Phoenix, Arizona, has typically taken a dim view of graffiti and has been quick to dispatch unseen workers who remove the tags before most people recognize they have shown up. Recently though, more and more graffiti is hanging on. Today, we saw this tag dedicated to Moms on Mother’s Day.

My mother, Caroline, and I visited the impound yard where my mother’s crushed Lincoln was towed. My mom could not believe what she saw.

Near my mom’s car were a couple of old classics rotting under the sun and weather. One that caught my eye was this yellow 1929 Dodge Brothers car with its original wood-spoked wheels and a rumble seat. The grill logo caught both Caroline’s and my attention, as we hadn’t previously seen a Dodge logo with a Star of David.

Upon further research, it turns out that no one really knows why the logo was what it was back then. The two brothers went to their graves without anyone asking what it meant or what inspired it. Looking up the history of the Dodge logo I did learn that the Chevy logo was a bowtie copied from a hotel room wallpaper, although the wife of founder W.C. Durant denied his story and claimed he picked up the idea from a newspaper advertisement.

“Your mother has been in a rollover accident and has been airlifted to the hospital.” This was the message I received at 11:00 this morning. Unbelievably, my mom was relatively unscathed, as was her dog Guido. No broken bones, no concussion, just some scraped-up hands from the broken glass. Looking at the car above, the puncture in the roof from the tree she rolled on, or the scene of the accident and how close she was to hitting a metal pole or going into a drainage ditch, my mom, sisters, great aunt, grandfather, and everyone else who loves my mom is lucky to have her around today.