From: Trulia Real Estate Search [mailto:updates@trulia.com]
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2010 12:31 AM
To: bill@billmgodwin.com
Subject: Mrs Binta found you on Trulia

I recently flew to Lubbock TX for my mother’s 87th birthday. While there we visited the small town where she grew up. It has grown from the population of 300+ it had when I would get to visit my grandmother. I remember her cookie jar. It was a ceramic pig that you grabbed by the ear to remove the top of his head and get to the delicious homemade chocolate chip cookies. While Mom and I were there we visited the cemetery. Although the population is now about 500 there is no economic vitality and the cemetery is little cared for. We found my grandmother’s headstone – she was buried in 1974 at the age of 90. Her ex-husband’s headstone was several feet away under one of the few stunted trees in this patch of high plains land. There was nothing on these stones that indicated anything about the people who now rest below them. It was my mom who told a couple of stories I had never heard that made the connection to them. I was glad to spend the time with my mom while she is still among us. There was nothing about the manner in which my relatives were laid in their final place that said anything about them; it is the manner that we treat the living that honors the dead. It is through the living that their memory is preserved.

The significance of our time on this earth is summed up by this quote from the Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam:

XLVIII

When You and I behind the Veil are past, Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last,

Which of our Coming and Departure heeds As much as Ocean of a pebble - cast.

What a view from this great listing! Totally updated. Must see it to believe! OPEN HOUSE – this Sunday March 28 from noon to 4PM – Ya’ll come!

The sky put on a show for me while walking my dog two nights ago. I play a game with myself by trying to guess on which new moon there will be a conjunction between the moon and the evening star. There is a new evening star almost directly overhead that should provide the same show in July or August. By the next new moon this evening star will have disappeared over the horizon.

This is an example of the type of scams I have seen in recent days on Trulia. A couple of others were even more sophisticated but I deleted them right away. Please protect yourself.

Your dog always loves you and never forgets!