Catherine picked me up today and just delivered me back here to the ranch.  Father Marc was awesome.  Now that he is scheduled to move on to his next assignment we are all trying to savor him and his message.

Yesterday I had the thought to write about mentorship.  You know that at the film festival that I was just at last weekend Phil’s Camino was in a group of documentary films called Cool Old Guys.  I had the thought that all the all these guys, the subjects,  were or had capability of being mentors.  That was what was occurring to me and I was seeing mentorship in terms of being a life style or a full time job as opposed to something one does only with students between certain hours say.  It is more about a headspace than about it being something that can be turned on and off.

Three “little” incidents happened on the way back from San Francisco last Tuesday that were very quirky and illustrate  “on the fly” mentoring opportunities.  Maybe I will do  them one a day starting today.   I just ran these by Catherine after church today in our tailgate theology session and she liked them so I will try them on you.

Number one occurred in Security at the Oakland Airport.  I was in line with all my worldly possessions on the conveyor belt going through the x-Ray and my  shoes are off and I am barefoot feeling really pretty little.  I was just a celebrity and now what?  So as I am feeling sorry for myself I look over at the next line which is parallel to mine about six feet away.    And there on the deck is a folded up one hundred dollar bill.   It is located between a guys’ stocking feet.  So I get his attention and point down and he picks it up quickly.  Now was that his bill?  I will never know.  But it wasn’t mine and the people ahead were under the watchful eye of the security folks so figuring something out like that wasn’t going to happen.   I saw the guy twice after that but did I get a coffee out of the deal, no.   Just an odd quirky thing, right?   But it is interesting how a hundred dollars can heighten up an otherwise dull situation.

And what did that have to do with mentoring on the fly.  Well, one of the components has to be that two people are in communication.  And that happened and the rest happened very quickly.  OK, we will cover more tomorrow, have to go and work on my tractor and meet with Sister Joyce after that.     I am not quite to the swimmingly phase of my day today but am working on it.  Thanks for showing up, love, Felipe.x