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My Meandering Mind Stops by Ancient Egypt
Earlier this month, when I finished the novel The Eloquent Scribe, by T. Lee Harris, my meandering mind was full of all things Egypt. First of all, the real protagonist in the book is not the young scribe, Sitehuti (who is an engaging youngster), but the Sacred Temple Cat who “adopts” him. Nefer-Djenou-Bastet helps Sitehuti out of a potentially rough spot, and then becomes his constant companion through the rest of the book. Being a Cat Lady, I thought about an actual cat breed, called the Egyptian Mau, that I had heard of but never bothered with. In the book, the author describes “Neffi” (the nickname for the cat, that Sitehuti uses from the very beginning) as being regal, and spotted. So the first thing I did was search for a picture of an Egyptian Mau cat, and found several. They are actually spotted, and very beautiful (and very expensive-kittens can cost $2,500). They come in at least three colors, silver, bronze, and black. I expect that Neffi looked somewhat like this.
The 105th running of the Indianapolis 500 was glorious. It was the fastest qualifying field ever and the fastest ever race on the track. And, a wonderfully positive, emotional driving star won his fourth Indy 500 checkered flag in a race that was a battle to the very last lap. The race was largely unmarred by accidents and was run entirely under bright blue skies. The very best part: the 105th running of the Indianapolis 500 was before a full stadium of unmuzzled fans.
Phil Mickelson, at the age of 50, beat a crowd of younger players on a ocean-side wind-swept PGA Championship course this Sunday. 
May 1st, May Day, is formally recognized in the United States as Law Day, not Workers Day, and certainly not International Workers Day. We successfully rejected the left’s class warfare agenda for a century because of the reality of American law, grounded in our foundational law, the Constitution of the United States of America. Because of our reasonable reliance on a system of laws, not men, we observed that economic status was not fixed from birth, so the weeds of envy could not take deep root on American soil. That is why the left both set about subverting our system of law and creating a different basis for division, hate, and envy.
