It remains hot. The weather people on TV explain this so lucidly with their diagrams and their maps. Wonderful. Anyhow, we understand there is a high pressure system sitting over Texas and as long as it remains, the Gulf can’t get into the act with some possible rain or even heavy dew. Clear?
Now, are you a localvore? If you insist on fresh vegetables grown within one hundred miles of where you live, you are. That strange name refers to people who eat only fresh vegetables grown on farms within in a hundred mile radius. I guess knowing you are a localvore hurts more than eating fresh strawberries, doesn’t it? Or the blueberries you are picking even now for pies, muffins, and other delectable deserts.
Picking blueberries always reminds me of a friend in Michigan. The family owned a little hunting cottage in the north woods that was in the middle of several patches of blueberries. Dorothy used to run up there at picking time and harvest a nice gathering. But one year she noticed the crop in the first patch was very meager, so she moved to the next. Here she found the usual abundance and started to pick. She happened to look up, and there, on the other side of this same patch, was a bear busily harvesting too. So, she said, “I came away with what I had and didn’t challenge him at all”.
And Sunday, June 14th, was flag day. A day when in 1777 the Continental Congress adopted officially the stars and stripes as the Flag design. The Day is remembered more in hindsight than in actual fact. The Flag, the symbol of the freedoms we stand for and daily enjoy. We salute it as it passes by.
“Hats off, the Flag is passing by”.
Or sing,
“So proudly she waved
O’er the land of the free, and the home of the brave”.
We, as His people, back up this proud speech by prayer and supplication.
And it is right that we do so, Let us never forget to pray “For kings, and for all those in authority: that they might have the wisdom, the insight, the foresight, to lead this Land in the direction that is blessed of God".
GPD 6/16/09
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