Our good buddy Bonnie Barnard showed up yesterday for a weekend visit. She will be preaching at Burton Community Church Sunday morning. That is great, that is cool but it is also just good to have her here to grab some of her energy. She had dinner with My Rebecca and me last evening and we watched Phil’s Camino.

Bonnie has a website if you Google her name you will get there. That is why I am mentioning her name in full. I generally try to refer to people on this blog by their first names but when someone has a site then they are out there anyway. Yea, so check that out. There must be info or a link about her spiritual center in Scottsdale AZ.

I’m so lucky to have so many great people come and go in my life. They buoy me up with their energy, ideas and spirit. Absolutely! I don’t know that I would be able to do without my constellation of celebrities. I call them/you my Doctors, Lawyers and Indian Chiefs. Thank you all!

For instance, My Sister Joyce. She has news. She retired from the Archdiocese of Seattle. What does retirement mean for her, I really don’t know. She’s eighty four wonderful years old. So she is opening a new office down the street and around the block from her old place that’s bigger and better. And now she will be coming to Vashon two days a month instead of one to meet with folks one on one. Retirement? Well whatever, but the point is she another one of my happy band that I could not do without.

And Padre Tomas has news. He is our official unofficial Padre of this blog site. He has two things actually. One he is growing a beard. Makes him look so much more professorial, which is good because he has a new interest in art history which we can blame on Catalina our official unofficial art historian. See how it works? Well actually I have no idea how it all works but that is totally beside the point. It all works swimmingly well is the idea!

OK, I am off to the last day of archery camp. There is a competition yet to get top shooter for the older campers and the younger campers. There are some nice awards for that and also for most improved. Then an ice cream social later to meet with the parents. Yea, and this is what as known as Festival Weekend coming up. It’s the annual Vashon Strawberry Festival with a parade and all the hoopla. I’m just going to hide out, work on the corn and sit in the shade.

OK, you are up to date on the news from Lake Woebegone or wherever we are. See you tomorrow. Maybe I could be one of your Doctors, Lawyers and Indian Chiefs, love, Felipe.