We have a spider web on the wall of our tiny back porch between the back door and a window to our living room.
Insects get caught in it and my leaning is to free them. But Bern tells me 'no, let Nature take it's course."
I've come to agree with her.
Though we humans do a lot to destroy Nature, we should let it take it's course.
And do all we can not to destroy it.
My father was in New York City ready to ship off to Europe in WW II when a generous man gave him and some of his friends tickets to a Yankees/Dodgers World Series game.
Being from Southern West Virginia in the 40's, no baseball team was close enough to root for.
So he decided whoever won the game would be his team.
The Yankees won.
So I grew up as a Yankees fan and am until this day.
They just won the East and are on their way to the playoffs.
Go Yankees!
...how I used to go up and down stairs easily.
But not now.
My knees are bad.
I hurt and have to be careful coming up stairs.
I'm better going down, but not by much.
Oh, I long for those days when stairs were just stairs and not a problem....
All you have to do is watch a Trump rally to realize how messed up in the head he is.
Every other sentence and text he puts out is full of lies.
Though some of his rallies aren't full, the people who are there are fully supportive of him.
It's like the Republican Party is a cult not a political party.
I pray and pray that Harris beats him.
If she doesn't I will sink into depression and our country will be a mad house.
A truly 'mad house'.
Bern's been working in the front and back yards for a week or more.
(She leaves the side yard alone since our pet cemetery is there!)
I watched her do a lot of it but even with first hand knowledge of her work, I have no idea what she's doing!
She shears branches and cuts them up.
She digs up plants and cuts them up.
She removes things and cuts them up.
Today I counted and found 10 leave bags full--those big old bags.
And I have no idea what she's doing or why.
If she goes to the home before me, I'll be living in a jungle before long....
But odds are I'll go to the home first and she'll continue doing what she does in the yards.
And I'll be so demented I won't wonder what she's doing....
A totally deranged man who once voted for him was on his Golf Course to try to shoot him, kill him?
It was a weird thing.
Just like T and V are weird.
Very strange.
And Vance blamed Democrats for it?
And with all the vile things they are saying about Kamala, they say Democrats should watch what they say????
Weirder and weirder every day....
I went to my primary care doctor today.
She outweighs me by about 80 pounds, but is competent.
I'm pretty fit for a 77 year old man who grew up in West Virginia and smokes and drinks white wine.
Go figure.
My vital signs are really good.
My mind in not so good.
I forget things.
Today, after I fixed my lunch, I left the burner on. Bern caught it though it was on low.
Shame on me.
But I want to live a while.
Next year is Bern and mine 55th anniversary.
She was 20 and I was 23.
So we've been married to nearly 2/3 of our lives.
Imagine that....
I hadn't realized until an hour of so ago that this was Friday the 13th.
I'm not superstitious, so it doesn't matter that I didn't know.
Hope your Friday the 13th was as uneventful as mine was.
The presidential debate was a walk off win for Kamala!
No doubt about it....
Trump's 'dog eating' outburst would have been enough. But he avoided and lied over and over.
And the split screen showed us all Kamala's reactions to what he was saying.
It was wonderful and poetic.
She laughed and frowned and put her hand on her chin and shook her head in amazement.
Quite a contrast between the two.
Don't eat your neighbor's dogs...alright?
We had a big crowd at Trinity, Milton, yesterday.
St. Michael's in Litchfield's Rector is suspended--no one seems to know the story--so a bunch of their parishioners came to Trinity for communion.
43 people! We average around 22, so it seemed like a lot of folks.
The music was wonderful--as always, since our musician is go good. How this little church has him is beyond me--he could be anywhere in the Diocese! But some of St. M's choir were in the congregation and they added a lot to the singing.
Lots of people thanked me for my John's Jesus vs. Mark's Jesus sermon.
Maybe they were just being polite...or maybe something showed up for them they weren't expecting. Who knows?
Bill reported it all on our on-line newsletter. He's really great!
If you'd like to be on his list let him know at bill.starr@mac.com.
You won't regret it.
We've been reading John's Gospel for weeks. I enjoyed it.
But last week we shifted to Mark--and I don't like it.
What I'll do tomorrow is contrast Mark's Jesus with John's Jesus.
You see, Jesus is different in all four gospels.
Mark was the earliest and shortest of the Gospels. It was written around 70 A.D.--given life spans then and there, about a generation after the life of Jesus.
John was written another generation later--somewhere around 110 A.D.
John's Jesus knows everything--who he is, what he's going to do, who will betray him, how he will rise from the dead.
Mark's Jesus is just learning as he goes along.
John's Jesus takes his time. Mark's Jesus is always moving--the word that can be translated "immediately" occurs 40 times in Mark.
John's Jesus wants everyone to know about him. Mark's Jesus tries to stay secret.
Lots of other stuff will come in.
We'll see how it goes.
Today is our wedding anniversary.
Bern and I have been married 54 years.
Amazing in the face of so many divorces we all see.
It's over 2/3 of Bern's and my lives
We were 20 and 23 when we married.
Now we are 74 and 77.
I can hardly believe it.
But it is true!
Happy Anniversary to us......
I am a 'yellow dog Democrat'.
What that means is if a yellow dog was running against an upstanding, moderate Republican--I'd vote for the yellow dog!
The Presidential election is absolutely the most important one in a hundred years.
Trump and Vance stand for everything I oppose.
Kamala and Tim aren't quite as liberal as I wish--but they stand for everything our country needs.
Not a hard decision.
Vance being booed by a labor union is enough...isn't it?
And Trump being obsessed about crowd size is crazy since he is losing on that at every turn.
So what do they stand for?
Division and name-calling and avoiding issues.
That's what.
Harris and Walz--that's who our country needs....
No doubt!
