Grace notes from other dimensions

When our darling granddaughter was forming in her mother's womb, Toothsome made a cradle for her.  His idea was to put a 2011 penny at the bottom of one of the feet inside the rocker.  It was my mission to find that penny.  I looked through all ours at home - nothing.  I went to the bank and asked, and to my surprise they had none.  We gave up on it.

This week we are visiting little Edie Bee McCheek who is now almost five months old.  We were giving her sleep deprived parents a little break.  On morning, we put Ms. McCheek in the front pack and went for a long walk on Capital Hill.  She alternately fussed, slept and looked around.  At one point while she was fussing, I was commiserating with her, acknowledging how hard it must feel to be away from her spirit body and in this tight fitting, constrained human form which was not yet able to use many muscles.  I tried to comfort her, gently telling her that she would get used to it and it would get easier.  Then I looked down on the sidewalk in front of me and a shiny penny caught my eye.  "Toothsome, look!"  I exclaimed.  He picked it up - a 2011 penny!