Miracles

 

Cruise ship pianist rescued after treading water 20 miles from California coast for 9 hours

In the news yesterday, I saw a story about a man who was rescued by fishermen, off the California coast. (I have the link above.)  The man had been in the ocean for about 9 hours! It truly is a miracle that they spotted him and due to the warmth of the ocean, he survived. If you read the story, the rescued man could not speak at first, but when he could he simply said, "Thank you, I thought I was going to die." 

 There, I have a video for you.  I hope you can see it.  A miracle!

I have never understood why the ocean holds such a fascination for me. Do I have seafaring ancestors that I don't know about? I come from a long line of farmers, so it is a mystery to me. 

Has November been good to all my blogging friends?  We have been quite busy, so not much time for blogging, so I do hope you will forgive me if I haven't visited some of my favorite folks! (And if I have visited and left comments, they might not have been as perfectly worded as I would like! In other words, I am a bit scatter- brained at the moment.) 

One of the blogs that I did have to time to read was from my blogging friend in Germany. Meike had a marvelous review of the book "Prague Winter" by Madeleine Albright.  In fact, it sounded so good that I ordered the book for myself. It was just delivered! You may read the review here. 

There were lots of very expensive decorations at Halloween, but I find that sometimes, the most effective are the ones that are quite simple. I don't know about you, but just this black face and the flowing white cloth looks so spooky!  Don't you agree?

If you pay attention to films, a new one will come out this month starring Johnny Depp, which will be a re -telling of "A Christmas Carol", it will be called "Ebenezer".  (There, you see how this ghost made me think of it?) I have no idea if it will be any good but let me just say that the very best Ebenezer Scrooge for me, is Albert Finney in "Scrooge, The Musical".  Have you ever seen it? I love the music and lyrics, all by the musical genius Leslie Bricusse, a Brit, of course!

There, I have titled this post "Miracles" but Ebenezer changing his character so completely was a miracle, was it not? I know that Charles Dickens wrote fiction, but it was very, very good fiction! Did you know that when his books were first published, that there were people waiting at the docks in New York City and Boston waiting for them? Now, this is in my head somehow, so if this is incorrect, please don't tell me. It sounds true to me!

Take care, my friends!  If you hear of any miracles, let me know!