Avilas: Give and Take and Thomas The Train

This is partly a note to the Avilas:

I left a message at the house to let you know there were free toys and books at the Philadelphia House that Oliver might like.

I went there when some idea about a book being there that I needed to pull out.

I had the idea come to mind that there was one book to pull from a shelf and maybe, I thought, just leave there. But then I saw this book and it was free.

It was a Thomas The Train book that you can turn over and use as a track and with tunnels and pop up things. So of course I thought of my son.

Then I saw all these child preschool books and development books and other stories and I gathered them all up to take but stopped, bc I have no place to keep any of these things right now. But if I had a normal place as I should have in Wenatchee, and has been denied becasue of housing discrmination through Community Action, I have no place to store things, to give to my son later or keep.

So I left a message at the house, asking any of the Avilas to come get some things if they wanted to.

I rounded up some stuffed animals but I had reservations about the horses and say no to those right now. Bad association and I don't want my son to have that association either. Of the hypnosis horses.

I read through the Thomas book and one part I do not like is the some comment at the end about the Fat controller but I think it must have to do with some kind of train terminology. The other thing, is that I liked the Clifford book and thought my son would like it bc it's about a dog that saves someone from drowning but this makes me think about people I know and care about who don't know how to swim and how unfair it is to equate someone saving someone from drowning if that person doesn't even know how to swim and everyone else knows this.

My own personal thing I guess.

There was all this gaming stuff again but what I focused on was the fact that my son would appreciate anything Thomas the train so there is no contest there. It's just a fact. I really don't appreciate how others make something out of nothing and imbue their own meaning into things that shouldn't be there at all.

If it comes to mind that my son should like a book, that is all that counts in God's eyes. Period. There is no other significant meaning to it. It doesn't mean someone else there won something or that I was drawn by some magnetic force. It doesn't mean some team should win something. What it means is that I was led to an item that my son would appreciate and so I went there, found it, and took it with me. I didn't take anything else bc that was all I could take and what I had in mind: 1 book and whatever is practical to take.

It was like this huge thing though. I was sitting on the steps and eating, facing a bouncy ball I guess and had the book next to me and it was like the town all came by in a parade to look over.

The book is "Thomas's Amazing Pop Up Train Set Book" and I think he'll love it. He can use his trains on it.