Wayfarer

Instead of participating in Treat-in-a-Trunk in the church parking lot tonight, I transported Virginia to the airport for her flight to Burbank. She will be quite a wayfarer over the next few days.

I liked the sound of that word, so I looked it up. If you're interested (if you're not just ejnoy the Chaucer print), here's what I found. It's from the Middle English weyfarere, from wey, way + -farere traveler, from faren to go; a traveler especially on foot. Now, she flew but I think the word could still fit, don't you? And when I tracked down fare, I found that it derives from Middle English faren, from Old English faran; akin to Old High German faran to go, Latin portare to carry, Greek peran to pass through, poros passage, journey.

Anyway, she made her flight and arrived in Burbank safe and sound. Jeremy has shoulder surgery tomorrow to repair an unknown injury from his youth. None of us knows how he hurt the shoulder, but beginning in high school it began to pop out whenever it got torqued the wrong way... a somewhat painful experience. We toyed with having it repaired then, but he never had 6 weeks in a row when he was willing to miss something (band, theatre, mission trips, camps, etc.); he just put up with it. Well, it has gotten to a point where it pops out more easily, so he decided to get it repaired. One nice perk from waiting is that they will now do it orthoscopically, so he'll have only 3 weeks in a sling instead of 6. Then there will be therapy to follow up, and he should be as good as new. Virginia went so she can help Amber take care of the patient... moms like to do that sort of thing.

Saturday VJ will fare on the way some more, only this time in a car. Mel's (of Diane and Mel) dad died this past week and the memorial service is in San Diego. VJ will drive down for it to spend a little time with D&M and then come back to J&A's Saturday night. By doing that she'll be able to go to church with them Sunday at Conejo... first time for either of us since they started going there a couple of years ago. She's looking forward to that. Sunday afternoon she'll fly back to Oakland, and I'll fare the way down to pick her up. I already miss her and am looking forward to having her back home. :-)

I hope Treat-in-a-Trunk went well tonight. I guess I'll find out in the morning.