Tonight I would like to offer a number of brief observations.

1) As expected there has been not much interest in the since the inauguration of President Obama. Now that the ‘progressive democratic’ has a stronger war spending record than the ‘conservative Republican’ there is not much interest. When the reverse was true, Republicans were in power, you did hear about the war spending records of Republicans by Democrats.

2) I sent Irish fest a copy of last night’s post on the incident at the Freedom March at Irish Fest. Is anyone willing to bet me that Irish Fest will not ignore the letter?

3) With an overabundance of cherry tomatoes this year, besides sharing them, I am finding new and creative ways to use them in recipes. Today I had ham left over from last night’s dinner as well as many cherry tomatoes, so I found on the web a recipe for Corn and Cherry Tomato Salad with Ham. Served with some Texas toast it was delicious. “Look and you shall find, seek and you will find, ask and you will receive.”

4) The above principle of “ask and you will receive” is mostly forgotten by Churches. My church is struggling with a need for money and persons to stay open but fears asking for money and persons.

5) I know someone now who is so obsessed with an idea of doing something that he cannot see straight and is thus frustrated. I tried telling him the story of the “Acres of Diamonds”, the African farmer who sold his farm to search for diamonds only to find after he was poor and old that diamonds were on the farm he sold. But the person could not hear the story and understand it. In the East they say desire and attachment are the cause of suffering.

6) I have a friend who had a tough time today but at the end of the day all was well. She described her day as ‘interesting’ rather than as stressful or frustrating. She is clearly not suffering from inordinate attachments.

Observations are plentiful in everyday life if we can see and hear them. A small observation can lead to an “acre of diamonds.”

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