Are you reeling in the years? Stowing away the time? Are you gathering up the tears? Have you had enough of mine? Sometimes the differential is not an equation. Years and years after Will and Jill got together, out of the hidden flap comes a day like Steve Hartman includes in his CBS reports. Here's the way Will worded it to his sister:

We go out this morning taking care of a few things and end up at the grocery to pick up a some grub. We go to leave and the Land Rover won't start. Drat!!! A guy pulls up seeing our hood up and says "need a jump, do you have cables?" I say. "they're in the back of my truck in my driveway" but he's headed in that direction and gives me a lift. I get our truck and drive back to Jill and jump start the Land Rover. We drive home and Jiil's putting the groceries away and I take the battery out of the land Rover and tell Jill "I'll be back in a 1/2 hour with a new battery" and pull the truck out of the driveway and something goes "Pow!!!" I start to head out and the fucking steering wheel keeps turning but I'm still headed back towards the driveway. I get out and the tie rod is drooping and each wheel is headed in a different direction. Jill comes out, I tell her "the truck won't steer" and two hours later and about 7 or 8 jackings up the truck (ugh!!) and pushing the wheels to go in the same direction, we get the truck out of the middle of the street and back in the driveway. I shower and we're on the patio recapping what just happened and it hits us "what if that happened while we're driving along and you can't steer?" Jesus took the wheel, my nurturer, it happened just outside our driveway and not on the freeway or even on the ride to jump start Jill. I'm thinking back to our dreams last night and wondering if there were any messages in them. But regardless, we're laughing about it now and ever so grateful.

Lessons learned? Truth revealed? Yes to both. Here's the difference: Love allows the fundamental variations in how-to-solve-the-problem-according-to-me to zoom in on the proportions as per the universe and Git R done. I like repeating this story.