Don't pIck on me.

The discovery of Big Billy in the plains of Patagonia has wowed even  the most phlegmatic of the bone diggers.
The dimensions of this prehistoric lizard have gone off the scale as you can see from this recent picture.

Standing fifty feet at the shoulders, the length of a football pitch and weighing in at a 100 tons Billy was the behemoth among behemoths.

This all raises some interesting questions.

1)  How did Noah get one on the ark? 
Answer: He didn't. Billy and his kin perished in the flood.

2) How did they reproduce? Answer: with a great deal of kicking and screaming.

3) Why did God make monsters like Billy in the first place?
Answer: to wow tiny brains like our own.

If you have any more questions reserve them for the world to come. You and I may yet make a visit to some planet or other to see dinosaurs in action. Now wouldn't that be neat of God to allow us to do that?

Jubilate.

Ian

We're getting older.

In the last six weeks nasty things have been at work within the circle of some of my closest friends.
In late April, Cathy had an episode (viral or otherwise) that left her with a complete hearing loss. It was her 55th birthday. John, last week, woke and, over two days, found he could hardly walk. Yesterday it was a face-book emergency request from Andrew in Australia, hospitalized with all the symptoms of leukemia. He has just turned fifty. I phoned Christine this morning. She is an old school friend from England. She is completely immobilized with a compressed sciatic nerve.

 S.O.S. What is happening?

Well, the short answer is that we are GETTING OLDER.

When Pauline and I turned fifty we conversed and agreed that we needed a strategy for our fifties. The same happened when we hit sixty and yes, you have guessed it, we now have a strategy for our seventies.
An old English naturopath once said "Good health can be reduced to three principles: The right diet, vigorous exercise and good drainage"   The last of those becomes a daily blessing when you hit seventy, believe me.

God 's blessing as you work out your own health plan.Everybody should have one.

Ian