone stood in front of him, and the wind of worry bent around him.
As Ravi walked down the street, his head was on a swivel as he absorbed the buildings and businesses. It dawned on him that his car was in front of a bookstore, and it was open. He felt drawn to go inside and so he listened to that inner voice, pulling on the door handle.
Like all bookstores Ravi had ever been in, he loved the promising atmosphere and this one even more so. It was quiet and clean smelling inside, and feeling open he smiled warmly at the attractive girl working there and she smiled back. ♥
(Did Cupid’s arrow just ping?)
“Hi, my name is Ravi and I’m new in town… ”
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Marie was thinking about what to make for dinner, when the bell on the bookstore door jingled. Her heart jumped unexpectedly, and, she thought “that’s weird, it’s just the front door.”
But her heart had known in advance.
An hour later, although the bookstore was closed; she and Ravi were still chatting. Anyone who walked in would think they were best friends the way they smiled, and laughed easily with each other.
They were waiting now for someone called Dex to call back. Dex knew lots of people, and not unexpectedly to Marie, Dex knew someone who had a furnished basement suite to rent. It would take a miracle to find someplace to live in just a few hours.
Marie silently hoped Dex didn’t call back too quickly, she wasn’t hungry anymore. That feeling inside wasn’t hunger, she felt delight. ♥
Where would this new friendship lead?
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Hikari, being an angel, didn’t need to find somewhere to sleep or worry about dinner either. Angels do get excited and happy though; today he was both.
Watching over Ravi today had been so exciting. He had been feeling prayers for Ravi all day, and thrilling like watching a puzzle solve itself.
Hikari, as the cold hitchhiker, had enjoyed chatting with the car when Hikari guided him to his new city. All the way there they had chatted, and Ravi shared the sandwiches his Mom had forced on him before he left, and even bought Hikari coffee.
It was no coincidence that parking spot being empty in front of the coffee shop. It was no coincidence either that Ravi met Marie.
As the sun sank down and day cooled, there was a lot to be joyful about, including Ravi’s new rental, a furnished basement suite (the retired couple who owned the house liked him immediately), and more importantly Ravi had new two friends, Dex and Marie.
Hikari loved beginnings.
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Ravi lay down on the hotel bed, lying on his back he linked his fingers on his chest and smiled.
Last year I tried to explain the change to my life in a post four months after my surgery and recovery, Click here to read How has my life changed?
It’s hard to explain how grateful, and blessed I feel daily. – David
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My Susan just took her cake out of the oven, and I can smell it! ♥
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Today’s Word of the Day: Vicariously
Definition: in a way that is experienced in the imagination through the actions of another person.
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Big thanks for reading today! – David
This story post is a continuation of Jour 18 – Day 18: Spread Your Wings Ravi. If you missed the first one, pretty please start there to first meet Ravi. – David
In the first post, it was the night before Ravi left home, so we know he moved but I thought it be nice to know what happened the day Ravi left home.
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The angel Hikari watched with curiosity as Ravi loaded his old red car. It was raining a light drizzle but the house had a carport and Ravi stayed dry as he went back and forth from the car to the house.
Hikari liked watching over Ravi, he was likeable, polite, and kind but he was also young and hadn’t really thought through this move from home. “That’s what a broken heart does I guess” mused Hikari.
All that fit in the car was clothes Hikari noticed. No iron, no plates, no silverware, just clothes and some things that go in a bathroom like toothbrush, shampoo etc.
Once again Hikari noticed how many things Ravi had decided to “figure out” once he arrived at his new city. Ravi had a job starting tomorrow, but he had no place to stay, no furniture, no friends or relatives in the new city.
Then it was when Hikari realized he was no longer alone, more angels were arriving. Suddenly they surrounded the house. Wow!
Ravi was leaving and Hikari was not going to be alone watching over Ravi by himself this day. Hikari knew this was because Ravi had family praying for him.
The day held promise, and Hikari shone.
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Ravi drove down the highway in the drizzling rain, it was cold and it would be colder as he drove east into the mountains. He smiled, he really didn’t know how long the trip would take and he was counting on highway signs to guide him because he didn’t know the way. He was excited, hopeful and not worried. He didn’t think about it much, it was like an adventure to him and he had the courage of the oblivious.
Two or so hours later, his car wipers dancing back and forth, Ravi’s car tires sang on down the road. He was glad he had snow tires as there was frost on the road and the mountains already had snow on the peaks.
Tired of singing with the radio, when Ravi saw a cold wet hitchhiker with his thumb out, he pulled over and picked him up.
Climbing out of the ditch and running along when he saw the car, the hitchhiker looked freezing but excited Ravi stopped for him. The hitchhiker was shivering and Ravi turned the heater on as high as it could go so that the hitchhiker would warm up faster. The hitchhiker rubbed his hands together and huddled by the hot air vent, he was grateful to warm up. Ravi asked him where he was going. The hitchhiker named Ravi’s city and said that was where he lived. Ravi relaxed inside, he had found a guide to his new home, he wasn’t going to get lost after all.
Hikari, who was the hitchhiker, sat in the front seat with Ravi, now he could give driving directions, and he felt pleased. Hikari’s hands and heart warmed up further when Ravi silently thanked heaven for his cold, wet guide.
Four hours and hundreds of miles later, Ravi dropped off the hitchhiker, and his heart was light. Ravi, his car, his clothes, and his heavenly escort had all arrived. “I made it, I have arrived in my new home city. “That was easy” he chuckled to himself.
The angels watching laughed, if he only knew.
Ravi parked his car, and looked around. He was surprised, his parking spot was less than 30 feet from his new job. What luck!
He decided he would walk down, find his new job location and meet his new boss before he would look for a place to live, after all he was right here. It was meant to be.
In the bookstore that Ravi had parked his car in front of, Marie watched Ravi as climbed from his car and smiled. Marie absently combed her fingers through her long brown hair as she studied Ravi. She had prayed to make a new friend and then this car parked in front of her store.
“He looks nice“, and crossed her fingers, hoping that he was going to come in and she would meet him. ” She sighed, “I guess not“, and she watched him walk up the street.
The angels observed everything.
Ravi still needed a place to live for tonight, and he needed friends.
The day was going fast, it was already 4 o’clock, but the best was yet to come.
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My friends, today I decided to start a short series of stories – this is my first post in the series.
P.S. – please excuse the edge of my finger in the picture above. The birds were so close as I stood on the beach I must have been nervous. (smile)
Ravi was walking in his new city, and remembering his father’s words from the night before he left home. “Spread your Wings” his father had said, and his father’s eyes could not hide his tears as they hugged. That hug had said so much to him that night.
Ravi had felt so connected to his father that night and that hug had even made him cry a bit after his father left his room.
Ravi was leaving his parent’s home to start a new job. He was moving six hours away, and it felt like a big step.
Now he was realized that saying good-bye was more difficult emotionally on his parents than it was on him. They loved him deeply as parents do, and now he saw that in new eyes.
Ravi’s new job was just six hours from his parents home. Close enough to visit sometimes but too far away for them to visit very often.
Now his parents would walk past his silent bedroom every day, saying a silent prayer as they looked at his empty bed.
Ravi was excited, being far from home, and he was learning the new job and learning how to take care of himself pretty well.
Well, sort of, and he chuckled, because his cooking was much different than at home that’s for certain. He should have cooked more when he lived at home, his skills were definitely limited.
At home his Mom’s cooking was delicious, and ample. On his own, Ravi made very simple meals. He sometimes just cooked breakfast after work or just opened a can of food and ate it cold. A meal alone didn’t inspire him to do more than just feed himself.
Ravi had time to contemplate today.
Today it had been a month since he moved, and he sat alone at a table watching people pass by. It was his day off from work, his laundry was done. No other plans, he had time to just have a hot drink. In his mind, he spoke to his daddy.
“I spread my wings Poppa“, thinking to himself, ” and my wings are getting stronger.”
As Ravi sipped his drink, and sighed.
In his mind he saw his parents in the kitchen, his mother stirring something on the stove that smelled delicious, his Poppa at the table reading.
Ravi knew his reunion with them in a few months would be special. Ravi had learned so much in a month.
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