Well Hello Olga ! Over there in Chita (Чита), how nice of you to be following Patti and myself here on blogspot !
We'll bet that maybe, just maybe, you have forgotten that it was you Olga who gave us the above 'keepsake' that we treasure so very much.
By The Way, for those of you who are not exactly fluent in the language of Russia, in the above photo, Chita is, at the top beneath the Red Bull, 6305 kilometers from Moscow (Москва ) and, at the bottom, 2860 kilomerers from Vladivostock (Владивосток ).
I have a most favorite quote from my most favorite Poet, one Robert W. Service, from his Poem, The Cremation of Sam McGee, that is as follows :
Now a promise made is a debt unpaid.
Back on May 22nd, 2022, I showed, in a post on babakaps.net ..
a photo of some of the spiritual pocket stones that I like to carry with me and give to others.
Then a few weeks ago, Olga asked me a question about these spiritual pocket stones. Suddenly I discovered, much to my dismay thinking I'd refer Olga to a past Post, that I have never "told their story".
Olga, here is the story of our spiritual pocket stones.
As many as 20 years ago, I began to hand paint messages on stones that I would find. The stones had to be small, roundish and flat. However, by keeping my eyes on-the-alert, I would find nicely shaped stones from time to time and paint a message on one and give it away.
Alas Alak. I never kept any for myself because the entire point of them was to share them with others. However, for reasons I am not able to explain, I recently came across two of them.
A different stone, the same message. The same message is painted on the other side of the stone.
Now we jump back to early February of this year 2022.
Patti and I were both patients at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, and while in the lobby of the Main Hospital, we encountered a close friend, Shelley. Shelley was working in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and had just eaten lunch and was heading back to the ICU. As the three of us chatted, a friend of Shelley's (actually the Hospital Chaplain which accounted for what was about to happen) came up to us.
Suddenly the Chaplain pulled out a small black bag and, pulling open the top of it, said to Patti and I .. " Please take one of these."
The above and below photos were taken here at our home just for this Post. I did not have a clue-in-a-carload what was coming when the Chaplain presented her bag to us.
So into the bag Patti and I reached and picked (what was to become the very beginning of our spiritual pocket stones ministry) not one, but three of the Chaplain's stones.
" Oh My Goodness ! " I exclaimed to the Chaplain, thinking of my own efforts at hand painting messages on stones ..
" How on earth did you do these so perfectly ? "
She did not reply because, in hindsight she had no idea what I was talking about, she never had made her own stones.
And off she went. Being a Chaplain in a hospital is one stressful and super busy career !
So after we got back to our motel room in Phoenix, I mulled over these amazing stones. I texted Shelley and asked her to ask the Chaplain where, and how, she got the stones.
Long story short, I never got an answer. Shelley asked the Chaplain my questions and could not get an answer.
By the way, after I got my supply of spiritual pocket stones going, I gave Shelley ten of my stones to replace the six stones we received from the Chaplain.
So I continued to mull this issue over (for only a day or so because I wanted these stones) and suddenly had a thought.
"Google them and go explore Amazon !"
B - I - N - G - O !!
Oh My, Oh My, Oh My .. Google and Amazon !!
On February the 13th 2022, I ordered one set from each of the above two Amazon suppliers.
They come in nifty little bags of 25 stones each. Each bag of 25 costs a little over $25 (or $1 a stone). The two suppliers differ slightly from each other as to the words on their stones.
And ?? Oh My, Oh My, Oh My !!
Your Captain was .. to coin a phase .. " Off And Running ! "
I ordered (some of the orders were for three bags) more Spiritual Pocket Stones on February 19th, April 15th, Apr 22nd, May 12th, May 25th, June 11th and lastly July 8th.
We have come across the following words on the stones:
Accept, Believe, Blessed, Clarity, Courage, Desire, Dream, Faith, Family, Friends, Freedom, Focus, Happiness, Healing, Health, Honor, Hope, Inspire, Joy, Kindness, Laugh, Love, Nature, Nurture, Passion, Peace, Relax, Strength, Success, Trust, Wealth, Wisdom.
And ?
Below are photos of them. They are very proud of themselves !
Well Olga, there you have it.
Now you know .. The Rest Of The Story about our spiritual pocket stones.
Lots of Smiles Olga ..
Cap and Patti
And now a fun .. Rest Of The Story ..
I was giving Lopez, one of my buddies, one of my stones. Lopez looked it over, and smiling, reached into his own pocket and gave me one of HIS stones.
Smiling I said to Lopez, obviously a rabid Boston Red Socks basefall fan ..
" Lopez ? How about year 2004, Game 4 of the American League Championship Series, the Red Socks were down 3 games to none against the New York Yankees ! They won game 4 in the 12th inning and went on to sweep the Yankees going forward to the World Series which they won sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in four games !! "
Oh Yes .. This really bonded Lopez and myself. Spiritual Pocket Stones and baseball fans par excellence !
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