This morning at breakfast when reading the sports section on this day of the celebration of Earth Day, I read in the newspaper about the good ‘crop’ of football players in the college draft for the NFL.

After working in the garden and really getting my hands in the soil I felt really good, proving the point of the featured article, Nature’s Bounty, Soil Salvation that “messing around in your own garden proves to be nature’s fruitful way of cultivating your health — physically and psychologically.”

On the way to Church this afternoon to give a talk after mass for my wife on the Faith In Recovery mental health ministry, I had to slow down for a young man driving in circles in the middle of an intersection while talking on a cell phone, and had to pass a man on a cell phone slowly driving his car, which was pushing another car. Talking about ‘crazy’ — that was crazy.

Tonight I saw my first real opera, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Magic Flute”. The original opera was in Mozart’s native language, German, but tonight it was in English with an English translation overhead just in case you could not understand the words. It was not what I expected an opera to be, not in Italian and more of a moral story, light conquering darkness, triumphs of true love, and life overcoming death. Many of the universal themes of life, learned from nature, were expressed in the opera.

There were more random observations to be made today but I was not always awake.

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