For some reason this video didn’t show up last Sunday. Not sure why.

It’s a great, original song of my favorite psalm, Psalm 139.

My mind often drifts back to my time in the Navy as the Navigator on the USS WILLIAM H. STANDLEY (DLG-32), a guided missile frigate. I loved going to sea on her and doing navigation the way it had been done for centuries – shooting the stars, moon and sun with a sextant. No GPS back then.

I’ve mentioned before that our second Vietnam deployment in 1971 wound up being an around the world cruise to ‘show the flag.’ After the cruise, we wanted something to commemorate it. Military folks like patches showing their service history so I designed the patch below. Surprisingly, you can still order it on Amazon 55 years later.

I’m about to reveal how old I really am. When I was six in 1951, our next door neighbor owned a furniture store. They were filming an early TV advertisement for local networks. They invited George ‘Gabby’ Hayes to be a part of the advertisement.

Gabby Hayes was a very popular Western actor at the time after playing parts with John Wayne, Hopalong Cassidy, Roy Rogers, etc. He was married to his wife who died after 43 years of marriage. Even though he played a sort of bumbling character, he was well read in the classics and philosophical in his views.

My Dad and I were invited to be there for the filming. We got to meet him and my six year old. memory is he was very nice. A good memory.

What if Star Wars had a very small budget and had to make everything out of cardboard…

Our Crepe Myrtle has gone crazy this year in its blooms …