Another Story from our Moving Experience

The Soul

Our departure day, August 18, 2014 is the day the game began.  We didn’t plan it.  We didn’t really know it would become a game when it started.  It just sort of happened.

As we drove north heading out of DeLand after turning in the Brighthouse box, Jessie spotted three green Kia Souls at the intersection of 17 and International Boulevard.  Two were heading west on International and the other was turning next to us.

During the ordeal of the Blown Tire, Jessie saw a green Soul.

By 7:16pm Jessie spotted our fifth green Soul.  Five is supposed to be a big number for me, numerologically speaking.  I don’t know what it means, but it somehow seems significant to me- even without noting numerology.

I’m pretty sure we saw Souls between August 18^th and the 25^th, but I didn’t keep track of them until the 25^th.  I think it was just sort of interesting at first… and then there were just so many and we would see them at interesting moments, that I started to keep track of how many we saw and what colors they were.

August 25^th: gray: 2, green: 1, dark gray green: 1, white: 1, black: 2

August 26^th: black: 1, green: 1, silver: 1

August 27^th: gray: 1, white: 1

August 28^th: white: 4, red: 3, gray: 7, black: 3, green: 3, eggshell: 1, orange: 1

August 29^th: green 1, red: 1, silver: 1, black: 1

August 30^th: black: 1, green: 1, silver: 1, white: 1

August 31^st: black: 4, red: 1, eggshell: 1… of the black 2 had white racing stripes and 1 had red racing stripes

September 1^st: red: 1, dark gray: 2, black: 2

September 2^nd: green: 4, black: 4

September 3^rd: silver: 2, white: 1, gray: 1, green: 1, yellow: 1

September 4^th: silver: 1, black: 1, red: 2, white: 2, green: 1, gray: 1

September 5^th: white: 2, gray: 1, green: 3, black with red racing stripe: 1, eggshell: 1, brown: 1

September 6^th: silver: 1, gray: 1, eggshell: 1, green: 1, white: 1,

September 7^th: silver: 1

September 8^th: white: 1, white with tiger stripes: 1, green: 1, gun metal gray: 2, orange: 1

September 9^th: black: 2, silver: 3, white: 2, eggshell: 1

September 10^th: silver: 5, greenish brown: 1, white: 5, eggshell: 2, yellow: 1, green: 5, gray: 1, red: 1

September 11^th: white: 1, green: 4, red: 1, gray: 2, silver: 1

September 12^th: silver: 7, eggshell: 1, black: 3, gray: 2, green: 3, brown: 1, white: 3, yellow pea green: 1, orange: 1, jade (blueish green): 1

September 13^th: orange: 2, black: 1, red: 1

September 14^th: we were not out and about

September 15^th: black: 3, white: 4, eggshell: 2, navy: 1, green: 3, yellow: 1

September 16^th: Mama and the children stayed at the trailer.

September 17^th: black: 1, eggshell: 1

The order of the colors is the order in which we saw them, but we may have seen a few of one color before we saw a new color… or one of each.  Sometimes, I’ve seen a color that seems to indicate that my thoughts or feelings are on the wrong track.  Maybe I was feeling upset about something and I then saw a red Soul.  Or the opposite, too… as in seeing the five green Souls on the first day… seems like we’re getting the “green light” to keep going even though the difficulties we were facing might cause me to think we’re doing the wrong thing.

It’s a silly little game, but it’s fun and something positive that Jessie and I did from the first day of our moving adventure.

“For the worth of a Soul is great.” Has come to my mind very frequently during this game.  ;)

The children made a pun… they said: What song would a Soul (car) sing most?  Answer: Then Sings My Soul.  Harharhar  ^_^  Love my silly punny kiddos!