Familiar Faces

I do not have a PC.  I have a Mac.  This may seem like extraneous information for you.  Why do you care?  Indeed, you may not.  But my Mac and it’s unique abilities play a central role in my blog this week.

Better Late than Never?

We have all heard the expression “better late than never.”  But is it a motto we can live by?  I recently ran across this article that left me wondering:

Shizo Kanakuri disappeared while running the marathon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm. He was listed as a missing person in Sweden for 50 years — until a journalist found him living placidly in southern Japan.

Overcome with heat during the race, he had stopped at a garden party to drink orange juice, stayed for an hour, then took a train to a hotel and sailed home the next day, too ashamed to tell anyone he was leaving.

There’s a happy ending:

The Master’s Hand – A Poem

“I need to speak with You, Lord,
and offer You my life.
You can have it wholly,
the pleasure and the strife.
You gave me a notebook,
fresh, and clean, and new.
I penned some in it’s pages
now I give it back to You.
The narrative I’ve written
is just a senseless blot.
It’s rhyme without a reason:
no purpose and no plot.
So take my living story
into your Author’s hands.
And weave me a new version
that through all time will stand.”

He took the open diary
in His gentlemanly way.
And tenderly He asked me,
“Can it be whate’er I say?”

Field Day Dawning

It was perfect weather for Field Day.  Slightly overcast, but sunny and warm.  The threat of a shower was in the air, but never really developed into anything except a refreshing sprinkle near the end of the day. My mind, however, wasn’t on the weather.