811 miles from home, on top of a little mountain in Boone, North Carolina, I am awakened by the laughter of my friend Karla and husband Chuck. They are sharing stories or perhaps memories of a 45 year old friendship. We take walks with 4 dogs (2 at a time) Karla is dog sitting for son Brad’s 3 dogs. Autumn leaves are falling already and it’s cool (in the 60s on the porch so we have a little fire at night on the porch). Thankful for always having a dog to pet… English muffins and the little crannies that grab the butter. Karla mused this morning that she is grateful that we live in a more enlightened time than the 1940s and 1950s… Grateful that people who are different, gay, other, are not arrested and given medicine to make them normal. We just watched a movie called The Imagination Game… A story about the man (Turing) who saw through the maze of millions of code possibilities and broke the German Enigma code with a new machine… British authorities tried to destroy the machine and fire Turing and his team just because the British authorities could not understand what the intellectual team was doing…. Turing brain stormed the code key and was able to guide the Allies with German information. It’s well worth watching and a little hard to grasp as it shifts from Turing in school as a young boy, Turing working the code, and Turing after the war is over. Stick with it and be grateful we aren’t so ignorant…. or are we? If we are then try to be tolerant and pray a lot for those who aren’t. Also on the same subject of the German code called Enigma and the machines that decode it is a movie starring Matthew McConaughey made in 2000. He captains an American submarine that captures the German decoder onboard a German submarine. Yesterday we went into Boone and ate at wonderful restaurant with the sun on our table (weather is delightful and sunny but not hot). We said goodbye to Sara, Mark’s beautiful daughter who spent a night with us… Today we go back out to a favorite restaurant called Bella where we can take "the dog" (but not 4 dogs…). Having a lovely early autumn. Hope the same for you! Some of us will be watching the debate tonight. Try not to let it worry you too much. God bless us. Thank God.
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