Random

A few weeks ago my phone rang with One of Those Phone Calls it was Isaac telling me that Stephanie had been in a car accident, a bad accident and she was handed a phone to talk to him briefly and he heard her say, "I think my neck is broken." Ike was about an hour from the hospital & when he got there she had been taken for tests so it was a long couple of hours until we found out that what Steph had actually said was, "I think my leg is broken." We rejoiced over the news of a broken right femur, 3 broken ribs and various cuts (an especially bad one across the whole left knee) and I gladly report that Stephanie is recovering even managing to enjoy some beach time with her family at their Brooks family reunion last week and we promise to take good care of her as she ventures to the Isaacson Family Assembly ~ Marianism: I'm waiting for The Millenium to have an official Marian & Ken Isaacson Family Reunion figuring anything official best be done when lambs are laying down with lions etc. ~ this weekend. Which brings me even closer to the reason for the title to this post as "Random" but we are not there yet. Karen Brooks, Stephanie's TM (The Mother), immediately flew from a business trip in South Carolina and spent 2 weeks nursing that family of Isaacsons through accident recovery in very adverse conditions (the air conditioner died & took a couple of days to be replaced with temperatures in Gilbert, Az over 110) and while she was there the SJ Isaacsons took a day trip to inspect the damage & as a show of support. As a token I cut from my flower beds a representation of blooms and stuck them in a vase. I liked how my non-arrangement looked but Karen's father had been a florist so... The ever positive Karen took the offering saying, "I love how random and beautiful..."

RANDOM! Could there be a better word to describe not only the flowers but my life?! And guess what? I like that! I thought "chaos" was the word for my experience and I was embracing it for survival purposes but "random" seems a little more controlled.

PS: the picture of Sam about 5 years ago is one of those random things I'm embracing.