I visited Mavis again last Wednesday and another interesting thing happened. I had decided to take her a bottle of a pure essential oil, since she's in to natural healing. I thought that she also might enjoy reading a book about the oils, so I went upstairs to our "library" to search for the book I was thinking of. While I was searching I noticed a book I had never read and thought the title sounded interesting so I pulled it out of shelf to read when I had time. Then I headed out to visit Mavis, not having found the book I was actually looking for.
Mavis was sitting on her front porch so to speak, which is just her little yard with a comfy bench and chairs in front of her trailer. Her son Jim was also there and it was a pleasure to meet him. Then Mavis and I had a really interesting conversation about life and death; things that you can talk to Mavis about like your talking about the weather. After about an hour had passed I remarked to her that she looked even more vibrant than when I had seen her in January. She told me she had been doing these exercises and she asked her son to come out and demonstrate a few of them. Then she said she had gotten them out of a book, but she had taken book back to the library. She said maybe she would have it next time I came so I could see the pictures in the book showing people doing the exercises. I asked her the name of the book and she said it was something like "The Fountain of Youth". Well that was amazing because it sounded like the book I had just seen at my house and was planning to read. When I told Mavis she said, well if it's the same book then you are definitely meant to do these exercises. When I got home I ran upstairs to my library and grabbed the book I had set aside but never actually opened and sure enough it was the same book. It had the illustrations of 5 Tibetan Exercises to keep you young. So I did the exercises immediately and have decided to start doing them every day!
Oh and on Saturday I got an email from one of Byrd's closets friends saying that they had her computer and were going to try to find the screenplay.