Several things here:

1. Reunited with Keri Lewis and Patty Winters (not pictured), which has never made my banged up heart happier than it does these days.

2. A rainy day at the beach is still > no day at the beach. It’s science.

3. Evie is just a whole lot of cat. Like—a lot LOT of cat.

4. The Indianapolis Airport has a meditation room now. Or maybe it has for a while, and I just now noticed it. But that’s a thing. More meditation rooms everywhere, please.

5. The best meditation room is still the beach. Even when it’s raining.

6. I had the sweetest experience in the TSA line today. The agent asked me if I had a pacemaker or knee replacement or anything with metal in it in my body, and I sort of froze and hesitated.

I said, “I’m actually not sure. I have breast expanders in. There is metal in them, I think.”

The guy was like, “What is that?”

And it just froze me up. I don’t know why. I felt like I was going to cry all of a sudden. One of those moments that comes without any warning or rhyme or reason. My breasts have hurt a lot this week, and it was early, and I hadn’t slept much, and it was a hard weekend. And I just froze.

A woman I had exchanged a couple of pleasantries with in line stepped up and gently said, “Sir, she’s a breast cancer survivor, and she has ports in her breasts that have tiny pieces of metal in them.” Then she looked at me and said, “I just had my implant exchange six months ago. I had expanders for several months after my double mastectomy, too.” I said, “I’m having my DIEP Flap in September.” She nodded and smiled knowingly. None of this happened when I went to Costa Rica, but I also wasn’t going through the same type of security line for that trip. I can’t explain what happened—but the situation just suddenly felt very overwhelming. There are just these moments of this—moments I never experienced before January 29th. But the woman saw me and knew; she just did.

So she told the officer there was a chance that my expanders would set off the metal detectors but that hers didn’t. So they let me go through, and she waited with me to make sure I didn’t have any trouble. She apologized for jumping in without being asked, and I told her I really appreciated it because I was just sort of a deer in headlights. She wished me luck and we went on our separate ways. She and her daughter ended up being on my flight.

I know it seems so small and inconsequential and probably silly to anyone who hasn’t experienced it. But these moments—these tiny little moments of love and connection with others are just so much bigger than tiny little moments.

God is in the details, and She is such a show off.