Calendars.com, flyleaf, Carlfred Broderick, She used to be mine.

Wednesday,8/2, I have been shopping all morning. 12:08 Yep, for you! And working on your next letter. I love deals/ bargains. If I spent $30+ I got free shipping. So now you have 5 things ordered that will be coming in the mail. Why did I do it today? 1- I got stuck at the computer. 2- I ordered a $20 gift card for bab who turns 7yo tomorrow, 8/3. 3- I was pasting together some pictures for you and found my 20 -calendar -options I sent Dave Hughes, which he never responded to no matter the number of reminders, and was captured. I went to the same web address and instead of waiting for him to decide I am sending them. @ I am so excited for you. Your last letter was open enough for me to understand your needs/ wishes/ desires and the reasons behind them. So I decided to go for it. See you are cared for! @ So lets talk about the order in order. The order in order: 1-2017 swimsuit SI. Why not? Plus good deal. Besides SI was your suggestion. And, and, AND a picture for every day of the year! If there were only one I could send this would have been my first choice. Can you imagine? 2- Expensive but I got 25% off and this one you will anticipate. It is a p r e order. I just hope, hope they don't forget to send it to you! If it were being sent to me I am confident it would arrive. And if it didn't I would whine. So I guess I ought to have confidence it will arrive to you as well. This company looks really good. 3- Beaches are uplifting. Beaches are anti depression! 4- How about a little variety! Lets get some machinery in those pictures. 5- Zoo in a Box- desk calendar *I hope they will let you have this one and that you will have room in your cell for it. (same concern on #1 SI desk) I love animals and I love humor. This one is for me!! @ So of the 5 there are two you might not get. Those desk calendars concern me. But if you don't get them at least I can say adventure bill was risk taking again!vj @@ BoM stuff: Do you remember Mosiah taking his people up to the north and finding the city of Zarahemla with Mulekites? Isn't that a fascinating idea! So amazing. Well in your new book by JLSorenson he is convinced that the elite had to learn the language of the people they governed. That was a totally new idea to me! I listened to JLS for an hour last night on Youtube. I like him. Careful, white-haired and now dead. (93yo) Hugh Nibley would not dare face a camara without a lecture or talk prepared. JLS seemed the same way. He had tons of material prepared to share and he embarked on it. Such a reasonable man. @ I was discouraged in his book when he said the Charles Anthon manuscript had not been authenticated. But in his lecture he said it had extremely modified /created Egyptglyphs. What? He had looked at it more carefully and analyzed it? Only the elite had time to learn languages and the language of Nephi's plates was condensed! He was convinced that Mormon and Moroni wrote in Nephi's same 1,000 year old language and that they had had to learn it. I was surprised when he quoted the bom saying there were some things they didn't know how to write but they could speak them just fine? What? They were limited in what they could write, because if they didn't know the motif/ design/ figure they couldn't say it. Strange huh! @ I reordered my copy of An American Setting for the BoM this morning. Amazon.com canceled my first order. Out of stock they said. So I ordered a new one. I can't wait to read it again and write all over it. I sure hope you write all over yours. Remember those fly leafs/ leaves are available for words. [fly·leaf\ˈflīˌlēf/noun\a blank page at the beginning or end of a book.]

@ Boobytrapped: A cute woman at class 2 weeks ago suggested Carlfred Broderick's book: The Uses of Adversity. I found one for $1.62 plus $4 shipping, Amazon.com. It came. It is a single talk in book form! Crud was I disappointed. The flyleaf is brown so my writing doesn't show as well but write in it I did![Yoda style sentence.] @ I couldn't help but ask your mother how you get mp3's to listen to. So I used up my 3^rd wish. I also sent her the above portion of the letter. If anyone can understand it is KJ! So this next song brings tears to my eyes. Sara does an awesome job: She Used to Be Mine\Sara Bareilles\It's not simple to say

That most days I don't recognize me

That these shoes and this apron

That place and its patrons

Have taken more than I gave them

It's not easy to know

I'm not anything like I used be, although it's true

I was never attention's sweet center

I still remember that girl

She's imperfect, but she tries

She is good, but she lies

She is hard on herself

She is broken and won't ask for help

She is messy, but she's kind

She is lonely most of the time

She is all of this mixed up and baked in a beautiful pie

She is gone, but she used to be mine

It's not what I asked for

Sometimes life just slips in through a back door

And carves out a person and makes you believe it's all true

And now I've got you

And you're not what I asked for

If I'm honest, I know I would give it all back

For a chance to start over and rewrite an ending or two

For the girl that I knew

Who'll be reckless, just enough

Who'll get hurt, but who learns how to toughen up

When she's bruised and gets used by a man who can't love

And then she'll get stuck

And be scared of the life that's inside her

Growing stronger each day 'til it finally reminds her

To fight just a little, to bring back the fire in her eyes

That's been gone, but used to be mine

Used to be mine

She is messy, but she's kind

She is lonely most of the time

She is all of this mixed up and baked in a beautiful pie

She is gone, but she used to be mine
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Crud, I can't believe I dared to post that! Reckless- Who'll be reckless, just enough