Autumn

Some random thoughts:

Took what will more than likely be my last walk around the University Golf Course this afternoon. it is a beautiful sunny day with the temp around 60. The wind is a warm and blustery, attempting to tear the dead leaves away from their anchors. When it is successful clumps of brown debris dive bomb unsuspecting victims below. The wind pushes stray leaves around amassing some into tightly woven clumps, until the wind again snares those on the outside edges, pushing them further along. The wind reminds me of the Holy Spirit (Ruah, Pnuema) stripping away the old to make way for the new.

Found two more golf balls bringing the total for the season to 48.

Game three of the World Serious is tonight. I am rooting for the old guy, Jamie Moyer, age 45, pitching in his first ever Fall Classic. It's not so much that it is his first time, but I think he represents all of us old guys in that age does not have to be a factor. There are a lot of things we can do when we get older and that it doesn't always have to be left to the next generation and that sometimes age can be a plus when it comes to these kinds of things (Of course he got bombed in his last two starts, so we will wait and see).

Tomorrow will be another painful reminder that winter is closing in on us (snow flurries forecast), so the windows will stay open late tonight, soaking in the last remnants of summer.