Saturday night, returning from a flying trip to a family reunion.  A twisting road through 7,000 elevation hills and valleys.  The air is cool.  Your wife is by your side.  You are playing Animal, Vegetable, Mineral with your daughters, with a scripture or family history theme.  You offer Jared, irrigation ditches, the morning star, and pioneer beards.  They do Delilah, Gideon, Moses’ staff, John the Baptist’s camel-hair clothing, and the Indian blankets that Jacob Hamblin’s son tried to get through sharp bargaining.


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