August 21 Eclipse Day united the nation. Everyone was lookng up… at the Sun and the moon in their cosmic dance… A giant predictable clock whose order was established at Creation by an Intelligence who exists today. This thought was inspired by the morning homily on EWTN. Who can deny the intelligence of Creation from the universe to DNA? Look up and not inward, and certainly not at current events. Look up to the future and rejoice! Look at Genesis 28, and Revelation 21 and rejoice that the ladder is our bridge to Paradise. We all enjoy the gift at Baptism. It is ours to accept or reject.
Yesterday was a lot of fun here in Clear Lake. We boated to The landing and sat outsie and ate fried white fish. It’s very hard not to eat fried…. I peel off all the coating… The fish is white lake fish and it is smooth and sweet. Then it was so sunny that I thought the pool might be warm. I haven’t been swimming on this trip due to my broken toe, but this week I say it is healed so I said….. "Let’s go for it." I put my bathing suit on and braved the out door pool. The sun shining brightly warmed the pool water and I spent a pleasant 1/2 hour doing water aerobics. Would like to do that every day at 3pm when the sun has had a solid 6 hours to heat the pool. For dinner we went to PM Park (fried chicken… again i peel off the covering) and watched a really wonderful play of volunteer actors who read the script but it’s OK. That’s what I did when I played a character at the Marathon theater. The play was about the second year of 5 "winners" of a karioke contest on a cruise ship. They sang many great old songs (Sonny and Cher’s "I’ve got you Babe" and "Joy to the World" along with Frank Sinatra and a wonderful song that included great harmonica.) I sang along with them and we clapped and hooted! Just fun comedy in a little tiki bar in Clear Lake Iowa. This morning dawned chilly – 59 degrees with light rain. I guess it’s time for autumn up here. We are going north to Lake Superior when we leave Clear Lake… will probably freeze our patoodies off. Chuck took me to church and Kyla is here with us (she had to go to a funeral in Mason City). So we will take her out for lunch someplace fun later. Have a wonderful day! God bless you!