Which, you know, for Lyla’s man, as far as he’ll let her be good friends with Trelane isn’t very far, so I figure Trelane gets a Christmas card.

Maybe.

After the trial, and the big split, it takes a while for her to lose the media attention, and in an effort to help her with this, anytime she’s with the band, we’re real careful to make sure there isn’t any press around that might catch it.

We aren’t always successful at this, but we do okay.

Sonia moves to Phoenix for work, so Lyla follows her, which is good.

Shawn’s in Louisiana making music with his family, but the rest of us are still in LA.

Except, it’s a guess at this point, Preacher.

He could be Howard Hughes, moving from penthouse to penthouse and making people sign an NDA before he dropped his suitcases for all I know and for all he’s sharing.

Bottom line, where Lyla lands, Lyla’s got Sonia close and she isn’t far away from us.

And we aren’t far away from her.

So, this is a good place for her to be.

She found her footing during this time, and when she did, we all felt like fuckin’ morons because it was so perfect, right there in front of us the whole time, she’d even had a job at one once, we were all so wrapped up in our own shit, including Lyla, we didn’t see it.

She goes back to school and gets her social work degree, learning Spanish while she’s at it, all while working at a center for at-risk youth with an emphasis on music and the performing arts.

She works with the kids and looks after them, did some counseling for a while, but that’s not her jam.

It’s admin and fundraising that’s her jam.

She’s a really good writer and the grants she writes have an unparalleled funding rate.

[Grins]

I’m totally making that up. I have no idea if they did.

I just know a lot of them got funded.

But she loves it and it’s perfect for her.

She takes care of people.

That’s what she’s good at.

She watched Preach take care of the band and Tommy take care of the band and she took care of the band.

And she’s seen a lot, done a lot, took her knocks, been around others that took way worse ones.

She might not get every story of every kid she hears, but she’s in a place, on some level, she can understand.

So, she’s got experience.

And they dig her, and not only because she’s all that is Lyla.

But because she’s all that’s Lyla.

So, now she looks after the kids and her staff, supporting them, nurturing them, helping them grow.

See what I mean?